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betsie
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Re: Traveling around Europe
« Reply #30 on Sept 29, 2010, 12:47pm »

I din't know Easyjet did hotels.

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« Reply #31 on Sept 29, 2010, 2:03pm »

Actually they do, and cruises, but I was referring to flying rather than on the train. It depends how far away from Amsterdam you are as they do some cheap flights to Prague, but add on to the cost of getting to the airport etc and I'm not sure there's a big saving. But you'd probably save on time and could nip for a long weekend.

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« Reply #32 on Sept 29, 2010, 2:52pm »

Easyjet don't do many destinations from the Netherlands, we'd probably have to fly to the UK and change planes, and pay for 2 flights and double airport tax (40 euros in the Netherlands), so it wouldn't be cheaper. And we'd have to take a bus and 2 trains to get to the airport - all if, since my partner has a flying phobia and we never fly!

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« Reply #33 on Sept 29, 2010, 4:09pm »

It's a moot point then if no flying, but for your info Easyjet fly direct Amsterdam to Prague.
A weekend break in January would be about 60 Euro all in return per person for the flight. Flight time about an hour an a half.

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Re: Traveling around Europe
« Reply #34 on Sept 29, 2010, 4:12pm »

I'd love to take the train though.

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« Reply #35 on Sept 29, 2010, 4:16pm »

I'll tell his lordship, but I'll be wasting my breath.

He got me to book up for a flight to Edinburgh last year, said he'd just have to steel himself. I secretly didn't book it, just waited a week, and he was frantic with anxiety and having nighmares, so I didn't book it.

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Re: Traveling around Europe
« Reply #36 on Sept 29, 2010, 11:03pm »

Sept 29, 2010, 11:22am, betsie wrote:

Oct 25, 2009, 12:00am, jazz wrote:

Prague and Budapest...This was once again a totally different cultural feeling. Even though I visited about 10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and both Czechoslovakia and Hungary were now out from under communist rule, it felt very different from any other country I had visited in Europe. Especially in Budapest, where there were many areas of the city that still had the rubble of the bombings of WW2. Both cities are beautiful and of historic note. Of the two, it was easier for me to travel in Prague than Budapest, english was spoken much more in Prague. The old city of Prague is wonderful. Both cities are relatively inexpensive and rich in culture and history. The opera house in Budapest is beautiful and cheap, I went there one night for an opera and sat in an exquisite box with three other guests.

I was checking out Prague yesterday: we can get a train return from anywhere in the Netherlands for 120 euros! What amazing value!

I also found a fabulous hotel in a monumental building, but the rooms share a bathroom with one other room, so not for us.

Anybody got any hotel tips? I'm told some hotels can be pretty bad in Prague.

This is the lovely small hotel that I stayed in for a week, (4 stories high?)...my Czech friend translated for me and it was perfect....maybe a half hour walk from the historical centre and only 10 minutes by subway. I loved my room, clean, 'attractive' and spacious, the staff was attentive. The prices, modest.

http://www.hotelanna.cz/en/about-hotel

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« Reply #37 on Sept 30, 2010, 8:06am »

Thanks, Jazz, that looks like a very nice hotel, but we'd prefer something nearer or in the centre. I get tired on city trips and it's good to be able to go back to one's room for a rest in the middle of the day, if possible.

I like the look of this place, but we'd have to take a suite if we wanted our own bathroom, and they are too pricey for us:

http://www.castlesteps.nl/index.htm

BTW: I went to the opera in Budapest too. We were there immediately after the fall of Communism and I remember a guide showing us blocks of flats and saying, "this is where those Communist pigs expected decent people to live!" I told him he should see London--in fact any British city.

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