Marvellous trip to a hotel in Bruges!

Couple of days in a hotel in Bruges centre

Always been in a hotel in Brugge want to sleep? The medieval town in the west of Flanders attracts a lot of visitors. Including myself, because I just returned from a wonderful and unforgettable weekend in one of the many very fine piece Bruges hotel. The heart of Bruges is surrounded by an almost continuous ring of canals, by far the best preserved examples from the medieval Flanders. The center of the city, if you will during a short or long holiday in a hotel Bruges immediately Trade is really a post card, and rightly as the Venice of the North described. Almost impossible to make bad pictures!

The historic center is not very large, making it very easy to put all important things to see. Many Bruges hotels are also useful in the center. The easiest way might be to you in the center to move to use public buses operated by the Flemish public transport company De Lijn. Taxis in the market and drive costs about 10 €. Bikes are easy to rent and get into the city very quickly, although the cobblestone streets all a bit bumpy and uncomfortable to make sure. My last hotel Brugge, a beautiful luxury hotel Bruges let guests use of a stock bike, really easy, and sporty at the same time!

Bruges, the whole year by a large number of tourists visited (most of them stay in a Hotel Brügge) and this opportunity may be annoying, especially around the Markt and the Burg. The important thing to remember is that few tourists a trip far from the main shopping business, so if you want some peace and quiet you have many small cobbled streets far from the main squares take. You will find yourself in a whole other world, the real Bruges as it were. Here and there you will have a hotel in Brugge find, for the absolute tranquility seekers here!

Restaurants are not always cheap or quality. Stay away from especially the central market square (Grote Markt) and Burg (eg Tom Pouce Restaurant) where you want to eat. Tourists are easy victims. You will find many restaurants as you of the beaten track afdwaalt. Find a street with more locals than tourists and ask someone to a good restaurant. The locals will be happy to help. You can also usually hotel in Bruges good food, if a restaurant is located of course!

Wonderful holiday in a hotel in Amsterdam

You do not have to speak English to a hotel in Amsterdam come about everyone speaks English in Amsterdam, and is proud of the fact. Many also speak German and French. If you speak English, speak English (unless you also speaks English): You are more likely to offend than someone a favor by trying to make your French or German.

A common misconception is that Dutch is very close to German. In reality they are not mutually intelligible: Dutch people have to learn German at school, and in general they speak better English than German. German and Dutch are similar in the same sort of way that French and Italian are similar. The receptionist of my hôtel Amsterdam for example, spoke no German, but English. They learn just from small on TV.

The currency used in the Netherlands is the euro, expressed in EUR or €. Staying in a hotel in Amsterdam is therefore particularly easy. There are 16 countries using the Euro zone: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain. You can use the euro in these countries. (To remember the list of countries that you used to be able to use the Mnemonic phrase "difficult pigs, but after Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta and Slovakia joined, there are the additional letters" CMSS ").

The Dutch guilder is not longer usable. I had my Hotel Amsterdam a number of them, still earlier, the receptionist had a good laugh! You need to exchange old coins and banknotes in a bank do. Many luxury hotels in Amsterdam have their own exchange, so you do not need to go out to make money in order to get.

There are many places to make money in the city, often not so far from crazy Hotel Amsterdam. Postkantoren usually the best rates. The GWK to the Central Station is also good. Compare prices carefully at the exchange offices in the city. Hotels are usually an expensive way to make money. Banks can be slow. There is an American Express on the Damrak, and a Thomas Cook on the Dam.

You should not change money if you an ATM card (a card for getting money from a machine in the wall), will most likely work in the Netherlands (even across Europe), so you do not need to travel checks . Please check with your bank before departure whether what more info in the hotels Amsterdam where you reside. Such cards, especially if they have a Maestro logo on them, can often also be used for direct debit payments in shops (shops that display the blue "PIN" sign, that almost all shops).

From Belgium to a hotel in Paris, France

Planning to hotel in Paris? If not, please consider adding it to your lists and GO. Paris is a fantastic city, a historic treasure and the center of art, literature, food and fashion. It is sophisticated in 'technician' means the 'capital of the cosmopolitan. My recent trip to hôtels Paris was enlightening, as one would expect the City of Light. Being able to 'work' of this enchanting city is enhanced by a few things to know before you go.

For those of us who recall the De Gaulle Days? France and the pro and anti-American mentality, you will be pleasantly surprised. The people in hotel in Parijs were warm, open and friendly and very helpful. My first experience many years ago was the opposite and I talked a marginal French. The margins were significantly reduced in time, but I studied grammar and phrases and tried to talk. And the people responded positively.

Lucky for me I was with two friends who live there 3 months a year, and I learned a lot from them. Sherris Goodwin is the executive director of San Francisco's Hospitality Institute, and Marc Kauffman is a wine importer and connoisseur, and the restaurant Radar? expert.



Hôtel Paris is distributed unequally proportioned in twenty districts (arrondissements) in the form of a slag. The largest, the 15th, only to nearly 10% of the total area. The smallest, the 2nd, is barely 1% of Paris area. The city is 30 meters above sea level. The highest point in hôtel à Paris is located in the Rue du Télégraphe (20th district) to 148 meters.

Hotel Paris has a temperate climate with mild winters and relatively Clement summers. The coldest winter recorded in 1953-1954, when the thermometer dropped to -15 ° C and the warmest recorded temperature reached 38 ° C during the heatwave in 2003. These temperatures are exceptional. Average temperatures in fact vary between 5 ° C in winter and 20 ° C in summer. July is the warmest month of the year and January the coldest. Spring, from March to May is the driest season. Other seasons have their fair share of rain. Overall, it's always a little warmer in Paris hotel than in the suburbs. The urbanization of the capital has led to significant differences in temperature between the center and the outskirts, regularly recording one or two degrees less.