Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / August 2003

I need to choose between two hotels that are provided as part of a package in
Vienna. Having never been before and not having much time to research, could
someone give me some advice? My choices are
Ananas Hotel at 93-95 Rechte Wienzeile ("in the heart of the capital of Waltz,

I will be spending a week in Greece, I decided to spend the most of my
European holiday here since this is where my father was born and raised.
I'm not intending to pre-book any hotels from Australia but would be
interested to hear from anyone regarding places to visit and stay,  ...

To those who have given their time to help me.
Thank you.
I'm actually surprised no one asked me 'when' I'll be in Europe. (I stupidly
forgot to mention it)

Question for Italians or anyone who has lived in Italy.  What exactly
is it that Italians are fearful of about air-conditioning?  Is it an
ailment, disease, rash?  I worked as an air-conditioning technician in
the US for several years and never came across this.

I am planning to go to Russia in a few weeks for a week's holiday. The
biggest problem is apparently getting the Russian visa. Any
suggestions as to how I should go about this?

I'm currently planning to spend three night's in Rome as part of a month in
Europe and i'm not sure where in Rome would be best for me to book a hotel.
I'm a 40 year old Australian male. (traveling alone)
I dont want to stay in a wild or dangerous part of town, yet I want to be

Does anyone have first-hand experiences of staying in private house
accommodation in Romania, organised through agencies such as ANTREC?
I'm hoping to stay near to the Apuseni mountains, using such
accommodation, in a months time, and I'm wondering what prices to

Hi, one part of our Italy trip will include 2 days in Sorrento( one
day in capri). We will take a train from Rome to Naples, then a local
train to Sorrento.  We would like to stop by pompeii before we reach
Sorrento.

We will be visiting Lake Maggiore, Como and lakes eastward.
We want to take a day trip to a Swiss town via auto.
My maps are not very explicate, any suggestions will be appreciated,
David Foster

Having moved to the UK (London) this year, I'm puzzled by Europe's odd kind
of love/hate fascination with all things American. People are constantly
obsessing over weird things in the States (stuff that would be considered
equally weird within the US, but people say "only in ...

Will be traveling to these cities in two wks and would like any
viewer's suggestions for 2-3 star hotels, inner city preferred.  For
Mt-St-M would like to stay on the mount.  Thanks!

I thought this would make a nice "loop" trip through eastern europe.
Can I expect Prague, Budapest, and Warsaw, at least, to be realitively
cheap compared to western european standards ?
Anyone have any recommendations on sites to see and things to do ?

What would be considered the "main" train station of Venice?  I notice more
than one listed on the bahn.hafas site.
Thanks for your help.
djb

Can anyone recommend a decent web site or guide book to Barcelona?
Thanks,
Plato

We will be in Paris for 5 nights and have reservations for
Mon,Tue,Thursday and Friday, they had nothing available for Wed
night.No problem,since we have a rail pass we figured we could take a
side trip Wed morn and return on Thursday.  Where should we go?,any