Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / December 2003

My friend is planning a trip to Europe.  
Where can I help her to get a decent hotel room at good price
Heard that the following website has the lowest price guaranttee
http://au.hotels.com/hotel-htdocs/au/index.htm

I personally have never missed a flight.  My wife did once flying back
to France from California with a plane switch at NY.  JFK was pretty snowed
in, one runway open.  She had called TWA and they lied to her saying
that NY "was open" so she took the SF flight only go have to fly ...

I am moving to Luxembourg in Febuary and am having problems finding
accomadation, I need tempory accomadation for about 2 months, the only
hostel I can find only lets you book for 1 week and is open dorms,
hotels are way to expensive, a cheap one would be in excess of 3000

A bit of a hot potato. Some French comment is that
the US would not have made this much fuss over nothing
and that clear indications were that something was "afoot".
Yet, there is also a sentiment that the US made similar

Of course this is big news today, canceling a number
of Air France Flights out of Paris to LA is no small
operation taken in panic. Definitely a precautions.
One does wonder that in seizing a flight to LA it

Yes, an old question. I`ll be going to Amsterdam soon, and am looking
for a cheap place to stay without bedbugs--a hostel, dorm, cheap
hotel. How much would I expect to pay? Also, any recommendations on
cheap places to eat?

.I'll be in paris from Dec 30th to Jan 1st.
I'll be reaching paris on Dec 29th night and flying back to new york
on Jan 1st at 3.00 p.mHere are the things I would like to do in this
trip.

Prague taxi.
Have you heard the deterrent information about Prague taxi mafia? Not
so bad if you know how to deal with them!
The most expensive are the taxis picked up from the street. If you

I've been reading through some guide books on Paris in preparation for a
Spring visit to paris.  In the "Let's Go" Paris city guide 2003, they
recommend avoiding the Chatelet and Les Halles metro stops at night.  I had
found an inexpensive hotel near there but now I'm considering ...

I want to travel to Krakow in Poland by Bus.
So I went to Goettingen where bus stop station is near my home in
order to buy eurolines bus-ticket.
But I didn't find the ticket office.

I am trying to find the quickest option to travel from Toulouse to Florence
in early February, however with not much success so far.  Does anyone have
any suggestions or idea of cost?
Thanks in advance.

Can anyone recommend an afordable hotel in downtown Dublin to stay for a
few days in mid February? I've been looking around at hotels.com, and it
appears that Best Western can be had for somewhat under 100 EUR/night.
Has anyone stayed with any of their hotels in Dublin?

I'm traveling from the USA and need a quick explanation of hotel terms I
am seeing.
In the UK I see rooms listed as single, double, twin, quad etc.  I
understand these refer to the number of people a room is designed for.

Can anyone recommend an hotel near CdG? (Traveling on a budget.)
We're arriving at 12:30pm the last day of the Tour de France. We want to
be able to dump our luggage and get to Paris fast. (We're traveling with
large bike cases, and leaving the next day, so going into Paris with

Now that the time is approaching to when I will be enroute to Italy,
some practical questions come to mind.
For example, how common are public toilets in Italian cities?  By
public toilets, I mean not the porta-potty type or the ones that are