Some experience I'll share

Sneex
Junior Member



Joined: 13 Nov 2007
Posts: 14
Location: Vancouver

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:24 pm

 

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HI - not to slander, but sort of a waste of cash. For the amount of times I used it, I didn't make for my $35 membership fee in discounts. Found Hostelbookers to be much more up my alley.

HI - Firenza (Florence) BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Bed bugs, lockouts, curfews, crap breaky, rude staff, (in the summer it was SWEALTERING hot) spiders in the rooms, ants on the floors. Barf. I didn't stay there, left and got a hotel.

HI - Downtown hostel - Prague. YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY TEN thumbs up. New facilities, commmmfy beds, spacious clean bright rooms, awsome traveller vibe, common kitchen with a tesco up the st, decent breaky (for a girl), big tv in common room. FREE yes FREEEE internet. trully a gem to behold, stumbling distance to everything, lockers in room. List goes on. A+++++++

Camping Village Venezia + Roma YAY A++++
AWSOME in the summer. google them. Just fab. THe pins are great. 3 beds, A/C, ensuite. feels like a true vacation They even have happy hour and live bands and Rome has very clean stray kittens to play with! hehe


Michaelangelo's "David" (Florence) GO SEE IT, but ask around about free showings. we got in for free. HUGE line up. but. free.

Vatican. Um. its the Vatican. if your going to italy, go to rome, go to the Vatican. You dont have to be catholic to enjoy this one.

Brindisi - Carpe Diem Hostel A++++++ Amazingly accomodating staff. They'll pick you up anywhere, a great little stop off city en route to Corfu Greece.

The Pink Palace - Corfu Greece. D00d. just google it, this place is like a total backpackers heaven. You'll see many a backpacker on trains avec pink bracelets, that mark the fact that they've booze cruised, toga partied, gotten FUCKIN HAMMERED on ouzo, gone quadding, etc. Anything goes here. Three course dinner is included, and cooked eggs in the morning.

HI - Vienna C+ i guess. it was a distance out of the city, kinda on a highway. Rooms were allllright, however my fiancee and I booked a private double room and it had a fricken bunk bed? What the hell is that hey? Staff could have been friendlier, and there are two buildings. One is across a highway from the main building and down a dark, non-lit, heavily bushed path. Consider a different hostel if you are a female travelling solo, or make sure you're in the main building, it seems like this is in sort of a junky area of town too.

Floating Pool - Vienna
This is a crazy awsome, floating swimming pool, bar, grill, and night club on a barge in the canal in Vienna. Its only 5euro to get in

Shopping Center - Budapest Hungary
They have a giant artificial Niagra Falls, it was Canada's Gift to the Hungarian People for the millenium. Kinda a cool thing to see if your a canajun!

Outdoor wave-pool water park deal - Budapest.
If you make the same mistake I did by going to Budapest in the summer. (47degree heat) GO here. (Ask around about it, as I can't remember the name)

PAY FOR YOUR TRAMS IN BUDAPEST! Dear lord, I Didn't and i didnt get fined, but A HUGE bunch of ppl I know did.
Playing dum doesn't work.

Journey's Elephant and Castle - London
Dodgey area of London, but a good hostel none the less. B+

Scotland - Go everywhere if you can. We rented a lime-green peugot (you can drive in the UK with a Canadian licence. go figure). but take'er down some back streets before heading out onto the dual carrigeways (i love saying that hahaha) It only cost us 150 pound! We just slept in the car lol. My bro-inlaw recommends taking a whisky distiliery tour (I didnt have the funds but I bet it would be awsome) We drove down whisky trail though. Driving on the wrong side of the road is an experience in itself, its not as weird as you'd think cuz your sitting on the wrong side of the car too, so it ends up feeling right, right? lol If it makes you nervous theres GOBS of bus tours. My flat-mate did Haggis-Bus tours.

TRY HAGGIS in scotland. Its yummier than you think, and if your vegan you can get a vegetarian version!

If you like house/electro/minimal etc GO TO Caberet Voltaire in Edinburgh Scotland on Sunday night. Good stuff.

Check out Edinburgh Castle - The Crown Jewels are there. YES the real ones. Fabulous history.

Side-Salads at McDonalds in Italy. The most nutrition I ate there. 1 Euro. can't complain.

Fokhagymakreme - in Hungarian is Garlic-paste.

My biggest tip. is try to plan your route ahead of time and make reservations! It will serve you well. We wasted alot of time and money by not doing this.

BON VOYAGE!
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Allyssa
Super Member



Joined: 20 May 2007
Posts: 137
Location: Canada

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:55 am

 

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Hey that was great info~ Thanks for posting! A friend and I want to see some of those places next summer, so this was a great heads up!

Allyssa

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