Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Eight days in Krakow, Poland and a couple days in Oswiecim, Poland on our trip to Auschwitz meant we ate about 15 meals in restaurants. Lots of travel blogs about Poland will suggest you eat pierogi, potato pancakes and dine at a bar mleczny – a Polish ‘milk bar’. None of those fit our personal dietary menu…
Holiday Inn Krakow City Centre is my favorite hotel location for Krakow at only 5 minutes walk to Rynek Glowny, the Old Town Market Square and 15 minutes to Plac Nowy Kazimierz, the center of the nightlife zone for pubs. Holiday Inn Krakow is a hotel I have stayed at two times before, in 2016…
Stary Kleparz Market Krakow is one of the great shopping locations in the city for food, clothes, textiles and lace. The market is located north of the Barbican outside St. Florian’s Gate Stare Miasto-Old Town. Stary Kleparz tram stop by the Barbican places you within 100 meters of Stary Kleparz Market and is serviced by…
Hotel Indigo Krakow Old Town, along with Holiday Inn Krakow, are both great locations for a tourist visiting the city. Hotel Indigo is in the historic Kleparz district located on the north end of Krakow’s Old Town. The hotel is about five minutes walk to Old Town past the Barbican and through medieval St. Florian’s…
Decided to give Hilton Garden Inn Krakow a 2-night stay on this trip to Krakow to find out what so many people rave about with the hotel. The hotel ranks today as #30 of 268 hotels in Krakow on TripAdvisor. The hotel itself is fine in most respects, but for me, the hotel only meets…
Hampton Inn Oswiecim, Poland is a newly opened hotel in June 2018 in the city where Auschwitz-Birkenau is located. I booked two nights so we would could hang out in town and leisurely make our way to Auschwitz without traveling to Krakow on the same day as our tour. The rate for our stay was 220.15pln/$59.86usd…
This article focuses on visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau from my tourist perspective in terms of entry tickets, getting to Oswiecim, Poland and getting around the camps. Keep in mind that my criticism of how our tour went in no way diminishes my solemn respect for this sacred place. Our tour experience was miserable. The daytime late July…
Krakow was the capital city of the Kingdom of Poland from 1069 to 1596, when King Sigismund III Vasa moved the royal court to Warsaw and that city became the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Unlike Warsaw, devastated by World War II, Krakow came through World War II minimally damaged. The Nazi government established Krakow as its…
I visited Prague, Czech Republic four times in 2017, spending about 3 weeks hanging out and walking around the city. One of the most frequent questions I was asked by people I met is “Have you been to Český Krumlov?” It seemed like an odd question to me since I looked on the map to find…
Clarion Congress Hotel České Budějovice is an example of a hotel deal that took me to a city I probably would never have planned to visit otherwise. A hotel suite bookable through Choice Privileges for 8,000 points on Friday-Saturday and 10,000 points Sunday-Thursday was 38,000 points for our Sat-Tue 4 night stay. I purchased 38,000…
