Two of the hotels on the next April 24-July 31, 2017 IHG Point Breaks list for 5,000 points reward nights are hotels I stayed on Point Breaks awards since 2015. Bookings will be allowed at Point Breaks rates beginning Monday April 24. Holiday Inn Brno, Czechia My trip report on Brno Sep 2015. Impressions of…
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Make the best out of sh**ty cold dark weather

Bratislava. The name simply sounds foreign and Eastern European to my American ears. The number of times I have had to describe the geographic location for my December trip to Vienna, Austria and from there to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, indicates the general lack of map awareness with my friends and family. Bratislava, Slovakia…
Prague hotel deals on Choice Privileges points

Yesterday I was looking for Choice Hotels in Slovakia. There aren’t any. But the Choice Hotels website did show me several hotels in Czech Republic and there are some real deals to be found with Choice Privileges points. If I had not already convinced myself to spend my time next month in Slovakia, I’d head…
You can call me Reeshard

Funny how divergent events from life come together in memory during travel. In the pre-dawn hour before sunrise, laying in bed in Clermont-Ferrand, France, sleepy and in need of more sleep, my mind drifted to my first French language teacher in 8th grade. In junior high and high school French classes I cringed when teachers…
Holiday Inn Brno, Czech Republic
Outside looking in Brno, Czech Republic
When I look at the top sites listed on the city map of Brno for tourists, I saw them all. I did not tour any of them. I walked two days outside around the city, and saw most of the major sites from outside, looking in Brno. One aspect of Brno that stood out to…
Price of travel in Brno, Czech Republic
The primary reason I chose to spend four nights in Brno, Czech Republic instead of Prague was the price of travel. Prague gets loads of tourists and hotel prices are relatively high compared to the average price for lodging in the Czech Republic outside the capital. Also, I stayed in Prague for a week in…
Student Agency cheap bus travel in and out of Czech Republic
Originally I planned to take a train last week from Prague to Brno within the Czech Republic. Buying a train ticket online was more difficult than I anticipated. Google Maps recommended Student Agency bus as the cheapest transportation option between Prague Airport and Brno. Student Agency sounds like a transportation service for college students and…
Moravian Karst caves near Brno and why you will never see a tour like this in the USA

The Moravian Karst is a geological formation near Brno, Czech Republic with more than 1,100 caves. Four of these caves are open to the public for guided tours. The most popular of these caves is Punkevni Jeskyne, Punkva Caves, where the hour long cave tour includes a dry cave walk, followed by a boat ride…
Impressions of Brno, Czech Republic
Unlike Prague, there seem to be very few Americans traveling to Brno, the second largest city in Czech Republic with nearly 400,000 residents. I heard one young American guy in the first hour after I arrived in the city and two days later I heard the second American voice. I have heard twice as many…