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Tips from a rail trip to Switzerland

Accommodations Worldwide, October 2008 issue
Here are tips from my trip to SWITZERLAND in May ’08. Rail service in Switzerland is exceptional! Clean trains run on time and correlate with other forms of transport for expedient connections. In the stations are excellent schedule signs noting the times and track numbers. The 22-day Swiss Pass was a great buy ($668 first class, $446 ...

The Honey Pot, Bedknobs B&B in Cornwall, England

Accommodations Worldwide, October 2008 issue
The Honey Pot (Polgwyn, Castle St., Bodmin PL31 2DX, Cornwall, England; phone +44 [0] 1208 77553, fax 77885, www.thehoneypot-bodmin. co.uk) — located in Polgwyn, a Victorian house five minutes’ walk up a fairly steep hill from the Bodmin city center (three minutes’ drive from the A30). The Honey Pot is an outstanding self-contained, first-floor apartment comprising ...

Ryad Bahia, Riad Al Bartal, and Kasbah du Toubkal, Morocco

Accommodations Worldwide, September 2008 issue
Here are three recommendations from our April ’07 trip to MOROCCO. • Ryad Bahia (Tiberbarine, Ancienne Medina, Meknès, Morocco; phone 212 055 5545 41, e-mail bouchra_jamai@yahoo.com or contact@ryad-bahia.com or visit www.ryad-bahia.com), located behind the Dar Jamai museum. This is a very comfortable, family-run B&B in a ryad (traditional Moroccan home with an inner courtyard) with its own ...

Best B&B, Rome

Accommodations Worldwide, September 2008 issue
In Rome we stayed at the wonderful Best B&B (Corso V. Emanuele II, 21, 00186, Rome, ITALY; phone +39 335 871 4840, www.bestbb.it), centrally located near the Forum and the Pantheon. There were four B&Bs, and this one was near the Pantheon. Outside our door there was Internet access, and each morning a wonderful breakfast was ...

Hotel Moderno Erice and Carrubella Park Hotel in Sicily

Accommodations Worldwide, September 2008 issue
We spent 12 nights in Sicily, ITALY, in May ’07 (July ’08, pg. 57). • We’re so glad we planned an overnight stay in Erice, a small, charming hilltop town above Trapani. We stayed at Hotel Moderno Erice (Via Vittorio Emanuele 67, 91016 Erice; phone ++39 0923 869300, fax 869139, www.hotelmodernoerice.it). There is no parking on the ...

Canasta Hotel, Capri, Italy

Accommodations Worldwide, September 2008 issue
The best hotel we stayed at during our 3-week trip to ITALY in October-November ’07 (also see May ’08, pg. 34 & July ’08, pg. 56) was the Canasta Hotel (Via Campo di Teste 6, 80073 Capri, Italy; phone +39 81 837 0561, fax 837 6675, www.hotel-canasta.com). The Canasta is one of the lower-price hotels in ...

Count Kálnoky’s Estate, Miklósvár, Romania

Accommodations Worldwide, September 2008 issue
Count Kálnoky’s Estate, Miklósvár, Romania
On our trip to ROMANIA in August ’07, my wife, Margi, and I flew into Bucharest, were met at the airport and were driven to Count Kálnoky’s Estate (Miklósvár, Romania; phone 0040 742 202586, fax 0040 267 314088, www.transylvanian castle.com). The Kálnoky family had owned a hunting manor and a residential manor and relied on two ...

Hotel Victoria, Budapest

Accommodations Worldwide, September 2008 issue
In Budapest, we stayed in the excellent Hotel Victoria (Bem rkp 11, 1011 Budapest, Hungary; phone +36 1 457 8080, fax 457 8088, www.victoria.hu). It’s on the Buda side of the Danube, right on the waterfront. During our stay in March ’08, a single room with facilities en suite cost €91 ($141) and a double, €96 ...

Hotel Waldhaus am See, St. Moritz, Switzerland

Accommodations Worldwide, September 2008 issue
Hotel Waldhaus am See, St. Moritz, Switzerland
St. Moritz, SWITZERLAND, is not the sort of place where you expect to spend a budget holiday. That said, an off-season visit allows you to enjoy its glorious setting, soak up its posh ambience and relax at a reasonable cost. In May ’08 my wife, Paula, and I spent two nights in the 3-star Hotel Waldhaus ...

Les Lavandes cottage in Ste. Alvère, France

Accommodations Worldwide, September 2008 issue
The Dordogne Valley is dotted with beautiful medieval villages and castles, prehistoric painted caves and famed farmers’ markets. The Lot and Gascony regions are nearby. An ideal base from which to visit this region is Les Lavandes (Ste. Alvère, FRANCE; phone +33 [0] 553 071775, www.leslavandes.com). Owned by English expats Ken and Linda Austin, Les Lavandes ...