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Hotels in Narita, Nagasaki, and Shinagawa

Accommodations Worldwide, May 2007 issue
We stayed at these three places on an October ’06 trip to JAPAN. • Holiday Inn Tobu Narita (320-1 Tokko, Chiba, Narita, 286-0106 Japan; phone 81-476-321234, fax 320617 or phone Holidays Inns at 888/465-4329 or visit www.holidayinn.com). I booked via the Internet and couldn’t believe the price: ¥7,507 (about $66). I thought maybe it was for a ...

Thailand’s Novotel Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel

Accommodations Worldwide, May 2007 issue
For a 13-night program to Bhutan that I was leading, our group departed for Paro, Bhutan, on Sept. 29, 2006, from Bangkok, THAILAND’s, new Suvarnabhumi Airport, which had officially opened at 3 a.m. on Sept. 28. Due to an early departure on Druk Air, our group stayed at the Novotel Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel (Suvarnabhumi Airport, ...

B&Bs and convents near Cinque Terre

Accommodations Worldwide, May 2007 issue
My two girlfriends and I took a 2-week independent trip to Italy, June 7-21, 2006. We always plan our trips ourselves (no packages), customizing them for what we want to see and leaving plenty of free time in between the sightseeing for cafés, hiking, etc. This trip included Venice (plus Murano, Burano and Torcello islands), our ...

Switzerland’s Hotel de la Paix

Accommodations Worldwide, May 2007 issue
My husband, David, and I have stayed 12 times at Hotel de la Paix (Bernastrasse 24, 3800 Interlaken, SWITZERLAND; phone +41 33 822 70 44, fax 822 87 28 or visit www. hotel-de-la-paix.ch), most recently in August ’06. This charming and intimate hotel, located in a residential street only three minutes’ walk from the West Station, ...

Hotel Pax and Hotel Alphubel in Switzerland

Accommodations Worldwide, May 2007 issue
I returned to SWITZERLAND in September ’06, this time with a cousin. • In Zermatt we stayed at Hotel Alphubel (3920 CH Zermatt; phone +41 27 967 3003, fax 967 6684 or visit www.zermatt.ch/alphubel), which is an easy walk from the train station. Our single rooms, each with a full bath, had a balcony facing the ...

Etap Hotel Roissy near Charles de Gaulle airport

Accommodations Worldwide, May 2007 issue
Looking for an inexpensive place to stay at Roissy Aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle Paris Nord? I stayed at the Etap Hotel Roissy (335 rue de la Belle Étoile, ZAC Paris Nord 2, Roissey en FRANCE 95974; phone [+33] 892 68 3056, fax 149 89 3342 or visit www.etaphotel.com). There are 20 Etap hotels in the Paris area. ...

Airport Hotel Bonus Inn, Finland

Accommodations Worldwide, May 2007 issue
In the middle of August ’06, I found myself in Helsinki, FINLAND — one of the world’s “Top Ten Most Expensive” cities — without a hotel room! So I logged onto the Internet (imagine travel today without the Net?) and within minutes had a room at the independently owned Airport Hotel Bonus Inn (Elannotie 9, ...

“Essential Iran” tour with Mir Corp.

Accommodations Worldwide, April 2007 issue
“Essential Iran” tour with Mir Corp.
My husband, Dick, and I took the “Essential Iran” tour with MIR Corp. (85 South Washington St., Ste. 210, Seattle, WA 98104; 800/424-7289, www.mircorp.com), Sept. 8-17, 2006, and thought ITN readers might be interested in the observations of two ordinary American tourists, a rarity there. We paid about $2,400-$2,500 each, including flights Tehran-Shiraz-Isfahan-Tehran. In 2007, the ...

Grand Circle’s 16-day “Russian Waterways” tour

Accommodations Worldwide, April 2007 issue
Usually, the ships that cruise in Russia are rather sparse in amenities, unless you upgrade to a suite, but our cabin aboard the M/S Tikhi Don, with Grand Circle Travel (347 Congress Ave., Boston, MA 02210; 800/959-0405, www.gct.com), had regular beds, a TV, a Western-style bath, a phone, an in-room safe, a fridge, two chairs ...

Bike tour of Spain with BikeToursDirect

Accommodations Worldwide, April 2007 issue
Bike tour of Spain with BikeToursDirect
Some friends suggested the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca (Majorca) for a bicycle tour, and in a Web search BikeToursDirect (1638 Berkley Circle, Chattanooga, TN 37405; 877/462-2423, www.biketoursdirect.com) had what looked like the perfect option: a 7-night, self-guided tour, about 30 miles per day on a bicycle, for $718 per person (land only). We booked the ...