Alahdin (Dresden)

Advantages: Very clean, great service
Disadvantages: A little way out of the main tourist area

...Four Points by Sheraton Konigshof, Dresden Kreischaer Strasse 2, 01219 Dresden We stayed in this hotel August 2007 for a two night stay in Dresden. We booked the hotel direct through their internet site. http://starwoodhotels.com/fourpoints/property/overview/index.html?prope rtyID=1304 We managed to get a special offer room for 60 euros per night and were very surprised to end up in the Hochzeit zimmer, or honeymoon room. Location The only difficulty we had was with the location of the hotel, we should have looked into this before arriving in Dresden to make sure we knew where we were going as we were using public transport, and the hotel was out of the main city centre. The hotel is situated on the Altstadt side of the Elbe, were the Zwinger and opera house are. We took the tram to get to the hotel it took about 10 minutes... Read review

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Advantages: fun! for free!
Disadvantages: no!

...Please note: You'll find my opinions about Dresden from now on in Home » City Guide » European Cities » Dresden, so you do not need to read this one (I asked ciao to delete it). Information about the Night Skating you find in Home » City Guide » European Cities » Dresden » Festivals & Events » Nachtskaten. Tnx! Imagine the following: It's 9.30 pm, it's dark and you skate within 2000 people on a 4 lane well asphalted road, watching the century-old barok buildings on the other side of the river Elbe. They are floodlighted and in front of you is a car with music. Thats what Dresdens Nightskating (Nachtskaten) is about. It runs every friday in the summer period and is the greates weekly attraction in our city. The Dresden Nightskating was one of the first ones of these events (may 1998) now establisht all over Germany. The Skating... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful
Disadvantages: Not central

...I spent last year in Germany and was in Leipzig very close to Dresden. My German friends, who were also residents of Dresden, would frequently mention Moritzburg as the perfect place to end any visit to Dresden. After many visits to Dresen this wisdom suddenly returned to me when I was taking a visiting parties ofd relatives to Dresden for the fourth or fifth time. We had exhausted most of the usual tourist haunts of Dresden and this particularly adventurous and tireless aunt and uncle were hungry for more. So we jumped on the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof and headed off on the fifteen minute ride to Moritzburg. The return fair from Dresden to Moritzburg was about five Euros. (I subsequently found out that you can also get there by bus from the Marktplatz for about four Euros return, but it takes about half an hour.) When we got... Read review

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