Dorint Novotel Dresden Hotel is located in the city centre within a few min walking distance from the historic old town centre with its Frauenkirche cathedral and Semperoper. The... more
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Dresden, close to the Old Town and the Semperoper opera house.The comfortable rooms and suites of the Dorint Hotel Dresden are well-equipped and feature high-speed...
Dorint Novotel Dresden Hotel is located in the city centre within a few min walking distance from the historic old town centre with its Frauenkirche cathedral and Semperoper. The \\\Transparent Factory\\\" of the Volkswagen Gr oupis only 500m away from the hotel. The hotel is 2km away from the central railway station and 10 km from the international airport. It features a restaurant, a lounge bar, meeting rooms, a swimming pool, sauna and facilities for disabled people."
...This is part of my travel diary on a tour from Contiki. As part of the journey to Prague, we stopped at Dresden for a few hours and below is my experience.
Dresden, 124 miles south of Berlin, is the capital city for the state of Saxony. During the Second World War, the entire city centre was wiped out in the 1945 bombing which was master-minded by Winston Churchill. It is also the place where ex-president of Russia Putin stationed during the cold war.
Our first stop was the Frauenkirche(the Church of Our Lady). The Dresden Frauenkirche survived the firebombing of Dresden during World War II but was totally burned out and collapsed the next day. It has been reconstructed as a landmark symbol of reconciliation between former warring enemies. It is small in size but I have to say it is one of the most beautiful churches I ever...
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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...
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Advantages: Great arts and history, nice people, great food Disadvantages: Weather (sometimes, still better than most uf the UK ;-)
...Dresden has to offer a lot! Especially if you consider to take a dive into German history, enjoy the arts and fine cuisine (yes, Saxony is the only German place for fine and not too heavy food).
After the wall came down in 1989, Saxony went back to the roots of the old kingdom (August the Strong or Augustus I has been king of Saxony from the late 17th century) by naming Dresden the capital of Saxony and trying to restore as many as possible treasures that have suffered under the former communist regime and many wars before that time (7 year war late 18th century, Napoleon's occupation in 1815 and the second world war with massive bombings by the allies). See this great, brief historic wrap-up of the city at: http://members.tripod.com/scapin1/page2.htm.
Another great web site gives a complete picture of the history of Dresden...
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