Holiday Inn Nicosia City Center, Nicosia

Lefkoşa - Nicosia's other half

Advantages: Antiquity, architecture, atmosphere
Disadvantages: Cut in two

, and Lefkoşa can be reached in under an hour from either Girne or Gazimagusa. If you're in Nicosia during the course of a holiday in Southern Cyprus, I would definitely advise finding time to cross over to the North, even in midsummer when it will be very hot for sight-seeing. You'll need at least half a day to see the main sights, or a full day for preference. The crossing on foot is no longer difficult. You just turn up at the Ledra Palace checkpoint and present your passport. On the northern side, the TRNC officials will thoughtfully give you a visa on a separate piece of paper, since a TRNC stamp might create difficulties on subsequent visits to the south. Once through, turn right at the next crossroads to enter through the mediaeval walls, and you will find a fascinating city to explore. Well, half a city anyway ...

torr 16.04.2007 (23.04.2007) · Read full review
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Kraking location - Holiday Inn City Centre, Krakow

Advantages: Great location as a base to visit this city, well recommended
Disadvantages: Not the cheapest but you get what you pay for

Krakow's airport (Pope John Paul II Airport) which is served from the UK by easyJet and British Airways. The airport is about 11k from the city and there is a nearby train station from which you can travel cheaply in a journey taking about 15 minutes. I made the mistake of walking from Krakow station to my accommodation (it did not look very far on the map!) and I regretted hauling luggage over cobbled streets. You can get trams or taxis from the railway station readily all over the city. Krakow is on the banks of the Vistula River and the old part of town is a horseshoe shape with the open end of the horseshoe at the bottom on the river banks (the horseshoe, in fact, is where the old city walls used to be - more about this later). The Holiday Inn is just outside this horseshoe, only a short distance from the most historic sights ...

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Nicosia

Advantages: Interesting green line, healthy nightlife, many good restaurants
Disadvantages: Not for beach worshippers, or soldier haters

young things. The thing that struck me most about this city is that it is quite obviously split in two. Since the civil war over twenty five years ago, the city has been divided down the middle. Three seperate military lines exist that separate the two sides of the city and the island. There is a Greek army line, then a UN line, and finally a Turkish army line. The consequence of this is that you can only explore the Turkish half of Nicosia on a one day pass, and you have to return before nightfall. The only way to go from holidaying in the Greek half of the island to the Turkish half is via plane, the nearest neutral airports being in the north african area. Near to the line, in the old town, there are numerous sandbagged and fortified sentry positions that are still currently manned by Cypriot soldiers, both full time and young men ...

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