Advantages: 24 kms from Fiumicino Airport. Disadvantages: Location.
Melia Roma Aurelia Antica Hotel Rome.
Via Aldobrandeschi,
223 Roma, Italy.
The Melia is a four star Luxury Hotel with conference centre.
We stayed three nights.
Cost £196.59 for a standard room. This was for three nights (£65.53 per night).
(Breakfast is not included in this price)
Check in time 1pm. Check out time 12 Noon.
Booking Time: July 2005.
Location: About 6km North East of the Vatican City.
Airport we flew into: Fiumicino. Aprrox 24 Kms from The Melia.
Our visit to the Hotel Melia was an exceptional experience, we thoroughly enjoyed
our stay and would definitely go back. This is all about how we got there and what
it was like during our visit.
How we got there.
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It was a little more difficult for us to travel ...
Advantages: Spacious, awe-inspiring, peaceful expanses, friendly people.. Delicious food and wine! Disadvantages: Far but well worth it
seemed quite deserted.
Fitzroy, Puerto Deseado, Puerto San Julián? and we reached Río Gallegos, near the strait of Magellan, where again, we did not stay very long, as we were heading for Tierra del Fuego (I have written a separate review about Tierra del Fuego).
On our way back from Tierra del Fuego, we headed towards Calafate, in the extreme south of Patagonia, a picturesque little town, the gateway towards the magnificent Parque Nacional Los Glaciares (The Glaciers, so this gives you an idea..) where you will find the Glacier Perito Moreno, the largest in Argentina and one of the few advancing glacier on earth. It is 1600-sq-km and about 60m high (I am planning to write a separate op in this as well) and to stand in front of it is truly a humbling experience.
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Leaving ...
Advantages: Relaxing, beautiful Disadvantages: Not much to do except relax!
Unlike many places in the world now, the most spectacular part of a trip to the small Venezuelan village of Puerto Colombia is still the journey to reach it. This collection of posadas and the adjoining colonial village of Choroni are situated a mere 2 hour drive from Maracay on the west Caribbean coast of Venezuela yet they seem like they are a truly rural slice of life. The main reason for this is that the journey to the village involves a hair raising ride crossing over a mountain and through the Henri Pittier National Park. Either by bus or by shared taxi, you hurtle through hairpin bends, usually arbitrarily using either side of the road and swinging widely back to the proper side when a vehicle appears coming the other way, up around 2000metres into the clouds and then back down to sea level.
Part of the attraction of Venezuela ...
