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Advantages: Useful location for transport; clean comfortable Disadvantages: Smoky lobby; over-priced if no offer available
If like me you are the sort of person who prefers to stay in more moderate hotel accommodation in order to have more money to spend on things like eating out (or the purchasing of horrific souvenirs) you may be interested to know that to celebrate their 30th anniversary, some of the brands that fall under the Accor umbrella are offering a limited number of rooms at special rates this year. It does mean that you can't alter your reservation and won't qualify for a refund if you cancel but for those travellers who are willing to risk that, there are bargains to be had.
In mid-June we are going to Hanover and have booked a double room in a very central Mercure hotel for just 39 Euro per night and have just stayed in the Ibis Graz, the subject of this review, for 59 Euro for a double room, a saving of some 20 Euro based on two people ...
fizzytom 02.06.2008
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Advantages: People wear traditional dress, lots to see and do, very pretty Disadvantages: Steep cobbled streets, smoking allowed in public places
because it was one of Europe's first cast-iron buildings.
Just out of the city is SchlossEggenberg, a wonderful mid-seventeenth century palace in beautiful grounds. Inside the museum is the Joanneum - the first public museum in Austria which opened in 1811. The museum covers a wide array of subjects, in particular art and culture and regional wildlife.
Graz has a remarkably diverse selection of museums but you should do your research if there is something that especially interests you. Some of the museums have very limited opening hours, some require an appointment to be made and the Ruhetag (literally the quiet day - the day the museum is not open) differs between museums. There are museums of architecture, of locks and keys, folk life and folk art, trams, vintage cars and dolls. For my next visit in May I am planning a trip to ...
fizzytom 10.04.2008
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Advantages: Small yet lively, a variety of things to do and a great place to be based Disadvantages: none
the city centre is the Kunsthaus Graz. When I travelled down to Slovenia a couple of weeks later after seeing it, I had a chat to two Scottish architecture students who were going to Graz just to get some photos of the building ? before jumping on a train straight back. However, architecture aside the building is well worth a look ? www.kunsthausgraz.at has a list of current and forthcoming exhibitions ? which tend towards contemporary and modern art. Entrance is EUR 6 (about GBP 4.50) and there are a large number of exhibitions - with most also having information available in English. It is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 6pm, with late opening until 8pm on Thursdays.
Schloss Eggenburg: A spectacular palace, about 3 miles out of town dating from around 1625. There are a number of state rooms open to the public, with baroque ...
Morgenhund 23.01.2005
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