Every morning at 11 you can see the ducks when they walk from... their homes??? I don't know from where... and into the pod.
lørdag 6. juni 2009
The duck-parade at the Peabody hotel
Hahahaha, this was funny!
Every morning at 11 you can see the ducks when they walk from... their homes??? I don't know from where... and into the pod.
Every morning at 11 you can see the ducks when they walk from... their homes??? I don't know from where... and into the pod.
The I-trolley in Orlando
This is GREAT for getting around. We had day-tickets included in the resort-fee, so I don't know what a day-ticket cost, but the cost of one trip is 1,25 USD. The I-trolley is air-conditioned and that is very convenient as it is HOT and HUMID here.
The Peabody Orlando 4,5*
I booked this hotel through hotells.com I could choose between a standard room or an upgraded standard club room. The club room cost some more, I don't remember exactly, but think it was about 30-40 USD per day per person. You get continental breakfast, free entrants to the gym (haha, no, I will not use it...:-)), pre-dinner food and coffee and tea all day. I thought this would be like the lounge at Corinthia Grand, but it wasn't... I thought at least there would be soft-drinks all day, but nope. On the other hand, I am glad we payed for it as it is not possible to get to the grocery-store from the hotel. The club-room are at the 3 top-floors so we have a very nice view. The breakfast is at the 26th. floor and only some steps away from out room.
This picture was taken from our room at the 27th. floor.
The bathroom has a small TV! Haha, I had to remind my son that we are in America now! :-D
The toiletries. Look at the cute duck-soap!
A HUGE television! :-D
This picture was taken from our room at the 27th. floor.
The bathroom has a small TV! Haha, I had to remind my son that we are in America now! :-D
The toiletries. Look at the cute duck-soap!
A HUGE television! :-DThe breakfast was ok. Not the best, but not the worst either. After all it is only continental. I wished the coffee was better!
The swimming-pool is huge and there are enough sun-beds. As this hotel is across the street from the convention-center, it looks like there are mostly business-people here so the pool is not very crowded. Good! You can help yourself to towels, as many as you want!
The location of this hotel is very good if attending a conference at the convention-center, but I am not sure if I would have chosen this hotel for vacation as you have to take the I-trolley to get to shops and grocery-stores. That's what the concierge told us, but we walked home from the restaurant yesterday. It must be the Americans not used to walk...:)
The resort-fee is 15 USD per night. It give you wireless internet, two bottles of water and day-tickets with the I-trolley. I don't mind paying it, but I really don't understand why the Americans can't put the FULL COST into the price, instead of adding extras all the way. When going to shops here all prices are shown WITHOUT taxes, why? And the tipping... It makes me mad when it is mandatory to tip 15-20%. Why can't they just put it in the price?
The swimming-pool is huge and there are enough sun-beds. As this hotel is across the street from the convention-center, it looks like there are mostly business-people here so the pool is not very crowded. Good! You can help yourself to towels, as many as you want!
The location of this hotel is very good if attending a conference at the convention-center, but I am not sure if I would have chosen this hotel for vacation as you have to take the I-trolley to get to shops and grocery-stores. That's what the concierge told us, but we walked home from the restaurant yesterday. It must be the Americans not used to walk...:)
The resort-fee is 15 USD per night. It give you wireless internet, two bottles of water and day-tickets with the I-trolley. I don't mind paying it, but I really don't understand why the Americans can't put the FULL COST into the price, instead of adding extras all the way. When going to shops here all prices are shown WITHOUT taxes, why? And the tipping... It makes me mad when it is mandatory to tip 15-20%. Why can't they just put it in the price?
søndag 24. mai 2009
lørdag 16. mai 2009
Széchenyi Baths
Take the metro #1. to the next-last stop.
I went to this thermal bath at a day with 30 degrees c. Not the best day to visit I think. It was crowded and it looked like they had some problems with cleaning because of all the people. The water in this bath has a temp. at 40 degrees c. Since it was very warm in the air, I never entered the hot bath, but lots of other people did. I can believe it must be amazing at this bath in winter-time!
søndag 10. mai 2009
The spa at Corinthia Grand
The spa was great. It was not very big, but it was clean and had some beds to sit/lay down in. Two saunas and one steam-room. Two jacuzzies. The swimming-pool contains real hot-spring water! I read, somewhere at the internet, that there were some workers who accidentally stumbled upon the underground spring that now feeds the hotel's spa facilities!
I missed some more steam-rooms and bubbles in the pool! There were drinking-water from a dispenser. There were some people when we were there. I can believe it can be crowded. After all, the hotel has over 400 rooms and I don’t think there were more than 30-40 beds. I wished there were some individual soaps/shampoos/body-lotions.
Swine-flu "detector" at the airport!
When we arrived to the airport in Budapest, men in white met us and we all had to go through a heat-detector. I take it it was to trace if we had any signs of fever. I have been to several airports the last two weeks and this was the first time I have been scanned for fever.
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