Student Inn International Hostel
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Hollywood Starlet
I have finally made it and am in Hollywood! Of course I am staying the finest hotel - the Student Inn International - don't know if you've heard of it!! Its across the road from the kodak theatres - where they hold the Oscars. Apparently thats the only time the stars come to "Hollywood downtown" and the rest of the time they are in Santa Monica or …
Washington D.C. 22 to 23rd June 2007
We arrived about mid-day. Whilst on the bus I'd read in the lonely planet that this hostel (Student International) did pick-ups from the bus, so I rang them. The guy who did the pick-ups wasn't there but they said get a cab and they'll refund upto $12 (fair enough) the thing was that he checked which address I had and as they had a fire last year …
L.A. Woman
... it was nice to walk and enjoy the quiet. I then caught the bus downtown to visit the fashion district. Not what I was expecting at all - I thought it would be lots of nice stores selling reduced price fashion. Instead it was like visiting a whole other country, like clothing markets in Asia which sell lots of cheap, tacky and (in some circumstances) downright ugly clothes! So I didn't stay long. On the train to see the Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by ...
Disney Magic Morning
... have a disability though think it’s more a case of too big to walk. Pretty sad.
Got home about 7.00pm which meant our 4-5 hour day had turned into a 12 hour shift!! We were working on Gibson time, which usually allows an extra 15 minutes per child, except today we allowed 2 hours extra per child. Great spa, great tea then team meeting to plan our last ‘family day’ tomorrow.
I have not doubt it will be ...
City of Angels
... a profit off a drink vending machine giving us three times as much change as required!
Our fourth day was spent at the happiest place in the world! DISNEYLAND! Jason had checked that a Wednesday was apparently one of the quietest days of the week but if what we experienced was a quiet day then ****. It felt like the whole of America decided to sneak in on this 'quiet' Wednesday. We pretty much got in and went straight to the four major, most popular rides ...