Penn Tower Hotel

Civic Center Boulevard at 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-4385, United States | 3 star hotel

Travel Blogs from Philadelphia

Palestine, Perth and Philadelphia Freedom

A travel blog entry by greg.catlin.9

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As usual another reluctant early start to the day; I will need a holiday when I get home!

A long day is planned. So I breakfast and hit the road. Philadelphia is as every local lells me a very consolidated city, you can walk everywhere.

I walk past the AVIS car hire and take photographic evidence of the non existent signs. I head off to the old town, along the way I walk through a street that is a jeweller's row, door to door jewellery shops both sides of ...

Backpacking!!

A travel blog entry by ferchumaru

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So 1 PESO equals 0,076 dollars?? Or which is the same: with one dollar I can buy a bag of chips, a small Coke, a bus ticket and two Halls. That's it! We are going to Mexico!... Just do no underestimate the exchange rate! You might end up spending more than you budgeted!

Ok, we know that we can do more things there than here, that doesn't mean you will be able to swipe ...

Voller Überraschungen

A travel blog entry by ramona-usa

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... Als es spät genug war fing das Abenteuer erst richtig an. Die Busstation zum Hostel habe ich nach einigen Versuchen gefunden, im Bus war es schon schwieriger. Man konnte Geld in eine Maschine stecken, bekam aber kein Ticket dafür. Das größere Problem war allerdings, dass ich nur aus der Wegbeschreibung wusste wie es heißt wo ich aussteigen muss, allerdings gab es keine richtigen Haltestellen, ...

A Walk to Balboa!!

A travel blog entry by jasonw517

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The next morning Jolene and I were up and showered and decided to let the kids sleep in so we went for a little walk. The morning was much like the others and as soon as we stepped outside, our skin began to sweat in the humidity. I had done a little bit of research the day before and knew that the Liberty bell was 1.3 miles in one direction and the Philadelphia Museum was 1.8 miles in the complete opposite direction. Jolene left the decision to me. ...

Death By Flowers - But Jungles Are Cool

A travel blog entry by kateri.gruber

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... and solving mini mysteries (Amelia is a riddle master!). We just managed to haul the last load of weeds to the brush pile before the trailer tire went flat. So a good day.

That weekend was a "working" weekend, depending upon how you feel about the work! Overington Park, where, if you recall, we had done trimming and mulching earlier, was hosting a park celebration event. So while it was "work," we actually had a lot of fun setting up tables and blowing up helium ...

Traveler rating: 2.5/5 Fair (56 reviews)

Location

This 3 star hotel, located in the University City/West Philadelphia area of Philadelphia, is near University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University.
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