Aran Park Hotel

Our journey to the Aran Island began at 8:30 this morning. We met and walked down the Victorian Hotel to claim our purchased tickets through Island Ferries.  Julie, from Maine and Jim from Wisconsin were my fellow traveling companions for this ...

... cool. And as soon as it was over, back in the water ran the kids. We took a walk after that to find the big hotel. We read they have a nice prefix meal and were  thinking of splurging on a nice seafood meal while there. The menu, though, turned ...

Day 7, TTEE 2008.  Rome - Florence (Calenzano)   Goodbye to the lovely Aran Park Hotel, and goodbye to Roma.  We are on the bus early today, 7.15am.  Heading to the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel.  Here is there ...

... here when I say that to be any busier than what he witnessed is absolute craziness. Well all the guests were met with a hotel full of hungover staff, I actually had a ball today dealing with the guests and their complaints(in all fairness though I often ...

... the shade. We weren't particularly tired but it was good to get back on the bus and get de sweaty!   Back at the hotel, shower was had, I attempted a snooze and Dan watched Prison break on the laptop..at 5pm we got a bit more active...started to pack ...

We landed on time, about 12:05 pm local time. We were lucky and caught an earlier shuttle and arrived at the hotel about 2:30 pm local time.  We are six hours ahead of Ohio time. Our hotel is nice.  We have to put our room keycard in a slot in ...

... 't finished from breakfast as we kept on our way to Rome. The journey from Orvieto to Rome was very short..we got to our hotel which is wayyyyyyyyy out from town but quite nice around 2.30pm. Dan and I immediately got to doing washing for nearly all of ...

... coins in for good luck and a wish to return to Rome.  Purchased a few more postcards of Vatican City and headed back to hotel.  No word on passport, so a new one will be gotten in Vienna, hopefully.  Only took 181 pictures so far -- have ...

... 's life I am living right now.  Could I be?  Could I stay in Europe and hide away forever? My first impression of the Rome hotel is very nice.  Then I got to my room and I am so very happy indeed.  But boy it is so hot here.  All ...

... on the bus to Aranya and we arrived (you guessed it) at about 10:30pm. I'm not doing this again"I thought, and asked where a hotel was, to my joy, right across the parking lot! It looked nice....the tuktuk driver told me he would take me to a cheaper one ...

... Pyrenees valleys generally run north and south. Roads, therefore, generally flow north and south. In order to reach Ordesa National Park, due west of Aran Valley, we had to drive south, then west, then north, our route forming  a "U" shape. Nacho, ...

... , August 28 Arrive Shannon, Ireland at 10:00am. Bus to pick us up and drive to Galway. Check in / drop baggage off at hotel. Eat lunch, ignore jetlag and go sightseeing. Shower / rest before dinner and a night out on the town. Tuesday, August 29 ...

... park of Llao llao where sapphire blue lakes scrunched up between snow capped mountains was the order of the day. The park is also home to the most famous hotel in Argentina, that being Hotel Llao llao...It had a decent golf course but I`m afeared I cannot ...

... .  Finbarr brought us to a Ring Fort, which was really cool.  We got to Bunratty, checked into our hotel, and went to the Folk Park for lunch and to walk around.  It was another beautiful day!  After the folk park, we went into ...

... taking pictures. Didn't help that the girls weren't bad looking either - although not on the list.   Heading back to the hotel, we managed to finally surprise Dana with her cake in her room, before Colin, Aran, Dingdong/Animal/Ryan, Rachel, Julia, ...

... $1.75Aust; however we discovered that Enterprise Car Hire had a three day weekend deal of 50Euro that covered free pickup from your hotel, Fri-Sun inclusive, no mileage limit, and they returned you to the hotel after the three days at no charge. Needless ...

... resort, with beautiful beaches and the bluest, clearest water. It's picture perfect. There's just a few little shops, 2 campsites, a hotel and few cafes and restaurants, all along one road. No houses or residential areas. Basically built for tourism. We ...

... , so we took them up on it! We enjoyed another meal in a pub, this time in Ireland, and yeah, found out that the hotel was renovating from the last time it was bombed three years ago!! We found out alot more family history through Tom, which we were ...

... was wheelchair accessible - and the driver's seat was this plexiglass-encased throne with all this touristy memorabilia plastered everywhere.  He took the scenic route through the Rocks back to our hotel.) Please view our photo album for this ...

... schedule when they are in Ireland) so we drive the curvy road past a hillside walled castle overlooking the Aran Islands to the Cliffs and pay €4 to park. The winds are howling and blowing us across the parking lot. We bypass the visitor center ...