Crowne Plaza Venice

... to nothing there.  It was a very suburban residential area, and there was no one at the train station.  Thankfully there was a Crowne Plaza hotel across the tracks, problem was, I had no idea how to get over there. So, I walked around for about ...

... !) Favorite City: Xi'an - so much history in one small place (a city of 7 million ;)  Favorite Place to Stay:  Crowne Plaza Beijing - nothing in China held a candle to this hotel (Thank you Carolyn Reed) Funniest moment:  @ a restaurant the ...

... ;s Cathedral: this church stood ca 900 and was destroyed around 1799 frescos and tombs, and original walls are in the basement of the Crowne Plaza Hotel We raise a few last brews before we part ways with Tim, Joanne, Dave and Patrice. As they board their ...

... "Bonjour", "Merci", etc. We arrived on Friday at the train station Nord and caught up with Tegan to make our way to the Crowne Plaza where we were staying. Quite an upgrade from the rooms we stayed at in Edinburgh and Amsterdam! I don't think I have to ...

... world. This has become so popular, there are more cruise lines and ships being built. The hotel in Paris was the Crowne Plaza Republique at Republique Square. A 19th-century Neo-Baroque style building with a striking facade than had been renovated and ...

... /towns: Rome, Assisi, Venice, Montecatini and Sorrento and enjoyed ice-cream in all of them! Day 1 - ROME  relaxed at the Crowne Plaza Rome-St Peter's pool, went for welcome drinks and then off to our first evening event. Dinner and a drive ...

... dinner – good meal – basic but filling.  Spent the evening with fellow tour guests in the bar. VENICE – CROWNE PLAZA We’d a four hour drive from Florence to Verona.  We chose to do the optional city tour excursion.  ...

... in the little takeaway shop for our troubles. We then caught the bus back to the hotel and went next door to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, where cocktails and nibblies made for a nice quiet evening, before going back to our inferior hotel. Fortunately, some of ...

...  We were starving and needed to get out of the sweltering heat, so we walked into the first hotel we could find (the Crowne Plaza) and asked for the restaurant. Hello buffet! Holy cow, this place had the most amazing buffet of Thai, Chinese, ...

Well, they decided to have a train strike today!  No trains to Venice, so we decided to stay around ...

This next day in LA was a day without a real plan. I just knew that I wanted to see Venice Beach (since I didn't quite make it there last time) and we had tickets in the evening to see Jimmy Kimmel again. It was another perfect day in LA weather-wise and ...

... reach Santa Monica where the flat ride begins. Starting in Santa Monica we followed a fantastic beach trail for 22 miles past Venice Beach with it's weird, crazy and wonderful characters parading their wares and talent to the delight of the never ending ...

Breaky again at the Venice beach house. We once again met other guests and chatted about anything and everything. We checked out and headed for Santa Monica Pier. The pier had a great atmosphere with a rollercoaster, ferris wheel and carousel. It was ...

... new.  I was able to do my own laundry in the Ukraine because I was staying in apartments with washers and also in Venice.  In Uzbekistan, it was fairly cheap to have the hotels do it.  In Australia, it's quite expensive to have the hotels ...

Had a wonderful few days with Patricia exploring LAX, from Universal Studios to the Getty Museum and a bicycle ride from Redondo to Venice beach.  ...

... the car at the hotel we headed into LA for some shopping. In the afternoon we headed down to Santa Monica beach and also Venice beach....Kush Doctors available everywhere!! Also cost us $13 just to park the car at these beaches too...what a rip off!! ...

today we had a sleep in then drove to Beverly Hills. We had a lovely lunch at Santa Monica Pier then went to Venice Beach. Tonight we had a nice Chinese tea. Tomorrow we are going ...

... who united Italy as a single country. When the King and Queen were touring Napoli (Naples) the locals who were poor in comparison to Venice for example only had good cooking to offer as a gift. So they asked the Queen how she would like her pizza. She ...