Gage Hotel

... to Pecs, South Hungary We went with the train from Budapest for one full day. I reserved room (for a Saturday night) in the Hotel Palatinus. The train is slow, takes 21/2 hours; the distance is some 200km. We traveled 1st class; the return ticket cost ...

... obliging, and gave us plenty of space. Di and I were eager to beat the winds, and made good time, arriving at the Gage Hotel just after 11 a.m. The hotel is an historic adobe structure with rooms built around a beautiful placita, or courtyard, and a ...

... directions, but this is truly our tax dollars at work. I fell asleep and did not finish the blog, so here you go with the last update of last night. Tonight we slept at the beautiful historic Gage hotel. More of this stay to come tomorrow. Love you ...

... him an empty can that he will be able to raise enough money to pay for our vacation. We spend Thursday night at the luxurious Gage Hotel, the one evening we really splurged, but it was so worth it. We had dinner in the Gage Hotel’s Restaurant, and ...

... purchased most of the town a few years back with the intent to turn it into a high dollar resort by renovating the old Gage Hotel and various other businesses. He doesn't appear to have been successful in anything other than jacking up prices. I quickly ...

... rim for all of us.  After several hours drive we reached Marathon TX - one of the gateways to Big Bend NP.  The Gage Hotel was not open for lunch so we had a wonderful pizza at Guzzis Pizza and proceeded to Big Bend with the by now comon ...

... a night.  That's a little under $25 a night.  Yes, Thailand can be very inexpensive.  After I booked the hotel, we went back over to Siam Square to meet Mattie's friend Thomas who just arrived from Sweden.  Thomas is actually staying ...

... with her and her friiends this evening.  I also made fast friends with a few of the locals at the pub in my hotel.  They are heading over to a skateboarding competition at the Sydney Opera House this afternoon.  I'm not so intrigued by the ...

... to Koh Samui and a boat from Koh Samui to Koh Phangan to make the full mooon party on Feb 22nd.  Unfortunatlely, every hotel we called was fully booked and the flights were all sold out.  The only option was to take a bus for six hours ...

... So, I couldn't resist having Shuying snap a photo of Dr Wu power napping in the front seat on our way home. We arrived outside our hotel about 6pm. None of us were hungry for one of Dr Wu's big meals, so we asked if he would mind if we just spent ...

... Taipei to Bangkok, I landed at 2:00am in the morning (local Bangkok time).  I took a cab from the airport to the Omni Hotel, checked in and crashed.     I woke up around noon and wandered out of the hotel.  Just a block down ...

... . On Sunday, I realized I needed to take it up a notch so I got up early and wandered down the street to the Four Seasons Hotel, slipped the concierge 5 TL and asked him to help me find out how to get to Ataturk Stadium for the U2 Concert.  He jumped ...

... even discussing it, that we would have to move hotels.  We made the arrangements and heading back to our underwhelming hotel.  I was concerned Mr Gillies would take offence to our early departure so when I spoke to reception in the morning, I ...

... to the zoo and walked right past the hotel I should have been staying at - the Ramkrishna Guest House, not the Ramkrishna Hotel that I'm staying at. Damn rickshaw driver took me to the wrong place and I blamed myself for not checking the full hotel name. ...

... it out of the Rental place with Maurice almost driving back onto the spikes.  We are staying at the Bellagio, which is a nice hotel, but in comparison to the ones I’ve stayed at in the South, it doesn’t offer nearly as many free amenities ...

... but is still nice and cozy. After waiting for the rain to stop briefly I headed off to a manager-suggested restaurant. The hotel is actually in perfect position, close and convenient to the action of the French quarter, but far enough away to avoid ...

... a picture of the ridiculous scene.  It was beyond amusing. We picked up three eastern European tourists and headed back to the hotel...completing a 2 hour scenic van journey, twice as long as our scenic balloon flight.  Oh man, it was an ...

... and simple.  If we had the chance to see Park Güell that would be great too, but no stress. We found the hotel fairly easy.  The directions we had got while we were still in Madrid were close enough.  A supermarket was around the ...

... to Pecs, South Hungary We went with the train from Budapest for one full day. I reserved room (for a Saturday night) in the Hotel Palatinus. The train is slow, takes 21/2 hours; the distance is some 200km. We traveled 1st class; the return ticket cost ...