Grand Canal Hotel

... or with the BTS Skytrain. I mentioned vaporettoes, the city indeed does remind a bit of Venice. Let's just say the river is the Grand Canal and there are many side canals. A number of the historic sites are along the river....but this is a city of 10 ...

... canal. Fantastic view watching the gondoliers getting ready and the motor launches bringing in provisions to the hotel. Deceided to take the water bus up the Grand Canal and get off past the Alto bridge to explore the more residential areas. Trip up the ...

... .          From there we went on a cruise along China’s famous and ancient Grand Canal, the longest in the world (1776 km), which was built more completed nearly 1,500 years ago.  I enjoyed the ...

... . Day 11 Xuzhou – Huaian Take a morning train and arrive in Huaian, check in hotel.  Huaian was the “Capital of the Grand Canal“ during 1500 years.  The highest official responsible for the Canal transportation had his office ...

Our daily budget is AUS$65, so we have decided to combine transport and accommodation by taking the overnight boat down the Grand Canal to Suzhou. The canal stretches all the way to Beijing, nearly 2000 km away to the north. It was built before the Great ...

... favorite destination so far. However, that sentiment changed pretty quickly as we took to a "Chinese gondola" for a tour of the Grand Canal.  The century old homes that lined the canal were really interesting.  Before the light faded, we hopped ...

... 1 Vaporetto The Vaporetto is basically a big bus-boat which has regular routes through the city.  The # 1 takes you along the Grand Canal and serves as a sort of guide-less tour of the city's "main street".  We got on board from St Mark's ...

... . There really is no more dramatic entrance to a town than to take this route. As we travelled along the Grand Canal, the mists were rising from the water, coupled with the setting sun it provided an entrancing view. Immediately after passing ...

... sealing and freezing the excess for later.  YUMMY! Anchoring in Port Lucaya was a challenge.  The entire island of Grand Bahama has sparse anchoring opportunities (except for one area we'll describe below).  We first tried an area of the ...

Hotel Castello Campo SS. Filippo e Giacomo, Castello, 4365, 30122 Venezia, Italy +39 041 523 4545 () – +39 041 521 1023 (Fax) ‎ hotelcastello.it ...

... had the stem ware rental charge removed. Al paid the bill and we left. OK...Today, Saturday the 15th should be an adventure. From the hotel by water taxi to the train the Venice train station. Catch the 1:50 PM to Bologna then the 3:50 PM to Ancona and ...

... say however, any travel that Odil Akhmedov from Advantour has organised for us has always been totally reliable. The Grand Turkmen Hotel was well fitted out and comfortable. Like Uzbekistan however, electricity seemed to be a problem with outages ...

... lucky enough to find a cool modern Italian restaurant located along the Zaterre, Venice's "boardwalk" situated on the opposite side from the Grand Canal. Here we made friends with our young hosts, Franco and Alberto who gave us a full list of the most ...

... . He was succeeded by his son Emperor Yang (Wen’s death was suspicious). Both were keen on big projects like the Grand Canal, extending the Great Wall and big military campaigns. Yang was assassinated in 618 and a northern lord, Li Yuan took the ...

... a quick day in Venice.  My friends and I decided to do typical tourist activity in Venice and went on a gondola ride on the Grand Canal, which was very relaxing and fun.  Next we went to see the Grand Canal… and while we were near there ...

... of maps, which took about 20 minutes. We really like the hotel, which is in a quieter section of Venice , and the view over the Grand Canal is stunning. We walked around to get our barings, and headed to St Mark's. The Square was a sea of humanity and ...

... each and headed for the canal and let us tell you, nothing beats eating authentic Italian pizza, sitting in the sunshine on the grand canal in Venice. Definately something we will never forget. After that we only had a few hours left, so we checked out ...

... propably preferred it to Florence and it beats Naples hands-down. The Glass Blowing factories on Muruno Island were cool, the Grand Canal has some fantastic buildings lining it and having a waterway rather than a paved road is just plain novel ...

... to flood, so we had someone carry our luggage to the vaporetto stop, so that they wouldn't get wet, and then we headed down the Grand Canal to the train station just in time to miss the worst of it. December is the worst of the floods, but Venetians are ...

... jailed and executed.  What a neat site it was to see.  VERY IMPRESSIVE.  We made our long trek back to the Grand Canal Hotel to pack up to be prepared to leave in the early morning.  Here, breakfast goes from 7:30-10.  They don't ...

... and several Bellinis before heading out again. We stopped next door to make reservations for tomorrows dinner at the Grand Canal Hotel Restaraunt. Dinner was at La Caravella, delicious meal in a beautiful courtyard, with great service to ...