Holiday Inn Cologne

After a long flight to Dusseldorf arriving around 8:15 local time, we took the German Rail system from the airport to Cologne, a 45 minute ride. The first train was 25 minutes late & packed. So we waited 10 minutes for the next one. Of course Peggy ...

Most of us don't think of Holiday Inn when considering a fine dining experience. However when we decided to go for dinner, the choices were walking several blocks through the freezing cold or try the HI restaurant. Guess where Peggy wanted to go? You ...

... ; there is a bath in the bathroom – it's not just a shower room, which is what we've had in every hotel except the Holiday Inn (Leipzig, keep up!). We dumped our cases in the room & decided to head straight out for food in the hope that we might ...

Thursday was a day of transition for us as we departed our home of 3 days in the Holiday Inn Am Stadtwald to the Uniworld River Cruise. We woke up late (by the previous day standards anyway) around 8:30. Peggy decided she was hungry after only eating one ...

Today the tour starts to wind down. We travel to from Berlin to Cologne via Hamelin. It's a long day's drive to Cologne, where we'll be staying on the outskirts, near the airport but won't get into the city proper and see any sights. The lunchtime ...

... about 6.45pm.  Yes it was later than usual but this sometimes happens. Our hotel is called the Holiday Inn (sound familiar) but this was near the Cologne Airport. Double glazing throughout - king size bed, bath and plenty of room. It was ...

... former United States Army Base "Fort Clayton". There are only three hotels in whole Panama that are close to the Canal, the Holiday Inn being one of them, still 200m away from it but from my room I can watch the ships pass by.  For ...

... the same direction as me so we went to the bus station and got our tickets for a night bus. We stopped by and saw the Holiday Inn (it was the only functioning hotel during the war and had all the journalists) and the History Museum on the way back. The ...

... cafeteria. I made an reservation at the Hostel dormitory for tomorrow night wher thee $ 11 compares favorable with the 130 @ the Holiday Inn, plus I will get a better feeling for this fascinating old town town.As far I could tell the Police does an ...

... .   Which is exactly why we made it back to the Hotel and couldn't check in until 2 PM on the dot.  Front desk, Holiday Inn Express, no ingles!  Ahhhh!  But, we made it through and got the keys to our room and went upstairs to enjoy ...

... scared the shit out of all of us at 6:30!! So after we all got ready, we headed downstairs for a good Italian breakfast in the Holiday Inn and then we took the bus downtown to go see St-Peter's!! Was it ever amazing!! I had to practice my italian quite ...

... showers, bundled up, walked the 3 blocks in the snow to catch the first of 3 tram/rail rides of the morning. We arrived at Cologne HBF (central station) in time to get money from the ATM and a cup of coffee from Starbucks. Peggy didn't want to be late ...

... were gathered there.  The guy at the hotel was not exaggerating when he told us that everyone would be at Plaza de Colon for the partido....there were thousands of people that filled the Plaza, and about 90% of them had probably been drinking for ...

... were able to find some cologne for myself and Dad. The perfume lady was quite nice and secured me a limited edition of my favourite cologne (a shiny golden bottle instead of the regular brown, it's really quite nice). Dad paid for it and I tipped her $10 ...