Royal York Hotel

Greetings! This is my attempt at blogging while I am away on a study abroad. For those who haven't heard the rough itenerary, it goes a little something like this: 20 days touring Ireland and Scotland in a coach bus, 14(ish) days hiking the Camino de ...

... ; Within 2,5 hours we disembarked at York station and proceeded to our hotel which is next door. The Royal York has always served as the railway hotel and it is nothing short of magnificent. The station access is almost directly from the platform but this ...

... it – Rocket dropped us at the corner of King and York Sts. From there it was a three minute walk to the Royal York Hotel, where a Porter Airlines shuttle bus picked us up and deposited us by the ferry dock at Toronto Island Airport. Once in the ...

... comfortable.  I can't sleep.  But $2???  I had to.  So, I went and lined up at the Royal York Hotel to catch Greyhound's NEON service between NYC/Buffalo/Toronto and was lucky enough to at least not have anyone sitting beside me the ...

... nice blouse with the emblem of the university (you know, as a motivator to apply there this year). Dawn reached us back at the hotel. Me, Aneta and Piotr went back to the Rockefeller Center to try our tickets anyway. We were warned again that there is no ...

... we took some awesome pictures there including even more photos of the Manhattan. We went back to the city and headed back to the hotel to catch some breath. Me, Piotr and Michael went to Times Square after dawn to take even more great photos while Aneta ...

... from Belfast, and came back for lunch. Visited the railway museum which was very good, and saw a Japanese bullet train, the royal carriages since Queen Victoria, and a Flying Scotsman exhibit, as well as lots of other trains and memorabilia. All kind of ...

... -and bonny old Edinburgh. The castle in it splendour gleamed high on the hilltop of the city. We scored a most rediculously fab hotel room on Friday night, a couple of blocks from the main drag-Princes Street and the Royal Mile up to the Castle. The ...

... New York to LA along the south coast and then LA to New York along the North coast, I ended up back in my basic hotel in New York with just enough time to take in Central Park and do some last minute shopping before flying home to start my new job.  ...

... around America. I wonder what the topic of conversation is going to be when I get there? Make a refreshing change from the Royal Wedding I suppose. Part of me doesn’t believe I’m actually doing this. Despite an unearthly amount of - what will ...

... that we visited it with Rhonda's cousin Michelle who had done a fantastic job getting us last minute type accommodation in a beautiful little hotel right in the centre of the city, less than a block back from the river, right opposite the entrance to a ...

... there were many things to see.  Some of the statues that memorialize families and/or individuals are so beautiful.  The only royal tomb in York Minster is that of William, the son of Edward III.  William died as a baby, however the figure ...

... gift shop. Lots of cobblestone streets lined with Tudor shops that I'm sure were not heard of hundreds of years ago. Our hotel was a former manor home and had interesting decor. We are all beginning to get a little weary and are starting to ...

... to say this one...Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate. The term people use, "I could sleep on a clothes line," came from here. There was a house/hotel that people would stay at but there were only 18 beds. If they ran out of beds, or you couldn't afford a bed you could ...

... back in Dublin, so we virtually left the JFK terminal in New York in less than 30 minutes. We took a YELLOW cab to our hotel (Royal Park Hotel) located on the 97th Street West on Manhattan. It took us about 45 minutes to get there. There is a flat rate ...

... York, day one. So in life, you have good days and you have bad days. Today wasn't the best day. Had a bad night sleep, that Royal National Hotel is the worst hotel ever! Our room, yes that would be the one I shared with a random stranger, was above the ...

... , New Brunswick; the Chateau Montebello in Montebello, Quebec (only an hour from Ottawa); the Queen Elizabeth, Montreal, Quebec; the Royal York in Toronto, which when it opened in 1929 was the largest hotel in the British Empire; the Hotel Saskatchewan, ...

After Seattle we transited to Toronto and the Royal York Hotel.... very ...

... the Empire State Building. We celebrated Australia Day in a most un-Australian fashion, we went to the ice hockey. The New York Rangers played the Florida Panthers and lost. Fortunately we were sitting far enough away to avoid any wayward hockey pucks! A ...

... village so we wandered round for about an hour trying to find a bar by then I was done so Michelle and I stayed for just one before grabbing a cab back to the hotel while the others head toward the meat packing district for one more big night ...