Although the Hotel Thermal is the most central, and the first huge spa hotel coming down from the main rail road station (on top of the city)......it does not have a good write up anymore. You can look at it on the internet, if you like, just key in "Hotel Thermal, Karlovy Vary." Read the comments! BUT! I can highly recommend to you the Embassy Hotel http://www.embassy.cz/embassydnn/ and you can probably make arrangements with them to be picked up from the railroad station, or take a taxi. It is one of the few family owned hotels. There is a lot of pedestrian traffic rather than cars (their access being limited in the spa area), and you would get a nice walk along the promenade and along the river Tepl, where you can meander along the Tepl River visiting the Karlsbad Spa valley and all hot springs. Book 2 nights, to enjoy a day walking around, you will not need transportation and you can use the cogwheel tram to get to forest walking trails and Cafe's on top of the mountains with a lovely view. The other recommendation I can make is the Hotel Boston, for the sole reason, that it is catering to English speaking guests. You will need a pickup or taxi to get there as it is in the middle of town. This is a less expensive place. Look at it on the internet by keying in "Hotel Boston, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic". I am a born Karlsbader, enjoy my beloved mountains and ... take a few breadcrumbs from the table to feed the many HUGE German brown trouts underneath the bridges! --- The hot springs taste lousy but are potent; they dissolve gallstones on a 3-week Spa regimen overseen by a Balneological Doctor of Medicine. Enjoy my hometown and have a noontime meal at the "Egerländer"! You can walk there. Aida -------------------------------------------- On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Frank Slocum <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends: Can anyone make a recommendation about a local hotel in Karlsbad, > perhaps walking distance to main train station. > > Also posssibly a tour assistant to day travel to local outlying village. > > Frank Slocum > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thank you, Aida. The words of wisdom and experience that I was looking to recieve. I will explore the listings. Frank Slocum ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aida Kraus" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:22 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Hotel Recommendation Karlsbad > Although the Hotel Thermal is the most central, and the first huge spa > hotel > coming down from the main rail road station (on top of the city)......it > does not have a good write up anymore. You can look at it on the > internet, > if you like, just key in "Hotel Thermal, Karlovy Vary." Read the > comments! > BUT! I can highly recommend to you the Embassy Hotel > http://www.embassy.cz/embassydnn/ > and you can probably make arrangements with them to be picked up from the > railroad station, or take a taxi. It is one of the few family owned > hotels. > There is a lot of pedestrian traffic rather than cars (their access being > limited in the spa area), and you would get a nice walk along the > promenade > and along the river Tepl, where you can meander along the Tepl River > visiting the Karlsbad Spa valley and all hot springs. Book 2 nights, to > enjoy a day walking around, you will not need transportation and you can > use > the cogwheel tram to get to forest walking trails and Cafe's on top of the > mountains with a lovely view. The other recommendation I can make is the > Hotel Boston, for the sole reason, that it is catering to English speaking > guests. You will need a pickup or taxi to get there as it is in the > middle > of town. This is a less expensive place. Look at it on the internet by > keying in "Hotel Boston, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic". > I am a born Karlsbader, enjoy my beloved mountains and ... take a > few > breadcrumbs from the table to feed the many HUGE German brown trouts > underneath the bridges! --- The hot springs taste lousy but are potent; > they > dissolve gallstones on a 3-week Spa regimen overseen by a Balneological > Doctor of Medicine. > Enjoy my hometown and have a noontime meal at the "Egerländer"! You > can walk there. > Aida > > -------------------------------------------- > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Frank Slocum <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Friends: Can anyone make a recommendation about a local hotel in >> Karlsbad, >> perhaps walking distance to main train station. >> >> Also posssibly a tour assistant to day travel to local outlying village. >> >> Frank Slocum >> German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

According to another listserv I am on, the Pilsen archives are back online and include villages starting with K, although one of my villages (Kosolup, Cz: Kosolupy) was not to be found, so maybe not all of them. Jack Schaffer