On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:57:41 -0400 "Frank Slocum" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > > 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