Saturday, March 29, 2008

Trip and Hotel pricing

10/07/08-10/17/08
MSN - TXL via Continental $848 (madison-cleveland-newark-berlin)
10/11/08-10/16/08
TXL - LHR via Lufthansa $137

Cheap Hotel Searching:

Berlin: 10/07/08-10/11/08 4 Nights:

Hotel Agon Frankfurter Allee, Berlin, Germany $133/night (farechase.com) 3 of 5 stars downtown central location is likely why it is more expensive.

Comfort Hotel Weissensee, $57.06/night (hotels.com) 3 of 5 stars Looks like it has a private bathroom. Can't tell about location. only 3 reviews all good. If we can figure out if it is near a train, it might be a good option.

Winter's Hotel Berlin City Messe, $64.77/night (hotels.com) 3 of 5 stars (shower on floor, NOT in room) Five minute walk to S and U trains, not centrally located.

Pension Berolina, $66.70 (hotels.com) 1 star. Centrally located. Shared bathroom. Review: "This hotel is actually a hostel. It is on the spartan side and a bit noisy in the mornings, but for a budget-conscious traveller in Berlin, it is an excellent pick -- clean, friendly,affordable given the local rates, and directly across the street from the Charlottenberg S-bahn station. Highly recommended -- we did a little looking around in person and couldn't find anything better in the 50-80 Euro range."

Hotel.de (think hotels.com, but for Germany) Searching Arendsee, near Ziemendorf for 10/09/08-10/10/08
Hotel Haus am See in Arendsee (Germany) $86.00/night
This is actually a spa! And they rent bikes so we could bike to Ziemendorf, which is a couple of miles away.

Ambiencehotel Zur Wolfsschlucht in Kläden (Germany) (45euros a night)
Actually these both sound pretty nice. This is farther away.

London: Cheap Hotels
THere are a number of cheap hotels listed in hotels.com, but I'm suspicious of some of them, as they have 1 star, and few reviews. They seem to have no bathroom in the room.

Carbigoe Hotel, London, $91/night. 1 bad review, but 4 neutral/good ones. Seems centrally located. ONly 1 star.

Royal Court Apartments 3 stars. $115/night. 100% good reviews. Centrally located.
I like this one a lot.

Wembley Plaza 4 stars. $121/night 75% good reviews.

And so forth.

I'm thinking we fly back to Germany the day before we leave and stay in a hotel that night near the airport so we can get to the airport easily.

Something like

Day 1-5 fly into Germany - fly to England
Day 5-10 Fly into England - Fly back to German
Day 11 Fly out of Germany, back to US

Hotels near airpots are generally much cheaper.

1 Comments:

At 2:10 PM, Blogger Duners2 said...

I really like the spa! Nice Idea!

I just heard from a girl at work she may be taking off close to the 17th because she and her husband are flying to Las Vegas for their Anniversary, which is the 17th.
Can we move the dates to the 5th-15th?
Otherwise I love the plan. I like the day close to Ziemendorf too!

 

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