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From: bsaeed@usc.edu (Babar Saeed)
Newsgroups: rec.travel,rec.travel.air
Subject: Info on hotels in Paris
Date: 27 Dec 1992 13:29:55 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

My friend is travelling to Paris tomorrow. He will be staying there
for a week. He needs some info on the cheap hotels in Paris. If
someone has this info, please email me the Hotel names, rent and
address ASAP.


Thanks,

Newsgroups: rec.travel
From: pearl@brahms.udel.edu (Jennifer L Martin)
Subject: Re: acting as a courier?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:40:18 GMT

In article <1gup36INNeap@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bg688@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Allen P. Abel) writes:
>
>When reading books on discount travel,I came across one that
>said you could save big money on airfare by acting as a courier.
>Has anyone on the group ever done this, and would you 
>recommend it to anyone else?
>-- 
>e-mail replies to:   alabel@heartland.bradley.edu

If anyone knows anything about this, I would also be interested in the
info.  Please e-mail:  pearl@brahms.udel.edu

Thanks!

Jenny
From: zeke@sequent.com (Jamie Strohecker)
Subject: GOING TO WISCONSIN
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 20:07:27 GMT

My husband and I may be heading to Wisconsin in May, around Memorial Day
for a friend's wedding and are looking for suggestions.
Our friend currently lives/works in Delafield.  
Any information on B&B's, costs, restaurants, weather that time of
year, etc. would be great.

jamie strohecker
From: moffat@sscl.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Negril, Jamaica
Organization: Social Science Computing Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:08:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.143010.9708@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, begley@l14h13.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
> In article <168C06FD6.CMDONA00@UKCC.UKY.EDU> CMDONA00@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Christine
> Donahoe) writes:
>>>Traveling to Negril, Jamaica after Christmas. I would like some info on
>>>sightseeing, dining and entertainment.
>> 
>>There's not a lot of sightseeing to do in the Negril area - that's what
>>makes it such a great place to go to relax.  A visit to Ys Falls is a
>>real treat though... Rick's is pretty good but overpriced.  We prefer to go
>>there to watch the divers,  have a drink and watch the sunset.
>> 
>>Anybody else got favorites to add?  We're going back this spring and are
>>always looking for someplace different.
>>Christine Donahoe
>>cmdona00@ukcc.uky.edu
>>
>    Since we were staying at Hedonism, going to Ricks was rather a waste of
> time and money.  We saw the same sunset and had to pay for our beers.  I
> did like the cliff jumping, though.  A good place to pick up a snack is
> Aunt Jenny's Favorite cakes, but people have told me to avoid the mushroom
> tea, unless you want the lights to go out for the next two days.  Where
> are the falls you mentioned?  We are returning there in February.  8-)
> 
> 
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From: kmcnabb@pcserver2.Naitc.Com (Keith McNabb)
Subject: Re: Hot Springs, Arkansas
Organization: A. C. Nielsen Co., Bannockburn, IL
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 23:37:39 GMT

I tried to reply by email, but "venky" bounced from @latech.edu.  
Anyway, ...

-----

Spring and fall are really the ideal times to visit Hot Springs, but
the bath houses and many of the resorts are open year-round.  Also, the
Oaklawn race track will be beginning its season in a few weeks.

Best bet is to call:

     Hot Springs Convention Center
     800-643-1370

Keith McNabb
kmcnabb@nis.naitc.com
From: pm8y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Europe-->India cheap deals
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:45:10 EST
Distribution: rec
Organization: Cornell University

I am interested in a cheap ticket from Rome/London to anywhere in India. Can
anyone recommend some good travel agents/wholesale agents/bucket shop
wheeler-dealers/couriers etc. (in the U.S. and in Europe) that specialize on
this route?  Thanks much.
                   Brij Kothari
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 22 Dec 1992 08:19:15 MST
From: <ATJMO@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Re: Train from Europe to Moscow

As far as I know, there is a train from Berlin to Beijing.  Probably any
travel agent can tell you more.  For an interesting narrative description
of the trip, check out Mary Morris's *Wall to Wall*.  And, yes, I believe
the train does go through Moscow.
From: ivan@spider.co.uk (Ivan Reid)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: INFO PLEASE: Portugal in March
Date: 30 Dec 92 13:11:18 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND

Greetings fellow travellers! I'm planning a short trip to Portugal at the
end of March. I like walking/climbing, good food and Authentic Experiences(tm).
Since Scotland is miserably cold in winter, I'd like a taste of sun and
warmth too. With all this in mind, I'm thinking of starting in Lisbon,
nipping down to the Algarve and then back to Lisbon via the plains north of
the Algarve, perhaps as far as the mountains NW of Lisbon.

I hope to do this on a very small budget (they don't pay us enough here, but
then who does?!), in about a week, using a free flight I won in a raffle.

I'd be very grateful for any info from people who've travelled in Portugal
recently. In particular, info/experiences regarding the following would be
most appreciated:

a)	Car Hire - cheap? Cautionary tales ...
b)	Accommodation: good but cheap places to stay (esp Lisbon/Algarve). 
	Camping - I read most places supply tent in the fee. Should I bring
	a tent of my own? 
c)	Interesting places to visit off the tourist track - touristy bits I
	can find through my guidebook (which did you use?). 
d)	Walking - dramatic scenery to be found .. where?
e)	Nightlife - presumably whilst I'm in Lisbon or the Algarve - any
	good bars/clubs you'd recommend for meeting the locals?

Many thanks in anticipation! If you'd like some info/tales about Britain
(esp. any part of Scotland and the English Lake District), just get in touch,
I'd be happy to share my experiences.

Regards,
Ivan
-- 
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"Information is Power ..."                                   Spider Systems Ltd
vox: (+44 31) 554 9424                                 Spider Park, Stanwell St
fax: (+44 31) 554 0649                              Edinburgh EH6 5NG, SCOTLAND
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From: ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Philip Hazel)
Subject: Re: Getting to coastal France from London
Organization: University of Cambridge Computing Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:08:20 GMT

In article <1h64cuINNnng@LEOPARD.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU>, yan-dicky@cs.yale.edu (Dicky Yan) writes:
|> * The ferry is biger  and slower but it will take cars too. Not sure whether
|>   the hovercarft will take cars. I guess not.

Hovercraft do take cars (but not as many).

Philip

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From: ngsw@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Soon Wei NG)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:07:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Any cheap place to stay in Amsterdam?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Singapore
Newsgroups: rec.travel

In rec.travel, perry@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brendan Perry) writes:


    I stayed at the International Student House on Keizergracht 15, Centrum. It
    was 28 Hfl/day with breakfast for a quad room, clean showers at the end of
    the hall and a great location, 10 minute walk with luggage from Centraal
    Station. We passed by tons of hotels, as we were 'shopping' for a good one,
    and they all seemed nice in the Centrum district, though we settled on ISH
    because it was cheaper than a 'hotel' (which start at 50 Hfl/day but have
    baths). WHatever you do, unless you want to experience Woodstock The Next
    Generation, avoid the 'Sleep In'. It's a backpacker,hippie-like atmosphere
    and tons of youngsters in the 16-24 range, which is fine,fine fine, but I
    wanted to get some sleep and it's noisy and dirty, with 200+ people in a
    room full of bunkbeds, but it's 13 Hfl/day including a locker. Try the
    Christian 'Eben Hauzer' for a mellow, quiet, cheap (15 Hfl) night. They 
    aren't too pushy about religion, but they do have a 12:30am curfew, which
    stinks in Amsterdam for 'partiers' (most clubs don't even start getting
    busy 'til 12). I liked most of the advice in a book called 'The Real Guide
    to Amsterdam'. It was quirky but accurate and candid as well, though they
    had too much praise for 'Sleep In' if ya ask me...

    Cheers,
Well Brendan, that's what THE SHELTER was, a backpacker, hippie-like atmosphere
with tons of youngsters in the 16-24 range. By the way, what do you call those
above 24, "oldster" ?

Actually, I managed to sleep pretty comfortably in the Shelter. 
Newsgroups: rec.travel
From: venky@latech.edu (Venky M. Venkatachalam)
Subject: Hot Springs, Arkansas
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:33:54 GMT

I am planning on a short two days trip to in and around
Hot Springs, Arkansas. I need some info about hot springs.
Is this a good time of the year to visit Hot springs?
What are the popular and interesting places nearby?
Any info would be appreciated.

Thankx

	bye

		venky

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From: babar@girtab.usc.edu (Babar Saeed)
Newsgroups: rec.travel,rec.travel.air
Subject: Re: Info on hotels in Paris
Date: 27 Dec 1992 13:45:15 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

In article <1hl78jINNktt@girtab.usc.edu> bsaeed@usc.edu (Babar Saeed) writes:
>My friend is travelling to Paris tomorrow. He will be staying there
>for a week. He needs some info on the cheap hotels in Paris. If
>someone has this info, please email me the Hotel names, rent and
>address ASAP.
>
>
>Thanks,
>


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Newsgroups: rec.travel
From: jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald)
Subject: Re: info of New Orleans
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:17:50 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1992Dec16.222640.15448@ra.msstate.edu> jonesk@ur.msstate.edu writes:
>Some good places to eat include (among hundreds): Mr. B's Bistro,
>Commander's Palace, Brigtsen's, Emeril's. Tons of nice places to
>stay from major hotel chains to bed and breakfasts. You should,
>of course, check out the Vieux Carre (French Quarter). Good places
>to shop, too: Canal Place, Jax Brewery, Royal St., Riverwalk, and 
>shops between Hyatt and Superdome. Have fun.
>
>Kay Jones
I highly recommend Brennan's (expensive), and Old N'awlins Cookery.
Shopping - a friend and I bought beautiful leather jackets for $100-$125
at a place near the riverwalk.  Much cheaper than we could ever find in
the SF Bay area.
River boat cruises:  stay away from cruises of the battlefield and the locks.
Borrrrring.
Clubs:  check out who's playing at Tipitina's.  Old Absinthe House is a
great place to hang out on Bourbon st.
you'll have a great time.
-jd


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From: Rolf.Poser@p23.f22.n7101.z5.fidonet.org (Rolf Poser)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: rec-travel@cs.utexas.edu
Date: 28 Dec 1992 12:10:39 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Hi everyone :

I would like some info on the following real soon :

When travelling to Kenia-Tanzania :
Is there a way around the "Carnet du passage" ????

I would appreciate e-mail to rolf.poser@p23.f.22.n7101.z5.fidonet.org
or fidonet : 5:7101/22.23

Seasons greetings !

Thanx, B*)
Rolf ! 
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From: marka@dsinet (Mark Anacker)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Re: Bogus about trains, was Re: Travel in Former Soviet Union
Date: 1 Jan 93 06:04:36 GMT
Organization: Digital Systems International, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

dmitry pruss (pruss@helix.nih.gov) wrote:
: >Of course, you could always go by train (2.5 days from Kiev to Moscow).
: 
: 8-\   it used to be 14 hr
: You'd get to Eastern Siberia or Central Asia in 2.5 days. 

It was 15.5 hours just to go from Chernostvy to Bucharest (of course, that did
include 6 hours at the border).  I hear there are many delays in travelling
long distances within the former USSR these days...

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From: koen@cv.ruu.nl (Koen Vincken)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Re: Amsterdam Air
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:33:45 GMT
Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision Research Group

In <1hs5c0INN9bq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano) writes:


>
>Is the air in Amsterdam really smoggy?
>

No. I live in Amsterdam for about 3 years now, but I can still breath!
In my opinion cities like Paris and Athena are much smoggier (?).

>-- 
>Capt. Kirk: let's head for that planet, third from the sun, it
>            looks promising.... |-)

-Koen


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__/  _\ ____/ ____/ _/   _/ phone: +31-30-506710/506711
From: mjb@media.mit.edu (Molly Bancroft)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Accomodations near Stockholm
Summary: hostels or cheap hotels
Keywords: Sweden, Stockholm
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:25:17 GMT
Followup-To: na
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory


Hi Everyone...
My mom is going to Sweden in two weeks for a conference 
and doesn't want to spend the $150 a night for the hotel.
Does anyone know of any hostels or inexpensive overnight
accomodations near Norpeiiging (sp?) or Stockholm?

thanks a bunch!
--molly bancroft
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Re: Hotels in Florida Keys area...
Date: 4 Jan 1993 02:37:47 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

In article <ofEPOiC00iV3Q1CIl9@andrew.cmu.edu> mk69+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Knapp) writes:
>Doesn't anyone get annoyed by these type of requests?  I mean, all you
>have to do is go to a local library, or AAA office, or even call an 800
>number to get this kind of information.  Are these poeple just stupid or
>lazy.  
>
>my opinion is that this net should not be cluttered with this type of
>info requests that asks for information readily available elsewhere (i
>mean key west is not exactly isolated!!!)
>
>i will shut up now.
>mark

Sorry mark,
I disagrees with you. There are a lot of info here that is not available
through books or travle agents. I have benefitted greatly from this group
over the last many trips I've taken. Sure I do my homework months before
I go on my trip. I not only get the AAA guides, but also any other ones
I can get my hands on, and travel video tapes from the local video
stores. You bet I do a lot of homework before I go. But I still ask for
opinions on the net and so far, everytime I've posted, I have been given
a lot of inside info from the locals, or hints from others that have
taken a similar trip and what they would do differently, or what they've
discovered. And a number of times, I didn't agree with AAA's hotel
ratings and thanks to other on the net, I chose a better place at a
cheaper price. ie. Others don't agree either. I did check out the hotels
once I get there to satisfy my curiosity that I haven't made a bad
choice. For example, the hotel might be a nice enough hotel and AAA
gives it 4 stars. But the neigbouthood is bad, and there is not enough
parking with adjacent store customers using the same lot. Or the exit
is on a one way street and you have to drive back to get to the
sightseeing areas....etc. Things like this that only locals or someone
else who've gone through this before can tell you. So I'd like to see
this type of info exchange continue. And I think this is what makes this
group so valuable.

Thomas.

From: mik@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM (#Michele Isernia)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:48:24 GMT
Subject: Urgent info for SanDiego..
Organization: Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Newsgroups: rec.travel

I'm looking for info on SanDiego- CA.

I will be there between Jan. 4th and Jan 14th....

Should I expect nice and warm wheter, go to the beach,...?

Does anyone knows a good hotel in down-town, so I can avoid the car
as much as possible ?

There is any restriction to cross the mexican border ? Can I go
to Mexico with a car rented in SD ?

and so on....

Thanks for every input.....

Pls. email to me directly...

Mik

mik@hpbbn.bbn.hp.com
mik@hpbbse.bbn.hp.com
From: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Re: What is there to do in Freeport, Bahamas - going on day cruise?
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:59:15 GMT
Reply-To: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Organization: NCR E&M CLEMSON Liberty, SC

>Is there anything to do once we get to Freeport? Would it be worth it
>to stay overnight there?

Well 25 years ago there was a casino and an international market......
.
.
.



Newsgroups: rec.travel
From: begley@l14h13.jsc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: Visit to Houston in January
Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:49:50 GMT

In article <92352.151753JKAS@ESTEC.BITNET> <JKAS@ESTEC.BITNET> writes:
>I will be visiting Houston in January. Can you please give
>me some recommendations on car-rental, site-seeing, restaurants,
>shopping etc.
>Thanks for your help!
>Jacqueline
>
  Houston is the fourth largest city in the U.S.  Given that, it is hard to
answer such a generic request without writing a book!  I'll just mention
a couple tidbits.
  Weather in January will either be clear and cool, or damp, rainy, and
miserable.  "Houston has two seasons, summer and January."
  A couple popular sights are the Galleria shopping center on the west 
side of the I-610 loop, the museum district in the south Montrose area
in the center of the loop, SW of downtown, and the Johnson Space Center's 
NEW Space Center Houston, twenty miles southeast of downtown in Clear Lake,
off I-45, 40% of the way to Galveston.  The I-Max theater in the museum
of natural history is showing "Antartica" and "The Fires of Kuwait".
  There are to many restaurants to tackle that one, but Star Pizza is 
the best in-town pizza place (Shepard and Norfolk) and the Gingerman
is the best pub (Rice Village, northwest of Rice University).
  I will be happy to answer specific questions if you wish to E-mail me.
Newsgroups: rec.travel
From: jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald)
Subject: Re: Questions on hiking/backpacking in Costa Rica
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:37:11 GMT
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In article <1992Dec29.182601.29982@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> susswein@anrchy.cxo.dec.com (Steve Susswein) writes:
>
>Has anyone on the net spent much time in the Costa Rica backcountry?
>Also, I've gotten some conflicting advice about bringing raingear.  I
>was planning to take a goretex jacket and pants, but a couple of people
>have told me that it'll be way too hot and humid.  Any thoughts?
>Steve
Steve, when I was there, one of the places my party stayed at we chose
specifically because it had hot water, which was rare on the Caribbean
coast.  We got up early in the morning to do some snorkling, and when we
got back, we found that there was no water.  I took a shower by standing in 
the rain.  It's pretty warm, even when its pouring rain.  A raincoat
of some sort makes sense, but I agree you may be overdoing it with a goretex
jacket and pants, especially if you want to travel light.
-jd

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From: stefan@sinus.stgt.sub.org (Stefan Bechtold)
Subject: Question about Hawaii/Tahiti/Fiji...
Organization: Sinus Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 13:55:10 GMT

Hi !
 
A friend of mine is planning to do a trip to New Zealand and wants to
spend some days on  an island (either Hawaii or an island in the
South Pacific Ocean (like Tahiti,Fijii etc.)). 
He's looking for an island where he can swim etc. but it should also
be an island where you can make something in the "inner-country" (i.e.
not only swimming the whole day :-)

Which island would you prefer ? Hawaii or something like Tahiti or Fijii etc.?
And if some island in the South Pacific Ocean, what island is recommandable ?

As this friend of mine isn't reachable over the net, please post or mail
your replies to me (stefan@sinus.stgt.sub.org).

Thank you very much in advance,
Stefan
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Newsgroups: rec.travel
Subject: Transport from Kimpo Arpt to Seoul
From: jf@pacnet.wesleyan.edu (JOHN FINN)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:37:48 GMT
Organization: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT USA



Hi:

My wife and I are travelling to Seoul later this month. Does anyone know 
what sort of transportation is available from Kimpo to the Inter 
Continental Hotel--e.g., is there a hotel bus service, or public bus 
service, etc.?

Thanks,

John E. Finn
Wesleyan University
 
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