The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
VACATION TRIPS
IN EUROPE COST
LESS THIS YEAR
Steamship Lines, Hotels
and Restaurants Adopt
Lower Prices.

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Columns of foreign news in press
dispatches show that Europe is an
active continent, changing its tempo
constantly and adding to the pages
which tomorrow will be history.
This year the continent will lure
thousands who are planning sum-
naer vacations.
Any steamship line can provide
answers to the question, why should
people go to Europe this summer?
The lines point out that the travel
dollar is not blcated balloon which
will lose its valr0 when it leaves
Uncle Sans shores.
The French line points out in a
bulletin of information to travel
agents:
"You will notice that in the last
four years the prices of the hotels
de luxe have been reduce from
35 to 40 per cent and hotels of the
middle class from 20 to Is per cent.
Not only have the rates of hotels
been reduced but also the prices in
the restaurants.
Take, for example, the Cafe de
la Paix, Chez Poccardi and Noel
Peters. You may now have a full
meal, with wine and coffee, for
thirty francs, compared with
seventy-fve or eighty francs in
$780,"
Exchange Declared "Bugaboo"
The Cunard Line definitely de-
rides foreign exchange as bug
aboo," adding: eve wish to en-
phasize that your dollar still is
sound money in Europe"
It points out that. you can tour
London for five days, including ho-
tel. breakfast, lunch, dinner, tips to
servants, morning and afternoon
/ sightseeing, trip to the Poges,
Windsor and Hampton court, river
launch from Maidenhead to Wind
sor included for as little as $28.
A seven-day tour by motor, in
Guiding hotels, can be made in
Scotland for $2875; the famous
Oberammergau, with its Passion
Play, can be visited for $3.50 (22
per cent less than in 1890, which
includes two nights lodging, first
class, and all meals from dinner on
the evening of arrival to break
fast on the morning of departure.
In France, round-trip tickets are
reduced by 80 per cent; in Holland,
rail fares are % per cent below
those of 1926, and N Germany
1,5O0-mile railroad tour can be
made for 2 1-3 cents mile.
Hotels Reduce Rates
In all of the continents capitals
Paris, London, Rome. Lucerne,
Brussels, Berlin-hotel rates are less
than their 1926 levels b. 81 to so
per cent. Financially speaking, 1926
generally is accepted as the normal
year.
Steamship rates reveal wide re-
duction in costs. On one of the
seas hrst-class, fast vessels a room
and bath cost $445 each for two
persons in 1926, against $276 this
year; room and bath in cabin
liner cost $505 round trip in 1926,
against 1851 this year.
These facts are being circulated
widely in travel circles to indicate
that if going abroad in 1926 was
accomplished without general cry
of costlineSs, then the 1884 travel
Ter will have to look hard to find
reasons fer calling the price of
continental touring high.
Resumes Triangular Trips
A variation OF summer trips will
be offered by the Furness-Bermuda
Line again, starting May %, when
the triangular cruises to Bermuda
and lTassau are resumed.
Direct sailings to Bermuda and
return will be maintained by the
Monarch of Bermuda, while the
Queen will call at Hamilton and
Nassau before returning to New
York.
The popularity of a short sea
jaunt is reflected in the marked in
crease of visitors to Bermuda so far
this year.. According to Cyrus F.
Judson, Furness general manager
agent, the increase in "'-ings has
more than doubled the same
period for 1888.
Soviet Proud of Hotels.
Intourist, Inc, reportst hat many
early visitors to Leningrad and Mos
COW have returned elated over the
hotels which have been recon-
structed for travellers.
Much Of the furniture in some of
the hotels, such as the Europe,
would be resting in honor in mu-
seums in other continental cities.
In Russia it is placed in use for the
visitor.
Moscow has four hotels used by
foreign visitors-the Metropole, in
Theater Square. which is the larg-
est: the National, on Cork street,
where the Lindberghs stopped and
which Ambassador Bullitt used as
temporary headquarters; the Savoy
and the new Moscow Eotel, over
looking the famous Krenlin Towers.
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