I first went to Vereckei-hágó in Transcarpathia, Ukraine, by means of independent travel, 10 years ago. To have gone there before would have been more difficult, due to visa requirements[…]
The Janus has been welcoming its guests for 25 years, the last 13 of them as a member of the Best Western chain. However, a hotel that wishes to remain[…]
May is here, and with it the annual opening after winter of Austria’s Grossglockner High Alpine Road, ranked as among the most beautiful panorama roads in the Alps for 81[…]
Several dozen countries, airlines and Hungarian tourist destinations gave out their glossy brochures at the large annual travel fair in Budapest last month. Perhaps the most unusual place to have[…]
Complain about modern-day stress to your Hungarian friends and the retort may well be: “Why don’t you travel to Hévíz?” The west Hungarian healing location offers about 10,000 guest beds,[…]
Kosice sits at the foot of light hilly terrain to the north and with fine vineyard culture towards the southern lowlands, in eastern Slovakia. It is just 25 kilometres from[…]
Somehow the outside comes inside with you upon entering the hotel’s revolving door: five 10-metre palm trees in pots dominate the large lobby, water flows in two ornamental pools and[…]
If you are an Art Nouveau partisan I highly recommend a visit to the town of Subotica, or Szabadka as it is known by Hungarians. This very deluxe town with[…]
Five- and four-star hotels in Dubai continued to experience weakening average room rates in October, falling 8.1 per cent to $312 while occupancy levels remained strong, albeit marginally lower than[…]
Seagulls are flying outside the window of our eighth-floor hotel room. Nothing unusual in that, normally, but this is a Mövenpick hotel and this particular bird has a special place[…]
