Help planning May/June Euro trip
Apr 8, 2015, 6:00 am
#16
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The best at AMS is the Sheraton which is essentially inside the airport. The majority of the rooms there have great views over the airfield. Or there's the nearby Hilton, but a lot of the rooms there will not have good views. I think both these hotels should have cash & points if you are looking to lower costs.
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Apr 8, 2015, 7:22 am
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There's another option which isn't expensive and that's the Mercure which is airside in the non-schengen area. Since you have a ticket to DTW, it makes sense to stay there anyways as you can go straight to the gate in the morning. Also you will have the run of that section of the airport while there and can do all the planespotting you want at each of the gates.
Apr 8, 2015, 8:42 am
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There's another option which isn't expensive and that's the Mercure which is airside in the non-schengen area. Since you have a ticket to DTW, it makes sense to stay there anyways as you can go straight to the gate in the morning. Also you will have the run of that section of the airport while there and can do all the planespotting you want at each of the gates.
Apr 8, 2015, 8:48 am
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It depends on the room. But you can take pictures in flight from the terminal. However this hotel has strict hours for day rooms or night rooms. Night rooms can only be occupied between 8pm and 9am. Then they have to clean up for the day room guests. There's only 33 rooms in the hotel.
Apr 8, 2015, 8:58 am
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It depends on the room. But you can take pictures in flight from the terminal. However this hotel has strict hours for day rooms or night rooms. Night rooms can only be occupied between 8pm and 9am. Then they have to clean up for the day room guests. There's only 33 rooms in the hotel.
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Apr 9, 2015, 12:18 pm
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Hotwire taketh away (the Paris hotel is rather crappy given the virtually nonexistent discount) and Hotwire giveth. For $52 I am staying at Dorint AMS for my last night. It's not in Amstelveen like I'd been hoping, but for that price I am not complaining.
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May 20, 2015, 11:19 am
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Aaaaaalllrighty then, some major changes. Skipping Stelvio (likely closed and raining anyways, per the forecast) and Davos (just plain cold), I will be taking a night train from Nice to Colmar, so I will be in Colmar for the Pentecost just walking around. On the 26th I will grab a rental car, drive down to the car museum in Mulhouse and then head to Paris - not necessarily via a direct route. So, since I'll be a free agent with a car for a day and a half, what's there to see? I'm open to detours, so...Nancy? Reims? Metz? Orleans? Bourges? I know next to nothing about that part of France, to be honest.