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Travelling utilities A short guide to flights and wheretosleep places, just in case you (I) had to go there again... |
FLIGHTS
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Last update |
Name and website |
Notes |
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Choose Seat on your Flight |
2011 |
Seat Guru |
Essential to pick up the right seat in several.. planes topologies. |
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Flight organizer |
2008 |
Kayak |
Essential to organize multicity trips; compares prices from all companies. |
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Flight organizer |
2008 |
Zingarate |
Everything on low cost companies. |
HOTELS et al
Short suggestions of beautiful worth value hotels-B&B-residences listed in alphabetic order
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Where |
Last update |
Name and website |
Category |
Notes |
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France: Paris |
Hotel Du Midi |
Hotel |
Close to Denfert-Rochereau |
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France: Paris |
2004 |
Hotel Minerve |
Hotel |
Nice place, very central and not extremely expensive. |
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Italy: Bologna |
2010 |
Hotel I Portici |
Hotel |
Close to the station and bus stop to CNR. Free internet. |
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Italy: Bologna |
2010 |
Hotel Mercure |
Hotel |
Close to the station. Not at all free internet. |
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Italy: Ferrara |
2005 |
Suite Duomo |
Hotel/Residence |
Super! Huge, central and not expensive. |
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Italy: Genova |
2005 |
Hotel Boccascena |
Hotel/Bed&Breakfast |
Very nice, central and not expensive. |
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Italy: Rome Frascati |
2010 |
Hotel Colonna |
Hotel |
Free wifi. Central. |
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Italy: Torino |
2007.05 |
Saltway Apartments |
Residence |
Several apartments available, also in the center. Convenient prices and nice people. |
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Italy: Torino |
2006 |
Le Petit Hotel |
Hotel |
Special rates, call to reserve; in the center. |
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Italy: Trieste |
2004 |
Hotel Continentale |
Hotel |
Special rates for University. |
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Italy: Trieste |
2007.02 |
Residence Liberty |
Residence |
Large apartments near Piazza Unità at convenient rates. |
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USA: Baltimore |
2008.06 |
Courtyard Inner Harbor |
Hotel |
Expensive but some special online offers; amazing breakfast; very central, close to the harbor. |
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USA: Berkeley |
November 2008 |
Downtown Berkeley Inn |
Rooms |
Cheaper than other places, not particularly nice; not an 'hotel' really, but rooms directly on the street. In Berkeley center. Rooms are new and big. |
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USA: New York |
2011 |
Union Theological Seminary |
Guest rooms |
Close to Columbia University. |
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USA: New York |
November 2008 |
St.Marks Hotel |
Hotel |
Strange place but cheaper than others, clean and near the metro. |
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USA: San Francisco |
November 2008 |
The Pickwick Hotel |
Hotel |
Perfectly in the center, nice hotel with several offers and packages. |
Other useful links
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Where |
Last update |
Name and website |
Notes |
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Austria and Germany |
2005 |
HRS |
Nice link to hotels and special rates, with map and pictures. |