Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Citadines Hongkong Ashley Hotel Kowloon

Our accommodation in Hong Kong..

Citadines Hongkong Ashley hotel Kowloon

Address : 18 Ashley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong KongHotel Location : CityArea : Tsim Sha Tsui


From 278 AUD (incl. taxes & service charges)



Citadines Hongkong Ashley hotel Kowloon Overview

The Ashley Apartments Hotel in Hong Kong is one of the most popular hotels here. This hotel has been opened in 2003. From the very inception of this hotel, it has been winning over the hearts of the visitors. Be it a business trip or a holiday in Hong Kong with your family, the Ashley Apartments Hotel will certainly appease you. Favorably located in the midst of Hong Kong in the center of Tsim Sha Tsui, the Ashley Apartments Hotel serves the needs of various types of visitors. The Ashley Apartments Hotel in Hong Kong houses twenty-one floors. This magnificent hotel is situated adjacent to the celebrated commercial building shopping malls and entertainment center. The strategic location of this hotel makes its easier for the visitors to travel to any part of Hong Kong. Staying in this contemporary and trendy hotel is a real pleasure. From the moment you enter the hotel you will be taken care of by the hotel staffs. Your every small necessity will be looked after by them. From business need to personal pleasures, you will never be disappointed here. The guest rooms are designed in a very stylish and coeval way. The rooms excogitate their passion for fashion, quality and ease. With just two apartments each floor, the visitors can relish more confidentiality when they stay at these apartments. The main aim of the hotel staffs is to provide comfort and luxury to the visitors in a relaxing environment. The warmth and hospitality extended in the Ashley Apartments Hotel in Hong Kong will give you a feel of home away from home. Like all three star hotels the Ashley Apartments Hotel in Hong Kong cater a number of amenities and facilities to the visitors like internet access, safety box, security camera and many others.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Syntagma (Constitution) Square Athens


Every hour, the Changing of the Guard ceremony, performed by Greek army troops wearing the traditional Evzones uniform is conducted in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the area between the Square and Parliament.


"The construction work undertaken on the city's metro system during the 1990s brought an unprecedented number of archaeological finds to light. Some of these finds can be seen at the metro station on Syntagma Square. The exhibits include ancient grave stones, an aqueduct from the 5th century BC, pottery, a 2,000-year old beehive and a mosaic from the 5th century AD."

Hotel Odysseon - Kalambaka (Meteora)




".. hotel’s unique location facilitates easy and rapid access to the centre of Kalampaka (7 mins on foot), the village of Kastraki (10 mins on foot), and other regional monuments and taverns with superb local cuisine. Our hotel is a 10-minute-walk from the town’s bus and train stations."

LOCATION INFORMATION
Hotel Odysseon is build on the foothills of a green hill, just on the exit of Kalambaka town leading towards the picturesque Kastraki village, which is only 5 minutes walk from the Odysseon Hotel. The hotel is flanked on its side and at the back by the unique Meteora rock formations. The natural sandstone rock towers of Meteora were first used to build the first monastery atop one of the rock formations back in the 10th century. Since then 23 more monasteries were build atop these rock formations. Meteora is a unique place in the world and it is not to be missed on your travels to Greece. Hotel Odysseon is ideal for visiting these monasteries as out of 24 of them 6 are no longer than 20 minutes walk from the hotel.

NEARBY SIGHTSEEING
The location of HOTEL ODYSSEON in KALAMBAKA offers many opportunities for sightseeing. Apart of course from Meteora and the monasteries, right next door to the hotel is the Museum of Modern Art, further and just 3 kilometers away is the village of Theopetra with its neolithic caves and the bridge of Sarakina. Further afield Metsovo and Lake Plastiras are each around 1 hours drive away.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Visiting the Meteora Monastries

There are six Meteora monasteries, each open to visits at slightly different hours and days. To see them all in a day, start early to take in Ayiou Nikolaou, Varlaam and Megalou Meteorou before 1pm, leaving the afternoon for Roussanou, Ayias Triadhos and Ayiou Stefanou.
The road from Kastraki to Ayiou Stefanou is just under 10km long, often narrow and dangerous with speeding cars; if you're on foot, we recommend you follow the hiking directions given below to spare you the tarmac as much as possible - by using the trails and dirt tracks available you can avoid most of the asphalt. Ayiou Stefanou is in a cul-de-sac for both drivers and hikers; the through road signposted Kalambaka just before Ayias Triadhos is a highly indirect 5km. In season there are a number of daily buses (most reliably at about 9am and 1pm) from Kalambaka up the road as far as Megalou Meteorou/Varlaam; even taken just part of the way they will give you the necessary head start to make a hiking day manageable. Hitching is also pretty straightforward.
You may want a local map , especially if you intend to leave the beaten track. A lot of dross is sold in Kalambaka, but the only two products worth having are sold at the newsagent on the upper platia. The Panoramic Map with Geology (co-produced by Karto Atelier, Switzerland and Trekking Hellas; ?4.50) is aerial-view art format, but fairly accurate and good enough to follow the main routes. Andonis Kaloyirou's Greek-only text booklet, with topographic map in back (Road Editions, ?11.80) is superior, and many will find the map alone worth the investment.
Before setting out it is worth buying food and drink to last the day; there are only a couple of drinks/fruit stands on the circuit, by Varlaam and Megalou Meteorou. And finally, don't forget to carry money with you: each monastery levies an admission charge - currently ?1.50, with students half price except at Ayias Triadhos.
For visits to all the monasteries, dress code is strict. For women this means wearing a skirt - not trousers; for men, long trousers. Both sexes must cover their shoulders. Skirts or simple wraps are often lent to female visitors, but it's best not to count on this. Finally, it's worth noting that photography and videoing are strictly forbidden in all of the monasteries.