Hotels

Hotel Jelovica - Bled

These are the prebooked hotels used:

ITALY
Milan - Michelangelo Hotel
Verona -  Crown Plaza Hotel
Trieste - Savola Excelsior Palace Hotel

 

SLOVENIA
Ljubljana - City Hotel
Bled - Hotel Jelovica

AUSTRIA
Vienna - Delta Hotel 











 

Milan - Michelangelo Hotel

Hotels in Europe worry me - shower facilities are mainly hoses and pipes, with complicated levers for controlling temperature and flow. Some had baths - others simply a tube designed for stick figures. No safety handles nor seat. Unaccompanied handicapped or disabled persons would not be able to use these facilities safely.

Some bathrooms had a ceiling outlet with no adjustments - water sprayed out over the floor.

Verona - View from Crown Plaza Hotel

Our hotels in Slovenia were twin-bedded, with the beds pushed next to each other. Space seems to be scarce! Other hotels had giant sized "family" beds, suitable for mum and dad and tribes of ten children.

Trieste - Excelsior Palace Hotel

All hotels had wall-mounted TVs, phones, and WiFi. The WiFi in some hotels was activated by switching on the TV, then fiddling with the smartphone. Some WiFi's were room-specific, others were hotel-wide: all needed the password and link combination. Some didn't work. 

Some hotels had tea and coffee making facilities - some had a bar-fridge, most had a hair-drier, one had a clothes' dryer, some had luggage racks for two people (mostly only for one guest!)

None had "tour desks".

Vienna - Delta Hotel

Some had restaurants, very expensive with liveried waiters. Breakfast was help-yourself; one hotel had a printed sign asking guests not to take food outside of the breakfast room.

Climate adjustment was chancy - some controls didn't work properly, or at all. 

In Italy and Austria, taxis could be ordered from the reception desk - these usually arrived within two minutes. Payment was either credit card or cash, depending on the type of taxi you had ordered!

Ljubjlana - City Hotel

Languages - English is OK most places. At Lake Como I was mistaken for a New Zealander! I have only a rudimentary knowledge of Italian and German, and none of Slovenian!