FUN-travel: Wroclaw, Poland to Berlin
July 25, 2014 by Susan Clarke
Berlin
Day 18 – Friday, July 18 – Wroclaw, Poland to Berlin, Germany – blue skies & full sun – 80’s
What I LIKE
- 7:00 – wake up
- In room coffee – powdered – better than nothing
- 8:30 – check out
- 9:00 – Mc Donald’s – 2 egg mc muffins & 2 cappuccinos = $8 US
- Car rental allows freedom to control trip
- 11:00 – stop @ border to spend rest of zlotys
- – 2 Heinekens, chips & sparkle water
- 1:00 – arrive hotel & drop bags
- Hertz is only 850 meters away
- – ask where to get gas – only 1 mile away
- 1:15 – drop car & attempt to get insurance charges removed
- – told I have to go back to airport where rented to handle
- 1:30 – lunch
FUN-food – Lungomare – Pizza Mista – ham, salami, mushrooms, olives, hot peppers – really good thin crust – 2 beers = $16 Eur
Berlin
- 2:30 – check in Marriott Courtyard
- Used last of points for 1 free night
- Will never stay at Marriott again
- Finally have room w/AC!
- Need room R&R
- 7:30 – walk to Gendarmen-mkt
- – old square w/3 large beautifully restored buildings
- – roman columns & marble statues – Konzerthaus in center
- – sidewalk cafés & restaurants sprinkled thru out
- – kids & parents making huge bubbles
- 8:15 – dinner Brasserie
FUN-food – nice crisp salad w/tomatoes, radish, onion, mozzarella, sunflower seeds, white balsamic dressing – steak tartar w/fries – salmon trout on bed of polenta & spinach, red bell pepper sauce – Keine Zalze South African Cab = $96 Euro
- 9:45 – walk back
- Midnight night night
Kaiser Wilhelm Building
What I DON’T LIKE
- Hotel cappuccino costs $4 US – not happening!
- Can’t get out of garage
- – have to go back to front desk for ticket
- – no instructions how to use it!
- – push intercom button to ask & they raise bar
- 10:30 – just realize Hertz added coverage that I specifically said I didn’t want when reserved
- – at airport repeated didn’t want any insurance or extras
- – that was disregarded – to the tune of $160 +!
- – I am so tired of once again having to triple check everything to not get ripped off!
- Car & gas very expensive
- Marriott still charges for internet!
- – $9.95 Euro for 24 hrs
- – It’s FREE all over the world!
- – and doesn’t even work!
- Keeps dropping in room
FUN-fact – Berlin is a grand, cosmopolitan city and very clean.
More FF – English is spoken almost everywhere in Berlin.