Sometimes helpful advice and sometimes pitfall warnings about traveling
03.11.2020-Sometimes the instructions are complicated….
During our travel from Spangdahlem to Munich, having arrived on a military Space-A hop, we booked an AirBnb-like room (for Ktown) in that it has a lockbox with a code to get in and we won’t have to inconvenience anyone getting in so late. It was available on Booking.com, which I use for one nighters, for last minute bookings, and booking hotels near airports for early flights.
As we mentioned, AirBnB was founded on the philosophy of “home stay” and we don’t use them for one-nighters because, though the price can be better, we think it’s rude to stay one night in a home and then they have to clean everything.
If you aren’t staying in a big hotel, it’s often difficult to find your place in an unfamiliar city—especially in a foreign country.
A lot of places like this will post pictures of their doorways and the ones around them though. So, you shouldn’t have “too” much trouble finding them.
For “Rustic Apartment” that we booked in Ktown, we were sent the following helpful information.
As wifi can be sketchy, and you want to avoid, data charges on your phone, always take a picture of the route you need to take, and save images of the room directions.
The same for train trips. The speakers (the actual speaker and not the person speaking) on some of the German regional trains are so awful that you can’t make out what they said. So, screenshot your trip itinerary so you can make sure you get off at the right time, anticipate how long until you need to deboard the train so you can gather all of your stuff, and remember your transfer stations.
This of course does not help you to find the correct platform, as we noted in our missed trains, but it does help. Some trains have digital displays or monitors with the stops and they will list the platforms for connections as well.
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