Today is our Train to Denali. We had a very good breakfast. It was the usual hot breakfast with eggs, oatmeal, fruits and yogurt. We called Uber to the train station. It was predicted to rain 100%.It was drizzling as expected. We left the hotel around 8 am for the 9:15 am train. We had packed luggage in a way that we would keep 3 suitcases in the cloak room in the hotel itself. Since we are staying in the same Fairfield after our return from Denali in Anchorage, we could pick them up at that time. It was a very easy check in process. We showed our tickets and dropped off our luggage except for the backpack. We waited in the depot for 20 minutes before they bused us to the train platform. It was ... read more

Last day full day of trip before getting on the long ride to USA. We had to pay separately for breakfast here. After our morning duties, we checked the breakfast spread to see if it is worh paying 15 euros per plate. The spread seemed good. We finised our breakfast in the hotel itself before checking out. Front desk folks were willing to hold the luggage for us. Our flight to Frankfurt was to leave at 1:51 PM. We planned to return to the hotel by 1 PM. Since the train station was only 0.5 kms, we decided to walk to the station. After leaving the bags, we again walked to Salzburg old town. Elevator to top of the hill for a bird's eye view of the city Got tickets for old town boat ride Walked ... read more

We got ready by 8:30 or so. Since we had combined museum tickets, today's plan was to visit the Koonst museum. We headed to the breakfast lounge instead. Here we did have additional items prepared. We had made to order omelettes, yogurt with granola etc. It was fairly a good spread. Our first stop was the Koonst museum. This is a huge museum with multiple floors and sections. We started from the European section and then moved on to Greek, Roman and Egypt. After 3 hours of information overload, we wanted to take a break. There were plenty of antiquities to see. Again, we got the audio guide. It is quite cheap and very descriptive on certain topics. The name of the museum Koosthistoriches means, collection of items from history. This initially started as a hobby ... read more

Today is the day we leave for Vienna. Since we had reserved tickets for the 2:39 PM train, we planned to at least complete one additional sightseeing item in Prague. Our initial plan was to go to "National Museum'. When I checked online (some folks mentioned this yesterday as well), the main museum is closed for renovation and only annexe buildings were open. We decided to skip the museum and go to Petrin hill instead. This is in an excellent location close to the Prague castle. Gardens, observation tower, observatory, restaurants and other attractions are in this area. There is a small cable car that takes you up from the street. We had to finish our showers, pack and finish our breakfast before the check out. We requested the front-desk to hold on to our luggage. ... read more

First full day in Prague. We had to sleep a bit extra today until 7:30 PM. Breakfast here is not included in the daily rate. We will have to pay 12 Euros in addition per person here. After morning shower etc, we headed to the breakfast. If you compare this to the hotels we have been to in India, this spread is very average. THere is no hot item other than bioled eggs. There were varieties of pastries, bread, fruit and Yogurt. It would be difficult to skip lunch with this intake. We loaded up as much as we could. Person at the reception was able to give us a map and point us to the subway station where we could buy a tram ticket to the Prague Castle. This was our first attraction. THe castle ... read more