Travel Tuesday-Our homes in Europe, Part 2

When we left off last time I had shown you all our "homes" while we were in London and Paris.

I forgot that we did stay one night in a hotel in Paris.

This is what happens when you change your itinerary after you've made all your reservations :)

You end up with a random hotel stay...

but it worked out because we got to see another part of the city.

Our hotel room looked like this

and the bathroom looked like this

It had a bathtub (no shower, but a handheld nozzle) to the left as you walk in.

That thing hanging by the mirror is a hair dryer... it was cool and not like any hair dryer I've ever seen.

This was the beautiful view out of our window.

I don't remember what it was called and I don't remember how much the one night's stay cost us.

BUT I will say that it was nice and we enjoyed it.

Just goes to show that there are reasonable hotels in Paris b/c you know we were on a budget!

 

 

 

The last leg of our trip was spent in Rome and Ireland.

We were really happy with the places we stayed in both of the cities!

In Rome we stayed in the Hotel Chicago.

Yes, a lot of their hotels are named after cities and states in the USA.

I'm not sure why.

But I do know they are obsessed with anyone from Chicago. So, if you are from Chicago and you travel to Rome... be sure and mention it and you will be their new favorite person.

Our room looked like this.

It had this super nice built in cabinetry for storage of our clothes and bags!  The door beside the chair is a fridge as well!  We were very excited about that.  Me especially because I LOVE cereal and I had been craving it for a while.  So we bought some milk & cereal...... we also bought Oreos :)

The pic below is of the bathroom.... also very nice.

Notice how the toilet doesn't have a tank.  I thought that was interesting.

That button above flushes.  It has two seperate buttons for the two seperate things that could go into it... ahem. 

Guess which one is for which.... because we did!

Just like hotels in the U.S., they would come in and clean each day and give us fresh towels.

Everything was included except air conditioning, which we splurged for because it was SO hot.  It cost an extra 10 euros a day... which ain't cheap.  I promise it's worth it though for that time of year.  They have different rates on different types of rooms that you can find on their website.

They also require cash for payment, and unlike here, you pay when you check out.

We got lucky and they didn't charge us for the air conditioning.

I'm not sure why... they either liked us or felt sorry for the dumb Americans ;)

Our next stay was in Cork, Ireland.

We tried the whole hostel thing again. 

This is the street view of our hostel... it's the one that says hostel ;)

When you walk in, it looks like this.

Hence the name Bru Bar and Hostel!

If you walk down past the bar and to the left you will find the staircase to the rooms.

Our room looked like this.

Okay, so obviously this is a three person room... but we wanted a room to ourselves this time.  It's a little bit of an extra cost, but if you want the privacy then it's worth it.  We used the top bunk for our backpacks and all our junk.

Here's the bathroom.  Directly ahead, sink.  Directly Right, toilet.  Directly left, shower.

Here is the water control for the shower.

That's right... it's a push button. 
Not only that, but note the color on the push button.

That's right... it's only red. 
Not only that, but you couldn't push it until you were inside the shower because of shower door setup.

That's right... it started out super cold and then proceeded to turn to a nice scalding hot.

It was quite an experience.  Needless to say... fastest showers ever taken.

Outside of that we loved out hostel stay in Cork, Ireland.

Bru Bar and Hostel is top rated by hostelworld.com.

The people working there were super nice.

It was clean.  They offered free wifi and continental breakfast (cereal & toast).

It was a good hostel experience.

If you want to know more about this place their website is right here.

The room we stayed in costs 48 euros a night OR 16 euros a person if you were traveling with two friends.  I think this place is a sweet deal for your own private room and private bathroom.

So there you have it!

Now you've gone on our trip to all of our European stays!

This is definitely one of the ways we kept our trip economical.

Oh man, I almost forgot!  We stayed in a yotel one night in the Heathrow airport in London.

It's a tiny compact hotel type thing in the airport.  It's small, but super futuristic.

We felt like the Jetson's.

You have to go to this link and look at pictures!

Enjoy!