Cheap Sightseeing and Monument Tickets in the Capital of France

The Paris Museum Pass give huge discounts and savings on tickets to sights, monuments, palaces, and galleries including the Louvre, D’Orsay, Pompidou, and Versailles.

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Paris has some of the greatest museums and art galleries in the world. The Paris Museum Pass gives unlimited access to most permanent collections to make for a great deal for cultural sightseeing. Over 60 sights, museums, monuments, or galleries are included in the Paris Museum Pass including virtually all major sights in Paris including the popular Louvre, Musee d’Orsay, the Pompidou Center, and the Arc de Triomphe, as well as the popular day-trip destination – the Palace of Versailles. The Eifel Tower is not covered by the Paris Museum Pass.

The Carte Musées, formerly the savings pass of choice for Paris museums, is no longer used.

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Park & Château Opening Hours, Ticket Prices, and Savings Passes

The Palace of Versailles with its chateau and gardens is a popular day-trip from Paris: Opening hours are long while discount passes allow for saving on ticket prices.

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The Estate of Versailles with its famous château (palace), orangerie, and formal Baroque gardens and park is a popular day trip from Paris. Opening hours are relatively long, although crowds are often present and queues long to get into the palace itself. Various discount tickets and passes are available to allow for faster and cheaper entry into the sights. The gardens are mostly free. Children under 18 and European Union citizens under 26 have free admission to all sights at Versailles.

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Transportation by RER Train or Car to the Château, Estate, & Park

Getting to Versailles with its palace (chateau) and formal gardens is easy from Paris by bus tour, RER train C5, or by car for a great day trip to a top sight in France.

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The palace of Versailles is arguably the best-known chateau in France. Getting to Versailles from downtown Paris is easy by tour bus, train, or car making Versailles probably the most popular day-trip destination from Paris. RER train C5 gives the easiest and cheapest access to Versailles and allows for seamless connections to the rest of the Paris metro system. An organized tour may also be a good idea to skip the lines and get into the Palace of Versailles fast.

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Save on Weekends when Staying Close to the Center of Luxemburg

The Novotel Luxembourg Centre is a new comfortable, four star hotel in a modern building close to the center of Luxemburg. Great savings rates are available on quiet weekends.

The Novotel Luxembourg Centre is conveniently located a few minutes’ walk or an easy drive from Luxemburg station and old town. The hotel is brand new and thus features the present modern and comfortable Novotel look and furnishings. The Novotel Luxembourg Centre aims mostly at business travelers but the hotel is surprisingly child friendly and great value for families especially over weekend when cheap savings rates are available on advance reservations.

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Visit the US Military Memorial in Hamm and Grave of General George S Patton

The American Military Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm outside Luxembourg city has the graves of General George Patton and other US soldiers who died during the Second World War.

The Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial is located just outside Luxemburg city in the suburb Hamm close to the airport. This peaceful memorial site has the graves of over 5,000 American soldiers and military personnel who died in the vicinity during the Second World War. The majority of the American soldiers buried here died during the Battle of the Bulge. The most famous soldier buried in Luxemburg is General George S Patton who died shortly after the war. Transportation to the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial is easy either by public bus or by private car.

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Save on Flight, Train, and Bus Tickets from London, England

Travel between Britain and Germany is easy and cheap on low-cost flights, fast trains, and cheap buses between London (England) and Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, and Munich.

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Travelers between Germany and Britain have increasingly competitive options. Although the recent ballooning of low-cost airline flights between Germany and the UK has come to a halt, trains compete well on certain routes, especially to Cologne but also Berlin and Munich. Travel by bus can be tiresomely slow but prices are often low especially over busy periods when plane tickets can be anything but cheap.

It is worth using a major internet reservation service to establish a base rate and to see what is available on the easiest and fastest routings. Lufthansa often have special fares that competes well with low-cost airlines on price while special offers on railways are often available to leisure travelers willing to comply with restrictions on train ticket reservations.

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Public Transportation to Working Windmills on a Day Trip from Amsterdam

The historic working windmills at Zaanse Schans are an easy day trip by train or bus from Amsterdam. Restaurants, museums, and traditional workshops are further attractions.

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Zaanse Schans is a very popular day-trip destination from Amsterdam. The main attractions here are the historic, working windmills but further historic buildings organized like an open-air museum are further attractions. Easy public transportation (bus or train) as well as numerous tour bus excursion trips make for fast transportation from Amsterdam.

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See Historical Mills and Houses near Amsterdam in the Netherlands

The historic working windmills and open-air museum-like village at Zaanse Schans in Zaandam are a pleasant day-trip destination from Amsterdam in North Holland, the Netherlands.

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Historic windmills are of course no longer part of the industrial infrastructure of modern-day Holland but images of a turning windmill still form a major ingredient of tourist interest in the Netherlands. Windmills are scattered through the Netherlands but the two largest collections of historical working windmills are at Zaanse Schans and at Kinderdijk. The windmills at Zaanse Schans is within easy reach of Amsterdam and makes a great self-guided day-trip or tourbus excursion from the Dutch capital. The nineteen windmills at Kinderdijk near Dordrecht and Rotterdam are included on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list and a popular day-trip from Dutch cities.

Zaanse Schans is by far the easier to reach from Amsterdam, especially when using public transportation. The additional buildings and museums at Zaanse Schans make the town a more interesting destination than Kinderdijk where the windmills – even though UNESCO listed and more in number – are the only real attractions.

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Use Eurostar, Thalys, ICE and Night Sleeper Trains from England to Germany

Fewer cheap tickets on low-cost airlines flights from England to Germany allow trains (Eurostar, Thalys TGV, ICE, CNL City Night Sleeper) and buses to compete even on London to Berlin route.

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Trains and buses are clearly slower than flying when traveling between London and Berlin. However, a sharp decrease in the number of flight and indeed number of low-cost airlines flying between England / Britain and Germany means that prices have risen and trains and buses offering stronger price competition than even a few months ago. Trains from London to Berlin take at least ten hours and buses / coaches around 18 hours.

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Getting to the Top Departure Port for Danube Cruises

Passau with its lovely Baroque old town is the premier departure port for Danube River boat cruise vacations in Germany and Austria. Getting here is easy by train, car, or plane.

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The Bavarian city Passau is right on the German-Austrian border at the confluence of the Danube, Inn, and Ilz Rivers. Passau is the most popular departure port for luxury riverboat cruise vacation cruises on the Danube River (Donau). Getting to Passau is easy by car or train, which is fortunate as the town has many splendid sights making it worth arriving a day early for cruise vacations. The Passauer Dom is the largest Baroque cathedral in Germany but even more impressively has the largest pipe organ in the world.

Passau can easily be reached by car or train. Passau is a stop on the fast high-speed Inter-City-Express (ICE) trains that runs from Frankfurt to Vienna vie amongst others Nuremberg and Regensburg. Good rail connections are also available to Munich. The Autobahn A3 passes near Passau allowing for fast driving times. The nearest airport to Passau is Munich Airport (MUC) but intercontinental passengers may well prefer to take the train from Frankfurt International Airport if direct flights are not available to Munich.

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