Advantages: Reasonably cheap accomodation Disadvantages: No in house Restaurant, No Room Service
The accomodation
Upon checking in to the accomodation I was asked for my Passport, so they could check the details of the booking I had made under my own name. I guess they use this procedure against breakages and in case of theft, trouble etc. I have not known this to be a feature in accomodation in England. This company procedure did not bother me whatsoever.
I travelled alone to this accomodation, having booked a small room, however when I was shown my room I am sure it would have been suitable for two people. As I was staying inprague for two nights on a leisurely short city break, this did not particularly bother me too much regarding the standard of the facilities. When I was shown my room there were two single Bed's situated side-by-side. The Bed's to my eyes looked nineteen eightees style old fashioned beds ...
Advantages: Spitting Image, lots of laughs, great intro to classical music Disadvantages: Deflates a little in the middle, wanted more
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, members of experimental theatre group " Théâtre de Complicité" and artists from Zippo's Circus into the mix and you couldn't really wish for a more diverse cast of participants on a classical music DVD.
Concept:
As explained in some helpful DVD liner notes by the producer Christopher Swann, after Abbado said that he wanted to use the Spitting Image puppets, one major issue arose, in that it would be incredibly expensive to do this just for Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" since that piece is only about 25 minutes long. So there had to be a concept which would fill a DVD and make the best use of the expenditure on the puppets and production. The plan was made to dramatise several Prokofiev pieces which Claudio Abbado had previously recorded on the DVD to make a kind of dramatic whole - to devise a "Prokofiev ...
Advantages: Low price paid per night, decent basic breakfast Disadvantages: No tea and coffee facilities inside the room.
Hotel Apollon Prague
Introduction
Having stayed inPrague many times before I decided upon staying at this hotel as it was slightly outside the town centre area of Prague and it did have easy access to the town centre by using trams.
Getting there
From Dejvicka we got the green line metro to Mustek, wencezlas square, then outside Debenhams from Wencezlas square I took the number nine tram which took about 15 minutes on the tram.
Paying for the accomodation
This was paid for in advance using a credit card using www.booking.com. I paid a total of £20 a night which was excellent value for money, though I was slightly annoyed as my credit card was charged straightaway for the booking. I was also charged 50 czech koruna which is about £2 for breaking the card key to the room. Though all in all I was happy ...
