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                <title>Taxis in Warsaw</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Take care choosing a taxi in Warsaw, especially around Central Station where rip-off merchants abound! Only choose a taxi with the name of the firm prominently displayed (usually with a sign on the top of the cab). If you have booked a hotel you can ring them and they will send a taxi for you. We used MPT Taxis with no problems, phone 1-9191.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Great value accomodation at Castle Inn</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Boutique hotel in the centre of the Old Town overlooking Castle square. Great location, friendly staff and comfortable rooms each decorated in a different style. Good value for money too, we paid equivalent of £55 for a double room.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Shanghai Station</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Watch out for "robber" porters, if your taxi drops you in the underground carpark. They take your bags out of the boot and then try to extort a large sum from you to carry them up a short flight of stairs. I guess it's a matter of either avoiding this carpark, or being brave by outfacing the porters, or grabbing your bag first and running!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Peace Hotel (North Wing)</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[We loved this hotel though not everyone does, because of problems with plumbing etc, although ours worked fine. Faded glory it may be, but it’s a hotel full of character, with large bedrooms, right on the Bund, and has terrific views from the rooftop bar.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Betlem Club Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A rather charming boutique hotel opposite the Betlem Chapel, bang in the centre of the Old Town, a few minutes stroll to the Old Town Square or to the King Charles Bridge. Not particularly cheap -  I think we paid around £100 B&amp;B, but ideal if you're splashing out and want to stay somewhere full of character and in the Old Town itself.<br><br>As you come out of the hotel facing the chapel, turn left and two minutes' walk brings you to a (student) bar, warm and friendly, with food (and comfortable sofa seating) available. Brill for a drop of strong liquor, beer, mulled wine, or all three.<br><br>About 300 metres across the other side of the King Charles Bridge, in Mala Strana, at "At the Black Eagle" bistro, we had a three course evening meal, which included pork and dumplings or fried carp, plus a bottle of Moravian wine... £20 for the two of us. Brill again!<br><br>A man in a yellow anorak persuaded us to take a 2 hour lunchtime boat ride on the Vltava with as-much-as you-can-eat buffet and free(ish) drinks. It was raining. It was great.<br><br>The Sex Machines Museum (including naughty film) just off the Old Town Square is worth visiting especially if there's a group of senior citizens from Liverpool there as well. Said one, "I'd rather go to the dentist"! Thrice brill!]]></description>
                
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