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European Hotels - What You Should Know About Hotels in Europe
Video subtitles: European Hotels - What You Should Know About Hotels in Europe
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hey there fellow travelers mark here
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with Walters world it wouldn't Salzburg
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Austria a great place to go to and we're
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staying the wolf dietrich hotel the
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hotel with obvious is some pretty cool
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design in their rooms and things like
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that what I thought I'd give you is
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basically what you should know about
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European hotels before you come to
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Europe because I'll tell you the Holiday
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Inn Express that you get in Champaign
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Illinois is not the same as the hotel
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you're getting in a Salzburg Austria so
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we're going to do is going to go through
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some of the basic differences so you're
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kind of prepared for your hotel stay in
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Europe okay now I will preface this my
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hotels are pretty different throughout
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Europe but there are some consistencies
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usually aside from this room usually the
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hotels are very small they're much small
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and you have in the US and it's a lot
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more intimate setting so just be ready
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to really get to know your neighbors and
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get to know people in the elevator and
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it breakfasts and things like that okay
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so not as big of rooms and we'll just
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start out with that one fact you're
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gonna have a lot smaller rooms but
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before you actually get your hotel how
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do you book your hotel hotels in Europe
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and bed-and-breakfast in Europe have
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gone all in in online bookings so your
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bookings calm your Trip Advisor's all
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these things you can book through there
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pretty much any accommodation throughout
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Europe and that makes it fantastic so
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you can read the reviews and see if it's
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right for you is it for kids is it for
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families is it for a romantic getaway
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you know these kind of things and who
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the lights come on and everything you
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know what is you're really looking for
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so booking online is a really easy way
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to do it also you can pay that way now
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sometimes you might want special
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requests and a lot of times you're
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booked online through like a TripAdvisor
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bookings those special requests you're
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not always sure if they're gonna
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actually get through so you can also
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call the hotel and believe me they'll
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speak English where they'll find some of
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the speaks English that won't be a
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problem or email them directly because
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again they've gone all in for their
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online presence so they'll have websites
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and Facebook pages and stuff like that
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so you can get your information if you
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need it so if you need a baby bed or an
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extra bed or something like that okay so
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booking Europe simplest can be now next
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thing is when you get to the hotel you
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want to find a check-in okay now
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check-in and Europe usually where you're
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going to have to do you'll need your
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passport and the credit card you booked
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with
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not every place will ask for but make
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make sure you have those relatively easy
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to get now so you're probably come for
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the train station don't have them out
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but you'll have your money about ready
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to get out so if you need to get them
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out you can now probably going to fill
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out on your forms your registration
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you're going to need your birthday
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address typical things you're going to
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need some countries for example Italy
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they need to scan your passport or
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photocopy of your passport and report it
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to the police
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so then you're registered there here in
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Austria they asked for one passport from
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our entire group and that was fine
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because they're the ones that made the
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made a check-in so some places everybody
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in the group will have to put their
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passports in other times only one person
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and that's all okay now what's cool is
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the check-in desks here are usually very
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helpful for example one thing I
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recommend always ask for the tourist map
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when you do go to the hotel downstairs
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the people here at the wolf dietrich
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they got us a map they're circled here
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you were on the hotel or here's the
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hotel map seat seemed a nice little X
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here's where you go here's where I
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recommend you to see go eat and things
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like that
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now the thing is the people I find in
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Europe the hotel staff the front desk
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staff are really well trained and
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telling you where to go eat where to
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drink where to make merry how to see the
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sights what public transport to take so
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that can be really helpful this thing is
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going to be your most helpful get that
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tourist map so you don't have to care
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around your big guidebooks all the time
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you can just have this and I'm gonna
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have your spots marked off okay now once
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you get on check-in you're going to take
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your well and hopefully there's an
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elevator there's not always elevators at
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all these hotels okay so make sure if
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you you have problems going upstairs
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with heavy luggage make sure you ask is
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there an elevator now 99% of the time
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there is but bed and breakfast --is and
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smaller places there may not be okay and
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when you take the elevator what you
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should know is elevators in Europe are
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significantly smaller and then they are
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in the u.s. especially the hotel
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elevators okay so sometimes the
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elevators can take two people up or one
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person in luggage sometimes you'll have
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to actually pull a screen across to
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actually open the door okay and one
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thing that gets Americans kind of mixed
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up when they when they go come to Europe
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is the elevator the ground floor is
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usually zero or G for ground floor or e
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and like for example here and Gasol
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ground floor they have that and then the
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first floor up that's one so you may
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think Oh what says we're on the second
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floor I can walk up two flights of
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stairs
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no that's walking up three flights of
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stairs okay so if you get some big
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luggage that can be a little problematic
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so elevators tiny tiny tiny and you're
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starting one floor up now we've gotten
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to our room now the thing is with your
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rooms here in Europe yes you could have
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keys or you can have the key cards it
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doesn't really matter which one you are
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one thing you might want to know is if
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you get a key that's like a big Bell or
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a big like thing on the end a lot of
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times the smaller hotels and private
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hotels will say please leave your key
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with us when you leave okay that's what
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they have 24-hour front desk they don't
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have 24-hour front desk they're gonna
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let you take your keys don't worry about
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that but just now sometimes you gotta
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leave your keys most the time you've
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done now we're in the room now the most
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important part of your room is your bed
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beds and Europe look if you get a double
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room in Europe it's two single beds okay
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it's not two queen beds like you have at
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a Holiday Inn or a Best Western or
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something like that it's two single beds
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and sometimes now sometimes you get
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lucky and you have a double bed like
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this which doesn't have a crack in it
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but most of the time again when they're
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double beds they're just push together
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okay you have a crack in the middle and
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the funny thing is that crack we've lost
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children we actually asked my dad once
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because the beds separated my that was
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my mom my dad and me we're super hotel
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Frankfort and the cry was thinner that's
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just so you know it accredited ruined
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this with and also my dad goes
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right through the middle
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we've lost Caleb and Liam a couple times
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too so be ready for that crack in the
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bed okay which which might be a little
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shocking also if your travel with a
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friend and you don't feel like being
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very snugly together
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well the beds you can easily separate
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it's no problem okay also the beds here
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a lot of times there's slat beds okay
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there like here beds and so they've wood
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slats underneath if you're a heavy guy
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like me
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you better not be jumping on that bed
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cuz you will snap through it and
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breaking okay not a really cool thing to
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happen but you should be prepared for
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that so you know no joking down the beds
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you see your kids jumping on the bed say
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no no it's going to fall apart okay now
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what are some other things you might
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want to know about hotels in Europe well
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one thing if you want to go to the
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bathroom now in the bathrooms here I'll
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I'll take you to the bathroom okay so
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here's the toilet
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it now obviously the normal sit-down
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toilet you have that Europe the only
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times you ever see the hole in ground
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toilets or kind of public toilets maybe
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someplace in Italy or Greece your if you
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don't see them too often so you're
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always going to have a normal sit-down
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toilet and you'll see there's the two
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buttons up top there's a big button and
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a little button the little button is if
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you do little like pee-pee the big
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button is if you do something bigger
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sometimes you'll see one dot or two dots
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one dot number one two dots number two
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also some hotels in some bathrooms you
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actually have to hold down the button so
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all the water goes so you really control
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the whole flow so if you do your
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business please respect the other people
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after you and make sure it all goes down
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okay now what else do you want to do I
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also want to take a shower when you're
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here okay so we're in the shower area
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the bath area now I'm not going to lie
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to you most hotels in Europe don't have
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the clawfoot you know tub this is
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literally the nicest hotel I've ever
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stayed in Europe it's fantastic
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but there's one thing that they have
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here in their shower bathtub area that
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is very common in Europe and you have
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the hold it shower now the thing is some
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people will say it'll be hanging up on
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the wall and they won't take it off you
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can take it off the wall and use it to
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bathe yourself just fine really great if
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you got kids all kinds of stuff but I
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met a lot of tourists I didn't realize
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oh I can take that off yes that's why it
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has the hose so you can wash around in
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here if you've got kids bathtubs are not
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very common in in the showers and the
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toilets in Europe usually your shower is
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very small and if your big guy like me I
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mean you sometimes you barely fit in ok
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so just be prepared for that um
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sometimes actually seeing showers where
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some of the shower and the toilet are
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almost the same place so just know again
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tiny spaces tiny tiny spaces sometimes
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it's hard to get everything washed every
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time so make sure you're watching ok so
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what are some other things that are
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different by European hotels so another
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thing you might want to know about is
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the TV I know I know
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I'm here to travel I'm here to explore I
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don't have time to watch TV I agree with
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you but the thing is after you go into
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the Salt Mines in the morning and going
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to see the Cathedral in the afternoon
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and then going up to the fortress up on
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them up on the hill in the evening you
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get kind of tired and after you know
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that vina so and all those great
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pastries here you just want to sit back
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relax when you get to the hotel put on
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TV
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to show and go to bed now the thing is
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what you should know is TV in Europe is
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different in every country in terms of
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the language places like Sweden Finland
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Portugal they don't dub it all of it
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will be in English or French or whatever
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with subtitles on the bottom whereas in
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Germany or here in Austria they actually
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dub it into German so you might see your
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favorite show
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Oh Doctor Who's on awesome and Doctor
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Who speaking German what it's because
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here they're dubbing everything and that
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just depends where you go some places
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actually have some channels that have
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both but I will say here should kind of
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give in every country hotel room TV
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Guide you're going to have four or five
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local channels kind of like the ABC
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network or CBS or NBC Fox in the u.s.
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you'll have those you have a couple
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sports channels you're usually Eurosport
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okay you'll have euronews which isn't
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just news at all a bunch of different
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languages and then you're going to have
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a traditional CN international debate
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song or the French TV channel okay arty
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which is Russia today all right
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and then you probably like BBC news
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horse maybe Sky News okay so a lot of
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times what happens is the only time you
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know America has really watched a lot of
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news and these kind of things is when
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they go abroad because that's the only
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English Channel that's on there now what
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are some other differences in the hotel
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now in the US we kind of feel like Wi-Fi
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is our god-given right well in Europe
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it's not always the case but most hotels
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in Europe will have Wi-Fi don't expect a
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super strong signal so you can watch
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Netflix pay Netflix doesn't work in
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every country by the way but don't
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expect a super strong signal if you got
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to do work sometimes you got to go out
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and find internet cafe which are very
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hard to find now now some other things
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that are different so I'll go back to
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the bathroom kind of stuff one thing
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toilets you can throw the toilet paper
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down the the toilet just fine tampons
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and feminine hygiene products usually
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they'll have bags you'll throw them is
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way on the side because a lot of places
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in Europe the piping isn't can't handle
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that kind of stuff so those kind of
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products so it makes your junior is not
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to run stuff down the toilet okay now
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another thing in terms of the tours are
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the toilets and stuff like that are the
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towels now just like every hotel the
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towels here are like drying with a sheet
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okay I'll just tell you about
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that so expect to use all your towels in
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Europe they do not give you washcloths
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okay the last ten hotels I've been to
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one place gave me washcloths so that's
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the own one I've ever remembered
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actually giving me washcloths so if
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you're a washcloth person like my
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mother's a like psychotic about it and
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joseline is psychotic about it they
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actually bring a stack of throwaway ones
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so they use it for a few days in hotel
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then when they leave poop get rid of it
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okay so just be ready for that also
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hotels in Europe are a great place for
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breakfast a typical European breakfast
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they call a continental breakfast
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meaning continental Europe
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you're going to have rolls and bread
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slices of cheese slices of meats some
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and then some jams that stuff to put on
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top and usually some cereals and if
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you're nicer place they might have
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scrambled eggs or baker's sausages
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depending where you are so you can get a
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really good breakfast a really good meal
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in the morning to start your day off so
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you can go and explore as much as you
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want and save some money by having not
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having to have lunch or skip a meal be
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so much your great breakfast --is most
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arrests for most breakfasts is in Europe
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or from like 7:00 to 11:00 checkout
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times in Europe usually are between
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eleven and twelve o'clock one of those
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two ones all right another thing you
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want to look at is the hotel bar yes we
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all love the bar for the drinks and the
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snacks and stuff like that
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but also what you need to know is in
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Europe a lot of the stores closed
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relatively early they don't have 24
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hours shopping here so if you need a
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bottle of water because you're thirsty
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hey the hotel bar might be your only
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option whether it's a snack I know we
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were in Norway all the restaurants
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everything was closed you know I went
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down the hotel bar what can I do
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person front tested here come over the
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bar he got me a water and a quick lunch
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this KitKat thing and I was fine another
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thing is if you look into hotels water
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around Europe you can drink it just
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might not taste good so that's why you
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see a lot of Europeans drinking water
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whether with bubbles or without bubbles
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some places like Sweden the tap water so
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good you just want to like sit on
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anything oh so good other places like
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Berlin Berlin's got a lot of chalk in
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the water so you take a drink and you're
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actually thirst year afterwards so
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that's why a lot of Europeans drink the
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bottled water and your hotel bar can
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help you out with that and the last
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thing I want to talk about is if you can
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see I'm a little hot and sweaty here is
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the AC air-conditioning European hotels
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don't always have air-conditioning they
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do usually always
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heating's at least have that or lots of
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blankets to warm up to but some of the
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times there is no AC so be prepared for
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that that's why you know I have actually
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the windows closed and everything so I
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can film but usually you're going to be
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open your windows to let the breeze
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through the hotels may they'll give you
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fans and stuff like that to cool off but
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usually expect probably not too much AC
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now if you're in Greece and stuff like
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that you'll see units up on the wall
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okay well you'll get a remote control
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for that all right so just so you know
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anyway those are some of the things I
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think you need to know about booking
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hotels before you go if you have other
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questions about booking hotels please
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put in the comments section below and
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I'll do my best to answer them or you
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can write us on Twitter Facebook you can
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Walters world anyway I'll say goodbye
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for my cool hotel the wolf deep tree
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Hotel in Salzburg I can't lay down and
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enjoy the view and the lights going
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around before I enjoy this fantastic
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city anyway
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choose or alveta Zayin from Salzburg
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Austria bye
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