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Staffs were so kind; and it's so clean. The elevator was a bit old, but I think you don't have to take it so many times; since it's not a lofty building. (I'm not sure now; but it was 3 or 4 floor building)
Very friendly family run hotel - the owner was at reception to greet us and was very informative about local travel and hotel's internet. His Korean wife cooked very nice Korean dishes.
Very friendly staff.
Location, clean rooms, some shops around the hotel. The internet was only free for 300 MB then you had to pay.
Amazing little hotel with very beautiful and modern rooms,just great.5,5 km from the center and 1 minute from subway!The breakfast was very tasty with various of products.
It was a clean and tidy hotel in a good location I thought it was a bit pricey.
Location was good for Oktoberfest. Breakfast was good. Bathroom was not very clean.
The staff of reception was very kind enough to provide the itinerary for arriving at the destination (e.g. airport) by public transportation.
Attitude towards guests is very good. We arrived at about 23h00 and were greeted with a friendly smile
Good accessibility to the centre, station. Still destination. The subterranean parking place. Difficult entryway.
The garden is good for relax after dinner or you can have a cup of coffee. The washing room designed is terrible, when you take a shower, the water will be everywhere. The washing room become wet and easy slip. The sink is too small, looks like designed for kids.
Newly converted office building to hotel. Super modern design. great for corporate rentals or log-term lease for travelling business people. still bugs to work out in newly renovated/adapted building. A/C didn't work in the room. Vertical blinds weren't compatible with windows opening. electric shutter issues. Staff came off a bit abrupt, to the point. bugs to work out, being a new hotel.
Performance of the staff and the cleanness were very good. No refrigerator in the rooms and no free internet!!Free internet is only available in the reception hall.
It was very clean and comfortable. The front staff needs to be a little more informed on activities around Munich. They were not helpful in the sense of doing anything other than Oktoberfest. Other than that the staff was great.
Excellent surprise for an Ibis hotel Good confort.Good food.
The interior design of the hotel and room , location near the tupe station 1- small room and toilet - cannot move , 2- poor cleaning services and customer satsfcation is zero, whenvever u request they will say no. 3- food are expansive ...
Service-julia helped me with my computer reservations Nothing
Location was great, Lobby and bar/restaurant were nice. Room was good. Air conditioning was not working, even after numerous complaints, the staff did not understand what we were trying to say. The fan and thermostat did not work. Bathroom was very cheap and flimsy.
The staff were extremely polite and helpful. Whilst the staff spoke good english I found that most signage only had German.
The staff were very friendly, our room was clean and well decorated, all in all it's a great hotel for the price. We couldn't have something slightly different off the menu even though it could easily be done (ham and cheese toasty)
The hotel is located right on top of the U4 and U5 underground lines, four stops from the Oktoberfest venues and a couple more stops from downtown. Breakfast is value from money, plenty but not too varied. The rooms are generally small with no working air conditioning so opening the window was the only way to refresh the room. There is a high step between the room and the bathroom that with slippery floors makes going through the door somehow a dangerous task...my wife slipped and almost injured herself badly.
Close to the Oktoberfest and U-bahn station. Good shower, staff very helpful. Breakfast was good. Nice change to have cold milk for breakfast. Asked for twin room when booked but given double room. Somebody did come in later and seperate the beds for us. Very basic beds. Furniture basic. Room a bit small. The one we had was directly on the main road so had to keep window closed.
I liked everything: the location near U-bahn, comfortable, friendly staff. Be sure next time will choose this hotel. I'd like free Wi-Fi in the hotel rooms, not just in the lobby.
Clean, good staff, good breakfast. Valuable
Breakfast is very nice Wi-Fi - I can't use it because every 5-10 min it was finished and ask me login and password again and again!!!
Very close to the U-bahn station. Very easy to find parking.
they gave us a smoking room but after a complaint they upgraded us to a non smoking suite. too much noise from the road.
The staff is very friendly. I like the location thanks to the public transportation system being right there. I have stayed there many times. The rooms tend to be small and modest.No a/C.
Clean, close to the center of Munich. Our room key stopped working after the first night, and on check out day, the cleaning staff entered the room 3 times before 12pm (their checkout time) and continually disrupted us trying to get ready to leave.
most of the staffs were kind very close to the subway and suburban railway station of Harras no vegitable in the breakfast buffet
Most of all I liked breakfast I didn`t like the cleaniness of the room,it was a lot of dust everywhere and I had to ask the staff several times to change the broken lamp on the bed tablle
proximity to u-bahn station
Clean and modern room good location friendly and helpful staff
good location, near bus and underground stations, comfortable and clean room, excellent breakfast value for the money small breakfast room
near u and s bahn very small bathroom, was put into smoking room so all the towels smells of fags. safe was broken, breakfast could have been better, only cold brekfast was available by 8.
Very friendly lady at the reception. Also when the neighbours were noisy after 11:00 pm, she helped to calm them It does not look like a hotel in modern sense Breakfast was rather limited in choice Bathroom very basic, and has its special smell Room has not isolation for outer sounds
The location is good. Very close to the subway.
Good hotel for the Oktoberfest and also near the subway station. Safe area and nice staff. The price
I liked everything. Staff are very kind, rooms are clean, food is good, etc. No, I liked everything, honestly.
The staff is very helpful and the hotel is clean. I really liked the restaurant and was very happy with the hotel's nearness to the U-bahn.
It was an awesome 2 nights for us! The hotel has a restaurant on the first floor that served amazing food. The 3rd bed was a little uncomfy, but not that much of an issue. The metro was about 2 blocks away; the hotel was easy to find, also because we had a car. Breakfast was the best out of the 4 hotels we stayed in in Europe!!! The staff were great, as well, very helpful! I'd definitely stay here again if given the chance.
For breakfast there was only apple as fruit.
Location - Close to Metro Harras, not far from City Centre. Staff - Good & Courteous, Cleanliness, free internet.
helpful staff that was proficient in the English language towels were shabby
hotel is located at just 5minute walk from Ustation which is very handy to go anywahere in munich.Hotel staff are so cooperative and helpful and always amily.Morning breakfast was nice and cleannees in hotel,room service was super.i stayed with my wife and five years kid and we all feel very comfurt, safe and homely. nothing to compain.


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Hawaii & South Pacific cruise: Sapphire Princess Cruise Review by georgias.kid22
Overall Member Rating
Hawaii & South Pacific cruise
Destination: South Pacific
Embarkation: Los Angeles
Spent a pre-night at the LAX Marriott (Princess preferred hotel) that included transportation to the ship. For some reason we had a 2 hour delay leaving for the ship and no explanation was given by the Princess reps. Once we reached San Pedro, the driver had no clue how to get to the ship! We drove round and round the USS Iowa. Finally after 30 minutes, security was called and we had to wait a further 30 minutes before being allowed to leave the motorcoach!
It was almost 4pm and the terminal was empty, so check-in was a breeze.
I was just on the Sapphire Princess in Dec 2012 and am in the same cabin as on the prior cruise....C406. It was midship, near the elevators. My cabin steward, Teody, was awesome.
The cruise director's staff was comprised of Callie, Su, Karen, Jackie, Alicia, & Aras...later Theo joined the ship. I wasn't a big fan of several More female staff members. I found them to be bossy, arrogant, and unfriendly! The exact opposite of my previous cruise where the CD staff was warm, friendly, and outgoing! So this was a big disappointment.
The weather was warm & humid...exactly what I expected to find in the tropics, so I can't complain.
The entertainment was hit and miss. Enjoyed several of the entertainers, but felt the production shows are getting old and would like to see some new ones!
I was on Team Titanic for all the trivia games. We won our fair share of prizes and had a great time. Too bad Princess didn't received their shipment of prizes and were reduced to rewarding the winners with a deck of cards! That was just too tacky!!!
French Polynesia was everything I hoped and am so glad I was able to visit these beautiful islands.
The passengers were on the elderly side....lots of motorscooters, wheelchairs, and walkers. There were a few kids also, but they kept out of sight.
There was 1 incident that really bothered me. A man set up his own karaoke machine every afternoon in Skywalker's and proceeded to annoy those of us that go to that lounge for the peace & quiet. He and 3 other people 'sang' for 3+ hours and it was torture! When asked politely if he would tone it down or go elsewhere, I was verbally abused!
I complained to passenger services and was informed he was allowed to use Skywalker's for 2 hours. In my opinion, it's not right that 1 passenger be allowed to disrupt the rest of the passengers. This annoying person should have been told NO he can not use a public lounge.
All in all, it was an okay cruise... Less
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Groups of religious women and men have mobilized their networks in the Philippines to help communities affected by the Super Typhoon Haiyan that hit the region Nov. 8.
The Vatican announced earlier this week it will donate $150,000 in emergency aid to the Philippines to be distributed through the local churches in regions most severely hit, helping people displaced or otherwise affected by flooding, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines said.
Caritas Manila, the church's lead social service agency in the country, also announced Monday it gave a total of 35 million pesos (approximately $803,000) in cash and goods to aid Haiyan survivors in nine dioceses and three archdioceses in the Visayas region.
A storm surge from the Philippine Sea that reached almost 20 feet, slammed parts of the Palo archdiocese on the region's Leyte Island, inundating villages and leaving them scattered with rubble, felled trees and posts, and scores of corpses.
Much of the relief efforts have been focused on Tacloban City, eastern Leyte, and neighboring Samar Island, where many of the deaths have been reported.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council on Thursday reported that 2,357 people died and 3,853 were injured, with 77 people missing. About 1.7 million families were reportedly affected in 43 provinces. President Benigno Aquino III has declared a state of national calamity.
By the end of this week, the slow delivery of aid was causing frustration for groups trying to help. Government officials, police and military troops are victims themselves, so local systems do not exist. Roads and bridges remained impassable, buildings that are being used are damaged and filthy from the flooding. Until Friday, airlines carrying supplies could not use the Tacloban airport at night.
On the western side of Leyte, far from the center of national and international attention, Haiyan damaged the buildings of various apostolates and novitiates that groups of religious men and women run.
Carmelite Fr. Ernesto Ombrog III, prior of Cebu and Ormoc Carmel Communities, told NCR the wind peeled roofs off his community's Spirituality Center and chapel on a hill in Milagro, Ormoc City. It left the interior soaking in water.
Even so, the community is saving repairs for later so it can pack relief packages for 150 families living around the retreat center. Most of the families rely on coconut and rice farming, and "even coconut trees have been knocked down, so they are helpless right now," he said.
Ombrog appealed to Lite Shipping Company, which agreed to transport containers of gasoline and packets of canned goods, rice, dried fish, cooking oil, laundry and bath soap, medicine, vinegar and drinking water to the families.
"There is water there, but we are thinking of preventing diarrhea among babies," Ombrog said.
On Friday, he plans to go with members of his community and convent maintenance workers to areas where electricity has been cut off and cell phone signals do not reach.
"We want to respond right away to the need for food in remote areas because government and other agencies are focused on the Tacloban area. Some of the people had not eaten for days," Ombrog said.
Eventually, he said, the religious community may offer activities at its Spirituality Center to help local people relieve stress.
"Many people are depressed and fearful and we are thinking of how we can help them with that," he said
The Claretian novitiate compound, also in Ormoc, houses 12 novices and three priests. The novices include three from Myanmar, two from Sri Lanka, and one Vietnamese. One of the priests is also Vietnamese.
"We are royal squatters now," novice master Fr. Paulino Manila told NCR. Royal, because they still have the first floor, and squatters because they each sleep in whatever room is available, he explained.
At the peak of the typhoon, he said he made sure the men in his charge stayed clear of glass windows and doors, and stayed in the main building. After it was over, neighbors came by looking for roofing material the wind had scattered in the yard, and he help divide it up among them. He also opened up the building to young men who came at night to sleep because their houses were destroyed.
Claretians distributed dried fish to the neighboring communities and lent their vehicle to distribute 10 sacks of government rice among 600 families living around the novitiate.
Religious and diocesan clergy of Palo had not had the chance to contact each other about the situation of the archdiocese, he said.
In the same city, Religious of the Sacred Heart sisters live among former sugar hacienda worker families in Ormoc Workers Foundation almost 8 kilometers from the city center. People rushed to the community's chapel at the height of the storm because the parish church was destroyed by then.
The sister in charge of the center was on sabbatical leave and the one who was left is sick, so Sr. Sandra Clemente sailed to Ormoc from her base on Cebu island on Nov. 10 once ferry service resumed.
"There was no public transportation in Ormoc. Vehicles had to wait in long queues at gas stations, so tricycles (motorcycle cabs) wouldn't drive out to our center," Clemente told NCR.
There were still some "Good Samaritans," she added, telling the story of a family who allowed her to use its tricycle for the day.
"Though their home was also destroyed and the roads were scattered with posts, he drove me as far as he could, and then we walked the rest of the way around one-third of a kilometer carrying vegetables and other food I could carry to the workers' center," Clemente said.
Along the way, she saw houses were torn down. "In our community, there were houses standing, but roofs had all been blown away, including the roof of our center, day care center and chapel," Clemente said.
"It was a pitiful sight, I wanted to cry, but the people were so happy to see that I made it there. So I told them I was going to get there by hook or by crook," she said.
"I was impressed with the people's (community spirit) and their creativity and resourcefulness," she said. "Because they had no water, I saw people had taken the fire hydrant seal apart and managed to get the water running so they could wash, bathe and drink there."
Now back in Cebu, Clemente plans to assess the needs of the workers' community and start work on rehabilitation. Meanwhile, the community needs food and supplies. "There's still no light, there's scarce goods in the stores," Clemente said.
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila has invited Filipino Catholics to a day of prayer and fasting on Saturday to express solidarity with people suffering because of this and other disasters that have affected the country.
He wants priests to take up a special collection at Masses for Haiyian survivors, directing them to "be prompt in remitting the special collections to the Treasury Department." He asked them to review parish and school celebrations "in light of enormous suffering and needs of the victims and make necessary adjustments."
Meanwhile, Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo of Manila, chairman of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines national secretariat for social action, on has called for transparency in handling Haiyan aid funds donated through local and international church networks.
"We are calling on social action centers to follow our standard for reporting what we receive for the people" Pabillo said at the bishops' regular forum.
He urged the faithful to demand proper accounting from their parish and church leaders to achieve this transparency, adding that this should also apply to government and other donations through private groups and non-governmental organizations.
[N.J. Viehland is NCR's correspondent in Asia.]
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