you should rent a car and drive to RMNP (40ish mins away). I can give you names of the best hikes for your bucks also, you could go to denver (30 mins away) for a day or two. OR you could go to Fort Collins and hit up New Belgium brewing. OR you could go to Red Rock amphitheater and see a show at one of the best music venues in the country
I currently live in Denver and go through and hike in Boulder regularly. Let me know if you have any questions.
Preciate it. I guess my mentality was I've already been to Denver, what else can I "check off the list" while I'm out that way. But maybe I should just concentrate on staying around Boulder and/or Denver and really taking it in.
On our anniversary each year my wife and I use my flight benefits to take a day trip to somewhere to hike; two years ago we flew to Denver and hiked around the Flatirons. Beautiful scenery, and with the proximity to CU the scenery was nice to look at as well iykwim
I’ve been to Oktoberfest and they don’t water down the beers, they were all very good. Each tent is a different brewery but they only sell one beer and they’re all the same style for the festival. Outside the tents you can get lot of different beers and liquor. They also do not at all keep people from getting out of control, it’s a complete shitfest.
Bali has been incredible, and to be fair I’ve never gotten up to Chaing Mai, but I definitely like Bali over Thailand. Wish I could spend two weeks exploring the little villages in East Bali. It’s so remote with beautiful rolling rice fields and the people are charming. This was maybe the coolest place I’ve ever stayed. You have to book way out (6-8 months), but if you ever head to Bali and find availability this is a must: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/5904771?guests=1&adults=1
Thanks, finally got a chance to go through this. Definitely gonna hit Bachanal, this seems to come up repeatedly on here. Have reservations at Cochon, Atchafalaya, and Saba so far. Plan to go to Willie Mae's, Parkway, and Harbor Seafood. Still have two dinners at least to fill. Leaning towards La Petite Grocery for one. Avenue Pub looks perfect. If Chelsea makes it to the Europa final we'll probably hit McCool's on the 29th before heading towards the airport.
If you haven't found the lady who runs the books at the thaphae muay Thai stadium in Chiang mai and proceeded to lose money all night you've never really been to Thailand
I picked the 5'5" guy against the 6'2" guy and my guy dominated but the "judges" gave it 2-1 to the giant who hit 10% of the punches That woman 100% rigged that shit
She's on another level. You pick who she wants because you think she knows and then you pick the opposite because you think you're smart and you fucking always lose. Devil woman
Rabid Lyrtch Is this still good advice? Heading up Thursday - Sunday and never been before. Staying by a lake with a weird name Bde Maka Ska. Would be looking for breweries/bars/laid back restaurants. Also just cool shit to do in Minny as I'll have a day before my buddy gets there.
Info is good but I'll still word vomit my thoughts. So you're staying down near Uptown which will be handy for going out down there, Mevyn is a killer breakfast/lunch spot. I'm biased to North Loop and the Northeast. My favorite brewery purely on quality of beer is Dangerous Man in the northeast, if wanting food nearby Young Joni is one of the top restaurants in the city but gets wild busy, will do to go so can pick it up and carry it in although dangerous man MIGHT have food trucks, can check their site. Anchor Bar up the street is a great fish and chip shop. Fair State is probably my #2 and has El Taco Riendo (great mexican), Holy Land (great middle eastern), and some other spots they're prep'd for people to carry in to eat. North Loop is set up to get shitfaced all in a couple blocks. Fulton is best beer, Modist and Inbound are one step down, First Draft is a self serve tap room place that has tons of local beer. Parlour is one of the best burgers in the city and cocktails, small place. Bar La Grassa for best italian (get a reservation if possible). Smack Shack for seafood. Just a great part of town to blow a whole night wandering around.
Yea i suppose that'a a really vague word...I guess what I mean is something with big courtyards or open spaces that would be a cool place to chill for a few hours. I forget it's still gonna be pretty chilly so outdoor space may not be important.
Surly is the big indoor/outdoor place that probably most fits that. Good food too, especially upstairs at the pizza joint. Modist/Fulton/Inbound are extremely shrunk down versions with indoor/outdoor space, they're in the city itself so going to be tighter quarters.
If you're still looking to fill a dinner, consider hitting up Clancy's and getting the fried oysters with brie.
anyone flown SAS or Norwegian? I may have asked this already but basically those are my options going Copenhagen to Stockholm fucking Swedes doing train work has wrecked my plan to take that between cities
We flew Norwegian from Oakland to Paris and back (Oak-Stockholm-Paris, then Paris-Oslo-Oak) in 2016. Liked the 787 Dreamliners, quiet and smooth. Not much cheaper than other airlines because we flew in peak summer travel time, but still saved a couple hundred per ticket. Plane out of Oakland was several hours late, which seemed to have been a common problem with Norwegian at the time, but we didn't have a problem with the connecting flight to Paris because of a relatively long layover time in Stockholm. Don't recall anything about the shorter flights Stockholm-Paris and Paris-Oslo, which probably means that everything went well. One of the ways that Norwegian saves money is that they tend to fly out of secondary airports where the fees are lower. Both Oslo and Stockholm were secondary airports well outside the metropolitan area. So if you're planning on flying Copenhagen to Stockholm, make sure you know which airport your departing from and arriving in. In-laws like flying SAS. They usually buy three seats for the two of them (they claim they get the third seat at a significant discount because there's no passenger/luggage weight involved) so they can stretch out.
its only an hour flight so not crazy worried about comfort, but i am reading a lot about norwegian having random inexplicable delays so think i'll pay the very slight premium for SAS both flying into ARN which is the main stockholm joint so thats fine
When our flight was delayed they didn't tell us why or how long it would be, just kept us in the dark. We weren't too worried because of the long layover in Stockholm, but it would have been nice to have received more info than they gave us.
Have done both short haul in scandinavia. If they're similar cost do SAS. Its not a lost cost airline like norwegian, so you'll have to pay less incidental fees and overall was a better experience. If norwegian is significantly less expensive go for that. They're fine and its a short flight.
Lyrtch we got the new business class for HK on the way back. My gosh it was fantastic. Had lunch, watched a movie, slept a solid 7.5 hours, woke up had breakfast watched another movie then landed. Think they had six flight attendants just for business class.
yeah the new one was so much better, bloggers are nuts that seemed to mostly prefer the older seats. will have to post some bali pics so we can all be jealous get to slum it in deltas premium select tomorrow to korea
Everybody I know still refers to the Lake as Calhoun because nobody knows how to pronounce Bde Maka Ska. Since you’re there I would definitely hit uptown and Lyn/Lake area. Lyn-Lake Brewery would probably satisfy your atmosphere request too. I’d also recommend Butcher and the Boar as a place to eat or hit the Biergarten behind.
Both Norwegian and SAS are perfectly fine within Scandanavia. There won’t even be much of a difference between the two for the flights that short.
Anyone know the best website to buy a ferry ticket from Dubrovnik to Hvar? Not sure if those are available online or not.
I just bought mine an hour or so before we left. Plenty of options, shouldn't be an issue. Maybe 2-3 days before if you get to Dubrovnik in time.
There's 4 of us getting in the morning of so I'm a bit worried about availability (going in July), but you think we will be ok?
I think you should be fine, there are several ferries. Worst case scenario you spend a little more time in Dubrovnik and have to leave the next day. Have you tried emailing the various ferry companies? I'd imagine you could do it online, I went back in 2012 or 13 so I'm sure shit has changed since then.
I agree you'd be fine. Those ferries are large. I went the other way from split to hvar and then to the coast north of Dubrovnik because I was driving but I just bought them for the 3 of us upon arrival
Nice to see Jadrolinija having ferry service down to Dubrovnik again. A couple years ago I was doing recon for a trip along the coast between Piran and Dubrovnik, and I wanted to do ferry travel because we'd done it in 1981 and it was a real cool experience. To my chagrin, they'd suspended major service on many of the routes that I was interested in, and the Jadro website said they might get things up and running again but they didn't know when. I recall reading somewhere that the newer highways that had been built along the cost were taking away the business of the traditional ferry services, which then had to shut down and restructure in order to stay economically viable. (back in 1981 the train services in Yugoslavia were woefully stunted compared to the rest of Europe - poor, backwater, socialist. We trained from Zagreb to Sarajevo, then a few days later on to Mostar, but had to take a bus from Mostar to Dubrovnik because there was no train service through the mountains. The bus driver was drunk and a few times I thought we were going to roll over off the road, but we made it and had a great time in Dubrovnik, six relaxing days before taking the Jadro up to Rijeka via Split)
Make sure you take the ferry to the side of Hvar where are you staying. I took a ferry to the wrong side and had to take a completely packed bus across the island, which was apparently the last bus of the day.
I'm up to like 300K lifetime miles (probably small peanuts in this thread), I've literally never paid for a bag fee.
https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...een-elizabeth-national-park/story?id=62136015 Not cool. Almost went there instead of Ethiopia, 100% want to do a gorilla trek one day. I would guess Congolese rebels. Virunga National Park is basically lawless.