European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Bearded vultures left peer from their perches and two Bexes above Bull Heads at the alpe zoo in Innsbruck Austria. The 25-year-old zoo which is open in the Winter too specializes in Alpine animals Mountain goats wildcats eagles and such. It can be reached by the hunger Urbahn or by car. For information Contact few Innsbruck Lyls Burggrabe 3,4-6021 Innsbruck Austria. Tel. 05222-25715. Let s go Alpine ski season Alpine ski Tours of Elmau Austria has begun taking reservations for this ski season. The area is 60 Miles from Munich 10 Miles from the autobahn in the Village of Schaffau Elmau in the Tirol. Hotels Are available in several Price categories. The program offers reduced prices on ski rentals and a ski kindergarten evening entertainment Sleigh rides and More. English language instruction is available. The ski area has .1 ski circus consisting of 87 interconnecting lifts serving Schaffau Elmau going soil liter hopfgarten Brixen and Westendorf. It includes 150 Kilometres of prepared slopes. For information Contact Alpine ski Tours a-6352 Elmau 90, Austria. Tel. 05158-8470. What to do at thanksgiving a number of trips Are available for the thanksgiving weekend including an italian cooking school skiing in Italy or Switzerland or a weekend at a romantic hotel in the German Black Forest. The Dlack Forest trip is to Tiliske Neu Slade nov. 26-29. Guests who choose to slay at the hotel Adler Post pay $204 those who want plainer accommodations can choose from three hotels guest houses for $180. The Price includes three nights at half Board with a special thanksgiving dinner at the Adler Post a visit to a brewery a walking tour for a panoramic View of the Black Forest and dancing in the evening. There will be an Opportunity to shop for cuckoo clocks and to Sample Black Forest cake. A number of pickup Points Are provided in Germany. The Lour is by discovery Tours Tel. 06074-68410 and can be booked through your local itt. Euro ski Magazine has set its annual thanksgiving ski trip at the hotel Post in the Center of Auto free Zermatt Switzerland. Cost is 295 Marks about $175 per person in a double including Turkey dinner Sauna and the hotel disco. It is for four nights nov. 25-28. Self catering apartments which can accommodate two to six people Are available at 159 Marks about $93 per person. Transportation and ski pass Are not included in the Price. For information Tel. Luxembourg 352-167371 or 472562, or Switzerland 041-832741. An italian gourmet looking school is set nov. 25 29 at the hotel Nuovo Angelo near Trento Italy. Package includes four Days at full Board All rooms with private facilities cooking course wine seminar shopping and sightseeing and English speaking hostess. Cost is 396 Marks about $233. A Shorter version of this course will be repealed Jan. 15-18 and feb. 12-15 for 297 Marks about $175. Skiers can spend thanksgiving at the hotel Cristal in the Schnal Stal nov. 25-29, for 299 Marks about $176. Price includes four nights with half Board All rooms with private facilities use of Pool Sauna Etc. The hotel is on the slopes at 2,000 meters next to a Cable car to the Glacier. Visitors to Venice nov. 25-29 have a Choice of the grand hotel Luna on St. Mark s Square for 496 Marks about $292 or hotel Plaza in Melre for 359 Marks about $212all in rooms with private facilities. Price includes bus trip City tour three nights with breakfast and boat transportation. For information on the Italy trips Contact i a. Pisoni 1-38070 Veano. Trento Italy. Tel. 0461 4 005. English cities on the cheap fourteen English c Ilies offer bed and Breau Asl accommodation in a variety of hotels for 16 pounds about $28 per night. They arc listed in a brochure called Greaf English City Breaks. The Breaks Are available until april 3 and cover Friday saturday and sunday nights. The cities Are Birmingham Bradford Coventry Hull Leeds. Leicester Liverpool Manchester Newcastle Nottingham Plymouth Portsmouth Southampton and Stoke on Trent. Overseas visitors should Contact the British travel Center 12 Regent Street. London England. Paris in Winter eleven of Paris largest luxury hotels Are uttering lower weekend rates from november through March. Price and extras vary from hotel to hotel. Reductions Range from 40 percent to 60 percent and some hotels allow extensions into weekdays. For example Loti Lle Warwick near the champs Elysee offers a room on riday saturday or sunday nights for 390 franc s about $70 per person in a double with a Welcome cocktail and discounts at its boutique and Beauty Center. Tel. 01-45631411. The Westminster on the Rue de la paix next to the opera has rooms for 500 francs about $90 per person in a double Tel. 01-42615746. Hilton International in 10 ave. De Sultren on the left Bank has two for one weekends two nights for the Price of one. Two nights for two Cost 1,000 francs about $180. Tel. 01-42739200. The Marriott princ e de Galles at 33 ave. George v has rooms for one or two persons for 850 francs about $155 per night. Tel. 01 -47235511. The hotel concorde la Fayelle at place do general Koenig has single or double rooms for 770 francs about $140 pet night with a dinner with Shine and Welcome drink and entry to the Musee d . Tel. 01-47581284. Other participating hotels Are the George v. Tel 01-47235400 in Meridian Montparnasse Tel. 01 43201551 be Meridian Paris Etoile Lei. 01-475812 the Plaza Athenee Tel. 01-47237833 the scribe Lei. 01-47420340 and Sofiel Paris invalids Lei. 01 45559180. Inexpensive stays you can enjoy a getaway weekend until december in Friedenfels Germany in the Steinwald nature Park in the Region of Tirschel Treuth. Rooms for two nights with ast Cost from 45 Marks about $26. For bookings Onart Verk Ehrsam d-8591 Friedenfels. . 096s3-284. The Village of Scheidegg in the Western Allau , a autumn hiking packages starting Al 141 Marks Abc it $84 for a week including room breakfast Ard program. Contact Kurvers Galtung. D 89-59 Scheld Ting Germany. Tel. 08381-1451. Bruges hotel until March 31, the Holiday inn in Bruges Belgium has a . Forces discount Rale. Room prices Start at 1,350 francs about $38 per person in a double room with breakfast Good midweek and weekends. For thanksgiving there will be a one night stay with Turkey dinner for 2,250 francs about $63 per person. As of dec. 15, the hotel will become a part of the Pullman International Chain a subdivision of belgian wagons lits. Ii will be called hotel Pullman Bruges. For information Contact the hotel Al 2, b-8000 Bruges Belgium. Tel. 050-340971. Novembers 1987 stripes Magazine 5
