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      "body": "For the previous post, see here: https://steemit.com/travel/@mtvesuvius/on-accommodation-part-1\n\nThroughout my planning process I have learned new tricks for finding and booking hotels. Here are 8 assorted tips on the process:\n\n1. Tripadvisor is my best friend, and it should be yours too. I can't say this enough. No matter what sort of accommodation I am looking at, Tripadvisor is my first stop. In the cases of AirBnB or Couchsurfing where Tripadvisor doesn't have information, I trust the reviews and avoid places with 1-2 reviews or references if possible. Don't be afraid to ask as many questions about the accommodation as you feel are necessary.\n\n![Ways-a-great-hotel-is-like-a-supermodel.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaCZB1FXWymwuZyn9z2AhSQTL74ESmdju6xxBWpA8i8tv/Ways-a-great-hotel-is-like-a-supermodel.jpg)\nRemember, the hotel's own photos aren't always reflective of reality -- Real traveler's photos give a better idea.\n\n2. Just because you can't find a hotel in one place doesn't mean you should give up. There have been times when I found a hotel on Tripadvisor and wanted to book it, but Tripadvisor told me it was sold out. A quick check of Kayak showed that there was a site that still was showing rooms available, and I jumped on it. The same thing goes for flights -- Don't just stick to searching one site! (A great example of this is my Amsterdam-Moscow and St. Petersburg-Stockholm flights -- I found options with perfect times, but I waited until I had confirmed I had my Russian visa before trying to book. They disappeared from all US-based booking sites when I looked a couple days later, but I was still able to find them on ebookers!)\n\n3. The blind-bookings on Hotwire and Priceline can be good resources for hotels, but only when you are OK with any of the potential options. In many European cities, this is not the case, since there are often a few really poor 3 or 4 star properties you'll want to avoid, and you wouldn't be able to do so through Hotwire or Priceline (although they now show you the Tripadvisor rating for the property usually -- A very useful thing to look at before booking). The best places for Hotwire or Priceline are smaller cities and places like Scandinavia, where all the options are high-quality. Yet again, Tripadvisor is also good way to judge when Hotwire or Priceline could be best: When all the possible options are very close together (if you care about location) or when they are all rated highly (if you care about quality), often using either site can be a good option.\n\n![hqdefault.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQpaYPhfA6DvhYXzQctpPPFBWGij9NkDu3XVrxAJXZ8R2/hqdefault.jpg)\nMystery Hotels can be hit or miss\n\n3. For chain hotels, avoid using booking sites like Orbitz or Expedia because those rates often are ineligible for any loyalty program rewards directly from the hotel. Instead, try to go through a portal found via Cash Back Monitor and book directly on the hotel's website.\n\n4. If not booking a chain hotel, always make sure you are getting some sort of benefits or rewards back if possible. Especially for a longer trip (or if you are staying in places for one night), going through cash-back or other reward portals can add up, and they have offers for almost every major hotel booking site (as well as the Hotel's own site in many cases too). Use a site like Cash Back Monitor to find a suitable portal. You can get 3% back on Hostelbookers, 5-7.5% back on Orbitz, and 5.5-7% back on hotels.com. My preference is hotels.com, which I explain in tip #6.\n\n5. Best rate guarantees can be an a great way to score free or discounted hotel nights. Many sites and hotel chains have their own variation of a best rate guarantee, and if you can get your claim approved, it can be an easy way to heavily subsidize your stay. Unfortunately, getting these claims approved can sometimes be a pain, but in many cases it's worth the effort. I don't have too much experience here, but I did manage to get one approved with Orbitz: Expedia was offering a hotel for $110 and Orbitz was offering the same room for $159.\n\n![price-comparison-1-e1464934677925.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQme7YvFpNvA4TZWWRbudojz8CS6sRZnWirHfBqGafBrjao/price-comparison-1-e1464934677925.jpg)\nCheck for Best Rate Guarantee options, especially with chains like IHG, which offer a free night for their Best Rate Guarantee\n\n6. Many major booking sites have their own loyalty programs which offer even more money back... My preferred choice is hotels.com, which effectively gives 10% back on every booking through their Welcome Rewards program, and that rate is the best in the industry that I am aware of. Many sites offer bonuses or discounts for bookings of multiple nights, and often these are worth $20-$100 as well. For example, Orbitz regularly gives 15% off all eligible hotels in addition to their usual 3% back through Orbitz Rewards, and Hotels.com regularly offers $20 off a 3-night booking and similar.\n\nI can usually get a hotel at a minimum of a 10-15% discount, not counting the 3-7% back I get through tip #4. For hostels, it is more difficult to get much back, although sometimes the major booking sites will offer rooms at hostels too. 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My Golden Triangle was finished.\n\nHere are some miscellaneous photos I thought were nice:\n\n![IMG_9308.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaRAKSJYR2J5QrYmVLReHsxtAGPjeuojSL3JdDiVs2GRS/IMG_9308.JPG)\nSunset from the window of my hotel room, Yaroslavl\n\n![IMG_9295.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVujUJH3VYP1yXhMTB4ACEz1esvsNz9jVBptJrw1cRHVE/IMG_9295.JPG)\nRandom colorful wooden mini-houses along one of Yaroslavl's many tree-lined walkways\n\n![IMG_8966.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeiUQwkBbFsjdKXRLpswsyomob17bJWgwn1KLnCjiDaED/IMG_8966.JPG)\nEpiphany Church, Yaroslavl\n\n![IMG_9038.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUAUwdrp2BYsFLEhALertJnAG9Y7GBayKpjMF1S43Wzs5/IMG_9038.JPG)\nLove locks on trees, again, tree-lined walkways. Part of me thinks putting a lock on something so easily chopped down is less of a commitment than, say, announcing things on Facebook,Yaroslavl\n\n![IMG_9011.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXhFrQpRpB3oAP8kjd6sATynaioqFiTwzPzELXUz51c48/IMG_9011.JPG)\nView from the top of the monastery, Yaroslavl\n\n![IMG_9348.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTSuB8LbxcStGBkXyNwofEtgsvAB8BKHZR15eYqTxkHXu/IMG_9348.JPG)\nVolga embankment, Yaroslavl\n\n__Booking Russian train tickets__\n*Booking Russian train tickets online is difficult. While Russian Railways has an English version of their site (http://pass.rzd.ru/main-pass/public/en), I constantly had problems using a credit card to pay. Of all the third-party options for booking tickets, I found that tutu.ru had the best prices and least significant markups. 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      "body": "Russia is a cool place. It’s also really fucking big, and most people don’t venture too far from Moscow and St. Petersburg. My original plan was to spend 3 days revisiting Moscow and then a week in Turkmenistan before heading into Uzbekistan, but when my visa for Turkmenistan was denied a few weeks before I left, I had to rework my plans. Since the rescheduling was at the beginning of my trip, my options were somewhat limited – I couldn’t change too many flights and hotels and dates, so instead I decided to spend longer in Russia.\n\nAround Moscow there are several cities and towns which are excellently preserved and offer an excellent glimpse of medieval and pre-Soviet Russia (as well as plenty of fun Soviet buildings and landmarks). The collection of these cities is known as the “Golden Ring” and rightfully so – The cities are spectacular. I couldn’t find much information on transportation between cities online, so instead of doing a proper ring (and trying to find a way to get from Vladimir or Suzdal to Yaroslavl or Kostroma), I decided to overnight in Moscow and do everything by train.\n\nThe cities I visited were Vladimir and Suzdal (from Moscow), then I returned to Moscow and visited Sergiev Posad and Yaroslavl, also from Moscow. It turns out I probably could have done a true ring – there are tons of buses leaving from Vladimir, and Yaroslavl and Kostroma are served several times a day – but I am quite happy with my route.\n\nI left off my last post having arrived into Vladimir. The train station has a neat old Russian locomotive in front of it, and right in front of the locomotive are the buses from the station to the city center. \n\n![IMG_8217.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWJCoR5vdvM6umHj8qS7dikuDmf2GvRyFS9tXojH54tnT/IMG_8217.JPG)\nLocomotive, Vladimir\n\nFollowing my hostel’s directions, I got on the bus (an old Soviet gem of course) and got off at the Golden Gate. \n\n![IMG_8227.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQWD3KHhVdqzsUZ7LNL3daHSHcpiYEySwP7HpbdEAwRpg/IMG_8227.JPG)\nGolden Gate, Vladimir\n\nAfter a slight ascent and very steep descent (my phone suggested it was about 70 feet, or the equivalent of 7 flights of stairs), I reached my hostel, Samovar Hostel.\n\nAs with most Russian hostels, there were a few people living there full-time, but the hostel itself was quite nice – They have a terrace overlooking a church and the railway station, several comfortable couches, a working hot shower next to the kitchen (which, as it turns out, almost proved to be an issue when I forgot to bring a towel in with me…), comfortable beds, and free tea or coffee (read: hot water to put tea or Nescafe).\n\nWhen I arrived, there was nobody there. Not like “no people in charge” but actually nobody – Turns out the owner had to run a few errands, and so I made myself coffee and he returned a few minutes later. Since there was nobody in my bed the previous night, he let me check in early. At this point, I faced a difficult decision: I could collapse and sleep for a long time (remember, this is after 39 hours of travel and very little sleep) and then have severe problems adjusting to the time-zone change (11 hours, and it was noon in Vladimir) or I could go out and try to explore the city a bit. I seemed to get some sort of zombie resurgence of energy, so I set out to explore…\n\nUnfortunately, part of exploring meant climbing back up the giant hill I had just come down. By the time I reached the top, I was seriously reconsidering my whole zombie energy thing, but I hadn’t climbed the hill just to go back down and collapse. I loitered around the Golden Gate for a couple minutes, then found a café to eat lunch.\n\nSo, a common theme when I travel is that unless I have a clear restaurant in mind, I generally hate having to find food. I try hard to avoid tourist trap type restaurants, and as a result I will often wind up wandering around for a long time trying to find something that looks “reasonable” but also not “a serious danger to my health.” I also don’t eat pizza or most “Italian” food unless I am in Italy. This process has led to some great finds, but also to some failures. I’m a creature of habit once I find something good, but generally I dislike having to hunt for that place, and TripAdvisor doesn’t have great coverage in former USSR countries. All this is to say that I usually only eat 2 meals a day, and sometimes I’ll forget to eat if I’m caught up in my sightseeing or traveling. This digression is to say that I hadn’t eaten in about 24 hours when I went to the café, and after having some reasonably good food I felt even better.\n\nAfter lunch, I headed out to explore the city. I found a nice overlook and a water tower which offered an excellent view over the city:\n\n![IMG_8243.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcgrkNqQbsv2YhJhjwmjjYNpVQuZ5npiZ5VGw4XW8WEVL/IMG_8243.JPG)\nView of several churches from the water tower, Vladimir\n\n![IMG_8276.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmetAaCd9ecdPwS2ShbbwRnGuABYCFbo8W8ahaeBVbNV7G/IMG_8276.JPG)\nOn the ground, Vladimir\n\nAfter taking a bunch of pictures and enjoying the view, I headed over to get an up-close look at the things I was looking at from the tower. Vladimir has several old white-stone churches from its medieval glory days, including one of the best examples of Russian stone-carving from the 12th century.\n\n![IMG_8386.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNT9XLe6LbjXxgWwMta1XHHUVLUZS35ZPKr2Le2Bpv68k/IMG_8386.JPG)\nDormition Cathedral, Vladimir\n\n![IMG_8395.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmV4RVHHu1343Mu68btWm2NH9qyKArtLh2aAMRJ3KpoUgw/IMG_8395.JPG)\nSt. Demetrius Cathedral, Vladimir - The exterior carvings depict the story of King David, and were carved in the 12th century.\n\nVladimir has a funny charm to it, and the park surrounding the churches adds a nice touch – There were even horse-drawn carriages offering rides (no, I didn’t). \n\n![IMG_8390.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZBF2BbuXgmVcgEQgaHDEF4PhM7yukdJGe6m2gBLWDAge/IMG_8390.JPG)\nPark, Vladimir\n\nI had a nice time exploring the churches and wandering around the park, and after a bit more wandering I finally felt my crash coming on… I headed back to the hostel (by another classy old Soviet bus) and fell asleep shortly after getting back. I didn’t set an alarm, and I slept for 14 hours straight, but goddamn I needed it.\n\nFreshly rested and having visited more of Vladimir than I had planned to on the first day, I decided to move my Suzdal daytrip to my second day instead of the third. I grabbed breakfast at a coffee shop (cappuccino is a universal language) and headed to the central bus station to catch a bus to Suzdal. Russian public transportation is excellent and usually quite efficient, and after buying a ticket inside for ~65 RUB, I waited a few minutes for the bus (another old Soviet one of course) and was off.  \n\n![IMG_8439.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPb4NgnggXytFXdmBkCruptqcezPxG8wg2fNcEz4Nnu5Y/IMG_8439.JPG)\nBus Station, Vladimir\n\nThe ride was a bumpy 45 minutes, and conveniently the bus goes beyond the bus station in Suzdal and actually goes into the town. After the bus station, the driver collected an additional 18 RUB and we continued into the town. I got off at the Kremlin stop since I wanted to visit there first before heading to the monastery.\n\nThe Kremlin has a couple exhibitions and a stunning blue-Onion-domed church, an excellent example of a wooden church, as well as a couple other buildings and a large green space behind it. \n\n\n![IMG_8537.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXhgCGKXbqFenX69WDNVf3PzQLDfEBcVmdZZUQZtzmT6v/IMG_8537.JPG)\nWooden Church of St. Nicholas & Cathedral of the Nativity, Suzdal\n\n\n![IMG_8481.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdptJ3KBwN7o8sQvEnkNzAs9d1xUsvHZKKFRn8gMYW3TB/IMG_8481.JPG)\nInterior of the Cathedral of the Nativity, Suzdal\n\nI wandered around for a while, then found a great place for lunch (“Russian Restaurant” on the left near the Kremlin – didn’t exactly fit my bill for “non-touristy” but it seemed good, and indeed it was). I bought a small bottle of Medovukhzal, a honey-based wine, and continued to the monastery (stopping to wander through an entire field, yes, literally a field, of paintings – I wish I had bought one, though I’d have had to mail it home).\n\nAfter the Kremlin, I headed over to the Monastery, home to several exhibitions, churches, a bell-tower, and a nice courtyard. \n\n\n![IMG_8636.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRk39hSSKRDcN1VuC9BursFHigm54djdg6Z6a385CBDVv/IMG_8636.JPG)\nChurch and Bell Tower of the Monastery, Suzdal\n\n![IMG_8606.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYgm22oHAbDcsfcrbr88qaoLELZvtxGXLBmQeTCDWVqtT/IMG_8606.JPG)\nInterior of the Church, Suzdal\n\nAs with most Russian monasteries, it was rather quiet and relaxing (with the exception of two Chinese tour groups being whisked through), and it’s a nice place just to sit and enjoy the atmosphere. After spending awhile at the monastery, I negotiated a cheap taxi back to the bus station where I bought a ticket for the return to Vladimir. Unfortunately I was not so lucky this time, and I got the dreaded “MECTO: 0” meaning that I would have to stand. The ride back was a bumpy but pleasant hour, and I spent a few minutes wandering around Vladimir before getting dinner at a hotel restaurant (since I couldn’t find much that seemed good, and the place I went before was closed).\n\nThe food was decent, but I refrained from ordering their “specialty” …\n\n![IMG_8681.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVB5hP3LL4B6sJcX2G4q7SAvsMpq8UV8TcrNRCuYcqLV7/IMG_8681.JPG)\nA delicacy, Vladimir\n\nI spent my last day in Vladimir wandering and revisiting a few places I went to the first day (with a significantly less zombie-like approach). Again, the city is fun just to walk around, and I spent awhile doing that, visiting the Golden Gate (which was finally open after 2 days of trying, and houses a small military museum up a large and steep set of stairs), and just generally checking out anything that seemed interesting. I’m glad I gave myself a bit longer in each place on this trip, since being able to wander and revisit places is quite nice, and it’s easy to miss some things the first time around.\n\nIn the afternoon, I decided to try to visit the nearby town of Bogolyubovo, which also has several churches included in the UNESCO list. I caught a bus from the center to a nearby bus station where I changed to the Bogolyubovo bus (try saying that 10 times fast!). I hopped off when I saw the monastery, and went in for a few minutes. The inside of the church was under construction, but the outside was still quite enjoyable.\n\n![IMG_8710.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQPCzvtrjEA8jxt9XSF6aR1WSNh2a3DMFjbAVpqK2sSmh/IMG_8710.JPG)\nMonastery, Bogolyubovo\n\nLeaving the monastery, I followed the lacking directions I found online and the even more lackluster directions offered by Google Maps to try to find the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl. Google seemed to think it was in the middle of a mess of train tracks, while my directions also sent me nowhere useful. I soon found myself wandering around abandoned train tracks and ruins along with a few small houses. After a while of wandering and not seeing any sign whatsoever of the church, I decided to give up and head back to Vladimir.\n\nI finished up my last day in Vladimir by clambering down the hill to my hostel, spending a bit of time planning my next few days, and clambering back up the same hill to catch the bus to the train station (where I had left my bag in the morning) to catch my train.\n\nVladimir was a fun place to start my trip, and armed with my train ticket, I headed off for my overnight in Moscow… The following day I would take a train to Sergiev Posad in the morning and then continue to Yaroslavl that evening, and everything seemed great until I arrived in Moscow.\n\nSince I was doing a quick overnight in Moscow and I knew which train stations I would be visiting, I had booked a small hotel, the Unicorn Leningradskaya, across the street from the train station so I could just wake up and go. After arriving in Moscow, I took the metro to the train station I was leaving from the following morning and after quite a bit of searching, found the address where my hotel was supposed to be located. Unfortunately, all that was there was a small gate, but when someone else went through, I managed to run through behind them and keep the gate open.\n\n“Wow, I’m lucky” I thought, as I was approached by a rather unhappy security officer who spoke no English. I mentioned that I was supposed to be staying in the hotel here, and he held up a piece of paper with the hotel’s phone number on it. The paper also said to call 1.5 hours before arrival, which, having arrived at the hotel, was not all that helpful. Thankful for my data plan, I called the number and had the following exchange with the person on the other end, supposedly the manager (me in bold):\n\n“Hi, I am in the courtyard of your hotel, can you please show me where to go from here?” \n“Did you call 1.5 hours before arriving?” \n“No, but I am here now. I didn’t have phone service on the train.”“ \nWell, you MUST call 1.5 hours before arrival or we cannot check you in.” \n“Okay, but I have a reservation and you MUST have that, right?” \n“Yes, but if you don’t call, then we don’t stay at the hotel. There is nobody there now.”\n“Well, maybe you can send someone over to check me in?” \n“No, you did not call 1.5 hours before you got here.” \n“There was nothing on my reservation information telling me to call!” \n“That’s not our fault. You must call.” \n“Well, where do you expect me to stay tonight? I made a reservation. I am in a foreign city and have nowhere to sleep because I didn’t call?!” \n“That’s not our problem. 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Apparently she had not put any notes in my reservation, so I had to re-explain my whole situation, wait on hold while the reservations agent called the hotel, etc.\n\nThe reservations agent returned having actually spoken to the hotel. He said they were willing to come back and check me in, but I would have to pay extra. I told him that was absurd, that my reservation was for a specific price etc, and that after my previous conversation with the hotel, I did not feel safe going there. The agent said that since it seemed the hotel was honoring the reservation, there was nothing he could do. By now I had been on the phone for 45 minutes, and it was 11:30pm. I realized that getting a refund and dealing with hotels.com could wait, but finding a hotel for the night could not. After a couple more minutes attempting to talk sense into the agent, I thanked him, hung up, and began my search for an actual hotel (again, using data because I had no WiFi). I didn’t find much in the area, so I eventually decided to just book the same place I would stay later when I returned to Moscow. It was about 20 minutes from the train station, but I didn’t care. I booked it (having to call again, because by the time I decided this it was past midnight, and booking sites don’t allow you to book a reservation for that night after midnight), arrived at my hotel around 12:30am, and decided I didn’t want to wake up in 8 hours for my train… So I cancelled my train and decided to take a local one to Sergiev Posad instead (which run every 30 minutes).\n\nI went to bed pissed as all hell, but hey, at least I had a bed. That’s more than the Unicorn Leningradskaya offered me. Next up, Sergiev Posad and Yaroslavl.\n\n-------------------------------\n\n__Practical Information__\n\nSince I'm visiting places where there are not many resources on the internet about them, I'm going to try to add an information section at the end of my posts, mostly relating to lodging and transportation, along with a few other odds and ends. So...\n\n__Booking Russian train tickets__\n*Booking Russian train tickets online is difficult. While Russian Railways has an English version of their site (http://pass.rzd.ru/main-pass/public/en), I constantly had problems using a credit card to pay. Of all the third-party options for booking tickets, I found that tutu.ru had the best prices and least significant markups. Their site is straightforward, and although I initially had trouble using a credit card, a quick email to their support office resolved the issue (and I still am not totally sure what the problem was -- I think it had something to do with account verification). The booking process was smooth and very fast, the tickets were issued very quickly, and overall the site offers an excellent service. I highly recommend them, and I used them for all my train tickets.\n\n__Buses in Vladimir__\n*Local city buses run extremely regularly, and there is a stop right outside of the train station. Exit and turn right.\n*Buses are cheap and easy, and they are the best way to get around the city if you don't feel like walking everywhere.\nThe bus station in Vladimir is a fairly major hub. There are buses serving Yaroslavl, Kostroma, and most other cities in the region which leave several times a day. I don't know the exact times, but the important thing is that they exist (which, if I had known, would have potentially avoided the entire Moscow debacle)\n*Most of the short-haul buses are standard old Soviet affairs, but there are also some nicer buses which I assume serve further destinations.\n*Buy your ticket inside of the station from one of the many counters. I had no trouble, despite my practically non-existent Russian.\n*Buses have assigned seating. Your seat number is marked on the ticket under \"Mesto\" and if it is a 0, it means you don't have a seat and likely have to stand.\n*Buses to Suzdal leave every 30 minutes, usually from place #10.\n\n__Buses in Suzdal__\n*The bus from Vladimir to Suzdal first goes to the Suzdal bus station, but you should stay on -- The driver will come around and collect an additional payment (18 rubles) before continuing into the city.\n*Same as in Vladimir, on your return, you should buy your ticket inside of the bus station. I don't know if it is possible to get on a bus in the city and continue to Vladimir as I didn't try that.\n*Buses back to Vladimir leave every 30 minutes, although there are buses every 15 minutes during a few peak periods (from 4-5pm if I recall correctly)\n\n__Vladimir timing__\n*I visited for about 3 days, spending one in Suzdal. It's certainly possible to spend only 2 days total, but trying to visit both Vladimir and Suzdal in one day is probably too much.\n\n__Lodging__\n*I stayed at the Samovar Hostel. The facilities, staff, and hostel are great, but the location leaves a bit to be desired. It's about an 8-10 minute walk from the Golden Gate, and down a very steep hill. Climbing back up the hill each morning was an inconvenience, but I am still quite happy with my choice to stay there.\n\n__Being stranded in Moscow__\n*The best thing to do is find WiFi if you can. 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