Slovakia Travel Forum

I and a few male friends are going to bratislava this June and i wondered if anyone can tell me about the nightlife in Brats. We are in 40,s but like plenty of nightlife , mainly bars and disco bars(Discos are to be contiplated). also where is the best area(Pubs) to go for female entertainment???????????????????. What is the price of things over there Food , beer , entertainment etc. How much should i expect to pay for a good night out with any extra fun.

What is the best way to travel between Bratislava and Krakow? I will be traveling from Bratislava to Krakow in late October and was wondering what was the best way, by train or bus.
Thanks, for your help.

We are wanting to travel through Eastern Europe for 2 weeks in June. Our inital travel plan is Prague- Krakow - Eastern Slovakia (eg Tatra mountains, Levoca) - Eger (Hungary) - Budapest. Is this possible via rail, or would it be better to go via bus through Eastern Slovakia? Can anyone suggest the cheapest and easiest way for 3 adults to travel this route, or suggest a better route to get a taste of these countries?

Can any kind soul in VT tell us whether it's possible to find any halal Muslim food in Bratislava? We will be in Vienna this June & thought of going to Bratislava. Thanks in advance!

Hi!

I would like to visit Bratislava for a day. I will be coming from Vienna/ Wien and probably returning the same night. Anyone has any suggestions as to what one should see?

Looking forward to some inputs!! thanks!!

I could not find any thing about accommodation in this town. Also I would like to know something about how to reach this town from Bratislava.

I could not find anything about it in Lonely Planet or VT.

Thanks

I m planning to visit Bratislava for a few days, by car. Can ahybody tell me how is about safety there, for cars and in youth hostels.

thanks in advance

andrej

last year we drove from eztergom to slovakia across the bridge is the the only border crossing or is there somewhere else close by

HI
Can anyone tell me if there is a bus or train I can take from Bratislava to Salsburg and if so is there a schedule I can look at .
Thanks so much.

Hi

I am looking for up to date advice on travel from the airport at Vienna to the centre of Bratislava. In particular, how do bus and train services compare?

Any help much appreciated.

I understand that there is talk about changing the currency in Slovakia to euro?
If so, when will this happen? What happens with the old notes?

thx

I am going to be in Slavakia for two months this summer and am looking to head down to Italy on my week off. Ill be 26 by the time Im there so I will no longer be eligible for the youth discounts and I'm American (which it seemed like the Eurorail specials were only for people not from the country that you want to travel in and that you had to be from somewhere in Europe correct me if I'm wrong though...that happens quite often). Plus any other advice anyone wants to throw my way about travel in Slovakia and to surrounding countries would be much appreciated!

Have went through a lot of hostels, a private room for two costs at least 50euro. I believe the same price is good enough to stay in a hotel as well? Any hotel/hostel around the price could you recommend? The euro is 20% higher than the time I started planning for this trip.  I am okay with mix-dorm but my friend has never done that. Thanks.

Hi,
tell me please is motorway Bratislava-Vienna finished? If is how long can I go by my car?

Hi! I will be in Bratislava this May and am looking to get to Krakow. I think they best way to do this is by train, possibly overnight.
Does anyone know how much this train is, and where we could find information (in English) about it? How safe would it be for 3 girls traveling alone?

Hi all... Can somebody give me the website or information on getting to Budapest from Bratislava by hydrofoil? Thanks. :)

Hi there,

I am going to be visiting Slovakia for two weeks in August.
As I am at the start of my planning I have a few basic questions for all of you:

- I would like to learn a little Slovak to help me get around however I have only been able to find Czech learning resources. Will learning some Czech be sufficient?

- What are the absolute 'must-dos' of Slovakia? My rough guide is in the post but as yet I know virtually nothing about the country. Your suggestions may include visits to areas around Slovakia but, as I only have two weeks, I would like to use most of my time to get to know Slovakia better.

Any other thoughts would be most welcome

Graham

Hello everybody,

Could anybody please translate the following pizza ingrdients for me:

paradajková omáčka, syr, šunka, kukurica

and

paradajková omáčka, mozzarella, šunka, paradajky, bazalka

I am currenty writing a tip about a Pizzeria I visited in Koscice and I would like to find out which Pizza I ate.

Thank you for your help


HORSCHECK

Hi there,

We're looking to put together a 10 day trip (two days of travel to/from US/Europe), so we'll actually have 8 full days for these three cities. We're looking at early September or late November, depending on personal schedules.

I'm wondering if this is a positive itinerary below:

Day 1: US to Prague
Day 2: Arrive Prague, check-in, sightsee
Day 3: Sightsee Prague
Day 4: Sightsee Prague
Day 5: AM Train from Prague to Bratislava (2 hrs), check-in, sightsee
Day 6: Sightsee Bratislava
Day 7: AM Train Bratislava to Budapest (3 hrs), check-in, sightsee
Day 8: Sightsee Budapest
Day 9: Sightsee Budapest
Day 10: Budapest to US

Any and all suggestions are totally welcome as we just started looking at these cities...

DJ

Hi all. Anyone knows how to get to Budapest from Bratislava?
Is there a cheap flight? Or should I just take the train?
If train, so far I haven't been able to find a website to reserve the tickets. Can I just show up at the train station and buy the tickets there?
Thanks.

Hi all. Anyone ever stayed in one of these apartments?
Would you please share your view on these apartments? I'm planning to go to Bratislava and have narrowed my accommodation choices to these three apartments.
Thanks.

Where can I find real estate agents / websites / other offers for furnished appartements in Bratislava ?

Price / month should not exceed 900 EUR. Preferably near the city center and close to public transport. Arrival date will expectedly be the 14th of april 2008. Pets allowed would be of advantage.

Hi!

I'm looking for accommodation in Jasná. However, as I will have a car, I think I would like to live closer to where the nightlife is than the slopes (if nightlife is not by the slopes).

Is the nightlife in the hotels beside the slopes, or in the nearby village Liptovský Mikuláš?

Thanks!

Is it possible to buy train tickects for International travel (to Praha & Budapest) 10 days in advance at a Slovak railway office in Bratislava? can you give the exact address?
Thanks

A friend sent me some info about some hot springs parks with slides and wave pools a few kilometers over the border from Zakopane Poland and I cannot find it. Does anyone know if I could get public transportation to any of them from Zakopane? Or has anyone been to any of them?

Hi,

Just looking for some help on pricing, looking to go from Bratislava to Warsaw on an overnight train this summer, leaving at 22.51 and it arrives at 07.05

I am wandering what the price will be for a couchette on this train?

Regards

Ben

Well, the obvious way is to go to the station and buy a train ticket. But by that question I mean in some strange times like 4 am or 23 pm...Are the ticket-selling offices at the stations always opened before a leaving train? Is there a situation in which there is nobody selling tickets and you cannot go to the train?
Also, I would like to know whether one should buy bus tickets (for intercity buses) from the driver, or from the bus station.
Thank you very much.

I am going to have a nice trip through Northern Hungary and Southern Slovakia and since I am arriving in Bratislava and beginning with the Hungarian part of the trip, I am most probably going to need a few Hungarian forints from Bratislava. So can anyone tell me where in Bratislava can I exchange euros for Hungarian forints? I would prefer the place to be at the airport or around the main train station, but other places will also work.
Thank you very much.

Hi all!
Please help me with my research (if you can): My name is Martina and I am a tourism student in my final year, writing a dissertation about the film tourism, specifically IF or TO WHAT EXTENT the Hostel film influenced travelling to Slovakia (my home country) as a tourism destination. I would like to ask all of you who have seen the movie, to write a few words, whether/how it shaped the picture of Slovakia you had in your mind before seeing the film (if any), whether it put you off or opposite, made you want to go there.., perhaps made you aware of the country (it is often being confused with Slovenia) etc. I'd really appreciate if you could participate in my project by replying to this message. MANY THANKS TO THOSE WHO WILL!

hi,my first posting on VT,
to celebrate a momentous occasion (my 50th) myself and a handful of beer drinking friends are thinking about coming to the junifest beer festival this year.
there is plenty on the internet about last years festival and it sounds like fun.
however i cant find this years dates confirmed anywhere.
does anybody know the precise dates?

also, is this the kind of event where we need to buy tickets beforehand? we were at munich last year and lack of tickets proved our downfall.

thanks in advance,

howard.