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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where to Stay. All European first-class hotels in major cities will be jammed, have few rooms and small hellos for travelers without reservations. Paris' top triumvirate (Ritz, George V and the Crillon) are already booked well into August. Cost: upwards of $20 per day for double rooms. Second-class hotels and pensions will be easier to get into. Biggest crush will be in Rome, where the 17-day Olympics start on Aug. 25. Olympics officials are planning to set up beds in monasteries and schools for the 100,000 foreigners per day expected to attend, promise that "nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOURIST EUROPE 1960: A Guide to Prices & PIaces | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...hotels are rising in the Scandinavian countries. Copenhagen's Royal Hotel (double rooms start at $9) will be ready in July. In Spain, hotel rates are government-controlled, and the best, such as Madrid's Ritz and Palace, start at $12 per night for two. (Old Spanish Traveler Ernest Hemingway always stays at the Casa de Suecia.) Accommodations in Greece are better this year. The King's Palace Hotel in Athens, which opened last November, is first class. The Aegean isles of Paros and Rhodes will have more facilities ($5 to $6 per double room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOURIST EUROPE 1960: A Guide to Prices & PIaces | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

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