TRAVEL IN GERMANY IS CHEAP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 8 February 1936, Page 7

TRAVEL IN GERMANY IS CHEAP

FACILITIES FOR TOURISTS Travel and hotel accommodation in. Germany are very cheap at the present time and the Government seems to he doing everything it can to attract tourists, said Mr W. D. G. Hartley, of Dunedin, who has just returned from a long visit abroad, in an inter- / view. * . • .. *• “I spent two weeks at Berlin, lie said, “and was tremendously impressed with the cheapness of travel and hotel -■ accommodation. The Government lias., done much to foster the tourist trade.j* It is possible to buy a mark, known • as a tourist or registered mark, out-,, side Germany at an exchange rate of f 20 to the pound, whereas the present', commercial exchange rate of the mark is 12 to the pound. This facility for the tourist obviously makes for cheaper accommodation and travel. Mrs Hartlev and I stayed at an hotel in Berlin that was listed in a leading guide' book as ‘palatial,’ and the cost for adouble room, without meals, was 12 marks or 12 shillings a day. Excellent j, food could be obtained in the restaur--ants, which' are excellently run, at from two to four marks, including; wine, Rhenish wine is actually cheaper--in Germany than soft drinks.” Mr Hartley also found the cost of travel and accommodation in Palestine to lie very cheap. At Jerusalem' he stayed at the Hotel King David, a very fine modern building overlooking the walls of the city. Accommodation cost 30s a day for full board. The hotel had been built after the King David period. He found that sanitation was sadly lacking in old Jerusalem. but in the modern part of the city it compared very favourably with that of Wellington.