Down under

Wie bereits neulich bekannt gegeben wurde, hat das Gästehaus Kaiserpassage in Karlsruhe vor 4 Wochen eröffnet. Es hat sich herausgestellt, dass die günstigen Mehrbettzimmer sehr gut für kleine Gruppen oder Familien geeignet sind.

Im Gästehaus Kaiserpassage gibt es 3-Bett, 4-Bett und 6-Bett-Zimmer. Reist man als Familie (2 Erwachsene und ein oder mehrere Kinder) kann man z. B. das Drei-Bett-Zimmer buchen, welches schon ab 17,50€ pro Nacht und Person anmietbar ist.

Je größer die Zimmer, desto günstiger sind die Übernachtungspreise: im Sechsbett-Zimmer kann man bereits für 9,99€ pro Nacht und Person eine Nacht günstig verbringen. Die Schlafsäle sind groß genug, sodass man auch seine Privatsphäre hat.

Das Gästehaus Kaiserpassage ist familienfreundlich: die Zimmer des Gästehauses sind großzügig gestaltet, sie sind besonders lärmarm und es gibt eine Küche, in der man Frühstück und andere Mahlzeiten zubereiten kann (den Abwasch übernimmt die Spülmaschine!). Wer als Familie mit dem Auto anreist, kann dieses in der hauseigenen Tiefgarage unterstellen.

Derzeit ist das Gästehaus Kaiserpassage eine der günstigsten Übernachtungsmöglichkeiten für Familien und kleinere Gruppen in Karlsruhe. Wer bei hohen Nachfragen nichts findet, sollte einen Blick auf gloveler, dem Portal für Privatwohnungen werfen.

Vor kurzem hat das Gästehaus Kaiserpassage in Karlsruhe eröffnet. Es bietet allen, die eine günstige Unterkunft suchen, die Möglichkeit preiswert zu übernachten. Seit dem sehr erfolgreichen Start sind schon viele Studenten, Monteure und auch Urlauber, die Karlsruhe besucht haben, untergekommen.

Zur Auswahl stehen Doppelzimmer, Dreibettzimmer, Vierbettzimmer und Sechsbettzimmer: Wer es privat mag kommt mit seinem Partner im Zweibettzimmer günstig unter. Bereits ab 9,90 € gibt es ein Bett im Mehrbettzimmer – den Preis kann derzeit niemand in Karlsruhe unterbieten.

Das Gästehaus befindet sich mitten in der Innenstadt in der Kaiserpassage 10; es liegt demnach direkt neben der Pädagogischen Hochschule und dem KIT (ehemals Universität Karlsruhe). Wer mit dem Auto anreist, kann es in der hauseigenen Tiefgarage unterbringen. Für Selbstversorger steht eine Küche zur Verfügung und die 100 m² große Terrasse kann natürlich von jedem mit verwendet werden.

Jedes Zimmer ist mit einem eigenen Flachbild-Fernseher ausgestattet, kostenloses Internet gibt es über die schnelle Internetleitung noch dazu. Das vor einem Monat vollständig renovierte Gästehaus ist sehr modern eingerichtet, wird täglich von den Reinigungsfachkräften in Ordnung gebracht und ist somit sehr sauber.

Wer günstig in Karlsruhe übernachten möchte, sollte sich das Gästehaus Kaiserpassage auf jeden Fall anschauen!

Gästehaus Kaiserpassage

Kaiserpassage 10

76133 Karlsruhe

Telefon 0721/4024 3459

Email info@gaestehaus-kaiserpassage.de

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Today I’ve returned from the Australian Uni Games – an olympiad with all Australian Universities held in Melbourne and Sydney. The rowing regatta took place in the Olympic Regatta Centre in Sydney, where perfect facilities are available.

We moved down to Sydney with our trailer last Monday and had two training days. On the three following days, we raced other unis in Singles, Fours and Eights under very good conditions on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday however was horrible: 34°C, 95% humidity and a strong wind coming from the country’s interior (we have Spring at the moment and I’m really looking forward to boiling in Summer ). Despite those circumstances, we came in second with our lightweight Four and won a nice silver medal.

Can’t believe one week is over already… I had a phantastic time with my crew at the Uni Champs! As soon as the other pictures from the races are available, I’ll post some on here.

As the season’s first regatta, my club organised yesterday a very cool event, which was also the very first regatta in my life. Early in the morning, we headed out to our boat shed and started preparing everything for the day.

Several boat clubs were expected to come from all over New South Wales to compete in 32 races. I raced with my crews in a men’s coxed four, a mixed eight and a men’s eight. We won the first two races and came in second for the last one.

The next regatta to come will be at the Uni Games, where all Australian Universities come together to compete against each other. The Rowing Australian Uni Champs will take place in Sydney and we will row in 2000′s Olympic facilities.

Today we visited Cairns’ Crocodile Farm just up the Trinity Inlet. We went there with a very cool Australian Crocodile Ranger who guided us through the farm. The farm itself is the biggest crocodile farm in the world and many leathers leave that place to be reworked as a handbag for Louis Vuitton, Gucci or the other big players. They keep big old crocs and steel their eggs to breed the little crocs, which grow for 5 years and then… you know, the bag-thing. The meat goes to China and even the blood is being used, as crocodiles are known not to have any deseases like leukemia or major infections and so they do some research on their blood.

The other day I had some crocodile in a restaurant and the meat was like chicken, but only much tougher. The taste was very faint, but as I understood crocodile meat tastes like the food the croc is being fed (logic, isn’t it?) and most of these reptiles are fed with chicken.

After the farm we went the Trinity Inlet down again back to Cairns’ marina on a boat, but unfortunately we were unlucky and couldn’t spot any of these creatures in real life. Some say it is better so. We learnt that formerly, ships refused to use the Trinity Inlet as a lot of crocs hided there and many people died. Today, when a crocodile is spottet there, it’ll be caught and brought to the farm (which is actually a quite nice home for the old crocodiles, big area and calm, but not for the young ones). We enjoyed the slow trip down the river, had tea and watched the ubiquitous mangrove-trees.

The Great Barrier Reef is one of nature’s Seven Wonders of the World and truly impressive. It is visible for astronauts from space reaching from Papua New Guinea’s Torres Street to Lady-Elliot-Island near Bundaberg (some 2300 km). We visited today Green Island, a tiny sand island just in the middle of the reef being the only island with a rainforest. We weren’t very lucky with the weather, though it was sunny but very windy and we had a nice bumpy ride to the island with a lot of sick people aboard.

The island was surrounded by the reef and we had a look at it from several perspectives: first, we snorkelled in the reef (even my parents did it!) and saw some colourful fish and corals. I took some pictures with an underwater camera and I try to put them on the internet once they are ready. After, we made two further boat trips with a glass-bottom boat and a semi submarine. The glass-bottom boat was good to see the reef, whereas the semi submarine was better to watch the fish swarms.

Nonetheless, I suggest you don’t plan such a busy day; we could have needed a little bit more time snorkelling and lying on the beach to heat up after a 20° Celcius-Pacific bath would have been nice. Anyway, we saw a lot and it was again a great new experience!

What I have never really realized is the fact that Australia has impressive tropical rainforests, bright white sand beaches like in Cuba and a lot of tiny, calm islands on its shore. From Brisbane on we continued our trip by car driving 2400 km on the in Australia right left side and we stoped over every once and a while for nice spots. One of them was near the Araluen Falls, where we made a rainforest walk to a water hole and I jumped in and gave the fresh water a try (it was 5 mm cold). Australia’s north-eastern state Queensland has to offer a lot of tropical rainforests and they get more beautiful the more you drive north. So don’t miss Cape Tribulation 100 km north of Cairns when you are there!

As I previously mentioned that travelling can be quite fatiguing, we decided to have a day off on Daydream Island, one of the small Whitsunday Islands. On every of these Whitsunday Islands you find a Resort, for my taste cramped with tourists, and you can do trips like rainforest walks or island exploration by sailing on a catamaran; as Daydream Island is really small (it took us 30 minutes for a stroll around the island), it was the choice of fewer tourists and we could enjoy a relaxing day on this picturesque spot in the middle of the Pacific.

In the morning we took a plane from Sydney to Brisbane and fortunately everything went well. I was concerned that Virgin Blue could cancel our flight, as they cancelled my parent’s flight from Melbourne to Sydney. I heard that Virgin Blue offers a lot of flights (sometimes even more than hourly), but if there are to little passangers they just cancel your flight and put you onto another one some hours later. Brisbane is a very nice city: vibrant, modern, clean, well organised, busy and friendly are some of the adjectives I associate with it. We stayed at Wesley Studio Apartments and I liked it very much. It is even a potential customer for gloveler.com! Brisbane’s Botanic Garden is situated on a peninsula surrounded by the Brisbane River just, and it is beautiful to have a green resort in the heart of the city. After strolling through it and after another bigger stroll through the town we went to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and believe it or not, I fed and touched a kanguroo and I even hugged a Koala. We also saw a kanguroo-mother with its cute child in its pocket and we watched a sheep show, where a dog managed to put a bunch of sheep into a cage. Have you ever touched a sheep with its thick whool on it? That’s so soft!