Oct 10, 2008

News form Osijek : a new hostel and low cost carriers

With the increasing popularity of eastern Croatia, especially Baranja, city of Osijek, towns of Đakovo, Vukovar and other places in the area of Eastern Slavonia, more good news are coming from there.

New airways connections

In addition to the low cost airline Germanwings, which successfully operated a line between Osijek and Köln ( Cologne ) and which will continue to do so after the winter, RyanAir will probably start to fly directly from Osijek to London Stansted 2 times a week from April 2009. Osijek Airport and Ryan Air are negotiation also some other destination, like Frankfurt and Stuttgart in Germany.

Osijek Airport officials say they are also in the middle of negotiations between some other low cost carriers who are supposed to connect Osijek with Switzerland and Scandinavia.

New cheap accommodation facilities

In addition to a good hotel selection, Osijek will get its first hostel. The grand opening is planned for 17 October 2008 and the hostel will be located above popular Tufna nightclub situated in the historic baroque part of the town - Tvrdja, Kuhaceva Street 10 (phone +385 31 215 020, mobile: +385 98 339 965 or +385 91 3399 665). There will be altogether 20 beds in 3 or 4 bedrooms, a living room with satellite TV and wireless Internet, bathroom and toilets, dining room and a “self service” kitchen. Price per night – 100Kuna, that’s about 15 Euro per night including free internet & towels. Surprisingly, Osijek is going to be only a second town in continental Croatia, after Zagreb, which will get a hostel.

Tvrdja (“Citadel”) is an eighteenth-century complex of cobbled streets, grandiose buildings and open squares, surrounded by parks and Drava river, and it represents the best-preserved ensemble of Baroque buildings anywhere in Croatia. Originally planned and used as a military settlement, Tvrdja is today Osijek’s education centre accompanied by some of Osijek’s the most popular bars, pubs and clubs.






2 comments:

travelguide said...

For the short of budget like me, it is really important to cut down some extra cost. Very useful information. Thanks.

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