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Kiev trip advice required
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SoloEast run daily trips to Chernobyl. I'm booked for August and have found them very efficient and informative. Emails have been answered within 30mins.
Cant post the link here, but google SoloEast and you'll find the.0 -
If I'm not mistaken, this escalator is the longest in Europe?0
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SoloEast run daily trips to Chernobyl. I'm booked for August and have found them very efficient and informative. Emails have been answered within 30mins.
Cant post the link here, but google SoloEast and you'll find the.
Thanks for this info. I will have a look at their website. I think it's always good to consider recommendations.0 -
Was told by a friend that the currency to take to Ukraine is Euros and not Ukrainian Hryvnia. Can anyone confirm this please0
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That's very strange - the currency of Ukraine is the hryvnia. Unless you already have some euros to exchange for them, why would you buy euros and then exchange them to hryvnia, losing on exchange twice, instead of exchanging your pounds directly? Perhaps your friend knows...the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote: »Was told by a friend that the currency to take to Ukraine is Euros and not Ukrainian Hryvnia. Can anyone confirm this pleaseEvolution, not revolution0 -
the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote: »Was told by a friend that the currency to take to Ukraine is Euros and not Ukrainian Hryvnia. Can anyone confirm this please
Well don't take Hryvnia from the UK as you will struggle to find it at all and if you do it will probably be at an appalling exchange rate.
As with most countries, the best way is to take a fee-free card and withdraw cash at ATMs. There were some ATMs that charged a fee in Kiev, but it wasn't hard to find free ones.
If you must take cash, I saw reasonable rates for changing Sterling advertised quite widely.
As for hotels - I went to Kiev with work, and the first couple of times they put me in the Premier Palace. Very weird place - considered perhaps the top hotel in Kiev, it has a strip club on the top floor (widely advertised throughout the hotel) and a 24 hour casino downstairs. I think the room rates were OK but eating at the hotel was insanely expensive (eating out in Kiev can be very cheap). The last time I went I was given a choice of hotel and went for the Fairmont instead - that was much more normal.
Disclaimer: it's about 4 years since I last went, and I imagine there have been a few changes. But hopefully the advice above still stands.Let's settle this like gentlemen: armed with heavy sticks
On a rotating plate, with spikes like Flash Gordon
And you're Peter Duncan; I gave you fair warning0 -
An aquaintance owns the UK travel company that organised the travel for Top Gear when they filmed there.
http://www.lupinetravel.co.uk/chernobyl-holidays-and-tours.html0
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