Ljubljana Hotel Information

Ljubljana celebrates the International women’s day much more than Valentines day. The tradition is that every girl should get a flower so you see a lot of people walking with flowers today.

In today’s photo, you can see a girl with a flower who is also interviewed by a TV crew in front of the national poets statue.

Ljubljana owns many of it’s famous buildings and landmarks to the Ljubljana born architect Jože Plečnik. It is therefore not surprising that the city celebrates this architect like no others. He did not only create the wonderful pedestrian areas along the river in Ljubljana but his most recognised feature of Ljubljana is the famous Trible Bridge, Tromostovje.

Jože Plečnik’s Triple Bridge

Today, 23 January 2012, Jože Plečnik’s birthday is celebrated by Google. They changed their logo to show this famous bridge. Here is a screenshot to show you the Google logo which is likely to be gone by the end of the day:

Jože Plečnik’s major works in Ljubljana

• Bežigrad Stadium, 1923–1939
• Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Šiška, 1925–1927
• Chamber of commerce, work and industry, 1925–1927
• Church of the Archangel Michael on the Marsh Sveti Mihael na Barju, Črna vas near
• Ljubljana, 1925–1939
• The Vzajemna zavarovalnica insurance company building, 1928–1939
• Tromostovje (the Triple bridge), 1929–1932 [3]
• National and University Library, 1930–1941
• Cobblers’ Bridge Čevljarski or, more accurately, Šuštarski most, 1931–1932
• ‘Peglezen’, the ‘Flatiron’ house, Ljubljana, 1932–1934
• Žale Cemetery, 1937–1940
• The Fish Market, 1939–1942
• The Ursuline gymnasium, 1939–1940
• Slovene National Parliament, Katedrala svobode Ljubljana, 1947 unrealized
• Križanke, 1952–1956

 Jože Plečnik’s other major works

• Langer House. Vienna, 1900–1901
• Zacherlhaus, Vienna, 1903–1905
• Church of the Holy Spirit, Vienna, 1908–1913

• Prague Castle various projects. Prague, 1920–1934
• Prague Castle Garden of Eden and first court, Prague, 1920–1926
• Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Prague, 1921–1932

• The Bank of Celje building, Celje, 1927–1930
• Church of St. Anthony, Belgrade 1928–1932
• Church of the Visitation in Ponikve, 1952–1958

Ljubljana Train Station is located close to the city centre and it takes only 10 minutes to walk to the Triple Bridge which is considered the heart of Ljubljana. Inside the station there is a ticket office, left luggage, waiting rooms and a MacDonalds restaurant. Outside of the station, you also have a café and bar where mane locals often stop by.

The timetable for arrivals and departures from the Ljubljana train station can be found online here: www.slo-zeleznice.si . You are not able to book the tickets online but the website does show you the opening hours of the ticket office.

Ljubljana Train Discounts

Hotel Park Ljubljana offers a 15 percent discount to all passengers arriving by train to the Ljubljana train station. A poster is displayed in the under-path of the platforms and you can see a photo of it to the left.

The History of Ljubljana Train Station

The station was built during the time of the Austrian/Hungarian Empire in 1849 when the railway between Trieste and Vienna was created. The station building was renovated as late as 1980. At the Ljubljana train station you also find a plaque of James Joyce which reminds us of when James Joyce spent a night in station. He had to stop here in 1904 when he was travelling to Trieste.

Location of the train station in Ljubljana:

It was recently announced that the government of France fined Expedia Inc. 427 thousand Euros for ‘misleading marketing practices’.

The French court ruled that Expedia was displaying incorrect availability of hotel rooms, incorrect information about the hotels and falsely advertising standard rates as promotional discounts.

The French hotelier federation Synhorcat filed a complaint with the French government about Expedia’s practices. This resulted in a ruling in the courts of a €305,000 fine which will go to Synhorcat and €79,000 to be paid to the Hôtel de la Place du Louvre in Paris and a further €43,000 to the Château Guilguiffin in Landudec, France.

Synhorcat commented  that  this is a ‘victory for consumers and hospitality professionals, it carries within it the seeds of a moralization of e-commerce as a whole.’

Expedia later released a statement to the press saying that ‘The ruling acknowledges our efforts to ensure the information contained on its websites is as simple, accessible and comprehensible as possible and also that significant efforts have been made beyond our legal obligations to add further information regarding both phone numbers and their conditions and hotel availability displayed on FR.hotels.com and Expedia.fr. TripAdvisor has also duly made changes to the wording on tripadvisor.fr on pages where prices or availability are shown in cooperation with the investigation.’

It might or might not been a deliberate action of Expedia to mislead the customer with its advertising but it does show once again that a large booking agency can not keep the details of all its local hotels up to date world wide.

Have you found any wrong information about the Ljubljana Hotels on Expedia or elsewhere? We would like to hear from you so leave any feedback in the comments below.

I happened to walk past Stari Tišler today and discovered that the building has got a new look. The earlier yellow walls and the red paint on the stones have been repainted in a more traditional yellow and grey. This deserved a photo so that you can see the changes for yourself.

This might be a small change but if you direct people to the white and red Gostilna, you are likely to get someone confused.

To help us compare with what it used to look like, here is a photo taken earlier this year.

Let us know if you like the new style or not!

We’ve got some fresh news to share:

Hotel Park Ljubljana published a new promotional video for the hotel on YouTube today. It shows the great views from the top and all the other benefits with the hotel so we wanted to share it with you here.

If you want to know more about Hotel Park Ljubljana, we have published several articles which will give you an honest understanding of the hotel and its benefits:

• A Tour of Hotel Park
• Hotel Park’s cafe & Children’s Playground
• Hotel Park’s general information and booking page