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Wein and Design Hotel Has Fanciest Breakfast Spread in Vienna

Where: Lange Gasse 13, Vienna, Austria, 1080

HotelChatter's Eric Rosen recently spent some time in Austria and Germany. All this week, he'll be rounding up his hotel observations. Any tips, suggestions, questions? Let us know.

The key to “doing” Europe properly, is to start your day with a sensible breakfast at the hotel.

For a long time we resisted taking breakfast at the table d'hôte, rejoicing in the five euros we were saving by foregoing bad coffee, stale rolls and a few greasy cold cuts, while saving our ducats for a leisurely lunch instead. But as we’ve grown older, we’ve come to see the logic of shelling out a little extra cash for a hearty breakfast so that we don’t get cranky scouring the continent for a decent cup of coffee, or fainting from hypoglycemia and cutting out of a museum early for lunch.

No need for such a strategy while staying at Vienna’s Rathaus Wein and Design Hotel, though.

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The Swimming Pool at Abou Nawas Wows a Guest

Where: 355 -Place des Droits de l'homme, Tunis, Tunisia, 1080

Whether you're in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, for business or pleasure, a common high-end choice of hotel is the Abou Nawas Tunis Hotel, overlooking Lake Tunis. It's a 5-star right in the center with a presidential suite and 10 "ministerial" suites if you're not quite at presidential standard; it also has an impressive swimming pool. A very impressive swimming pool, if this recent reviewer comment is anything to go by:

Wading into the rooftop pool was like sliding between silk sheets - no nasty systemic overload or meltdown due to abrupt temperature change, just pure bliss. It's the only pool I've ever been in where I have not only cooled down and felt refreshed paddling around but not had to spend the first few moments frantically recovering from the shock of cold water colliding with overheated flesh.

Most other visitors agree the room rates are relatively high for Tunis, but that most of them time you get what you've paid for. One recent guest complained that a whole host of maids and miscellaneous employees appeared outside their room at tip-giving time, but otherwise service appears to be friendly, if running a little on laidback "Tunisian time". If you don't want to traipse through the streets to eat, there are 4 restaurants and 3 bars on site, so you shouldn't go wanting. And there's always that luxurious swimming pool to end the day in.

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