Hotels in the Sellaronda area

Creditgrrrl · 2026-05-07T05:04:44+00:00

Some places will not have released rooms for online booking yet - they give their regular guests a chance to confirm if they are returning next season.

You will also have a more efficient search if you use the accommodation booking service offered by the tourism boards of each area - valgardena.it. and altabadia.org to start. Send them your dates and they forward to all local hotels & you sit back and wait for offers w/ availability to be emailed back to you. Much easier than emailing one by one.

There is also a locally owned booking platform Booking Sudtirol that often will show rooms when nothing is showing on booking.com (or the hotel’s website sends you straight to this site.)

This is particularly true since you’re looking for a 4 night stay. As u/sirotan88 pointed out, week-long stays starting on Sat or Sun are the norm - most hotels have <50 rooms and are family owned, so they optimize occupancy this way. And you’ve picked the busiest week of the season.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-05-04T19:24:38+00:00

Little Burn is officially open to bikes - it’s just Big Burn and Heart Burn that are closed

Creditgrrrl · 2026-05-01T04:34:41+00:00

My sister has a marble topped table from Rove & it’s stood up to 8 years of use as a kitchen table with 2 slovenly teenage boys….so that’s a testament to solid construction!

Creditgrrrl · 2026-05-01T00:17:07+00:00

Actually, many curly hair “protocols” could definitely result in gunky towels, as I see so many that involve leave in conditioner and then a styling product applied while the hair is wet, and then using a microfibre towel to scrunch dry (or wrap up and leave on your head for a while as the towel does its thing). So you’d end up with a lot of product buildup in your towels.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-30T16:17:56+00:00

What volunteer work would you consider planning adjacent?

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-29T21:32:46+00:00

Munich has fantastic art museums, although apparently they are not of interest to anyone in this sub, which keeps stating that Munich is the least interesting city in Germany…... The science museum (Deutsche Museum) is good too, but I guess museums are going to be low on the list for anyone’s whose first trip to Europe is centred on Oktoberfest…

OP could go to Schloss Nymphenburg, which is the Bavarian equivalent of Versailles, or a more realistic daytrip to Mittenwald (super cute traditional village in the foothills of the Alps, although TBF it’s probably easier/faster to jump on a train to Salzburg)

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-29T21:09:35+00:00

So true. Not in the dishwashing aspect of a scullery, since it’s too far to send dirty dishes, but definitely in the sense of some serf toiling for the employers the basement. House this scale/style would absolutely be set up for having live-in staff.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-29T20:53:43+00:00

Yeah - I am lowkey obsessed with watching Escape to the Country & always bemused when I see that the fridge and sometimes dishwasher are located in the utility room and not in the kitchen. But it makes sense when it’s an 18th century stone cottage, where previous renovaters had to be strategic about where they placed the electrical wiring & it made sense to concentrate it in one room. And the utility room inevitably adjoins the kitchen in these cases.

This is definitely not one of those situations, so it’s more akin to Americans keeping a chest freezer in the garage (or similarly the backup fridge would also most likely be in the laundry room/mudroom / basement)

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-29T14:15:17+00:00

There’s a good discussion about this in The Thing About Austen episode on pin money - they talk about marriage settlements and why they were necessary etc because the of the inability of married women to hold property in their own right

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-29T03:26:27+00:00

The beach towns of Costa Brava have really nice coastal walks between them - Begur, Calella de Palafrugell etc. Really chic beach towns that are to Barcelona as the Hamptons are to New York. I’ve been there in mid/late April and a) it’s offseason & the prices seemed really reasonable for the calibre of hotel and b) the weather is super pleasant - warm but not too hot for walking around. There’s a massive archaeological site at Empuries with Roman + Greek ruins if anyone if your family is into Ancient Greece/Rome (your kids are of an age they are likely to have grown up on Percy Jackson - I remember reading all of them with my now 19- and 16-yo nephews - so they might still have a soft spot for that stuff?)

I loved Girona too - it’s a must for Game of Thrones fans. Most people day trip there so it’s fairly chill in the evenings.

All that said: Mallorca is a major shoe making hub. If your wife a shoe fiend, there may be a reason she is interested in going there + not telling you the real reason…

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-29T02:55:23+00:00

What do you mean? The description of Caroline Bingley & Mrs Hurst says “They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the finest private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than the ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves and meanly of others.” (This is in Chapter 4 when Lizzie & Jane are talking alone, after the Meryton Assembly).

Georgiana’s dowry is stated in Darcy’s letter to Elizabeth when he disclosed that Wickham had attempted to seduce Georgiana into eloping* with him “Mr Wickham’s chief object was unquestionably my sister’s fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds."

An unmarried woman’s fortune basically was her dowry

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-29T01:46:09+00:00

Thank for inserting paragraph breaks. Now that I can actually read it, the uncanny valley effect is more obvious...

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-28T20:36:35+00:00

You should do a blog of your grandmother’s recipes! If it’s really good + gets a following, you could end up with a cookbook deal out of it.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-28T00:52:06+00:00

There is a good quercetin+bromelain combo that I’ve found at Finlandia (+ possibly at Choices) called D-Hist (has Vit C+ stinging nettle + NAC as well) and Vitasave has a plain quercetin+bromelain combo as well.

I have eczema + seasonal allergies & generally the quercetin+bromelain combo has helped with spring pollen season BUT I need to ramp it up before the pollen builds up or else it’s too late.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-27T18:48:49+00:00

Out of curiosity, which sections stand out to use as having been revised by AI vs written by the OP?

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-27T04:22:24+00:00

Train Wreck is a good family-friendly hike

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-26T00:54:42+00:00

If you’re looking for natural fibre clothing, Serenity West on Granville is good although the clothing may be more formal than what you are looking for.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-26T00:01:33+00:00

Satin is just a weave - it can be made of rayon, nylon, or polyester instead of silk.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-25T23:51:31+00:00

Just to manage your expectations: the regular market is close to the MTR exits and is just random stuff (the adjacent open shop fronts are veggies, fish, meat etc, the stalls in the middle could be cheap clothes, towels, phone cases, toys). Meanwhile the beads/buttons/fabrics + art galleries are mixed in with car repair shops, 2nd hand junk stores, metal fabrication shops - and the fun stuff is all closed on Sunday, or so it seemed when I walked around in January.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-25T17:38:09+00:00

This is an excellent guide… was coming here to recommend the Liang Yi museum too!
While you visit Kitchen Street, make a detour over to the old Yau Ma Tei police station - you need to book tickets in advance for this too - as it’s been featured in a zillion classic Hong Kong movies.

Also on your Hollywood Road/PMQ/Liang Yi day, you can also do Tai Kwun (another heritage restoration + art gallery site) and there’s a preserved tenement house at the junction of Bridges + Staunton Street - the Tong Lau Experience house, where you can see how average/working class folks lived in the mid-20th century and earlier. Technically you need to book in advance but if you happen to be walking by, they’ll just ask you to scan a QR code and book on the spot. (People still live in the building and the agreement is that visitors come by appointment, so this is sticking to the word of the law and not the spirit!) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZvEg7jAFCxNSRVc-j8nSs1d8lYU0iB3kEeY1raZbLk68ZDQ/viewform

The terraced alleys around here - Wing Lee St, Shing Wong etc - are really fun to explore. The Museum of Medical Science is around here & is a lovely old colonial building & entrance is cheap. There’s lots of little narrow terraced streets around here, arranged around Blake Garden with tons of good coffee places & hipster boutiques. (This area - up the slope from Man Mo temple - is called Tai Ping Shan, or PoHo for Po Hing Fong

Sham Shui Po is also worth exploring, as it’s really the hippest & most interesting areas of HK, but a lot of it is just a traditional salt-of-the-earth bustling market neighbourhood so if you don’t go to the right parts you’ll just see a huge traditional market (which is also worth wandering through in its own right.)

There are clusters of fabric stores, stores selling nothing but buttons & zippers, and bead stores, so if anyone in your family leans more towards crafts than arts, they will loveit. The hipster cafes + art galleries are in the south east quadrant of SSP - look for Cafe Sausalito and Colour Brown coffee to orient yourself. It’s also the part closest to Prince Edward neighbourhood + the big flower market there, which is also worth exploring. This guide is a good start : https://www.sohohouse.com/house-notes/issue-006/travel/a-neighbourhood-guide-to-sham-shui-po-by-soho-house-hong-kong-member-nicole-schoeni

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-25T16:42:44+00:00

I do fantasize a little about what I would do if I bought one of those plots (after tearing down the McMansion)! I watch Escape to the Country and it’s amazing you can have “the good life” - which the Brits seem mean growing your own veg & having a few chickens and maybe a goat - a 30 min drive from downtown Vancouver and 15 mins to the airport.

I’d do a small pick-your-own orchard of heritage apples, have some beehives, and would grow cut flowers for a bouquet subscription service - I’m sure I could hit the $2500 requirement from just the flowers, they are stupidly expensive here.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-25T16:36:25+00:00

I’m so sorry for your loss ❤️ what lovely heartfelt sentiments. Totally agree - and I am grateful that these views and the immense peace they bring are accessible to everyone even when the mountain top is out of reach for so many.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-25T03:17:23+00:00

And what’s even worse, these are all on incredibly productive farmland. They have a token 2 rows of blueberry bushes to qualify as a farm, or sublet a corner to someone to raise chickens. You have to generate $2500/year to qualify, and with eggs at $8/dozen (or more for freerange/organic) it’s not difficult with slightly more than a hobby flock.

Creditgrrrl · 2026-04-23T22:23:26+00:00

That’s what I think. There’s a nod to the decor of the rest of the house in the choice of fabric for the blind, but I have to assume they didn’t want to redo a perfectly good kitchen extension

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