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Bremen   is a city in northern Germany, population 500,000+.

History
Bremen was once a member of the medieval Hanseatic League and is still one of the most important cities in northern Germany. Together with the city of Bremerhaven on the North Sea it forms Germany's smallest state. Bremen has a more than 1200 years of history, and was most of the time an independent city state.

Geography
Bremen is a rather long and narrow city, lined along both sides of the river Weser. Along the north-west/south-east axis it stretches about 10 km, but across only 2 km.

By plane
Bremen airport is in the south-west of the town and offers flights to most bigger German cities and some European destinations. It's easily accessible by public transport (tram line 6, about 16 minutes from the city center) and by car. Major carriers are OLT, Ryanair and Lufthansa.

By foot
Much of Bremen (or at least the part frequented by travelers) can be negotiated by foot - the best way to explore the old city and its surrounding districts.

By Shared Car
Members of the Cambio car-sharing network, whether in Germany or Belgium, can hire cars - Bremen is the company's headquarters.

By bus/tram
Bremen offers an intensive public transportation network with street-cars (trams) and buses. For public transportation timetables and ticket fares see (English). There are night buses and trams (indicated by an "N"), running through almost the whole night, departing at :30 each hour from central station. They only run Fri/Sat and Sat/Sun - on weekdays Fares on the night network are one euro in addition to normal individual, group or day fares (2010). You can buy bus tickets on the bus or tram, but is slightly cheaper to buy a set of 4 rides or a day pass for individuals or groups, or a weekly pass for individuals. Note that on trains, tickets must be purchased before you board. You can find the map of the tram lines here.

By taxi
Taxis are found nearly everywhere and every time but they have got their price (about 1,25 EUR/km). The two main taxi companies are Taxi-Roland (phone: 0049 0421 14433) and Taxi-Ruf  (phone: 0049 0421 14014). Taxis are working 24 hours and there's no need to book a taxi one day or several hours in advance. Taxi drivers and call center employees may have difficulties to understand a phone call in English.

By bike
You can hire bicycles at the railway station and several bike shops in Bremen. See (German only). Bremen is the most bike-friendly city among the biggest German cities. Its former mayor Hennig Scherf is an avid cyclist (who despite the wishes of his bodyguards rode his bike every day to his office or he simply walked to the office.)

See

 * Rathaus (Town Hall) this is one of the finest in Europe and as such has been included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Building work started in 1410 and it is seen as an important display of the wealth and freedom of the city. Tours of the interior are conducted by the Tourist information office at 11AM, noon, 3PM and 4PM
 * Dom St Petri (Cathedral of St Peter) is over 1200 years old, and its huge towered façade dominates the main square. the interior is impressive with some fine painted details on the ceilings. There is a treasury displaying the collection of the cathedral. Entrance is free, for €1 you can climb the Southern Tower offering nice views over the whole city
 * Roland this statue on the main square is of the Knight Roland who was a protector of trade. It appears in many European cities especially those involved in the Hanseatic league. Bremen's is considered one of the finest and is included with Town Hall on the World Heritage List.
 * Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (Town Musicians of Bremen) perhaps the most well known figures associated with Bremen are the characters from the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale, their image adorns many of the souvenirs in the city. Next to the Town Hall is a much photographed statue of them.
 *  Böttcherstrasse, is the incredible Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) street that runs from the main square towards the river. There are many fine façades and courtyards all with large amounts of design detail. There is an impressive Glockenspiel that chimes at regular intervals. There are lots of shops and several Museums, including the impressive Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum. Haus Atlantis (now the Hilton) has an impressive spiral staircase just inside, at the top of which is the staggering Himmelshaal (unfortunately it is not normally open to the public).
 * Am Wall is a lovely park next to the former defensive moat which offers a nice place to sit and relax.
 * Schnoor this area of twisting lanes is a lovely place to wander aimlessly looking at in the many shops and also at the world smallest hotel (see Sleep)

Do

 * Stroll around the city center and visit the Schnoor-Viertel with its old medieval buildings. If interested in arts visit the Bremer Kunsthalle (museum of art) with one of north Germany's finest collections.

 * If you like football, you can go to see a match of Werder Bremen, a team playing in the Bundesliga (German premier league). You can also visit their stadium (Weser Stadion) for a few euros.

 * Universum Bremen is a hands-on science centre towards the north of the city. It is accessible by tram, or by a one hour walk from the main station through Der Bürgerpark.

 * If you want to see green fields, cows, bikers and in line skaters, visit "Blockland" (site in German with some pictures) to enjoy the agricultural side of Bremen´s nature. It is located near the river Wümme, roughly in the west of the university. You can drive (by bike or skates) along the dyke and take an icecream at one of the farms (some also sell organic food). In winter there is no icecream but the river and small creeks for iceskating.

 * Indoor ice skating is at Paradice, the skating hall in Walle (, site in German). Paradice is opened from October to February.

Events

 * January 6th: "Eiswette": a funny tradition where a tailor checks if he can cross the river Weser without getting wet feet.
 * February: carnival in Bremen, more South-American than Cologne style
 * April: easter market
 * June: "vision parade": techno parade along the Weser, "Breminale" art festival along the River Weser
 * August: International Bremen Summer, circus festival LA STRADA, "Festival Maritim" in Bremen-Vegesack (in the northern end of Bremen)
 * October (2nd half): "Freimarkt" (free market), one of the biggest and oldest fairground festivals in Germany, right north of the railway station
 * November: International Cutter Race / "Kutterpullen" tournament (rowing contest on the Weser river)
 * December: Christmas market around the city hall

The monthly free event magazine MIX has hosts an event calendar online (German only).

Buy

 * Kluten, are a traditional sweet from Bremen. They are cubes of peppermint, partly covered in chocolate. Hachez, near the Town Hall, is a traditional Bremen based chocolatier and their store is well worth a visit to buy the Kluten, though they are also available at many other places throughout the center.

Areas
 * Schnoor is a den of tight lanes selling boutique style products including Jewlery, African Artifacts, Paper Models and a year round Christmas Shop. There are also a lot of shops selling tourist souvenirs.
 * Böttcherstrasse, This wonderful Art Nouveau street has many outlets cattering for upmarket/high quality products.
 * Markets are out on most of the squares around the Town Hall.
 * Lloyd Passage, Obernstrasse, Sögestrasse are the main shopping streets with all the main High Street chains.

Eat
Several cafes and restaurants line the "Schlachte" along the Weser river while another popular area is the "Viertel" south of the Kunsthalle. Many traditional dishes from Bremen and Northern Germany are very satiable. This region is famous for cabbage (Grünkohl- green cabbage), fish (smoked eel, herring, smelt in March), an old sailor´s meal called Labskaus (lobscouse) consisting of mashed potatoes, corned beef, onions, fried egg an beetroot or chick ragout (very fine) as well as red fruit jelly or Butterkuchen (cake with yeast and topped with lots of butter, sugar and almonds). You can find some fish restaurants in Böttcherstrasse. "Knigge" is the name of a traditional coffee house in Bremen.

Drink
The world-wide known Beck's Beer is brewed in Bremen. Guided brewery tours in English and German are offered. Costs (as in November 2009) 9 Euros/person, also you have to book it in advance.

The "Ratskeller" is a wine cellar and restaurant with a famous collection of wines and the oldest wines in Germany.

There are many bars, pubs and cafes in Bremen: the Schlachte along the Weser and the Viertel, a young and lively quarter.

If you like beer and bretzels, try the "Schüttinger" brewery house (next to Böttcherstrasse) where several types of beer are brewed and served directly.

Get out

 * Hamburg
 * Hamelin (of the Pied Piper story)
 * Hannover
 * Bremerhaven

These are all accessible by rail; the Niedersachsen ticket is cost effective for a day trip.

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Golden (art) Museum Triangle

Some highlights not to miss at the Prado: The Bosch masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights, The famous Velazquez piece Las Meninas, The Black Paintings and The Third of May 1808 by Goya, Adoration of the Shepards by El Greco, and David with the Head of Goliath by Caravaggio. Be sure to walk along Paseo del Prado, a pedestrian walkway full of fountains and trees near the museum.
 * One of the finest art collections in the world and the best collection of classical art in Madrid. Includes many different collections: the Spanish (El Greco, Velazquez, and Goya), the Flemish and Dutch (Rubens, van Dyck, and Brueghel), Italian (Botticelli, Tintoretto Caravaggio, and Veronese) and German (Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Baldung Grien).

 * Houses Madrid's best collection of modern art. It includes many of Pablo Picasso's most revered works including the renowned Guernica. The Reina Sofía also houses masterpieces by Miró, Kandinsky, Dalí, Bacon, and more.

 * Contains a large art collection including masterpieces by Monet, Goya, Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Mondrian, Bacon and Lichtenstein.

Other Museums

 * Don't let the sound of it frighten you. This well designed museum houses an incredible collection of archaeological finds from across the peninsula. It leaves the visitor with a sense of the chronology of civilization in Spain (Iberian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Visagoth, Arab, and into the modern age). The famous Dama de Elche, an Iberian (pre-Roman) fertility goddess statue, is in this museum. There are also a few pieces from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. It is currently undergoing renovations and is open with limited exhibits.

 * This museum houses the stunning collection of Spanish entrepreneur José Lázaro Galdiano (1862-1947) and is considered to be one of the best private collections in Spain. Not only will you find works by Goya, Velázquez, El Greco and others, the museum is also filled with jewelry, furniture, sculpture and ceramics. This is an excellent museum that is usually not crowded and well worth the price of admission.

 * Highly impressive art collection with paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints. Several Goya masterpieces.

 * An excellent museum that many tourists miss. Houses thousands of artifacts from the Americas. The exhibit displays objects from many native cultures from before European conquest to colonial times and beyond. Don't miss the Tesoro (Treasure) de los Químbayas, a collection of gold objects that was given as a gift by the Colombian government. Also of interest is the Tudela Codex, an Aztec law book from the 1500's. Beware: most explanations to the objects on display are in Spanish only.

 * With five floors, it tells the city's history, since it was founded by the Arabs. There are models of some urban areas.

 * This small church is famous for its murals, painted by Goya. It's also the mausoleum of the painter.

 * showcases all the trophies of one of the most successful football clubs in the world.

 * This museum is in what was the impressionist painter's house and features fine furniture and porcelain as well as his paintings.

Places of Interest

 * The Palacio Real (Royal Palace) is an enormous palace, the biggest one in Europe in its kind, with scorching plains of concrete around it and the Real Armorial (Royal Armory), a two-story collection of medieval weapons and armor. Explanations in the armory are in spanish only, so do not expect to understand much unless your know spanish names for all that medieval stuff. In spite of its name, the palace is not the residence of the current royal family. The Royal Palace is considered to be one of the most emblematic and beautiful buildings in Madrid, not only for its location but also for its architecture and the artistic treasures to be found in its rooms. The façades of the palace measure 130 meters long and 33 meters high with 870 windows and 240 balconies opening on to the facades and courtyard. It has a surface area of 100,000 square meters with 44 stairways and more than 30 principal rooms. Also located within the palace is the Pharmacia, which contains hundreds of bottles of early medicines and a reconstructed laboratory.

 * The best known plaza in Madrid, this impressive square is now one of the main stops on any tourist visit. Originally built outside the city walls, this square has played host to bullfights, markets, symphonies, tournaments and executions. The statue of Felipe III sits in the middle across from the beautifully painted Casa de la Panadería, the former headquarters of the bakers guild. One of the access to the square is Arco de Cuchilleros, beautiful stairs down. Near Plaza Mayor, is Mercado San Miguel (Saint Michael Market), built in 1913 and full of a wide range of high quality food.

 * This plaza is the "heart" of Madrid and one of the busiest places in the city. On the north side of the plaza there is a famous statue of an oso (bear) climbing the madroño tree, which is the symbol of Madrid. Also in Sol, just in front of the Capital building of the community of Madrid, is Kilometer Zero, a plaque showing the point where the measuring of national highways begins. Both the bear statue, and Km. Zero are common meeting spots for friends. The giant neon Tío Pepe sign above the plaza is also a famous fixture of this area. New Year’s celebrations are broadcast from Sol every year with the ringing of the clock bringing in the new year.

 *  (Metro: Atocha RENFE) A large train station across the street from the Reina Sofia Museum of Art. The interesting thing about it is the palm garden inside the old building, complete with a pond full of small turtles. It also hosts the access to the March 11th Memorial. It's free, and very much worth visiting.

 * The main of Madrid, the perfect place to take a rest during a sunny day, or take part in the drum circles around the statue of Alphonso XII on summer evenings. There is a large boating lake where one can hire a rowing boat - great fun for the children! There is a monument to the victims of the Madrid 3/11 terrorist bombings, the Forest of the Absent, and the Crystal Palace, a large structure entirely made of glass. Sunday afternoons in summer are a treat in the park, where young hippies play bongos and dance.

 * <see name="Catedral de la Almudena" alt="" address="" directions="" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price="">This massive cathedral faces the Palacio Real. Finished in the end of 20th century, it is where the Princes of Asturias Felipe and Letizia were married in 2004.

 * <see name="Gran Vía" alt="" address="" directions="Metro: Gran Via, Callao, Plaza de España, Banco de España" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price="">Literally, "Broadway", Gran Via is one of the busiest avenues in Madrid, what you could call the main street of Madrid, and the location of the cinema district. The Gran Via is very similar to Times Square in New York City. Gran Via has a constant buzz of traffic and life. 3-4am early morning traffic jams are not unusual.

 * <see name="Plaza de Cibeles" alt="" address="" directions="Metro: Banco de España" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price="">Houses one of Madrid's emblems, the fountain of Cibeles, and one of the world's most beautiful city hall, the former Palacio de las Comunicaciones.

 * <see name="Parque del Capricho" alt="" address="" directions="Metro: Capricho" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price=""> Along the Retiro Park, one of the most beautiful parks in Madrid. Built in 1797-1839, it has a strong Romanticism influence. Declared as an Historic Garden, its lakes with swans and ducks, laberints, palaces, sqwares and fountains makes this a delicious place.

 * <see name="Plaza de España" alt="" address="" directions="Metro: Plaza de España" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price="">Contains a sculpture of Cervantes and his famous Don Quixote and Sancho Panza characters.

 * <see name="Templo de Debod" alt="" address="Paseo del Pintor Rosales 2" directions="Metro: Plaza de España" phone="+34 91 765108" email="" fax="" url="http://www.munimadrid.es/templodebod/" hours="Tue-Fri: 10AM - 2PM and 6PM - 8PM, Sat-Sun: 10PM- 2PM, closed Mondays and holidays." price="Free">An Egyptian temple, located in one of Madrid′s most beautiful parks. Near the Royal Palace and Plaza de España, it was a present given by Egypt to Spain for its role in saving the temple of Abu Simbel from the floodwaters of Lake Nasser following the construction of the Aswan Dam in southern Egypt. A great place to watch the sunset.

 * <see name="La Casa de Campo" alt="" address="" directions="Metro: Lago, Casa de Campo, Batan" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price="">The park at the rear of the Palacio Real which used to belong to the Royal family. Much of the park has been taken to smaller activity parks such as the Zoo but in general it's peaceful. From Moncloa you can take a teleferico across into the park.

 * <see name="CaixaForum" alt="" address="Paseo del Prado 36" directions="" phone="" email="" fax="" url="http://zeleno.bg/en/articles/385-caixa-forum-madrid-and-the-last-vertical-garden-of-patrick-blanc.html" hours="" price="">Cultural Centre with free exhibitions and functions. Vertical garden by Patrick Blanc.

The main Square during Middle Age, as Calle Mayor (High Street) was the main street as well. It houses the former City Hall, the former Academy of Fine Arts and the Archbishopric. It is well worth it to visit it around.
 * <see name="Plaza de la Villa" alt="" address="" directions="Metro: Puerta del Sol" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price="">

 * <see name="Zoo Aquarium Madrid" alt="" address="" directions="Metro: Casa de Campo" Bús: 33" phone="" email="" fax="" url="http://www.zoomadrid.com/" hours="" price="Adults €18.65; Children: €15">See the Pandas. Pet the Lemurs. Watch the Dolphin show. Enjoy the Bird show.

 * <see name="Royal Theatre" alt="" address="Plaza de Oriente" directions="Metro: Opera" phone="" email="" e confax="" url="http://www.madridtourist.info/royal_theatre.html" hours="" price="Free">Royal Theatre: After thirty-two years of planning and construction, a Royal Order on 7 May 1850 declared the immediate termination of the "Orient Theatre" and the building works are finished within five months.

The Opera House, located just in front of the Royal Palace, the official residence of the Queen who ordered thstruction of the theatre (Opera Theater), Isabel II, was finally inaugurated on 10 October 1850.

Outer Madrid

 * <see name="Royal Palace of El Pardo" alt="" address="" directions="" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price="">A little village in the municipality of Madrid (8 km. from the city center, connected by bus) and close of "Palacio de la Zarzuela" (residence of the King of Spain, no visits allowed), surrounded by mountains and the location of the "Palacio de El Pardo" (El Pardo Palace), Franco′s residence between 1940 until his death (1975). It was a former residence of the Kings of Spain.

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Walking
In the inner city, walking is no problem. The distances are not far and a traversal of the inner city by foot can be easily done within 25 minutes.

UK visitors should prepare themselves for small cultural differences:
 * The Germans will patiently wait at a pedestrian crossing, even when no traffic is coming, until the "green man" comes on.

Stuttgart is quite safe. Even at night one may walk alone through the city without fear. One rare exception is the central city park, which should be avoided during late night hours. Of course, always use common sense when walking in a foreign city at night. The biggest danger for a pedestrian in Stuttgart is probably the cars.

To get a sense for the inner city, you should get to know following streets and places:

 * Königstraße: Hauptbahnhof, Schlossplatz, McDonalds 1.
 * Rotebühlplatz: Calwer Passage
 * Marienstraße: McDonalds 2.
 * Rathaus: Marktplatz (Rathausplatz), Schulstraße
 * Stadtpark: Staatstheater, Staatsgalerie, Charlottenplatz
 * Bolzstraße, Friedrichsbau, Liederhalle

See

 * The heart of Mercedes-Benz manufacture, and well worth the visit. There are some 40,000 employees on site, including 9,000 in research & development alone! You need to book ahead through your Mercedes dealer or contact the museum directly via phone/email.

Museums

 * Technical museum: Mercedes-Benz Museum, Mercedesstraße 137/1, Bad Cannstatt (S-Bahn: "Neckarpark (Mercedes-Benz)", see timetable etc. ), . Newly built in 2006 in an astonishing architecture. Frequently visited and really very cool.
 * Technical museum: Porsche Museum, Porscheplatz 1, Zuffenhausen (S-Bahn: S6 to "Neuwirtshaus (Porscheplatz)", see timetable etc. )
 * State gallery: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 30-32,
 * Contemporary arts museum: Kunstgebäude, "Art Building"
 * Modern art museum: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Kleiner Schlossplatz 1,
 * Historical art museum: Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Altes Schloss, Schillerplatz 6,
 * Ethnological museum: Lindenmuseum, Hegelplatz 1, features a small but impressing collection of masks from the pacific
 * Museum Ritter:

Zoo
Definitely a must for families. But watching monkeys and weird flowers in this old place can be fun for young adults, too. (Unless you feel pity for the locked up creatures.) Wilhelma is also worth visiting for its architecture and landscaping features - the core of Wilhelma is housed in a 19th century palace/park landscape in the Moorish style, created for and named after the former king Wilhelm of Wuerttemberg.
 * Wilhelma, zoological and botanical gardens, Neckartalstraße, Bad Cannstatt (More information and arrival see Wilhelma )

Planetarium

 * A fascinating astronomical journey, projected by optical hightech equipment: Carl Zeiss Planetarium

Buildings
Stuttgart used to be an impressive town but was hugely destroyed during World War II and only few buildings were rebuilt to classical elegance. The 50's still were post-war, in the 60's and 70's architectural things didn't matter at all and in the 80's and 90's with major insurance companies and banks building monuments of bad taste in the inner city, the aesthetic situation wasn't really improving.

Here are some of the exceptions:

 * Altes Schloss, Old Palace (1300-1500)
 * Stiftsfruchtkasten, Collegiate Storehouse (1393)
 * Alte Kanzlei, Old Chancellery (16th century)
 * Prinzenbau, Princes' Building (1605-1715)
 * Neues Schloss, New Palace (1700-1800)
 * Solitude Schloss Solitude, Solitude Palace (1700-1800)
 * Wilhelmspalais, King William's Palace (1834-1840)
 * Königsbau, King's Building (1850)
 * Markthalle, Market Hall (1910)
 * Staatstheater (Grosses Haus), State Theater (1912)
 * Hauptbahnhof, Main Railway Station (1920)
 * Weissenhofsiedlung, (1927)
 * Liederhalle, Culture and Congress Centre, (1956)
 * Staatsgalerie, State Gallery (1977)

Towers and scenic outlooks

 * Fernsehturm Stuttgart, TV Tower (1954-1956), world's first TV tower built from reinforced concrete and prototype for all modern TV towers, with a beautiful view over Stuttgart. The Stadtbahn U15 to Ruhbank (Fernsehturm) gives you a wonderful view of the city. Entrance is €5 per person and is worth it for the near-fairground quality of the ride in the lift to the top. There's a nice cafe at the top which serves fresh food and drinks.
 * Grabkapelle Württemberg (Burial chapel Württemberg)
 * Killesbergturm (Killesberg Tower) . A recently built tower in the "Killesberg Park" (see also "green U" under Parks & Gardens), north of the city centre
 * Bismarckturm,, a small tower northwest of the city centre, not far from Killesberg Tower
 * Hauptbahnhof The tower of the Hauptbahnhof is a free climb (to the Mercedes-Benz symbol at top), granting awesome views of Königstraße and the city.

Churches

 * Domkirche St. Eberhard (St. Eberhard's Cathedral Church),
 * Grabkapelle Württemberg (Burial chapel Württemberg)
 * Hospitalkirche (Hospital Church),
 * Leonhardskirche (St. Leonard's Church),
 * Stiftskirche (Collegiate Church), built in 1175, restored 1999 to 2003
 * Veitskapelle (St. Vitus Chapel),
 * St. Catherine's Church, Stuttgart(English speaking Anglican Church)

Squares

 * Schlossplatz (Palace Square)
 * Marktplatz(Market Square)
 * Karlsplatz (Charles Square)
 * Schillerplatz (Schiller Square)

Other historic parts of the city

 * Bohnenviertel(14th century)

Parks and gardens

 * "Das Grüne U": Most of Stuttgart's many parks and gardens are usually referred to by locals as "das Grüne U" (the green "U") because of the U-shaped form in which they are located around the city centre. They form a long and beautiful path around the city, starting at the Schlossgarten at the northern facade of the new palace (Neues Schloss), continuing through Rosensteinpark with the natural history museum and a rear entrance to Wilhelma (the zoo), and ending in Killesberg Park. Walking at a reasonable pace, you can walk the entire circuit in about 2 hours. There are beer gardens (look for Biergarten signs) and restaurants along the way, and the Killesberg Park is a real treat. It was designed for a huge botanical expo several years ago and remains a truly stunning park, especially in spring when in full bloom. If you're interested in architecture, be sure not to miss the structural engineering wonder Killesberg Tower, a minimalistic steel construction composed of one central support and a cable outer support system.

Other significant green areas in the city centre are:

 * Akademiegarten, Academy Garden
 * Schlossgarten, Palace Garden

Rail transport systems

 * Killesberg Railway, a small railway in Killesberg park, on weekends using steam-powered engines!
 * Stuttgart cable Car, an old cable car running to the forest cemetery
 * Rack Railway Stuttgart, Germany's only urban rack-railway. It uses modern cars like the light railway and offers a nice view

Arts and culture

 * Wagenhallen
 * Waggons am Nordbahnhof

Theater & Concert

 * Ticket services (this list is by no means complete):
 * Airport Ticket Tower, Airport Stuttgart, Terminal 1, Phone: 0711/9484567
 * ClubHouse, (SWR3 Club-Veranstaltungen) Hauptbahnhof, Kleine Schalterhalle, 70173 Stuttgart, Phone: 0711/260077

 * A good entry spot in the web for theaters, culture and events is (English).

 * Watch and listen to the ballet company of the state theater Stuttgart Staatstheater . (Stuttgart is quite fond of its ballet company dancing at very high skill. Definitely a top place to go to in the evening. You'll need to reserve tickets in advance.)

 * Classical concerts and serious music are covered by the Liederhalle

 * A Musical Theatre (the Apollo-Theater) is placed in Möhringen in the SI-Zentrum . (It has shown musicals like "Cats" and "Miss Saigon" and usually stages a new musical every year.)

 * There is also the Palladium Theater in the Stuttgart Musical Center, which is currently presenting the Broadway musical Wicked, starring Willemijn Verkaik as Elphaba and Lucy Scherer as Glinda. This has gotten very good reviews, including Tim Schleider's review, of the Stuttgarter Zeitung, proclaimed, "there is no doubt, Wicked is the most entertaining, the liveliest, the most colorful and, above all, the smartest production that we have seen at the Stuttgart Musical Centre."

Scenes & Underground
1. Nightclubbing & Bands
 * You can listen to good house, drum'n'base, hiphop and other kinds of electronic music in Stuttgart. However it is not always easy to get into most discotheques. The discotheque N-Pir, which is in a very ugly building in Stuttgart-Feuerbach, has a very restritictive door policy!

 * Bands, Nightclubs and Events are covered by local magazines (generally not in English).
 * Try and  (event magazines for Stuttgart).
 * Entry spots for nightclubbing in the cities of Stuttgart/Tübingen/Reutlingen could be:
 * Stuttgart By Night - A plain listing trying to keep track of all clubs, bars, cafes (plus valuable infos about Food After midnight, 24-Hour Petrol Stations)
 * , ,

2. Small Art Galleries
 * Handouts with a list of ongoing exhibitions should be delivered in local art galleries.
 * The web can deliver more info.

3. People
 * Take a day visit to the town Tübingen by train. (From Hauptbahnhof, main station, either take a train to Tübingen or take the S1 to Herrenberg, then change to the Ammertalbahn which goes directly to Tübingen main station. It's mediaeval center is very charming and worth the travel from Stuttgart. Apart from that, there's also a jazz cellar and various bars and cafés in Tübingen which are quite worth a visit. Special recommendations: Wurstküche ("sausage kitchen", kind of a restaurant), the Arsenal (a most lovely cinema) and after perhaps 10PM the Tangente Night.

Nightlife
A good place to go where everyone speaks English is Biddy Earlys, an Irish pub just west of the city centre/Königstraße, a five minutes walk from the major public transport station "Stadtmitte" (S-Bahn, Stadtbahn). Do a google search for directions and keep a sharp eye because the entry is a mere doorway wide which leads down the stairs to the basement. Good bands on the weekends. Two or three euro cover. Everybody always welcome and you don't have to apologize for your poor German here! They show Premier League Championship and other British football here, you can celebrate or commiserate with only a handful of other drinkers.

The most popular street for clubbing is the Theodor-Heuss-Straße. Over the past years several bars, clubs and lounges have opened here. It has become the most popular place for people to go out on the weekend. During the summer, there are also many opportunities to have a drink outside.

If you want to go to a place where you can meet locals, you can visit the Bonnie and Clyde. It`s near the Stadtbahn station Stöckach. The owners speak English well, so do most of the guests. Many students, so music is from rock to punk. No cover charge.
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Another great bar is the Classic Rock Cafe which is a few blocks away from Biddy Early's. Do a Google on it and you can find directions. No cover charge here even on weekends and the music is great! Interesting decor too. And everyone is welcome!

If you're into Indie music, you might wanna check out the Zwölfzehn bar/discotheque in the Paulinenstraße, about 10 minutes west from "Stadtmitte". It is close to the next S-Bahn stop "Feuersee". In that area, around Rotebühlstraße, you'll find some nice theatres and bars.

Another interesting fact about Germany is that prostitution is legal. There are brothels everywhere. One of the biggest ones, a three story affair, is right in the heart of Stuttgart Stadtmitte, about a block from the town hall clock tower. You'll have to look for it though or ask a local where it is as there are no signs --just an unmarked door at street level. It's called the Drei-Farben-Haus (the three color house). Entry is free, looking is free.

On the outskirts of Stuttgart, in Möhringen, there is a hotel/conference/entertainment complex called the SI Centrum. A lot of foreigners stay here. This complex includes a theater for Broadway shows, the Millennium hotel, and a spacious underground complex that houses many conference rooms, bars and restaurants. It's a very nice place to stay and although it's one of the best hotels in Stuttgart, it's not that expensive. Plus there's a Stadtbahn stop right behind the hotel so you can explore easily.

Discotheques with unproblematic access

 * Universum, Stuttgart, inside the stop "Charlottenplatz", take the exit to "Landtag", it's on the right on the way out (rock music, independent music, concerts)
 * Alfa, Stuttgart-Möhringen (Hip-Hop, house, many aggressive people)
 * Röhre, near Wagenburg Tunnel (independent music, not open every weekend, dancefloor is slightly inclined, which may be unnerving for dancing)
 * LKA at Stuttgart-Wangen (rock-, country-music)
 * Boa (meat market)
 * Zwölfzehn
 * Keller Club near Rotebühlplatz (indie dance music)
 * Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg (Metal, Goth, etc. located in the city of Ludwigsburg north of Stuttgart)
 * Wagenhallen near Eckardtshaldenweg
 * Waggons near Nordbahnhof

Travel and wander
Schedule at least a daytime for such action (plus prepare some equipment like maps, drinking water, solid shoes, food, rain gear, warm clothing during cold seasons, etc.!) You may want to contact a local tourist office for guidance.

 * the Black Forest (Schwarzwald)
 * the Schwäbische Alb (hilly mattock landscape) covering natures highlights like the mystical colored "Blautopf" and stalactite caves like "Bärenhöhle". Could be a nice trip for families with children.

From Stuttgart you can take many nice day trips. Just an hour to an hour and a half south is the Swiss border and Zurich. On the way you can see the largest falls in Europe. An hour to the south is Triberg, a beautiful old village in the heart of the black forest which specializes in grandfather and cuckoo clocks. There is also a hiking trail which parallels a stream there. An hour to an hour and a half west from Stuttgart is Strasbourg, France. It is a small but beautiful city and possibly the most charming in France!

Some old university towns are also nearby, e.g. Tübingen (30 km/20 miles south), Heidelberg (ca. 80km/50 miles northwest) or Freiburg (120 km/80 miles southwest).

Relax

 * Stuttgart is full of mineral springs. Take some time out and enjoy The Leuze  or Mineral Bad Cannstatt.

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Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. Please take a second to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you're new to our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.-- (WT-en) Sapphire 06:15, 15 October 2006 (EDT)

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You have been warned multiple times to STOP repeatedly listing The Bricks. It is already listed under the "Drink" section. If you do not stop it will be blacklisted and won't have any listings and/or you will be blocked from editing. (WT-en) ChubbyWimbus 07:53, 3 February 2012 (EST)

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Hello, 108.11.203.52! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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By the way, have you considered creating an account here? While you can absolutely keep contributing as an anonymous user, it promises a bunch of benefits, and no obligations.

I just reverted one of your edits, to Suzhou. Sorry, but it was a copyright violation and repeated existing text anyway. (WT-en) Pashley 02:14, 12 April 2012 (EDT)

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Please see Project:Don't tout and Project:External links. Advertising for iPhone apps is not something that is supported by the current site guidelines, but if you feel strongly that it should be then please state your case on an appropriate policy talk page. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 16:02, 4 April 2011 (EDT)

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Your contributions appear to be marketing, so please see Wikivoyage's guidelines for marketers to understand why they have been reverted. If you have questions you can ask them on this talk page or in the Pub. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 19:06, 18 July 2012 (EDT)

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Please see Project:Don't tout - copying the same listing to multiple articles and use of Wikivoyage for advertising is strongly discouraged. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 13:17, 20 April 2012 (EDT)

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Please see Wikivoyage's guidelines for hotel marketers. In particular, please do not use the first-person in listings, and make sure listings are about the hotel and not promotional. If you have questions you can ask them on this talk page or in the Pub. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 14:36, 25 October 2011 (EDT)

 * I've blocked you from editing for 30 minutes. Your additions are being removed as quickly as you add them, and putting a listing for a hotel that is in Pennsylvania into an article about a city in Israel is a pretty clear indication that you aren't here to help travelers.  As noted above, if you have questions please ask, but please don't use Wikivoyage solely as a tool for marketing. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 14:44, 25 October 2011 (EDT)

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Why your edits are being reverted
You cannot simply post an entry for an accommodation that lists no address, no contact info, and no rates. Such entries will be reverted every time, and if you continue posting them and ignoring editing summaries, your account will be blocked. Please read Project:Accommodation listings to understand what needs to be in any listing, and also consider that, to be listed in the Siena guide, an accommodation must actually be in Siena, not merely some unspecified location in Tuscany. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 06:40, 7 May 2012 (EDT)

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Contributions made from this account appear to be spam. If there is a real user operating this account please read Project:External links and respond on this talk page, otherwise the account may be blocked after future spam contributions. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 13:19, 11 March 2012 (EDT)

 * Edits from this account appear to be replacing valid URLs with non-primary sources - see Project:Don't tout for details. If that is the case, such as action is STRONGLY frowned upon and may lead to blocking of this account in the future, so please be sure to explain why a URL is being changed using the "Summary" box at the bottom of the edit screen anytime you make a change. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 19:15, 12 May 2012 (EDT)

 * I've blocked this account for two hours for continued URL hijacking. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 16:18, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

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Please pay attention to editing Summaries
And I hope you read this. You need to carefully look through Project:Don't tout and understand it. This is not an advertising site, so it's no place for you to USE GRATUITOUS ALL-CAP TEXT or first-person language ("our programs" and "our music"). No-one has anything against your nightclub being listed in the Ashrafieh guide, but the listing has to conform to Wikivoyage's policies, and so far, you have attempted to repost it verbatim three times. If you do that again, one of us will feel impelled to block your account for a while. So while I appreciate your enthusiasm and welcome your participation, I would really like to have a chance to thank you for your cooperation, and you have yet to give me such a chance. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 05:32, 17 May 2011 (EDT)

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Please note that use of Wikivoyage for marketing purposes is strongly discouraged, and listings for tour and travel agencies are generally not allowed. If you have questions you can ask them on this talk page or in the Pub. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 23:57, 12 March 2012 (EDT)

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Welcome
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I've reverted all of your edits - please read Project:Don't tout and do not use Wikivoyage for advertising purposes. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 11:31, 9 June 2010 (EDT)

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Protected due to spam. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 12:38, 8 March 2012 (EST)

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This message was left for you at the talk page of another IP address you use. It still applies. Please heed the advice. Thanks. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 09:19, 2 February 2010 (EST)

Hello, 125.167.100.25! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Wikivoyage:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.--Burmesedays 03:53, 31 January 2010 (EST)

You have tried to add your Mutiara Villas lisitng to Nusa Lembongan many times and each time it has been deleted. Does that not tell you that something must be wrong? Instead of wasting your time like this, please read the links I have placed above and get to know and understand a bit more about Wikivoyage. Also please read about touting here. If you write your listing in sensible, non-promotional and honest language, it will not be deleted from Nusa Lembongan. Also please note that Wikivoyage has articles about places, not individual establshments. So article Www.mutiaravillas.com will be deleted. Thank you.--Burmesedays 03:53, 31 January 2010 (EST)

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Hi! Please don't tout and respect our tour policy. You are blocked to have time reading it. (WT-en) jan 03:35, 22 September 2010 (EDT)

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Please see that your Anyar Estate listing has been placed at Canggu. The reaches of Bumbak where it is located are too far away to be included in Seminyak. Added to that, the Seminyak article already has enough private villa listings. Thanks. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 00:21, 26 January 2010 (EST)

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No advertising
Hello, Dive Asia. Please read wbo and dt. If you continue to post advertisements instead of merely descriptive entries - no more than 1 in Diving in Thailand and 1 in Phuket - your entries will be deleted entirely. If necessary, your account can also be blocked and your URL can be blacklisted. So please cooperate.

All the best,

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Please see Project:Don't tout (WT-en) Shep 13:20, 18 February 2010 (EST)

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Removed because it was a kid's home not a restaurant. kids have a right to privacy in their care setting and it is unethical to turn an orphanage into a tourist attraction, an organization that does so is acting in a manner that is exploitative to the children and should be reported to the appropriate authorities (CDO, CRO, DCWB, CCWB) rather than supported. additionally, there have been some very disturbing reports about this home recently.

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If you ever insert an irrelevant commercial link into any article again, your account will be blocked. If you are not a spambot, reply to this message. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 22:31, 2 November 2011 (EDT)

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Please see SEO to better understand why your listings are being removed. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 01:38, 1 May 2010 (EDT)
 * Hi! You seem to be a slow learner so i reverted all your edits from today. If you don't follow our policies then we will blacklist your clients. (WT-en) jan 07:05, 3 May 2010 (EDT)

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Hi! We only accept one listing per business. (WT-en) jan 12:05, 7 June 2010 (EDT)

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Hello, 112.135.211.123! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.--(WT-en) Burmesedays 10:17, 4 February 2010 (EST)

 * The text you inserted at Sri Lanka is copied from another website and cannot be posted here. Please read the information about our copyleft, also linked above. Also it very hard to miss the instruction specifically telling you not to do this on every edit screen at Wikivoyage. Please stop re-instating the edit after it has correctly been removed.--(WT-en) Burmesedays 10:17, 4 February 2010 (EST)

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Please read Project:Don't tout. You are allowed one listing for your business in one article. Continuing to add multiple listings is considered an abuse of Wikivoyage. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 10:44, 17 February 2011 (EST)

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Please read Project:Don't tout, specifically the points about adding only one listing and not using the first person ("we/our/I"). -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 10:33, 16 June 2010 (EDT)

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Listings for individual hotels should go in the article for the city in which the hotel is located. See also some guidelines for business owners. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 11:59, 19 May 2010 (EDT)

 * I've removed all of your listings. Again, please read Project:Don't tout - you get one listing, and it should be in the Volcano Village article only. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 12:06, 19 May 2010 (EDT)

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The Rocky Mountain National Park article states that there is no lodging within the park, so your addition of Mary's Lake Lodge seems dubious at best. If you are making additions on behalf of a business, please read Project:Don't tout and follow the policies outlined in that article. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 10:59, 17 May 2010 (EDT)

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The entries you are making here are not inline with our policies. Please read SEO, which has details relevant to marketing companies, as well as Project:Don't tout and our policies on tour companies. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 10:18, 15 June 2010 (EDT)

 * Please respond with a note on this talk page once you have read the above message as I believe all of your edits have at this point been reverted due to conflicts with various site policies. We appreciate the contributions, but in order to avoid spam and advertising certain types of edits are highly discouraged. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 12:54, 15 June 2010 (EDT)

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Warning
If you have a really good reason for deleting competitors' listings in the Nusa Lembogan guide, please state it now, because what you are doing, unless you have a really good reason for it, is absolutely not tolerated here, and if you continue doing it, I will nominate your website for blacklisting - a permanent ban on ever being mentioned here. No-one wants to do that, because having a listing for your fast cruises is helpful to visitors, but don't think we won't do it if you really push us. Also, I have repeatedly told you in editing summaries not to list yourself more than once or use ALL CAP text, yet you persist in doing so. Please cooperate, because if you continue with this, it may be necessary to block your account(s). Thank you.

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Reading list
Hi. Have a look at tour and dt, for starters.

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 18:31, 26 May 2012 (EDT)

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Im trying to add Friendly Shop in the page of Hoi An. Why many time you delete it without explication ?? You ask contributors but the minimum of respect is to explain and help them! If the text is not good, you can correct it. When i look others text, i don't understand what i did wrong!!

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What is ridiculous is to delete instead of helping people to find the best text !!

 * I doubt anyone knows what you're referring to. Please ask a specific question, either here or at the Travellers' Pub if you'd like help.

 * All the best,

 * (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 05:11, 21 August 2011 (EDT)

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The meaning of not touting
"Top-choice Lonely Planet 2011/12" is not part of the name of your inn, and you can't list your hotel as if it is. It is also not allowed for you to use the first person ("we," "our") or otherwise obviously make a pitch for your inn. Read Project:Don't tout, because you have to follow those guidelines, just as everyone else does. If you persist in retouting your listing, reverting your edits is not the only step that can be taken, and believe me, none of us would like to take further steps. So just keep a legitimate listing for a legitimate business, and be satisfied with that. Of course, you can tout your inn to your heart's content - but do it elsewhere. Thanks!

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 06:28, 20 June 2011 (EDT)

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Hello, 113.53.97.26! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.--(WT-en) Burmesedays 12:33, 14 April 2010 (EDT)

 * Nice edits at Gulmarg. A lot of silliness about guides gets written here and your re-write is very sensible. Please consider opening a Wiktiravel account and hanging around here. Cheers. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 12:33, 14 April 2010 (EDT)

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Ha ha! Why don't you just make a change without snarky comments about "poor English." Actually, given that there is a fair amount of controversy about just what constitutes "Khao Lak", I thought the construction was a fair attempt at accuracy. You been here?(WT-en) seligne 21:51, 24 June 2012 (EDT)Seligne
 * The use of a word as "snarky" is another example of poor English. [Unsigned 114.160.218.95]
 * Your sentence doesn't really make literal sense, as the phrase "a word" isn't being "use[d] as `snarky'." As for whether the word "snarky" is "poor English," consult the dictionary: . And then, drop it and do something more useful with your time, like making good edits. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 01:22, 25 June 2012 (EDT)
 * "Snarky" is not good English, at best it is American slang. Now stop joining discussions which do not involve you, and do something useful such as improving your own standard of English or learning to be polite by not, to use another Americanism, butting into other people's conversations.
 * According to the first entry in the dictionary I linked above, the word is "Chiefly British Slang," and slang is not "poor English." And your user talk page is not a private page. No further comment; be a pedant on your own time. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 17:32, 25 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Further to my previous comment, do something useful such as improving your own standard of English rather than relying on unauthoritarian sources of (mis) information just because they are easy to access. What a bizarre claim that slang is not poor English. Regarding "no further" comment ... good as your contributions to other people's discussions were both unwelcome and unhelpful: be an oaf somewhere else.

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Hello, 114.167.46.78! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

Before you create a page for your business please read the manual - (WT-en) Huttite 06:06, 4 December 2009 (EST)

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User talk:114.250.111.131

Please don't post the same listing in more than one place
That's called spamming here, and it is not allowed. Please read don't tout for guidelines. It's important for you to avoid spamming, because people who spam persistently have all their listings reverted, and it does make sense for Culture Yard to be listed - but only once, in the Beijing/Dongcheng guide. Please understand, we want to avoid redundancy and marketing here; this is a free guide for the use of travelers, not marketers. But that doesn't mean there should be no listing, only that there should be only one.

Feel free to ask questions here or in the Project:Travellers' Pub.

All the best,

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 02:53, 21 March 2012 (EDT)

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User talk:114.58.241.138

Tried to explain our external links policy and guidelines for buisiness owners to you before, to no avail, so your domain has been blacklisted. Complaints goes here. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) Talk 10:39, 12 April 2009 (EDT)

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User talk:114.58.35.143

Please stop listing your tour group, any other place than in Sumarinda where it belongs.

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User talk:114.58.76.205

Hello and welcome to Wikivoyage. You might want to take a look over Welcome, business owners. The link which you are adding to multiple pages is a violation of our external links policy, so please refrain from adding it further. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 02:30, 28 April 2009 (EDT)

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User talk:114.59.99.99

Hello, 114.59.99.99! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 09:40, 12 January 2010 (EST)

 * Many thanks for your great edits on Banda Islands! --(WT-en) Burmesedays 09:40, 12 January 2010 (EST)

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User talk:114.76.120.100

Hello 114.76.120.100 Welcome to Wikivoyage. To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. -- (WT-en) felix 04:38, 14 August 2011 (EDT)

Driving in Australia
It seems fairly clear to me that you are also editing as 128.250.5.246, talk and that you have chosen to ignore or overlook the messages I left for you previously, both on the articles Talk page and at the Talk page for IP 128.250.5.246. However out of courtesy I will repeat it all again below, with the additional comment that here at WT we do not appreciate either reverts of corrective edits by anon IP editors nor the ignoring of invitations to discuss your ideas on the talk page.

Your recent contributions to the Driving in Australia article are appreciated and it is clear that you have made a serious attempt to make improvements and develop the article. However the structural changes you have made appear to have changed the focus of the article from one of driving in Australia to that of long distance driving and rural/outback driving conditions. The original structure of the article outlines the general driving situation in Australia, then it goes on to elaborate on the driving conditions. Most visitors arrive on the coast at a major airport. Think of it as a sequence of needs, first a potential driver needs to know the general situation, hopefully they consider this before they leave home, then they need to know something of the legal and licensing requirements so they understand if they are eligible to drive there, then they need to know the details of things like road conditions, distances, advisories and cautions.

Although many visitors may just think of the allure and challenges of the Australian 'outback' and the open road most of these trips start with more pragmatic considerations. Do you have a valid licence, how to gain access to a vehicle, how to drive in the cities, and further how to tackle the specific needs of long distance and remote area travel. I think I understand why you have re-ordered things as you did but I am not at all convinced that those changes are a good idea. It is also not a good idea to change the section header names as they are derived from a thematic and formulaic style dictated by the article formatting policies and guidelines as described in the Wikivoyage manual of style. An article section header such as ==Understand== is a standard article header.

The normal way to approach major content or structural change is to discuss the needs, requirements and proposed changes on the articles discussion page. This is especially so in the case of an established and reasonably well resolved article such as those with a "Guide" or "Star" rating. This means they have been subjected to some fairly rigorous scrutiny by established editors to ensure that the article is compliant with the policies and guidelines applicable and is suitably useful in content and article structure.

Any content that you have contributed in your recent edits is not 'lost', as it is all retained in the edit histories. I encourage you to register as a user, so other editors know they are just dealing with one individual rather than multiple users of an IP address and explore the MoS and the guideline and policy articles linked there. I appreciate you may feel a little annoyed that your edits have been reverted but please do understand that new editors are very welcome here, especially when they are clearly making an effort to improve an article. It might also assist if you made smaller edits so that other editors can more readily identify what you are doing. This also avoids the problems that can arise when a block revert such as I have just done takes some uncontroversial improvements with it as well. Perhaps start with some changes to the prose in the article if you can identify some areas for improvement, but do not make any major structural changes until you are more familiar with the policies and guidelines and please do not rename any section or sub-section headers or use exclamation marks in them. I hope you will continue to contribute here, most certainly please do not be put off by the recent revert to your contributions and welcome to Wikivoyage. -- (WT-en) felix 19:09, 14 August 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:115.113.198.162

Your edits have proved thoroughly untrustworthy, and simply will not be allowed to stand on Wikivoyage. Your time here is and will continue to be a waste. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 16:44, 4 September 2010 (EDT)

 * Every edit you make is likely to be reverted as you have been identified as an untrustworthy editor due to changing hotel phone numbers to travel agency numbers and other violations of our Project:Don't tout policy. If you disagree with that assessment please state your case on this talk page, otherwise it is a waste of your time and ours for you to continue editing here, and further edits may lead to temporary blocks in order to avoid wasting more time. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 11:41, 23 September 2010 (EDT)

 * I've blocked you from editing (again) for one full day. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 12:07, 27 September 2010 (EDT)

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User talk:115.147.232.165

Please gain consensus on Talk:Southeast Asia before changing the city list - it often takes some time to come to a list of 5-9 cities that everyone can agree upon - see for example Talk:United States of America, where debate is still raging after five years. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 02:08, 25 December 2009 (EST)

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User talk:115.240.88.84

Thanks for your contributions, but please have a look at Wikivoyage's guidelines on marketing. One listing that does not use the first-person is probably OK (and that listing is now in the Goa article), but copying to multiple articles is discouraged. If you have questions you can ask them on this talk page or in the Pub. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 00:14, 7 December 2011 (EST)

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User talk:115.244.119.18

Hi. Please read Project:Don't tout. This isn't the place to post free adverts for your car rental agency. Thank you. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 04:24, 22 September 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:115.244.17.26

Welcome, SRY Travel.

Before editing further, please read Project:Welcome, business owners and Project:Don't tout. Wikivoyage is not an advertising tool, and adding your business name and phone number to every major North-Indian destination is really not allowed. I have therefore removed your edits. In fact, in places where plenty of car renting agencies are available, Wikivoyage generally does not list any. Please read our policies first to have an understanding of what is and isn't desirable on Wikivoyage. Best of luck with your business, (WT-en) Justme 08:26, 22 September 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:115.246.64.73

Please note that every "Sleep" section you have edited has a note stating that additions and modifications must be explained, either with an edit comment or a discussion on the article's talk page. Failure to do so may result in your account being temporarily blocked from editing. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 02:03, 12 January 2011 (EST)

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User talk:115.66.47.90

Hi. If you want to know what 2000 is in Tamil, there are many places to find out (I couldn't tell you the answer, but any web searching engine is presumably a good place to start), but posting the question in an article doesn't work here, as "2000" is not a place, and therefore not a relevant topic for a Wikivoyage article.

All the best,

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 06:12, 28 January 2012 (EST)

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User talk:115.84.86.32

Don't tout
You really need to read Project:Don't tout

One of the most important portions for you is under "Guidelines":

"Don't list the same place many times. Yes, a guesthouse may have a restaurant, a bar, an internet cafe and a dance show, but you need to pick one of "See", "Eat", "Drink", "Sleep" and "Contact" to slot it under. That said, exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis if, for example, a hotel has a famous, separately named bar or restaurant that also draws significant numbers of non-resident customers. Also note that businesses should be listed in only one article for the town in which the business operates."

Are you making such an argument for Central Backpackers? Lots of non-residents come for their famous beer buckets or something? If so, make the argument in the "Talk" ("discussion") page for Vang Vieng and try to attain a consensus. Until you do, I will continue to delete duplicate entries. And note that it has the _same name_ as the "Sleep" listing!

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 07:39, 19 May 2011 (EDT)

Blocked
Your account has been blocked for 2 hours to try to get your attention. Understand: You really can get out the information you want to transmit; you just have to follow some basic policy guidelines here. Please, when you come back after the 2 hours are up, read through Project:Don't tout carefully and be constructive. This site does not exist for the purpose of promoting your businesses; on Wikivoyage, the traveler comes first (see this link: Project:The traveller comes first). That doesn't mean, of course, that responsible businesses should not be listed. Just be responsible and pay attention to site policies; that's all anyone is likely to ask you to do. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 07:49, 19 May 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:116.1.1.10

Please stop adding external links to the chinamaps site. See Project:External_links for policies on this.

On the other hand, if you own the copyright to those maps, we'd love to have some here. Also, you can create a user ID and put a bit about the site and a link to it on your user page. (WT-en) Pashley 06:43, 12 November 2008 (EST)

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User talk:116.12.202.100

Please stop adding your Club Strawberry listings to Singapore and edit warring when it is quite correctly removed. It is inappropriate in a country article and in any case is written in very touty language. If you read WT policy on touting and re-write the listing to comply with those guidelines then it could be placed in the relevant Singapore District article. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 23:57, 10 January 2010 (EST)

 * and you have done it again. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 05:47, 12 January 2010 (EST)

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User talk:116.230.252.146

上海高成泵业
上海高成泵业制造有限公司是一家集研究、制造、销售、服务于一体的公司. 公司在研究这块现有一批专业型的水泵人才；在制造方面的技术一直处于全国的前列；而销售于服务遍布全国30多个大小城市. 每一个高成人都以“没有最好只求更好”的心态认真的去做每一项工作. 高成人的努力和奋斗奠定了在水泵行业的每一次成长. 我们的产品广泛用于水利建筑、给排水、蒸汽系统 离心泵、电力诒金、石化、船舶、食品、环保、污水处理自吸泵、制造等多个领域排污泵. 我们遵循精心选材， 品质卓越，管理严谨，服务精诚为指导方向深受新老客户的信赖和好评. 我们本着为了客户的服务理念，协诚为广大用户提供优质的水泵产品，满意的售前、售中和售后服务，我们相信，高成人热情、坦率、开放以及我们对品质的追求磁力泵，会赢来有一次的愉快的合作

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User talk:116.232.21.159

Hi! Please stop creating a new article for a tour in Shanghai. Please read Project:What is an article? and our tour policy. You can add walking tours in the respective section but not as an new article. (WT-en) Jc8136 08:33, 27 January 2012 (EST)

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User talk:116.236.239.218

Hi! Don't tout! (WT-en) jan 07:21, 5 May 2010 (EDT)

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User talk:116.68.209.30

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User talk:116.91.50.125

Thanks for your contributions, but please have a look at Project:Accommodation listings and Project:External links, as well as Project:Don't tout. We appreciate your efforts to improve the Tokyo articles, but also don't want the site to becoming an advertising brochure. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 02:16, 14 November 2008 (EST)

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User talk:117.192.131.98

I redirected the Chikkaballapur page you created to the existing Chikballapur page.

The content you provided isn't lost, it's here.

Hope that's OK! ~ 203.144.143.4 04:43, 25 January 2008 (EST)

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User talk:117.196.195.67

Warning
You will get this warning once:

You know very well that substituting an advertisement for the Sagar guide is not acceptable, and I don't have to point you to anything to prove that. If you don't stop your misbehavior, your travel agency can be put on the permanent blacklist on this site.

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 04:04, 12 July 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:117.200.67.70

Hello, 117.200.67.70! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

Please see Welcome, business owners Project:What is an article?, and Project:Don't tout. If you keep re-creating that page, it will keep getting deleted. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 01:17, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

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User talk:117.203.202.182

Please stop touting!
Read this link now: don't tout

If you continue to tout, it will be necessary to block your account, and further action can be taken against your listing.

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 07:56, 27 May 2012 (EDT)

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User talk:117.212.178.243

Reading list
In case you read this: You need to read xl and dt. Then you'll understand why all your edits are being reverted.

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 06:38, 7 April 2012 (EDT)

 * Your account was blocked for 2 hours, in hopes that you will read your user talk page and look at the links I've given you, instead of edit warring uselessly and wasting everyone's time.

 * All the best,

 * (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 07:19, 7 April 2012 (EDT)

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User talk:117.22.7.174

Hello and welcome to Wikivoyage. If you want to try things out and get more familiar with how wiki markup works, please use the Project:Graffiti wall. Thanks! --(WT-en) Peter Talk 02:28, 21 October 2009 (EDT)

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User talk:117.4.104.181

Stop it
If you continue substituting your ticket-booking business's links for those of the companies that actually run the trains, it may be necessary to blacklist your company or/and block your account. Your actions are contemptible and intolerable. Who taught you it was OK to try to eliminate the competition through dishonest trading practices? (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 20:45, 22 October 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:117.4.111.117

Please stop posting advertisements with web links to booking agencies. You're just wasting your time. Read these pages: http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:External_links http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Don't_tout http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tour#Tour_listings

Any time you violate these guidelines, your listings will simply be deleted. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 01:28, 8 February 2011 (EST)

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User talk:117.5.250.134

Please see Wikivoyage's guidelines on travel agency listings. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 00:02, 13 January 2011 (EST)

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User talk:117.97.167.123

Accommodation listings, and nearly all type of other listings with a specific address should be directed at the individual city/destinations articles, not at regional level per our policies. Please don't revert any further, any grievances should be directed at the talk page of that policy, instead of trying unilaterally to circumvent by persistence.

The reason for this policy is because we want to try to avoid duplicate content, of course business owners would like to see their business on as many pages as possible, but from a practical view, if every hotel, rental outfit and B&B in California started listing themselves on that guide, rather than the city they are in, our guide to California would be miles long with thousands of listings, and not very usable for anyone. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) talk 00:49, 30 November 2009 (EST)

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User talk:117.97.81.106

Hello, 117.97.81.106! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

 * Please do not abuse other Wikivoyage members as you did in the County Donegal article. He did nothing more than try to explain and guide you on where listings belong in the hierachy of County Donegal. And please read and understand the links given in the welcome message above which will give you a better understanding of the way to do things around here. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 11:07, 30 November 2009 (EST)

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User talk:117.99.191.24

Thanks for your de-spamming edits to a bunch of India pages. You effort to clean up is appreciated. You might like to create a user account so that your future edits can be credited. - (WT-en) Cardboardbird 09:24, 23 June 2010 (EDT)

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User talk:118.173.137.174

Thanks for your edits to A Stroll on Sisowath Quay, but the article is just that, a single-day-or-less stroll. If you'd like to write a multi-day itinerary for PP, please plunge forward! (WT-en) Jpatokal 03:26, 23 February 2009 (EST)

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User talk:118.174.218.124

Hello I 've added a few infos about things to do in Koh Chang recently. Among them I had added infos about where to practice Yoga and reiki. These infos were about Baan Zen and Jungle Way

The following infos have been erased by yourself

Baan Zen Klong Prao Beach, Koh Chang, - In a beautiful traditional Thai style home set up right on the water, enjoy the advantage of a personal tailored training -   - 3/5 days Yoga session Reiki 1 / Reiki 2 / Master Reiki Tel: 08 6530 9354 - Web site :www.baanzen.com '''

You only kept the infos about jungle way( already listed for trecking )

Could you please explain WHY and what is the idea behind this I will post these infos again

Thanks for contacting me directly if there is any problem, before erasing these infos

My email is daiquiritoo@yahoo.fr

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User talk:118.174.97.140

List your business only once, and do not mangle or delete the entries for your competitors. -- (WT-en) D. Guillaime 00:08, 29 November 2010 (EST)

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User talk:118.175.29.10

I told you to use the Talk:Bangkok page first before making such drastic changes. The change from AmE to BrE does not just apply to the Bangkok page, but also to all Bangkok sub pages and possibly all Thailand pages. Some of these district articles are already star-approved, so more discussion is needed instead of just pushing on your point of view. So I reverted again, first lay out your arguments on the Talk:Bangkok page why this change is necessary. --(WT-en) globe-trotter 11:01, 13 August 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:118.175.78.233

Most of your changes have been deleted. Please read Welcome, business owners. (WT-en) Jpatokal 05:26, 6 November 2009 (EST)

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User talk:118.70.180.202

Please read Project:External links to understand why the commercial link that you have been adding, and re-adding, to the Vietnam article has been removed. If you have questions you can ask them on this talk page or in the Pub. Note that continuing to re-add the link to the Vietnam article may lead to blacklisting, so please do not continue to add it. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 22:22, 12 July 2012 (EDT)

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User talk:118.71.10.169

Read Project:Accommodation listings. In an article with as many listings as Hanoi, you'll need to make a compelling case for your hotel's inclusion. And never delete your competitors' listings. (WT-en) Gorilla Jones 21:50, 7 January 2010 (EST)

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User talk:118.71.8.142

Stop deleting competitors' entries. Add one, but don't overwrite someone else's. - (WT-en) D. Guillaime 04:23, 23 January 2010 (EST)

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User talk:118.90.92.34

Webcams
Hi - we don't currently have links to webcams in WT. Please see the policy at see Project:External links. You can discuss the policy there if you disagree. Thanks --(WT-en) inas 22:33, 20 September 2009 (EDT)

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User talk:118.99.64.111

Blocked as promised
Your account has been blocked for 24 hours for repeatedly posting a spam URL to the Jakarta guide. If the Intercontinental Hotel is not listed in the district of Jakarta where it's located, post a proper entry for that hotel only in that district guide, and only once. Proper format for hotel listings is shown at Project:Accommodation listings. Also read don't tout, xl, and wbo.

If you have any questions after you've read those, just ask - either here or in Project:Travellers' Pub. But don't just passive-aggressively continue to post spam, "stealth" links where they don't belong. If you continue, it may be necessary to blacklist the Intercontinental Hotel, whereupon no-one will ever be able to list it on this site.

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 01:31, 21 June 2012 (EDT)

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User talk:119.152.58.201

What is an article
The Apollo Theatre info can go on Wikivoyage, but it doesn't get its own article. See Project:What is an article. --(WT-en) inas 05:31, 22 September 2009 (EDT)

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User talk:119.153.101.87

The link you are adding is not in compliance with Wikivoyage's external links policy policy. You are welcome to contribute content about finding cheap hotels to the guide directly, but linking to other guides will result in the edits being reverted. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 12:14, 17 February 2011 (EST)

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User talk:119.2.106.72

Sakura List
Are you really trying to help with this section? What list are you using? None of your additions are on the list I have...

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User talk:119.224.115.156

Welcome
Hello, Welcome to Wikivoyage!

Just an extra explanation on Georgia: since both American English and British English are correct in terms of spelling, Wikivoyage tries to not americanize or alternatively anglicise bits and pieces of articles, as that would result in back and forth changing when different editors with different preferences come along. There was a recent discussion to establish a rough preference per country, and for Georgia American English was identified as the version taught in schools.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. Cheers, (WT-en) Justme 03:18, 17 September 2011 (EDT)

 * Please, leave well enough alone on the spellings. Not every country uses British English, and if you have no idea what other types of standard English spelling there are or how they work, your best bet is to concentrate on content and leave spelling edits to people who do know. Thanks. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 05:10, 17 September 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:119.224.3.29

Hi. Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please consider getting a User Name and logging in each time that you edit. I am afraid that you will have to put up with American spellings. Like it or not, that is the norm on Wikivoyage. However, I fully agree with your other Rio edits. (WT-en) Shep 02:13, 28 August 2010 (EDT)

more on spellings
You will note that the main Rio de Janeiro article employs US spellings: harbor, theater, center. So it makes no sense to change the district articles to English English unless you want to go through all articles and change them all. What do you mean by "Brazilian spelling"? I thought they spoke Portuguese. (WT-en) Shep 09:31, 28 August 2010 (EDT)

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User talk:119.224.46.135

Hi. Welcome to Wikivoyage. Have a read of Project:Tone, and please don't edit war. If your edit doesn't stick - take it to the discussion page. Thanks --(WT-en) inas 20:37, 19 February 2010 (EST)

 * I'm also unclear on how you're mistaking the standard grammar used in every travel guide anywhere for an imperative. If the Auckland article said "You WILL go to the beaches", your objection might make sense, but as it is you're simply introducing errors for no perceivable benefit.  - (WT-en) D. Guillaime 01:51, 20 February 2010 (EST)

 * Continuing to edit war will get you nowhere, and of course absurd personal accusations will be even less effective. Take it to the article's talk page, or let it be.  You may also be interested in the well documented history of Andre Malraux's famous looting of Banteay Srei -- and consider that that incident is only remembered because of Malraux's later fame, not because it was exceptionally brazen for the time. - (WT-en) D. Guillaime 18:02, 20 February 2010 (EST)

Personally, I think - "Take a ferry to the island and have a swim and a picnic", has a much more positive assertive tone, than "A ferry is available to travel to the island. Picnic facilities are available, and swimming is popular". It is more direct, and addresses the reader. It doesn't order the reader. It is a travel guide, and the reader can feel free to ignore anything they read. If you disagree, Project:Tone provides a place to discuss it where others can give their opinions too. --(WT-en) inas 23:43, 20 February 2010 (EST)

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User talk:119.224.5.35

Hello, 119.224.5.35 Welcome to Wikivoyage.

Thanks for your contributions to the article for Nagoya.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

It is great to see someone making useful and constructive edits to the Nagoya article. Do keep up the good work. By the way, have you considered creating an account here? While you can absolutely keep contributing as an anonymous user, it promises a bunch of benefits, and no obligations. -- (WT-en) felix 11:08, 21 February 2011 (EST)

 * You may want to look at Project:Spelling for the official policy on UK vs US English in articles. To date there hasn't been a clear consensus on which to use, despite some rather impassioned arguments on either side of the issue. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 18:21, 4 March 2011 (EST)

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User talk:119.42.104.177

Hello, 119.42.104.177! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thanks for your edits to Pai! --(WT-en) globe-trotter 07:21, 29 August 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:120.152.178.211

Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please see Project:Welcome, business owners, and try and find the most appropriate place for your listing. Listing it as many times as you have probably won't stick. --(WT-en) inas 21:54, 10 December 2009 (EST)

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User talk:120.155.191.41

Thanks for your great additions to Silom! --(WT-en) globe-trotter 13:44, 2 November 2010 (EDT)

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User talk:120.166.57.129

Please see Wikivoyage's guidelines on travel agency listings. In general travel agencies should not be listed in articles, and use of the first-person is discouraged. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 12:43, 6 September 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:120.61.3.25

Hi there, if possible, can you note on Talk:Havelock Island where the new ATM is? If you talk me through it I'll put it on the map.... thanks! – (WT-en) cacahuate  talk 13:32, 26 December 2009 (EST)

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User talk:120.62.31.170

Please stop adding sleep listings in the Kerala guide
Since you have paid no attention to repeated reversions of your posts, nor to the editing Summaries explaining them, I am giving you one chance to read your User talk page before your account is blocked. Please acknowledge reading this. Thanks. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 06:01, 17 May 2011 (EDT)

Blocked
Due to your thoughtless, repeated posts of touty sleep listings in a state-level guide, your account has been blocked for 24 hours. If you continue the same behavior tomorrow, or from other IPs, expect to be blocked again, and for a longer time period. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 06:08, 17 May 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:120.72.90.34

Please read SEO. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 10:13, 11 May 2010 (EDT)
 * Hi! All your edits have been reverted. See dt and follow our policies. (WT-en) jan 09:28, 25 May 2010 (EDT)

 * Any edits made from this IP address will be reverted on sight as you are not following our hotel marketing guidelines. When you add a Florida hotel to an article about a city in California  it is clear that you are not editing with the interest of travelers in mind. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 10:30, 29 May 2010 (EDT)

 * This edit is despicable - could you squeeze any more marketing keywords into the "alt" tag? Every single edit you have ever made has been almost immediately reverted, and yet you persist... -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 02:15, 2 June 2010 (EDT)

 * Despicable indeed. The joke is that the idiot thinks this keyword loading will actually go unnoticed. I would suggest blacklisting the hotel and emailing the owner to tell them why. In that way some of these internet marketing morons might actually wake up to reality (or at the very least, get fired).--(WT-en) Burmesedays 02:28, 2 June 2010 (EDT)

 * I sent an email, but emails to the address on their web site currently bouncing. I'll try again a bit later. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 10:36, 2 June 2010 (EDT)

 * I've send an email to Best Western asking them, quite politely, to reign in their SEO consultants or potentially face blacklisting on wt.org. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) talk 08:43, 18 June 2010 (EDT)

I've blocked you from editing for three days to avoid wasting more of your (and our) time. I doubt you'll actually read this page, but if you do then you can leave a note here and the block can be lifted if you (finally) tell us that you have read, and will abide by, our SEO policies. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 00:30, 21 June 2010 (EDT)

 * Please see Project:User ban nominations for a discussion about why you are being blocked, and a copy of an email that was sent to Marriott. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 00:59, 21 June 2010 (EDT)

I have blocked you yet again, this time for two weeks. If you want to stop this cycle of blocking, you must respond here and indicate that you have read the many messages left for you and the policy pages for this wiki. (WT-en) LtPowers 09:32, 13 August 2010 (EDT)

10th block
Hi! Amazingly you are back and keep entering hotels. This results in my obligation to nominate your 10th block for touting and SEO. (WT-en) jan 07:29, 30 August 2010 (EDT)

General Manager?
Well, hello there! Was the listing "General Manager" in the Chicago travel guide a Freudian slip? Are you the General Manager of Hampton Inn and Suites Chicago? If so, you're wasting your organization's time and money by putting publicity in the wrong place. Don't you have other duties during the night shift? OK, I know this post sounds rude, but I also know you'll never read it, anyway, so I hope this is funny for anyone who does. :-) (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 03:00, 12 April 2011 (EDT)

Descriptionless listings
I see you have quite a history. All listings without descriptions and rates will be summarily deleted. Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:13, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

New block
This account was blocked (apparently for the 11th time) for 3 months, as of 23 April 2014. Further accommodation listings from this hotel marketing account will result in a 6-month block. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:03, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

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User talk:12.10.219.168

Hello, 12.10.219.168! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

Thanks for added listings to Rome, please don't stop!

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

BTW, have you considered creating an account here? It promises a bunch of benefits, and no obligations :-) --(WT-en) DenisYurkin 08:30, 19 May 2010 (EDT)

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User talk:12.110.178.56

Thanks for your Contributions. 205.189.97.202 13:06, 24 June 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:121.1.18.241

''This page is for discussing the corresponding article or guide. For questions, comments, or personal stories about this destination or topic, visit Wikivoyage Extra. For more about using talk pages check out Project:Using talk pages.''

Comments
Good job editing El Nido. Your work is appreciated. Since you are so good, why don't you get an account, where you can be better known, have more options such as a personal page and adding images? Your work could definately be benefitted from! Please, do consider it! (WT-en) Edmontonenthusiast 21:01, 24 October 2008 (EDT) P.S.: Any questions ¿ See my talk page!

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User talk:121.137.62.230

Categories
Hi. We don't use categories here on Wikivoyage, at least not for regions. See Project:Categories --(WT-en) inas 21:14, 21 September 2009 (EDT)

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User talk:121.19.210.201

hello i come from china.

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