Showing posts with label Lake Como. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake Como. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 September 2018

City-hopping Casino Royale tour

What: City-hopping Casino Royale tour
By: eShores
Photo: 007 Travelers


eShores' city-hopping Casino Royale Tour will take you from UK to Nice to Venice to Prague – giving you the chance to experience exciting nightlife, incredible dining and sightseeing.



Visit various Bond locations from "Casino Royale" (2006).


You can see some of them visited by 007 Travelers here:

The front yard of Hotel Splendide in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

Body Worlds Exhibition exteriors in Prague, Czech Republic

Bond recovers / Bond and Vesper meet Mr. Mendel in Lenno, Lake Como, Italy





Villa del Balbianello, Lenno, Lake Como, Italy
Photo © 007 Travelers



10 Nights From £895
Price is a guide for this multi-centre holiday including all your flights and 4 star hotels on B&B.


Itinerary

UK - Nice (Flight) 3 Nights: The first stop on your Casino Royale itinerary is Nice, on the South Coast of France. Nice offers a fantastic start to your trip – with opportunities for watersports in the crystal-clear waters of the French Riviera or exploring local cuisine and architecture inland.

While here, you will take a day trip to Monte Carlo, Monaco – even though it’s not a filming location, the Monte Carlo Casino features heavily in Ian Fleming’s novel. 

Nice - Venice (Flight) 3 Nights: From the sweeping coastline of Nice to the grand canal thoroughfare of Venice – your second stop is a must-see city for history and food lovers. 

Venice appears in Casino Royale when Daniel Craig’s Bond confronts Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) as she escapes into an empty palazzo on the Grand Canal. Wander down to the Fondamenta Vin Castello in the Cannaregio District for the perfect viewing platform.

Optional 4 Night Trip to Lake Como - From an Extra £320pp: After your stay in Venice, you’ll get a direct train from Venice to Milan, where you’ll pick up a hire car and drive to Lake Como (transfers available at a supplement). You’ll spend four nights there, before driving to Milan Airport for a direct flight to Prague to continue the rest of the itinerary.

Venice - Prague (Flight) 4 Nights: Key locations for Casino Royale fans in Prague include Danube House, which was the venue for Bond’s earning of the 00 status at the start of the film, and the library of the Strahov Monastery, which appears as part of the House of Commons.

Your stay in Prague comes with the option of a day trip to nearby Karlovy Vary and Loket – both well-connected with the Casino Royale filming. Karlovy Vary is home to the Grandhotel Pupp, better known as The Hotel Splendide where Bond and Vesper Lynd spend the night. In Loket, you will find the Kaiserbad Spa, an iconic building for Bond fans, as it takes on the role of Casino Royale itself on the big screen.

Prague - UK (Flight) 4 Nights: At the end of your trip, eShores will fly you home direct to the UK.



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Monday, 6 June 2016

007 Travel story: Lenno, San Siro (ITALY) & Andermatt (SWITZERLAND) 2015

In order to read our Italy 007 travel story from day one, click here. 

Thursday 30 July 2015

After breakfast 007 Travelers family (Pirita, Mika and Little Agent Traveler) walked along Lenno´s beautiful streets and waited for the first transport to Villa del Balbianello, which is a Bond movie location in "Casino Royale" (2006). There Bond recovered from his injuries caused by car accident, and Bond was also tortured by villain Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen)




The Villa del Balbianello is a villa in the commune of Lenno (province of Como), Italy, overlooking Lake Como. It is located on the tip of a small wooded peninsula on the western shore of the south-west branch of Lake Como, not far from the Isola Comacina and is famous for its elaborate terraced gardens.



A number of feature films have used the villa for location shooting, including "A Month by the Lake" (1995). The villa was also used for the lake retreat scenes in "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones" (2002) however CGI was used in place of the building's true exterior.



How to get there:
The taxi boat transportation cost 14,00 EUR and we had that choice. However, it is also possible to walk there.













Bond girl Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) with James Bond (Daniel Craig)
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC


Mika / 007 Travelers


Mr. Mendel (Ludger Pistor) bringing news
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC





Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC






"Monsieur Mendel. How are things in Switzerland?"
"You didn't bring any chocolates with you?"
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC




Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC






René Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC






Bond recovering
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

Mathis is going to get an electroshock
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

*Bzzzzzzzz*

Bond recovering, Mathis is unconscious.
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC





Mathis is dragged away
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC






Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

After visiting Villa del Balbianello, we continued our trip. Direction Menaggio: via San Siro towards Switzerland. 

Traveling by car

From: Lenno, Italy
To: Andermatt, Switzerland

Toll charges: 0,00 EUR
Road tax: 40,00 EUR 


We drove first from Lenno to San Siro where we took some photos.





Bond connection:
Here is the Villa La Gaeta where Bond meets villain Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) at the end of "Casino Royale" (2006).


How to get there:

Milan Malpensa Airport 85 km, Milan Linate Airport 95 km, Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport 1 and a half hour drive, Lugano Agno Airport 45 minutes drive.
Ferry, boat pier and bus station one minute driving.
Train station in Como or on the other side of the lake in Varenna.
Car recommended.

Distances:

Como 30 km
Lugano (Switzerland) 30 km
Milan 85 km
Bellagio and Varenna 10-15 minutes by public boat.
Village centre 10 minutes walk.










Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC




Mika & Pirita / 007 Travelers


Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC



Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC










Later we reached beautiful Andermatt where we had visited once before.







Andermatt


Location of Andermatt in Switzerland
Coordinates: 46°37′N 8°35′E

Andermatt is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.
With Realp and Hospental, it is located in the Urseren valley, 22 km (14 mi) south of Altdorf.
Andermatt has two mountains around it which are used for ski slopes in the winter.


  • Nätschen, which is on the north-east side of Andermatt
  • Gemsstock, which is on the southern side of Andermatt


Andermatt's ski slopes are part of the Gotthard Oberalp Arena.
There is a cable car running from Andermatt to the middle of Gemsstock, and a 2-man chairlift running from Andermatt up to the middle of Nätschen. There are plans to build a new gondola going up each mountain.


We reached our hotel where Sean Connery and the whole EON crew stayed during during filming of "Goldfinger" (1964).






Accommodation

Hotel: Hotel Bergidyll **
Address: Gotthardstrasse 39, CH-6490 Andermatt, Switzerland
Booked: Via Hotel Bergidyll
Price: Contact the hotel: info@hotel-bergidyll.ch
City tax: 0,00 EUR / person / night
Breakfast: Included
Wi-Fi: Free
Parking: Free, no reservations
Check-in: 13.00-20.00
Check-out: 11.00
Room type: James Bond room (Twin room with additional bed)






We had great pizzas for lunch in this restaurant. The service was good and fast.










This is the table where Sean Connery sat during his staying in this hotel.




007 Travelers had drinks here too.




We got just the room we wanted: Number 21, the Bond room, where Sean Connery stayed.


JAMES BOND ROOM: NUMBER 21


The room of James Bond was very nice and the beds are good to sleep, probably the best beds during our 11 days Bond tour. 


BOOK THIS ROOM

Contact: info@hotel-bergidyll.ch









We had dinner in their restaurant and we enjoyed very much our staying in Hotel Bergidyll!

This is a great hotel to stay over especially when you drive the "Goldfinger route", where Bond followed the villain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) and raced with Tilly Masterson (Tania Mallet) in movie "Goldfinger".

007 Travelers recommends!


Tilly Masterson
Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC


And here is the link to Filming location of "Goldfinger": Gas station, where Bond left Tilly.


Our next 007 travel story: Lauterbrunnen and Schilthorn Piz Gloria´s VIP party in Switzerland.