Re: [Cz-L] US Travel Options to Chernivtsi - 2011...

I would like to join Arthur and affirm that it is easy to use ATM
mashines in Chernivtsi and that hotels accept credit cards.
Furthermore, to all who plan to travel to Chernivtsi:

Getting there is no more difficult than going to a relatively small
city anywhere in Europe. The airport in Chernivtsi is functioning and
flights
from Bucharest, Athens and Milano are available almost daily via Carpatair.
You can also find drivers who will drive you to Chernivtsi from Lviv (4
hours) or Suceava (2 hours). There are a number of guide/translators in
Chernivtsi,
who are fluent either in English or in German. These can arrange for hotels,
car and driver, visits to the archives, etc. They are paid by the day
and tourists should pay for the meals of the guides when you go
together to a restaurant.

Young people in Chernivtsi often do speak English and taxi drivers,
often speak French, Italian or German.
Since 2002, I have been to Chernivtsi at least 6 times.
I have never become sick because of eating the local food, or drinking
the local water. I have never been cheated by a taxi driver or at a
hotel or restaurant. There are many very good restaurants, and Cafes,
although you may not find the particular foods you are used to.

I have found the local people friendly, polite and eager to help.
There is one exception to this; there are people, both Jewish and non Jewish
who hang around at the cemetery, trying to get work, locating graves
and clearing a path through the overgrowth, so that the gravesites can
be approached.

You do not need to hire someone to locate graves, instead locate them
yourself by accessing JOWBR, getting a cemetery map from the Ehpes
website and asking
for information from members of the Cz.-list.
CJCRO and the work-camps organized by SVIT Ukraine and ASF Germany have
managed to clear most of the cemetery of the thick vegetation which
used to make it impassible and we hope to clear it completely by the
end of this year.

Before you go, copy some of the maps available on the Ehpes website and
take them with you. Familiarize yourself with the center of the city
and you will
be able to walk almost everywhere.
Learn some Ukrainian phrases, such as: Thank you, Please, Good morning
or Good day and the names in Ukrainian of the streets, squares and
special buildings
you want to visit. Alternatively you can show a taxi driver or a
passer-by the location you want to go to on the map.

We used to say in Czernowitz:
"Was man ruft in dem Wald, dass hoert man zuruck."
In English: What you call into the forest, that is what you hear back.
Meaning: People will treat you, the way you treat them.

End of sermon,

Mimi

Quoting Arthur von Czernowitz <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>:

> Dear Jordan,
> I have no idea from where you got your information that you cannot
> use credit cards or ATM cards in the Ukraine.  I have used my ATM
> card to get cash and paid the hotel with my Visa card.  I arrived in
> Czernowitz with very little $$$ cash and got my money out of the
> ATM's which are all over the city.  I even got cash in Bershad,
> Transnistria, the place where we were expelled during WWII. Out of
> the ATM you get the best exchange rate and you are not cheated by
> money changers.
> FYI: The best ATM card which does not have a service charge is
> CapitalOne bank.
>
> Happy travels
>
> Arthur

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