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Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 8:46 am
by Cap'n Cat
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Forget Wave Season cruises and early spring-break bargains — if you’re looking for great travel deals this winter, you may want to look a little farther afield. With the ruble having lost roughly half its value recently, Russia is becoming a hot, albeit frosty, destination for deal seekers.
“The ruble is devaluing at a crazy pace,” said Gwen Kozlowski, general manager of Exeter International in Tampa, Fla. “For fast, savvy travelers, there are deals to be had.”
Those deals are predicated on the fact that the ruble has tumbled this year. Where it traded as high as 32 to the dollar a year ago, it hit a low of 74 three weeks ago before strengthening to 63 in early January.
For products and services priced in rubles — restaurants, tour guides, museum admissions — that translates into savings of 50 percent or more for penny-pinching visitors. And while some vendors will eventually raise their prices in response, travelers who have their visas and plane tickets in hand stand to enjoy some serious savings.
In St. Petersburg, for example, a 400-ruble ticket to the Hermitage Museum — currently celebrating its 250th anniversary — will set you back less than $6.40 vs. $12.50 a year ago. Admission to the year-old Faberge Museum for two is around $9.50 vs. almost $19. Cap off your visit with a performance of the Mariinsky (formerly Kirov) Ballet, where great seats will cost you $80, not $150, apiece.
Moscow, meanwhile, is undergoing a culinary boom and the ruble’s collapse means you can experience it without going bust. Although based in in St. Petersburg, Elena Kachevskaya of the Express to Russia tour company recommends the iconic Café Pushkin, where you can enjoy dinner for two without drinks for less than $150 versus almost $300 last summer, or the year-old Restaurant Ugolyok, where you can get in and out for $30 or so.
Opportunity for Baldy and T and Cluckie and Bronco and Flaggie to go worship their idol, Putin, in his home state!! Take Limbaugh! I bet he's good for a few rounds!!!!
Tman strikes a pose at the Black Sea.......
Protesting affordable health care.........
A journey made all the more affordable because of the sanctions they poo-pooed long ago!!!
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:04 am
by GannonFan
Yay Fracking (time until D1B gets here in 3, 2, 1...)
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 11:49 am
by Ivytalk
Cap'n, why don't you buy a one-way ticket and look up your BFF Edddie Snowden for canoodling and vodka.
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 12:02 pm
by andy7171
Nothing says good times ahead like a nuclear armed super power collapsing in on itself being led by a power hungry tyrant with an inferiority complex.
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 10:38 am
by houndawg
andy7171 wrote:Nothing says good times ahead like a nuclear armed super power collapsing in on itself being led by a power hungry tyrant with an inferiority complex.
Weren't you partof the greek chrous with the usual halfwits bleating about how bad Putin got over on Obama?
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 10:50 am
by Grizalltheway
houndawg wrote:andy7171 wrote:Nothing says good times ahead like a nuclear armed super power collapsing in on itself being led by a power hungry tyrant with an inferiority complex.
Weren't you partof the greek chrous with the usual halfwits bleating about how bad Putin got over on Obama?
That, and Russia ain't a superpower no mo.
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:38 am
by Wedgebuster
Actually, we should bomb and invade them to freedom, we would be welcomed as liberators!
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:21 pm
by andy7171
Is he still in the Ukraine?
How many times does destroying the world multiple times over to qualify fo superpower status?
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:04 pm
by houndawg
andy7171 wrote:Is he still in the Ukraine?
How many times does destroying the world multiple times over to qualify fo superpower status?
Yeah. Europe should fall any day now, right?
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:39 pm
by Grizalltheway
andy7171 wrote:Is he still in the Ukraine?
How many times does destroying the world multiple times over to qualify fo superpower status?
Here ya go
A superpower is a state with a dominant position in international relations and is characterised by its unparalleled ability to exert influence or project power on a global scale. This is done through the means of both military and economic strength, as well as diplomatic and soft power influence. Traditionally, superpowers are preeminent among the great powers (i.e. as the United States is today). The term first applied to the British Empire, the United States and the Soviet Union. However, following World War II and the Suez Crisis in 1956, the United Kingdom's status as a superpower was greatly diminished; for the duration of the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union came to be generally regarded as the two remaining superpowers, dominating world affairs. At the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, only the United States of America appeared to fulfill the criteria of being a world superpower
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 7:45 pm
by andy7171
houndawg wrote:andy7171 wrote:Is he still in the Ukraine?
How many times does destroying the world multiple times over to qualify fo superpower status?
Yeah. Europe should fall any day now, right?
When did anyone say Europe was falling.
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:54 pm
by Cap'n Cat
andy7171 wrote:houndawg wrote:
Yeah. Europe should fall any day now, right?
When did anyone say Europe was falling.
Just wait for it, T and BaldNuts will be here in minute..........
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:45 pm
by CID1990
andy7171 wrote:houndawg wrote:
Yeah. Europe should fall any day now, right?
When did anyone say Europe was falling.
Europe fell in 1919 and never got up again
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:51 pm
by Chizzang
CID1990 wrote:andy7171 wrote:
When did anyone say Europe was falling.
Europe fell in 1919 and never got up again
Hilarious ^
(Italy in 1861) But otherwise a correct statement
Re: Ruble Falling: Russia Now a Travel Bargain...GObama!!!
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:51 pm
by Cap'n Cat
CID1990 wrote:andy7171 wrote:
When did anyone say Europe was falling.
Europe fell in 1919 and never got up again
Can see how someone would say that, but I think they "got back up" when they started to turn away from America in the 2000's (Dubya).
And, for that matter, one could contend that Europe, except for some advances during the 19th century, has NEVER been up and, instead, been awash in centuries of war and plague, feudalism and misery. Europe's best days may be in the future or they may be overrun by the towelheads and become the new Middle East.