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daily 8am-9pm) provides assistance on the entire country. The train station hosts a
Tourist Office ( & 01/433-9475 ), and there's an Airport Centre ( & 051/606-172 ).
CITY TOURS & GUIDED WALKS
You can join one of the city tours provided by Ljubljana Tourist Information Cen-
tre (Stritarjeva ulica; & 01/306-1215; www.ljubljana-tourism.si).
FAST FACTS: Ljubljana
American Express Kolodvorska 16; & 01/430-7720; Monday to Friday 8am to
5pm.
Area Code For Ljubljana, dial & 01.
Banks & Currency Exchange Exchange is available at banks and also at post
offices. If you arrive by train, there's a facility at the station open until 10pm.
ATMs are an easy way to draw euros throughout the day.
Drugstores Round-the-clock service at Lekarna Miklosic (Miklosiceva 24; & 01/
231-4558 ).
Hospital The city's main hospital is situated at Bohoriceva 4; & 01/232-3060.
Internet Access If for some reason there's no Internet at your hotel, head for
the Slovenian Tourist Information Center on Krekov trg.
Police Dial & 113. Report any incidents at Trdinova 10 ( & 01/432-0341 ).
Postal Services Central: Slovenska 32; Monday to Friday 7am to 8pm. Adjacent
to the stations: Trg Osvobodilne fronte; Monday to Friday 7am to midnight,
Saturday 7am to 6pm, Sunday 9am to noon.
WHERE TO STAY
VERY EXPENSIVE
If you choose to research further you may come across the city's most expensive and,
arguably, most glamorous hotel, Lev (www.hotel-lev.si), but note that it suffers from
an alarming location on a busy central intersection and, frankly, lacks character.
Domina Grand Media Hotel & Casino When it opened in 2004, this Italian-
owned monolith was heralded as the world's most technologically advanced hotel,
offering guest rooms packed with enough electronic gadgetry to make even the most
hardened computer geek shriek with delight. From touch-screen pads on the doors
(where you can activate an electronic DO NOT DISTURB sign) to computer-simulated
fireplaces, it's a haven for techno-savvy travelers and business folk (you can even make
free international telephone calls, thanks to the miracle of broadband). Despite the
hotel's poor location on a busy city intersection in a building that's more office block
than anything else, once you're inside, things don't look quite so bad, particularly once
you're away from the cold marble lobby (escalators lead down to the casino and doors
open on to a convention center). Guest rooms are spacious, carpeted, and design-con-
scious, with patterned textiles and dark wood furniture in a style that's probably best
described as “formal Italian modernism”; closets and bathrooms are large. Suites are
even more wired and spacious, with massive plasma screens against the walls and walk-
in cupboards. Guests make use of a shuttle for the center.