Getting a bit annoyed by the worldwide recession knocking on to our doors, we have decided to look for the new marketing ideas over the ocean.
The friend recently told me about a new commercial prepared by vacation rental just before 2010 Super Bowl competitions.

The idea is - the man in the funny clothes appears from nowhere and make a mess with the luggage of the poor family, trying to tell them into saving a small fortune by choosing
the vacation rental instead of the hotel they've already chosen.
I was a little disappointed at the end,as I expected the man to fly, all in all, US has a long tradition of superheroes.
Wearing the superhero clothes, known as unitard commits.

The hilarious unitard gets the help in the person of the classic salesman and both, yet in different way convince to use the service provided by Vacation Rental.org.

This picture comes from the video published on the pages of vacation rental commercial.

Suddenly, when I recalled Mel Gibson's troubles in ' What Women Want ?', I got the enlightment
and realized that the man in tights is not a bad idea at all. Let's take away some age and pounds from our superhero, make some holes in the unitard and put a nice female blond inside.

Anyway, If the idea works, next year expect the big groups of Polish unitards in front of the Super Bowl stadium - "Stop! Do not waste your hard earned money for such a barbarian play, go to civilized Krakow instead".
I wonder.

Disclaimer:
If anyone doubts that this is a sponsored article - we do not do anything for free. We hope that Vacation Rentals is going to send us one of these priceless unitard suits ( green if possible, please ).

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In August 1933 Roman Polański was born to a Polish Jews family in Paris.
Three years later the family moved back to Kraków, where in 1939 witnessed the outbreak of World War II.
When the Kraków Ghetto has been createn in 1941, they moved to the house of his grandmother in Podgórze district.
It was the narrow house of Rękawka street with some windows outgoing to the side of Rynek Podgórski and neighbour church of St. Joseph.
Before liquidation of the Ghetto in 1943 Roman Polański managed to escape, survived the war with the help of Polish Roman Catholic families.



His mother and 18-years old sister died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the father has been sent to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria, and luckily survived.
After the War his father found Roman and both returned to Kraków, where Polański finished Art School to enter the National Film School in Lodz, where he directed his first movies.

The Holocaust personal memories from Krakow influenced his Oscar awarded movie 'The Pianist' with Adrien Brody.
The film tells the War story of Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman, who witnessed the rise and fall of Uprising in Warsaw Ghetto, and after the war became the pianist in Polish National Orchestra.

Roman Polański has visited Kraków several times recently, and donated quite a sum for renovation and development of National Museum Exhibition in the 'Apteka Pod Orłem' house, where during the Ghetto existence the doctor Tadeusz Pankiewicz run his pharmacy helping numbers of Jews to escape Holocaust.

[On photo: house of Polański's grandmother at Rękawka Street, Podgórze, Kraków]

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After more than a year of waiting the private company has finally completed all needed permissions, and people in Krakow can enjoy.. the BALLOON FLIGHTS.


Krakow as the first city in Poland, and one of few in Europe features regular balloon experience.
It is actually not the full flight, but moving up and down, the balloon stays 150 m above the ground for about 10 m, and the pleasure costs 35 zl ( $10 ) adult with children and senior discounts.
The starting point is on Vistula river boulevards between bridge Grunwaldzki and church 'Skałka'.
Enjoy !

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HOSCARS (HOStelworld Customer Annual Ratings) is the award voted by customers of Hostelworld.com, who choose among around 20 000 properties featured on that site.
This year over 800 000 customers worldwide rated hostels on six criteria - location, staff,character, security, fun and cleanliness.

This year among top ten hostels there are two from Krakow, on 5th position Greg-Tom Hostel, and Flamingo Hostel on 9th.


Last year Greg-Tom Hostel won Small Hostels category, this year besides 6th overall position, scored high in 10 Most Boutique Hostels, and in Security category.

The hostel features modern bathrooms with massage showers, free internet and 3 huge plasma TV.
The activities list sound promising:
Monday- Vodka Tasting
Tuesday- Polish Special Dinner
Wednesday- Tour The Pub
Thursday- Vodka Tasting
Friday- Mad Dogs Evening
Saturday-Polish Special Dinner
Sunday- Salad Buffet
but as the hostel accepts groups only up to 6 people, the activities overall are harmless for environment ( no stag).

Last years winner, Flamingo Hostel dropped to the 9th position, but keeps the high standards, and features ree internet, free breakfast, free tea and coffee all day, free linen.
Also the location, few metres from the Main Market Suare in Krakow is unbeatable.

Congratulations for Krakow Hostels, and here is the full list of winners:

1. Traveller’s House, Lisbon, Portugal
2. Rossio Hostel, Lisbon, Portugal
3. Lisbon Lounge, Lisbon, Portugal
4. The Riverhouse Backpackers, Cardiff, Wales
5. Greg-Tom Hostel, Krakow, Poland
6. Sitting On The City Walls Courtyard House, Beijing, China
7. Academy Hostel, Florence, Italy
8. Goodnight Backpackers, Lisbon, Portugal
9. Flamingo Hostel, Krakow, Poland
10. Mambo Tango Backpackers Hostel, Barcelona, Spain


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