Travel Briefs

By Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden, a Boeing 747 plane has been converted into a hostel, refitted with private rooms and dorm rooms. The Cockpit Suite sleeps two and has a toilet with shower. The other, smaller private rooms and dorm rooms share bathrooms in the hostel style.

Room rates are SEK350 (near $45) dorm; SEK1,200 ($154) twin-bed room; SEK1,350 ($173) private room sleeping one to three people, and SEK5,328 ($683) Cockpit Suite. Short-stay, day-room rates are available. A free transfer bus is available.

Contact Jumbo Hostel (Jumbovägen 4, SE-190 47 Stockholm...

National Geographic (888/225-5647, www.completenatgeo.com) is releasing all of its issues from October 1888 through December 2008 on either a 6-disc DVD set ($69.95) or a USB hard drive ($199.95). 

The set features an interactive browser that allows users to find articles by issue date or map location (map location browsing requires Internet access). Included are lists of articles on specific topics, a DVD feature on the magazine’s history, and a trivia quiz.

The Cadw Explorer Pass allows free admission to historic properties in Wales operated by the Welsh government conservation organization Cadw (Plas Carew, Unit 5/7, Cefn Coed, Parc Nantgarw, Cardiff, CF15 7QQ, U.K.; phone 01443 33 6000, fax 6001, www.cadw.wales.gov.uk). These include the 14th-century Caernarfon Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the Plas Mawr, a 16th-century Elizabethan townhouse.

The pass costs, for one person, £11.50 ($17) for three days or £18 ($26) for a week or, for two people, £18.50 or £30, respectively. It can be purchased at any staffed site operated...