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...

Every four years in Landshut, Germany, a historical pageant is held with about 5,000 participants dressed in period attire reenacting the celebrated 1475 wedding of Hedwig, a Polish princess, and Georg, a son of Landshut’s powerful Wittelsbach family. It is to be held June 27-July 19, 2009. Admission is €10 ($13); certain events such as jousting cost extra. Tickets online at www.landshuter-hochzeit.de.

With the “+Paris Offer,” Air France (800/237-2747, www.airfrance.us) now offers a free stopover in Paris on any flight between the US and almost any other Air France destination in Europe, the Middle East, India or Africa. 

In either or both directions, the stopover is included at no additional cost, whether flying in first, business or economy class and no matter what fare is paid.