A terrific resource for booking rooms in Sarajevo is hostelbookers.com. They list 14 options for Sarajevo, including some of the large hotels, but mostly they really are small pension-type places, and the prices seem very good. I found a room for two nights at the Guesthouse Bašcaršija (hostelkonak@hotmail.com), which was recommended by the Lonely Planet Western Balkans guide (as noted on the booking website) and booked it online in about two minutes. Their confirmation e-mail was particularly informative. Unfortunately in Bosnia and Herzegovinia they only serve Sarajevo and Jahorina.

In Mostar, the place to stay seems to be the Motel Mostar (www.motel-mostar.de), which has a gorgeous website (in four languages) showing their newly constructed buildings, done in the local style rather than in a hideous modern hotel fashion. It looks like the opposite of a “motel” as most would imagine it. Unfortunately they are full for tonight.

Instead we are staying at the Pansion Most (00387 (0)36 552 528; fax 552 660; no e-mail or website as far as I can tell yet), which is also recommended by the LP. They only had two single rooms or a room with a double bed–which the receptionist amusingly referred to as a “French bed”–so we took the two single rooms, for 50 KM each. I hope it will be pleasant. I have had enough hotel room searching for today; it took me about an hour to book these two rooms. So, on to a new topic!