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Portsmouth International Travel Bug Hotel Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/17/2008
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Portsmouth has two ferry ports that offer connections to the Isle of Wight, France & Spain.

The TB hotel is conveniently located just off the Broadmarsh slip road, which is easily reached from both the M27 & A3(M) motorways that are the main routes into and out of Portsmouth. It also offers a quick route back onto these motorways.


The cache can be found within a three minute walk from the suggested parking and cachers should not get muddy while accessing the cache (Ammo Waterproof Tube, approx 60 CM long).

The 'hotel' is primarily for the movement of trackables that wish to leave the UK or have arrived in the UK. But domestic travellers are also very welcome to check-in and take a well-earned rest before continuing on their adventures within the UK.

Cachers are invited to visit as often as they like, but please remember to log subsequent visits as a 'note' and not a 'find' on the cache page.

Initial Contents: selection of trackables, a log book and pen.

Visitez notre hôtel TB svp et déposez vos objets voyageurs pour leur distribution ailleurs en Angleterre. Si vous voyagerez en Europe, svp retirez d'ici des objets voyageurs pour les prendre avec vous. Merci.

Kommen Sie bitte und besuchen Sie unser TB Hotel und legen Sie Ihre trackable Artikel für den Vertrieb überall in England ab. Wenn Sie nach Europa reisen, sammeln Sie bitte trackable Artikel, um mit Ihnen zu nehmen. Danke.

Por favor venga y visite nuestro hotel TB y deposite sus artículos trackable para la distribución en todas partes de la Inglaterra. Si usted viaja a Europa, por favor coleccione artículos trackable para tomar con usted. Gracias.

Por favor venha e visite o nosso hotel TB e deposite os seus itens trackable da distribuição em todas as partes de Inglaterra. Se você estiver viajando à Europa, por favor reúna itens trackable para tomar com você. Obrigado.

Hotel News

27th May. 2011. Responding to popular request and making this cache available to all.

11th Aug. 2010. Due to the cache having been plundered by trackable thieves, the cache has been relocated to a new spot. I am also changing the cache to only being available to Premium and Charter Members.Update:24/04/11 'pirates of penzance' has just loged these missing trackables out of this cache after 7 months!!!!!!

PLEASE CAN YOU INCLUDE THE NAMES OF THE TRACKABLES YOU LEAVE AND TAKE IN YOUR LOGS - THANKYOU.

5th Feb. 2009. I’m responding to comments that I have received, that it is difficult to tell which trackables a cacher might be able to help if they are just popping in and haven’t had time to look up the mission for every trackable on GC.com. Therefore I’m proposing that when dropping off a trackable, which doesn’t have a mission clearly attached. To stick one of the following coloured dot stickers that are available within the cache, to either the geocoin/wallet or the TB’s dog tag to indicate its destination : -

Black – UK or ‘travel from cache to cache'
Blue – Europe (hopefully via the channel port)
Red – Rest of the world (hopefully via an airport TB hotel?)

I’ll be interested in your feedback as to the effectiveness of this system, which I have tried to keep as simple and quick as possible. The other alternative which I have encountered, is to maintain a register within the cache of all trackables with in,out dates and destinations which I find a little laborious. Thanks for your visits and comments so far and please keep those trackables moving.

19/10/11 A BIG thanks to Bettyspaghetti who e-mailed me to ask if she could take more than one trackable to the US. To which I replied please take six as I’m sure their owners will be thrilled. Please remember to always leave one trackable in the cache so that no one has a wasted journey.

14/02/09 – A BIG thank you goes out to Karhut who picked up some trackables and deposited them in Bermuda! That's another 3419.2 miles for those lucky trackables and is currently the highest number of miles recorded for a single drop off directly from this TB hotel todate! Unless you know different?
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)