Travel Briefs

London’s historic hotel The Savoy (Strand, London, WC2R 0ET, phone +44 20 7836 4343, www.the-savoy.com), which first opened in 1889, reopened on Oct. 10 after nearly three years of restoration. All 268 rooms now include modern amenities. A new glass dome has been installed on the Thames foyer. The hotel’s frieze is restored.

Nightly rates range from £350 (near $540) up to, for the Royal Suite, £10,000 ($15,455).

Through the Thailand Longstay Company, travelers can arrange with the Thai government for stays of up to a year after a standard 30-day tourist visa expires.

The company has many packages, ranging from the 6,000-baht (near $183) “Silver Package,” which includes a mobile phone with SIM card plus fast-track at both Suvarnabhumi and Phuket airports, to the 72,000-baht ($2,200) “Blue Diamond” package, offering the mobile SIM, a multireentry visa for one year, accident and health insurance, medical checkups and limousine pickup at Suvarnabhumi.

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The delta of the Geumgang River is one of Korea’s main breeding grounds for migratory birds. Just opened there in the Seongdeok-ri, Seongsan-myeon, Gunsan-si, area is the Geumgang Migratory Bird Observatory (phone 82-63450-6273).

It has observatories on the ninth and 11th floors; a revolving restaurant on the 10th floor; lectures and information on birds in the basement; year-round displays plus a screening room on the first floor; special exhibits on the second floor, and cultural events on the third.

The observatory is open 10 a.m.-7 p.m. most of the year and 10-6 during...