Millennium Hotel - Abu Dhabi

Advantages: Location
Disadvantages: More of a business Hotel than for lesuire

...I decided to treat my mum and me to a short break to Abu Dhabi last year and choose the Millennium Hotel to stay in. We managed to find a taxi easily enough at Abu Dhabi airport and after a short drive (30mins) we arrived at the hotel. On first impressions I was a little disappointed. I had all these grand images in my head, but in reality the hotel seemed pretty standard. The room itself was quite basic (considering the price we paid), but it was clean and the beds were very comfortable. The hotel does have a nice swimming pool (although a little on the small side) and area for catching some sun. Getting around Abu Dhabi was fairly easy, taxi's are always available and very cheap. One trip I would recommend is the desert safari and evening barbecue. Driving up and down the sand dunes in the deserts was thrilling, I was...

shar25 27.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Millennium Hotel, Abu Dhabi

Great value half-way between Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Advantages: Peaceful, lovely pool, helpful staff, nice rooms
Disadvantages: Middle of nowhere, food not brilliant.

...I wasn't expecting too much from this hotel, but was pleasantly surprised. My husband was being sent on a few days business trip to Dubai during the school half term, and I decided to tag along at the last minute with our two kids. With only a day to go I didn't expect a great choice of hotels. Sure enough, the only hotels coming up with suitable vacancies were the Kempinski at $850 a night (no thank you!) and this one, at $170 a night. I was a bit confused though as several hotel finder sites put it as Dubai, but the address was Abu Dhabi. Looking on the map we found why, it is nearly exactly haflway between the two emirates. As my husband was working quite nearby and we had a hire car, this was not a problem. If you come from Dubai, it is about 40 minutes drive from the airport (but could be longer if you are unfortunte...

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Abu Garcia 6500 one of the best reels you will use.

Advantages: Strong and a nice size.
Disadvantages: None really

...Many people who fish dislike using the multiplier reel and stick to the fixed spool type ( type with bail arm that you move over the top of the spool). Although the fixed spool type is very easy to use and most probably one of the first reels we all use, the multiplier, once mastered, is a much better reel. The ideal starter is the Abu Garcia 6500. Not only a starter reel but one you will keep for ever. These reels are strong and nice in size without being too big. These reels come in different models but are all very similar. They come with level wind, which loads the line on to the reel in an even way to save you doing it manually. and so the line leaves the reel in an even way to increase distance. These reels can be used on your beachcaster from the beach or for use on a boat, but not really for wreck fishing. Spares for these...

Bluetoff 25.08.2009 · Read review
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abu simbel

Advantages: absolutely breathtaking - far better than the pyramids
Disadvantages: expensive

...for several seconds. Then the only words that could be heard were "wow!" This temple is the most inspiring and impressive in Egypt. Even inside you walk down the passage-way flanked on both sides by statues that stand about 15 feet high. The sheer magnitude brought tears to my eyes and even now I can feel the emotion that I felt on that first glimpse. We took a visit to the pyramids a few days later, and what a let down after seeing Abu Simbel they were. It is worth going to Egypt just to see Abu Simbel. If you go to Egypt and don't see it you are missing out BIG TIME....

sekhmetscat 07.12.2002 · Read review
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BE Unlimited

Advantages: High Speed Internet at Low Speed prices
Disadvantages: supplied wiress routers are sub-standard

...Generally speaking most internet service providers are a bunch of cowboys. They?ll sign you up for 12 to 18 months, promising download speeds superior to those of their competitors but once you?ve signed up, the reality is that you will most likely get a fraction of the speeds that they claimed you would get. The only thing that can combat such practices is healthy competition and luckily that's where BE Unlimited come in. This is going to be a long review but bear with me. Hopefully at the end of it, worst case scenario is that you may understand how to get the best out of your current service provider. Ideally you will see the light and do what I did and move to BE Unlimited. Who Is BE? BE Unlimited is one of the lesser known broadband suppliers who I migrated to after having been a customer of Orange for a number of years...

Soundsexciting 13.03.2009 · Read review
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Being Frank

Advantages: A good sound
Disadvantages: No Weslife's usual type of music

...I became a fan of Westlife when they were formed in 1998. Ten years on I would still class myself as a fan of theirs. The simple reason for this is because their music is so easy to listen to and I can't honestly say that there is one song that they have produced that I have hated. I will admit that there have been a couple that I'm not as fond of but there isn't any that I physically can't listen to. Now I know that the Westlife boys aren't exactly everyone's cup of tea and that their remakes of classic songs and on stage 'moves' don't always make them popular but this factor doesn't bother me in the slightest, as the boys themselves can actually sing, not only singly but also as a harmonised unit and it is this I think that should be focused on more than it often is. Westlife is an pop band that initially had five members...

MI9to5 12.12.2008 · Read review
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Would you want to be John Malkovich?

Advantages: A modern comedy with a twist.
Disadvantages: Non in my opinion!

...Review of ?Being John Malkovich? , DVD format. Production Year: 1999. Genre- Comedy . Classification: 15 years and over ASIN B00004U8OC .Run time 112 minutes. The DVD Being John Malkovich is from Universal Studios, a modern comedy with a sci-fi/fantasy twist. The DVD I am reviewing is a one disc standard edition, with a few special features such as theatrical trailers, cast interviews and special effects information. I have to admit that I do not generally watch special features or bonus material on DVDs as I do not find it adds to my enjoyment as a rule. Cast Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, W. Earl Brown, John Malkovich, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Charlie Sheen Director: Spike Jonze The Plot Craig Schwartz, played by John Cusack, is a struggling street...

brittle1906 16.09.2009 · Read review
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Just Be Kind

Advantages: Shows the joy of filmmaking.
Disadvantages: A little sentimental in places.

...sentimentality. If you?ve seen ?The Science of Sleep? you?ll know all about the director?s passion for weird and wonderful ramshackle props that look like they?ve been made by kids. But here they are more successfully embedded in the story, as the players try to recreate the effects of the blockbusters they are remaking. The best example of this is a prolonged tracking shot where Alma sets one effect rolling and we move through the sets of various movies as characters dive in and out of roles and films. It gives a nice flow to what would otherwise be a generic montage. It is also symptomatic of the sense of fun inherent in Gondry?s filmmaking. There are other moments as we watch the ?sweded? versions of the films, which show the memorable bits from a number of pictures. The films-within-a-film look as cheap as chips ? shot on grainy, scratchy video...

afy9mab 06.11.2009 · Read review
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Sailing Through The Desert

Advantages: Winter sunshine combined with culture and comfort
Disadvantages: Terrorist threats can deter some visitors but the Egyptians are security aware

...The Nubians call it 'The Nubian Sea' while the rest of Egypt named it Lake Nasser. Not surprising the Nubians call it that as in order to create the Lake in the 1960s the Nasser government penned up the Nile behind the High Dam and the dammed waters flooded the Nubian Desert area in Upper Egypt to create a 300 mile long inland sea. This meant that forty Nubian villages and towns and forty thousand Nubians had to be re-housed as their homes vanished beneath the rising waters. But it wasn't just the Nubian people who were in danger of being submerged -but many of the ancient Nubian monuments south of Aswan including the most famous and imposing 3000 year old temples and statues of Ramesees 11 at Abu Simbel. Once the High Dam was built, an amazing feat by Soviet engineers, the Nubian Desert began to slowly fill with Nile waters...

mornev 18.02.2004 · Read review
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CK BE - IT BE OK

Advantages: Pleasant fragrance for boys AND girls
Disadvantages: Probably suits men better

...I SMELL........wait, don't leave. When I say I smell, I don't mean as in Pepe L'Peu, well not usually. So, how DO I smell? - By inhaling through my nostrils and engaging my olfactory sensors, just like everybody else. (the old ones are the best) I'll start again. I smell.....nice. I've just had a shower, shampoo, shave and a sh....let's not go there. I'm all spruced up and washed up (or is that washed out), groomed within an inch of my life, and smelling like.....well, like I've been liberally doused with Calvin Klein. Which isn't altogether surprising, as I have been splashing it about a bit. CK BE is a fragrance for men and women and as I definitely qualify in one of those categories, I think I'm entitled to wear some. So why am I all beautified and fragrant? - because, Mrs P is treating me to bit of nosh this evening...

proxam 07.03.2003 (27.10.2003) · Read review
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