Bolton Institute

Advantages: Good close knit community
Disadvantages: Not as high profile as some would like, still struggling to recieve university status

...I spent four long enjoyable years studying at Bolton Institute. The course I was studying involved a year in industry if your wondering why four years and not three. In my time at Bolton I studied for a degree in Civil Engineering. I started my industrial training year and ended up getting a full time job, thus I had to complete my fianl year through day release. This was allowed due to the flexibility of Institute and the wide variety of courses and modes of study available. At the time Bolton was one of the only places that offered both full time, sandwich and part time courses in Civil Engineering. Bolton itself it a great little town, close to the big city amenities of Manchester and yet everything you need is here in the town itself. The nightlife is outstanding with a wide variety of bars, pubs and clubs, together with a newly...

hepialid 24.08.2000 · Read review
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Bolton last drop village

Advantages: Not far from Bolton retail park, infinity pool, facitlies are excellent
Disadvantages: staff weren't as helpful as other hotels

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pa2539 28.08.2007 (16.08.2007) · Read review
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Review of Macdonald Last Drop Village Hotel & Spa, Bolton

University of Bolton (updated again!).

Advantages: good facilities
Disadvantages: institute, library not 24hr

...I was a student at Bolton Institute for 5 years! I first came into Bolton, not really knowing what to expect. I started my course and everybody was extremely helpful and flexible. Tutors do really help you when you need to. I studied at both Chadwick and Deane, and they are two completly different campuses. In case you didn't read the title, it's a university. Although it is called an institute (not sure why), it is a university that is recognised as such. The two campuses Deane is big and has most of the facilities. It has a cantine which serves very tasty food, although not always the healthiest choice. The main library is situates in this campus also. It has a smokers eating area which also serves food, but mainly snack type food. The Students Union, most of the societies and on of the union shops are at Deane campus...

chinesa11 08.03.2004 (24.02.2005) · Read review
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De Vere Whites Hotel, Bolton

Advantages: Impressive luxury hotel
Disadvantages: Not central - other than for the football

...I have stayed at this hotel on three occasions, mainly through attending work related conferences at the attached Bolton Wanderers Football Club. To look at from the outside it is a tad strange, a football stadium with a hotel built into one side - please don't be put off, if you are not a Bolton fan, as soon as you enter the hotel lobby you can forget all about the beautiful game. If you are there for the football, there is absolutely no better location! The lobby is an impressive affair with large reception desk, the staff at which I have always found efficient, and a beautiful imposing sweeping staircase. Once checked in, it is up to the rooms, but on the way please check out those great carpets that flow effortlessly and seemingly join free around the communal areas and down the corridors. The rooms are of avarage size, not too...

dickyj 21.03.2007 · Read review
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Peter Kay.Live at the Bolton Albert Halls

Advantages: Great laughs throughout
Disadvantages: ???

...I bought this dvd about 3 months ago on Ebay. After loving his hit series 'PHOENIX NIGHTS',and watching 'Live at the Bolton Albert Halls',about two years previously I knew he was a class act,with a unique comedy style of his own. It wasnt up until just randomly coming across it on Ebay that I was reminded what a great and hilarious talent he is. I payed only 0.99p for the dvd,which had been used previously,but had come in great condition. Only yesterday,I saw it in HMV for 6 pounds,which is great value for such a great installment of laughs. The DVD is called 'Peter Kay,Live at the Bolton Albert Halls,as part of his 'Mum wants a Bungalow Tour'. Bolton being his home town,it was bound to be a sell-out It's filmed as part of his sell out ,180 date tour that spanned 9 months and was seen by 300,000 people. Many people who are seen...

rosierozi 01.01.2008 · Read review
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Bolton ? Started to go backwards

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...Everyone knows that when Bolton play at home in the Reebok stadium someone will get sent off ? it?s guaranteed. I used to love watching Bolton play and was very disappointed when they got relegated, but I can?t help feeling that they have started to go backwards. Anytime they get a good player, they sell him off to make a quick profit. The good old days of the premiership must seem a million miles away to Bolton fans who even got to the League Cup final against Liverpool. Whatever the Bolton manager and board of directors do this season, they are going to have to radically change their attitude towards their club and get them back into the premiership....

robsephton 12.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Bolton Wanderers

Bolton can go back up

Advantages: Good squad and work well as a team
Disadvantages: Did not spend enough whilst in the top flight to stay there

...Bolton Wanderers are another of the First Division teams around at the moment who have briefly brushed shoulders with the top teams in the country for a season or two in the Premiership before being once again returned to the First Division. They won the First division last in 1997, catapulting them into the top flight, but fell back down swiftly. Previously in their history they have won the FA cup 4 times, most recently being in 1958, and have in total reached 7 FA cup finals. The closest they have ever come to winning the league cup was in 1995 when they reached the final but were unable to capitalize. They were indeed a second divsion team until 1993 when they returned to their (probably rightful) station as a top 8 team in Division 1 by performing well and coming 2nd in the league that season. The Reebok stadium is relatively...

BIGHORSE 31.01.2001 · Read review
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A little bit of Italy in Middlebrook, Bolton

Advantages: Good food, varied menu, good atmosphere
Disadvantages: Not the very best in Italian food

...This is the kind of restaurant you might visit for a lunch break on a day when you're shopping, or before a trip to the cinema. Because it's located in the middle of a retail park, and near to Bolton's Reebok stadium - so on the one hand it's easy to get to, and you won't usually have difficulties parking, except on days when Bolton Wanderers are playing at home, but on the other hand, it's hardly an intimate, special dining experience. . The interior décor is very unusual - with the bar area done out like an Italian street, complete with washing lines overhead, and the dining area done like the downstairs of an Italian house, kitchen area and the lot - and it works very well. You're not served by staff who look like, an Italian mama, though. It is just a restaurant chain, after all. The food is good, and reasonably priced...

radamson 07.05.2001 (04.05.2001) · Read review
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Review of Mama Amalfi, Middlebrook, Bolton

A sound of laughter was heard in Bolton!!!

Advantages: a great stand up routine
Disadvantages: sides hurt so much for laffing

...... Bolton's Albert Hall woz the venue for this wonderful piece of stand-up comedy from Mr Peter Kay. This comedy routine made grown men cry, tissues were handed out like sweets in a cinema. I did not see anyone go to the restroom during the whole performance. It was that good, nobody wanted to miss anything, lucky for me It was all caught on D...VD. Peter's excitment and energy during this performance was remarkable. It would of been a decent workout for anyone. It was all plain to see as peter's shirt became darker throughout the show. It was all part of the fun, the front row was soaked....they loved it. What I like about Peter's....(Well. I call him Peter as now I feel I know him now) is he uses his family members as characters. Simple yet very effective. Definately the best way to capture the audience. He makes Paul Daniels...

sleepnwork 02.04.2007 · Read review
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Finally Bolton's year

Advantages: Good management, Colin Hendry (what can I say, the guy's amazing)
Disadvantages: An apparant disability to prevent goals from being scored in the dying minutes of games resulting in stupid losses

...As a friend of mine once put it, football is simply a bunch of sweaty men running round on a pitch chasing a ball. And while she may be right in many respects, there is a lot more to the game than that. (Like Portugese men in shorts perhaps!! lol) Football brings people together in a great deal of respects, a common goal and aim is expressed by the supporters of one team and it can be a great way of overcoming internal divisions. A good example of this can be found in the way the country can come together for an international match. What does any of this have to do with the Trotters one might ask? Well, truthfully, nothing, it just seemed like a good introduction. What I really want to say is that finally it looks like it's going to be Bolton's year. Big Sam seems to have turned the team around, both in terms of ability and of morale...

Pandora666 11.04.2001 · Read review
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