La-boutique, la expense!

Advantages: Wide product range
Disadvantages: Expensive

...Review of www.la-boutique.co.uk La-boutique is an online department store stocking cosmetics, aromatherapy, lingerie, beauty products and all manner of giftable items. In the run up to Christmas, this site is bound to gain in popularity, not least for it's vast stock list. **The site** The site is easy to navigate, if a little dated in design. The products appear in a jumbled, haphazard fashion, with toiletry bags appearing in a random fashion next to facial spritzers, in turn nestling amongst tanning products and men's aftershave. The top of the home page has the usual Home, Search, T&Cs, Contact, Cart and Checkout links above a dull grey banner. The banner declares some of the names and products stocked. To the right hand side of the home page is a confusing mismatched list of links and buttons. These include FAQs, Blog...

brittle1906 04.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of La-Boutique.co.uk

The Sexiest Boutique on the Net

Advantages: good range of reasonably priced games
Disadvantages: none

...Many of you will probably be familiar with Electronics Boutique as a name on the High Street or Shopping Mall at least. If you don’t I will give a brief description of what they sell, here it comes… Electronics Boutique is in the highly lucrative computer games retail market and they sell games for all the major consoles and formats on the market. This is not going to be a review about them, but this is going to be a review about their website. Let’s go then… … oh by the way the website is www.eb.uk.com, phew nearly forgot that then, that would have been a mistake! ** Home Page ** The home page of a website has to be good otherwise potential customers will either think “What a load of Rubbish” and leave or customers will find it hard to get at the information that they require...

ia_young 21.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of eb.uk.com (Electronics Boutique)

The Definitive Report on Electronics Boutique

Advantages: Well laid out, quite popular in the city centre
Disadvantages: Run of the mill store, nothing significant

...Electronics Boutique is another run of the mill store which stocks DVD`s, CD`s, games and videos. There is absolutely nothing grand or spectacular about the stores. However they do supply there goods slightly cheaper than Virgin and HMV. THE LAYOUT Unfortunately this is the main thing which lets the store down. I find that Electronics Boutique`s stores usually do not contain very much flash exhibits or interesting lighting techniques, the stores sometime don`t even play the music on sale loud enough to be able to hear it. THE PRICES This is the best thing about Electronic Boutique. The prices aren`t much cheaper but if you care about a 50p or a pound difference then shop here. It is especially good if your buying quite a lot of items. It really adds up. THE STAFF Electronics Boutique is usually staffed by 20...

spartacus_kev 09.06.2003 · Read review
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Review of Electronics Boutique (Shop)

The Perfect Boutique Hotel

Advantages: Fabulous decor; impeccable customer service;
Disadvantages: I had to leave!

...Last week my boyfriend turned 26 and I wanted to surprise him and take him away somewhere swanky for a short break. We both work very hard and long hours so I was after somewhere where we could relax and switch off from everything for a couple of days and just feel a bit pampered. After lots of research, Dublin seemed like the ideal place and after checking out some reviews on tripadvisor, The Dylan hotel looked like the perfect choice, being rated the 2nd best hotel in the city. The Dylan is a 5 star boutique hotel based slightly outside of Dublin's main centre in a 19th-century townhouse that used to house the nurses of the nearby hospital. It's located on the South side of town by the canal in a quiet side street in a residential part of town, so you're unlikely to be bothered by any noise, but is a quick and very straightforward...

bubblegum_princess 26.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Dylan Hotel, Dublin

Fantastic boutique haven

Advantages: Greal location, friendly, good food, well decorated
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

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cyberwilma 22.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Sea Spray Boutique Hotel, Brighton

Brilliant reviews for Boutique hotels

Advantages: Lots of honest reviews on interesting hotels
Disadvantages: Hotels can be quite expensive to stay at

...** Please note that this review is on volume 2, which is not the book in the picture** Mr and Mrs Smith is essentially a travel guide, but not in the same way the AA is a travel guide. This book only looks at a handful of hotels and they must be 4 or 5 * or boutique hotels. It is a very stylish book and can be picked up at most book shops for about £20 ? £25. You may think this is quite expensive, but an added benefit is that in every book you receive a Mr and Mrs Smith card. All you have to do is register the card on the website and it allows you to receive free gifts and discounts at the hotels they feature, both in the book and on their website www.mrandmrssmith.com. The book starts with an introduction from the people at Mr and Mr Smith and explain that is has been going for nearly 5 years now. On the second page is where...

wolfey59 20.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mr. and Mrs. Smith - UK & Ireland Hotel Collection - Juliet Kinsman

A San Frantastic Boutique Hotel

Advantages: The price, the location, the staff, the rooms, everything
Disadvantages: ...our shower was like needles

...Introduction: So, we're stuck in Albuquerque, and have pretty much seen about as much desert as we can take. We've 'done' all there is to do. With a spare weekend on our hands, we decided to take advantage of our Geographical positioning and take a trip to somewhere on the west coast. I've always wanted to see San Francisco, and after looking into flights, we found some bargains. So off we go. We looked for reasonable hotels, and came across The Petite Auberge, it wasn't the cheapest we found, but it had an appealing charm that won us over, so we booked. Company info: The Petite Auberge is part of the Joie De Vivre chain, I found this information on their website: "Joie de Vivre Hotels is California's largest boutique hotel company. Started in San Francisco in 1987 by Chip Conley, while in his mid-twenties, Joie de...

MarcoG 11.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Petite Auberge, San Francisco

A little piece of Boutique heaven!

Advantages: Cosy, nice rooms and brilliant location
Disadvantages: None

...I saw so many hotels on my recent trip to Paris and many of them were of a very good standard. I saw quite a few of the 4 star range and many of these I quite liked. However I only saw a few 3 star hotels in comparison and the difference was quite big in terms of the standard overall and the amenities on offer. One of these 3 star ones that I saw was this one and I have to say out of all the 3 star ones I saw this was my favourite! This is also my last review of the hotels I saw whilst in Paris. The hotel: The hotel is what is known as a 'boutique'. It is small but of a good standard and generally has a lower rating because it doesn't have as many facilities to offer guests. With just 38 rooms this hotel is certainly compact and this is what adds to its charms. Location: The hotel is located on the left bank in the 6th...

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Review of Hotel Le Clos Medicis, Paris

Stylish and Well located

Advantages: Friendly staff, good location
Disadvantages: Building works can be off putting initially

...The Zara Boutique Hotel is located in Downtown Budapest onSo utca. It's a smart hotel although there are some building works going on at that end of the town at the moment so it can look a little run down at first site. We had an initial panic when we could here loud cutters outside our window when we got to our room but all work stopped at a sensible 5/6pm and didn't start up again until around 9/10am. The Lobby is very airy and inviting and the reception staff were very amiable. Our room was a decent size (room 107) with a nice bathroom and very large walk in shower (no bath). The shower was a welcome relief at the end of a long day slogging round Budapest! The Hotel is located pretty much at the bottom end of Vaci utca, the main shopping street that cuts through Budapest, and its also 1 road away from the Danube. The location...

jonescraiga 11.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Zara Boutique Hotel

(•¿•) I TRIED TRIMMING MY PATCH (•¿•)

Advantages: The promise of feeling healthier and invigorated
Disadvantages: Cost £20 for 10 patches

...they are squeaky clean, then once dried I massage them with some aromatherapy oil and lastly I decided to stick a patch on each sole. I fought to open the large resalable bag that the patches come in and ended up ripping it so it isn't resalable any more. I removed two patches and gasped at their size. I haven't got a ruler handy but they are huge. Being a bit frugal and as the detox programme cost £20 from body boutique I think it is expensive. Because the patches are so large I decided to see if I could cut each one at least in half because you only get 10 patches in the box. Because the patch is a sachet of dry ingredients this is impossible to do The patches came away from their backing paper really easily and according to the instructions all I had to do was place in the centre of my foot and press firmly to make the patch...

COOOEEE 02.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Body Boutique Patch Factor