Manchester Britannia Airport Hotel

Advantages: free parking
Disadvantages: see review

...I would like to take this opportunity in sharing my experience in the Manchester Airport Hotel. My friend and I had booked a room (no. 321) for one night in the Manchester Airport Hotel for 11th August 2007 at the cost of 49 British pounds. Upon unpacking I noticed that of the two towels provided in the bathroom, the smaller one, showed a large very yellow stain running down the middle of it, the larger one was acceptably clean. One additional large towel could be located in the wardrobe. I rang reception and requested further towels from the young lady answering the phone. Within 2 minutes the night Manager rang back and suggested that I "look in the wardrobe". Having stated that I had indeed already done this, the "manager" started a debate with me. Here I quote from the hotel services hotel information brochure "An additional set...

Lurdle 02.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Britannia Airport Hotel, Manchester

Rule Britannia, Britannia Rule The World..NOT!!!

Advantages: Close To Manchester Airport, Current Staff Are Very Good
Disadvantages: Tatty, Dirty, Smelly, Terrible Food, Awful Drinks

...Having stayed at The Britannia Country House Hotel, about a mile up the road from this one, I would not have chosen to stay at another Britannia Hotel if my life depended on it, however we were working here and had to stick it out for a couple of nights in October. I have to admit I was expecting the worst. First Impressions As you approach the hotel you are me with one of the worst looking hotels you have ever set eyes on. I am not exaggerating, this hotel really is an eyesore, it is simply a huge mass of pebble dashed concrete, and resembles a block of ugly high rise flats, it is also about 100 meters from the M56, which is handy for getting to the airport amongst other things, but also adds to the eyesore and, obvously, noise factor. It has a multi storey car park to the left of it and an open air car park to the rear...

johnny040676 04.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Britannia Airport Hotel, Manchester

Ruling in Manchester now too?

Advantages: reasonable price if booked in advance
Disadvantages: none really

...As with my previous recent reviews this forms a part of my need to get a life ethos, and even though I live a short distance from Manchester on a planned night out on the town I decided it was better worth my time staying over than drunkely seeking the nightbus home. So armed with my trusty cashback paying link to a hotelbooking site I found this one for the night. I paid £50 for a doubleroom with no food included, the hotels standard rate is around £66 so a considerable saving especially given I only booked a few days before I wanted to stay. The hotel itself is seconds from Picadilly Gardens which is the location of a large bus station and a tram stop which runs between the two main train stations, it is also a few minutes walk from the main Bus Station in the city where the National Express coaches stop. The hotel has...

scuba_angel 01.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Britannia Hotel Manchester, Manchester

Rule Britannia!

Advantages: Cheap! Central Location.
Disadvantages: Soft Pillows, dirty bathroom.

...expensive. So, it was time for some shopping around? Doing a load of searching and whatnot on Google, I stumbled upon this, the Britannia Hotel. Located down New Street, Birmingham, and at just £35 per night as the advanced fee ? it was a bargain. Finding The Hotel Being pretty poor at most sort of planning, I didn?t really take much note of exactly where the Hotel was, just that it was somewhere down New Street. So, it actually took us a bit of finding, but that was mainly due to us not knowing Birmingham at all. All I remember now, is it is next to Primark, so that?s that. The Room We had room 225, located right at the end of the maze-like corridor, on floor two. Opening the door, the room was pretty much how we expected it to be ? as basic as humanly possible. Two Beds, sat next to each other, with a tiny set of drawers to...

obscuredbykep 28.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Britannia Hotel, Birmingham

RULE BRITANNIA

Advantages: Well thought out and good gaming rules
Disadvantages: Requires a little focus, not for everyone

...Long before the popular games like 'Age of Empires' and 'Civilisation' tried to bring us a flavour of historical strategy gaming to our PC there were a number of board games that did the same on a more traditional gaming format. Britannia is one of the best of these and has been going strong with a few updates since the mid 80's. This review deals with the 2nd edition of the game brought out by Fantasy Flight Games featuring revised and updated rules from the game's original creator, Lewis E. Pulsipher and including new graphics and streamlined game play but rules and game are essentially the same for original edition brought out in 1986. Britannia is turn based historical strategy game that aim to take the player through the history of Britain from the Roman invasion of 43 AD to the Norman invasion of 1066. This is a very...

Mauri 23.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Britannia

Rule Britannia?

Advantages: newly refurbed room, brilliant bath and shower, price
Disadvantages: some areas still quite tatty

...Well my second weekend in Brumopolis passed with little excitement, which was something of a relief. The hotel on this occasion was booked through laterooms.com (see previous review) and was the Britannia in the city centre, it cost me £47 for a double room bed only, a friend also staying the same night paid £42 for a single. Arriving at the train station my previous visits 'beer compass' directions sent me for a walk around the outside of the train station but from the exit through the shopping centre it is literally a walk of a minute at most (note to self shoving through groups of football fans is a bad idea). But for a city centre hotel you cant get much more central than this one. The hotel itself has the entry through Union Passage just off the main street. The revolving door is quite heavy but there is a wider...

scuba_angel 28.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Britannia Hotel, Birmingham

sachas hotel

Advantages: good price,great location
Disadvantages: no window

...****Sachas hotel- Manchester**** I booked this hotel last minute as i had a job interview in Manchester and needed somewhere quite cheap ,that was also near the centre. **Location/Getting there** This hotel is located in Tibb street which is a 2 minute walk from Piccadily Gardens or 10 minutes away from Chorlton street bus station.The Train station is a little bit further away say maybe a twenty minute walk but i don't think that this is that bad .You can also get a tram from Piccadily gardens and this goes to quite a few places.You could also get a taxi to the hotel but i am not sure what parking is like if you were to take your own car. **Reception/staff** Since i had never been to Manchester before i phoned and asked the staff for directions -they were very nice and helped me out.When i got there i think i got the same...

katie22008m 04.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Britannia Sachas Hotel, Manchester

Four-Poster room for minimal cost

Advantages: Close to the centre
Disadvantages: Noisy due to traffic

...My partner and I visited Manchester in November 2008. We got a good deal on a room at the Britannia through priceline.co.uk - £180 for 3 nights in a superior suite. I noted on the booking that we would like a four-poster suite if possible, and we arrived to find we had one. As noted by other reviewers, the reception staff were not particularly friendly. We didn't have long to wait though and we were soon checked in. There was no problem with my partner wanting to pay using his credit card, rather than mine which we had used to book the room. The hotel foyer is very impressive with the huge chandelier and grand staircase. Unfortunately only one of the two small lifts was working (very slowly) so we got very used to climbing the three flights of stairs to our floor. Good exercise at least. The room was very nice, and generally...

sue-a 17.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Britannia Hotel Manchester, Manchester

The hotel from hell

Advantages: Central Location
Disadvantages: Awful room, dirty breakfast area including cutlery, poor staff, noisey

...I had the misfortune to stay at the Britannia Hotel during september of last year. Having stayed in a fair few hotels in my time I was gobsmacked by the appaling way it was run and feel I would like to review the hotel to warn any potential customers of the pitfalls. My experience I ended up at the Britannia as the company I work for was running groups regionally and the agency we work with selected the Britannia for its reasonable rates and central location. Because I was to spend my evening watching the focus groups I thought why not book a room in this place too. I dearly wish I'd had more sense and gone to the lovely Malmaison done the road. But you can always say that with hindsite. From the road the Britannia looks pretty good. Its a large stone clad old building, the sort of building you'd look at Architectually...

Shoka 04.04.2006 · Read review
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Review of Britannia Hotel Manchester, Manchester

Britannia Airways

Advantages: On time, not bad for a holiday airline
Disadvantages: Poor food, cramped

..., Birmingham, East Midlands, Manchester, Leeds Bradford, Humberside, Teeside, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Though they have very few flights from some of these airports. Overall Britannia aren?t a bad airline but I would avoid going with them at all costs long-haul. Legroom is fair, other airlines are definitely more generous. And if you compare Britannia to Monarch, they seem quite a good airline....

Disillusioned 30.08.2001 · Read review
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