Friendly but disorganised

Advantages: Spacious rooms, good rates
Disadvantages: Poor service in breakfast room; bar prices

...The hotel itself is lovely and modern with spacious comfortable rooms, comfy queen size beds and an impressive reception area. It is in the Bromsgrove district, in the village of Catshill, rather than the town itself and you do need a car for getting about. It is very close to both the M5 and M42 motorways. We stayed three nights on the Classic Motor Show package which included entrance to the show at the NEC. Total cost was £306 for two of us for B&B (including the show tickets) which we thought good value. The staff throughout are friendly and helpful but I can only rate the experience as average because there was a clear lack of organisation during our three-night stay. On arrival (Friday) we were sent to a room which was already occupied, spent the first night in another room where the toilet wouldn't flush, were moved...

tynegal 13.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Hilton, Bromsgrove

3 star hotel-not Hiltons best

Advantages: Good price, nice ambience
Disadvantages: Some staff need more training

...The Hilton at Bromsgrove is a modern 3 star hotel with 138 rooms, situated about half a mile north of the M5/M42 junction. It's set in its own grounds in amongst trees and is a reasonably attractive hotel with parking facilities in the grounds, although residents do have to pay £3 a night to park. After passing through the entrance doors you find yourself in a spacious, clean and light lobby with an atrium and plenty of comfortable seating. There are a couple of computers for guests to use and the hotel has a BT Openzone WiFi hotspot which is useful if guests want to use their wireless laptop during their stay. There is a piano but no-one was playing during our one night visit, so I don't know how much use it gets! In the lobby you will also find the reception desk and Caffe Cino- the Hilton's coffee bar. The food cabinet of the Caffe...

suelr13 29.07.2007 (31.07.2007) · Read review
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Review of Hilton, Bromsgrove

?WE NEVER SAY NO?

Advantages: Nicely furnished, good facilities
Disadvantages: High drink and food prices, poor service, questionable food quality

...This is the strap line of the Hanover International Chain. ?OOOOEEERR?, the mind boggles. On Sunday 11th January I needed to be in High Wycombe for a mid-afternoon meeting, followed by a 10.30 appointment in Hereford the following day, thus I needed somewhere to stay. Always price conscious, and particularly this time having to pay for it myself, I scanned the internet, but could find nothing in Hereford that appealed to me; the offerings were either mediocre and cheap, or outstanding and bloody expensive, at which point I decided it was time to widen the search. Doing this, I stumbled across the Hanover International in Bromsgrove, some 1½ hours drive from Hereford; with such a late start this seemed perfectly reasonable. However, having stayed in the Hanover International, Ashbourne in August, albeit for a good price...

sue.51 12.01.2004 · Read review
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Review of Hanover International - Bromsgrove

THE OK-IF-THERE'S-NOTHING-BETTER LODGE

Advantages: Easy check in, spacious rooms
Disadvantages: No added extras

...Picture the scene: my sister's wedding. The ceremony is taking place at a swanky manor house 20 miles from our residence in Solihull. There are 9 rooms available at Grafton Manor, of which I originally had a place. Change of plans: my female friend, and only friend, is invited because one space at the reception is made available. There is no longer room for both of us at Grafton Manor. Plan B is incorporated: book in at a hotel nearby, namely the Bromsgrove Premier Lodge. All booking is done via the internet and everything is all present and correct. Flashback to yesterday, Saturday 28th July, and the day of my beloved sister's wedding day. Because I would be returning to the hotel after midnight, prior arrangements were made to make sure this was ok. I arrived shortly after 12.15 to check in, and after ringing...

jambo5678 29.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of Premier Travel Inn Bromsgrove - South, Bromsgrove

A stay I always look forward to.

Advantages: easy to book, close to motorway - nice clean rooms
Disadvantages: none that i have found

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estherjayne1 17.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Premier Travel Inn Bromsgrove - South, Bromsgrove

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Review of All About Me

Clean Cotton Really Does Smell like "Clean Cotton" !

Advantages: A scent everyone can love, burns for hours and hours
Disadvantages: Can be a little pricey

...the states is crazy expensive!). Watch out, i'm about to go off on a slight tangent...... So there is this HUGE Garden store in Bromsgrove near Birmingham called Webbs. Apparently it's the biggest in the UK, and I believe that assumption since it is MASSIVE. When I first get there i'm eww'ing and ahhh'ing everything I see because i'm a super girly gardener. I'm not that great with keeping flowers and plants alive. BUT, while they are alive, they look good and have really gorgeous pots and nicknaks all around them. While in being ridiculously giddy being in a garden shop bigger than Tesco's I see....Yankee Candles. This is where I do a sharp intake of breath and an extremely American "No way!". The friends that were with me gave the typical squinty eyed "what is she on about now" look , but followed me nonetheless. I stood there...

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Review of Yankee Candle Clean Cotton

Folk festivals.

Advantages: great atmosphere.
Disadvantages: So many festivals, so little time!

...he Straberry fair, which is a different event.) Ely,(early summer I think.) Bridgenorth,(August, Midlands. Quite ecclectic and very good.) Pontadawi,(Wales, not sure of the spelling. Almost always rains.) Liverpool shanty festival,(early summer.) Warwick, (large midlands festival, very good,) Bedworth (Novemeber!), Chipping Norton (Mostly dance.), Bromsgrove (small midlands festival July.), Alcester,(Small Midlands festival, June, my local and it's great!) and that's just the ones I can remember. The odds are good that there is a festival somewhere near you - they really are great if you are in to folk music - and rather addictive....

Bryn_Pearson 18.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of Festivals

Perfectly Prawny

Advantages: Cheaper than buying from the Chinese
Disadvantages: Moreish

.... I also find these more filling than the crackers we buy with our takeaways, and would only be able to eat one packet at a time, whereas with the Chinese ones, I could eat many more. The taste of prawn is very evident, and the crackers leave no aftertaste. Each packet will provide the consumer with nearly 141 kcal and 9.42g of fat. I would definitely recommend these, for their moreishness, delightful prawn flavour, and their continued crunchiness, even when sucked! Bobby’s Foods plc, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove. B60 4AD...

Lizard_Lover 31.07.2003 · Read review
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Review of Bobby's Prawn Crackers

find out how they work before you start!

Advantages: incentive to write and read reviews
Disadvantages: addictive

...the member making the rating had just scrolled down and seen the length of the review and rated it accordingly, without even reading it! Perhaps he was just trying to earn more points as quickly as possible? I hope not, but have my suspicions. I feel sorry for the author but publishing this sort of review does nothing for the credibility of the site and neither does giving an ?exceptional? rating for nonsense! Anyway, that?s got that off my chest, so on to my other experiences. Having learnt more about how the site works and having written a couple more reviews and achieved ?very helpful? I realised that they needed to be longer if I was going to get a higher rating, and more points, so I decided to have another go. We were going away and staying a night at the Hilton Bromsgrove. ?Great? I thought, just what I need! My partner was taking...

suelr13 02.08.2007 · Read review
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