Bristol City Museum = Fantastic Family Fun

Advantages: WARNING- LONG REVIEW. Loads to see and do for adults and kids.
Disadvantages: WARNING LONG REVIEW. Poor disabled facilites and cafe.

...My other half has been on holiday this week, combine that with our 4th anniversary, Mothers day and an in-service day at my sons school it was the perfect opportunity for some good old family fun, among the day trips we took was a visit to Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery. It's a great attraction for us living in Bristol and with free entry it's perfect for our ever expanding family as it doesn't break the bank. Getting to the museum is simple enough for us, as we're local, but the parking is a real problem, being situated in the middle of busy Queens Road, at the top of Park Street, in Clifton, it is near impossible to find a space nearby and we always park in the Frogmore street NCP and walk the 5 minute trip up the road, past the university buildings and into the museum. Bristol City Museum & Art gallery is set in a beautiful baroque...

piggypine 05.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery

  Bristol Museum: Much More Than Boring Old Plates

Advantages: Educational, fun and free.
Disadvantages: Long, long queues until the end of August 2009.

...or taxi if you arrive by train. Bristol?s City Museum and Art Gallery (to give it its official title) is housed in an Edwardian building in the Baroque style in the Clifton district, a gift to the city from the tobacco baron, Sir William Henry Wills. It sits grandly between the university?s towering Wills Memorial Building and Browns restaurant, which occupies another impressive building; this one being in a combination of Bristol Byzantine and Venetian Gothic Revival styles (loosely based on the Doge?s Palace!) and which was itself once home to the museum. They make a stately trio. The building dates back to 1905 and the arched entrance on Queen?s Road used to span a driveway that once allowed people to step straight from their carriages into the museum without being troubled by rain on wet days. Only a few years ago glass entrance...

Mitsudan 23.08.2009 (31.08.2009) · Read review
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Bristol - Excellent all round

Advantages: Beautiful city, top university, friendly peole, great night life, loads to see and do
Disadvantages: Oxbridge rejects may put people off, the cost of living is high once you are in private housing

...connected by bus to the university, city centre and the main train station (Temple Meads). The prices are ok - £2.20 for a single, but obviously not as cheap as London. You can buy a week?s travel card though and get a student discount on this. Temple Meads train station is well connected with trains to many UK cities. The train to London takes 1 hour 45 mins. There is a bus from near the university, outside Temple Meads and from the city centre to Bristol International Airport. This only costs £5. The airport is not huge but has a range of destinations to fly to. If you are an international student though it is probably more likely you will fly into London and get the train to Bristol. REPUTATION The university has a good reputation amongst employers who recognize that the university is prestigious. There is sometimes a feeling of ?upper...

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Review of Bristol University

Excellent Exhibits in Bristol

Advantages: World-class collections; great displays for children; free of charge
Disadvantages: Needs easier access to upper floors

...Having recently visited Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery, I was interested to see how its counterpart in Bristol compared. I expected that perhaps it would be a grander affair, and I was right. Whereas Portsmouth concentrates mainly on local history and art, Bristol, whilst giving prominence to local artists and exhibits, has world-class displays in its galleries. The museum is housed in an imposing three-storey Edwardian building; the stairs are not steep and there is a lift to certain areas on the upper floors, but you do have to call an attendant to operate the lift. How easy it is to do this I do not know. However, if you are at all interested in Ancient Egypt you are in for a treat, as there is a new display on the ground floor. This is where we started our visit. The Egyptian exhibits here are based on the themes...

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Nice pair of Bristols!

Advantages: Good location. Bristol is better than it sounds at first.
Disadvantages: None really, but the afternoon barmaid let the team down.

...For the uninitiated, there?s such a thing as ?Cockney Rhyming slang?; somewhat unique, I guess, to the UK ? and particularly to the East End of London. Examples include: ?Apples and pairs? ? Stairs; ?Trouble and strife? ? Wife. Bonus question ? what does ?Bristol City? (or a pair of them) evoke? Think carefully! Answers on a postcard, please - although I have to say that, with the huge numbers of young girls walking around in skirts resembling belts, my attention was drawn away from their ?Bristols?. Yep ? I?ve been to Bristol. Hardly a holiday location, but despite my protestations to my beloved to the contrary, it?s actually quite a cosmopolitan place to visit. The scene of race riots (in the St Paul?s region) several years ago, this refreshingly multi-cultural University City doesn?t present a particularly welcoming face...

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Review of Marriott Hotel City Centre, Bristol

Bristol City Shopping Guide

Advantages: Good variety
Disadvantages: Spread over large areas

...on foot from the centre. This road has a large selection of second hand shops, boasting a wide selection of bric a brac and collectibles. Are 51 specialises in Comics and sci-fi - honestly priced - and there are 5 or 6 Beanie retailers. There are some great second hand retro clothes stores - one of the reasons the area is very popular for students - and a visit to Disc N Tape is recommended for the music buyer (See my review of their website). Park Street runs from the city centre up a steep hill to the main University building - probably 15 minutes walk from Broadmead - and is the place to shop for those designer clothes addicts. Plenty of shops to choose from - Westworld offers two units of groovy clobber - and the range for boarders and skaters continues to be good. There are some more competitive cd shops and the Bristol Guild will...

LostWitness 09.01.2001 (06.01.2001) · Read review
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Review of Bristol in General

Bristol University for You?

Advantages: Top Rated University by any league table
Disadvantages: Hills

...Bristol University is one of the most popular universities apart from Oxford and Cambridge. Grades required to get a place here are quite high but well worth a place on the UCAS form. On the whole Bristol is a friendly city, just big enough to cater for huge shopping complexes (Cribbs Causeway) but not 'congested' as one would normally find in London and Manchester. Bristol also boasts 4 multiscreen cinemas including two Warner Bros Cinemas. During the nights and especially the weekends, Whiteladies Street is awashed with lights and practically thronged with taxis and people going from pubs to pubs. That aside, Bristol University must be one of the nicest place to study. Situated at the top of St Michael's Hill and unlike most other universities, there isn't a campus. Students live in halls of residence and private accomodations...

josephchan 17.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Bristol University

Bristol Blues

Advantages: Beautiful city with good night life.
Disadvantages: Many - see above!

...I applied to Bristol University in 1999 and started an undergraduate degree in the October of that year. I did not have a very good experience at all. The university is ideal if you originate from a rich background, preferably having been treated to a private education. I however, did not belong to this upper-class mentality and did not find the institution very welcoming for state school students. I know for a fact that the university is very sensitive to this issue as I spoke to the sabbatical officer and the head of my department before finally deciding that I didn't want to waste three years of my life in such an elitist place. There is a very snobby and conservative feel to Bristol, a university which is teeming with Oxbridge rejects. I am now at Sheffield University and am utterly astounded at the difference between these two...

Eudora 12.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of Bristol University

A good Uni - in a great city

Advantages: Great nightlife, good uni
Disadvantages: Some parts of the city to avoid

...Bristol is one of the old style unis, and is one of the harder ones to get into UCAS points wise... however, once you're in I found that the equiptment they have for the course I want to do is first class, not to mention the good atmosphere. The only slight critisism is that it doesn't have much of a campus, and I found that there weren't as many events (like regular football games, etc.) organised as there were for some of my friends in unis like coventry..... but then coventry has nothing going on after 6 p.m. - whereas bristol comes alive! Loads of clubs, bars and pubs means that if your are a night person like myself, you are going to love Bristol - and as there's 2 unis in the city (with UWE aswell) there are loads of students around!! However beware - although it's improved lately, there are still some 'no go' areas...

geserve 29.12.2000 · Read review
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Review of Bristol University

Pity our City

Advantages: New night buses are good
Disadvantages: Unreliable

...FirstCity Line is the primary bus operator within the City of Bristol and its surrounding area. There is virtually no competition for service in Bristol, despite the de-regulation that took place some years ago, enabling much greater opportunity for companies to compete for, and provide service on bus routes. As a result of this, and other factors, bus services in the area are generally very poor. Service varies in frequency, quality and reliability from one route to another, but in my time in Bristol, I have relied upon various different routes, and have found them to be largely the same: Fares City Line Fares are probably set at an average rate, compared to other cities and services. A single journey of three or four miles typically costs between £1 and £1.30, with considerable savings to be made if you purchase a return...

LostWitness 11.01.2001 (09.01.2001) · Read review
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