Crowne Plaza deserves another Crown

Advantages: 4 Star hotel, Situated in good location, Friendly staff, Beautiful hotel, Good hotel facilities
Disadvantages: Expensive

...a nice feel to them you can feel the build quality in the rooms the beds are comfortable the desk is made from oak tree they look and feel great. One thing that I usually find with hotel room bathrooms is that they are small and in fact too small I feel like I don?t have enough space to stand in them and that it cannot be comfortable. However the bathrooms in the Crowne Plaza are perfect they just look beautiful and posh. I had enough space to stand around; I had space to put my clothes and enough room to shave without banging into the mirror I guess you can get my point. Bed and breakfast As part of the deal that I got was evening meal and breakfast included with the rooms (We had to pay for drinks) but it was a very good deal. We went down for dinner and were greeted by a very helpful member of staff who took us to a table...

doubleheman 06.11.2009 (07.11.2009) · Read review
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Review of Crowne Plaza Hotel, Liverpool

Don't waste your £ on the luxury rooms - Crowne Plaza Manchester

Advantages: Location. New and modern
Disadvantages: Awful club level package. Decor not to everyones taste.

...Owing to the recession the hotel industry has been one of the hardest hit areas and as such, we have seen some of the most excellent deals come out as room rates drop back to prices charged in the 1990?s. Staying in the UK for the summer I decided to take advantage of some of these rates and looked into the special offers available from Crowne Plaza. As a treat for myself and the other half, I decided we would go to Manchester for the weekend. It is a city I haven?t really explored much before and thought it would be a good weekend trip. I had seen the newly opened Crowne Plaza on this years Apprentice and the hotel and rooms looked very modern and stylish and when I saw the promotional prices I thought why the hell not and off we went. Booking I booked my two night stay at www.crowneplaza.co.uk As a member of their priority club...

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Review of Crowne Plaza Manchester City Centre, Manchester

Crowne Plaza St James - A Great London Hotel Happy to See You

Advantages: Great Location. Excellent standard of service. Relatively good value for London.
Disadvantages: No Pool. That's about it!

...INTRODUCTION I booked dinner and theatre for my wife's thirtieth birthday, and needed a relatively up-market hotel in London - with a bit of ?wow? factor - to overnight in. I am a frequent visitor to IC Hotel Group properties on business (these include the five star Intercontinental Hotels, the four to five star Crowne Plaza, and the three to four star Holiday Inn) and am a member of their award-winning ?Priority Club? loyalty scheme, so I decided to use my accumulated points to redeem a ?Reward Night? and stay for free. The hotel is on Buckingham Gate, with extensive frontage featuring an attractive red and white brick façade with decorative arches, reminiscent of Florentine architecture. GETTING TO & FROM The hotel is in the heart of Westminster. It?s a short, three minute, walk from St James? Park Tube...

Hishyeness 20.04.2009 (14.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of Crowne Plaza London St James, London

Crowne Plaza (NEC)

Advantages: Friendly staff, Excellent facilities
Disadvantages: none

...There are two hotels called the Crowne Plaza in Birmingham. As I found out at my peril... Ill explain later. The first one is the Crown Plaza in the City Centre which is the one mentioned in the other review. The one I stayed in is the one situated next to Birmingham NEC and is the one I have stayed in quite a few times. I have to say I have nothing but good things to say about this hotel. The most recent stay was when I booked us in before going to Prague. I had mistakenly booked the City Centre Hotel by mistake. I wanted the one by the NEC because of the Free transfers to the airport. On arrival the staff were very helpful in sorting out cancelling the reservation at the other hotel and getting us a room at their hotel. We even had a free upgrade and I dont know why! The staff are very pleasant and helpful providing good local...

millie45 28.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Crowne Plaza (Birmingham)

Cambridge Crowne Plaza; appeals to all punters!

Advantages: Location, atmosphere...It's luxury in a great city"
Disadvantages: Can be hard to locate

...before ending up at the Moat House Hotel, who kindly gave Amanda directions to the Crowne Plaza. Embarrassing, yes! This is not the easiest hotel to find in Cambridge's eco-friendly travel system. We found it, though. Eventually. And we're very, very glad that we did! We arrived, finally, in Downing Street - and located the hotel - an easy task once you know where it is! We pulled up in the front drive and handed over our keys for valet parking. £7.50 was an absolute bargain, and valet parking is always a luxury, as long as you've managed to get everything you want out of the car. We didn't, quite, - but would certainly plan it better next time! We entered the hotel at street level. To our right was "Quinn's Bar" - Cambridge's only Irish bar, apparently. There was also a concierge desk, and an escalator that led to the first floor...

andymcf 28.10.2005 · Read review
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Review of Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cambridge

Crowne Plaza - I Must Go Back!!!

Advantages: Resturant, Food, Staff, Service, Room, Standards, Clean + More
Disadvantages: None

...We booked this hotel with a travel company, as we were booking a short theatre break, one night in a hotel , and one theatre evening at Theare Land. We did not know how far the hotel was from Theatre Land, but when we looked online to see the distance, and seeing how much taxi's would be. It turned out that it was around 5 - 10 minute journey to Theatre Land from Crowne Plaza. Booking was easy, we did it all over the phone, and it was a package eal. We had not been to the hotel before, and we found it a suprise as to what to expect. We did not have any problems with the booking. We did want to know after our booking how how far the hotel was to Theatre Land, as we did not have our own car with us, and we would rely on taxi's and public transport. Getting to the hotel was easy. Normally looking for certain places in a busy area is...

cooldude28 08.07.2007 (06.07.2007) · Read review
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Review of Crowne Plaza Hotel, London

Perfect break in Amsterdam's Crowne Plaza

Advantages: Location is superb. Very comfortable, great facilities and superb staff!
Disadvantages: Nothing, apart from the uncertainty regarding the on-line booking

...Amsterdam is home to three Crowne Plaza hotels; there's one at Schiphol airport, there's the "Americaine", and then there's the "Crowne Plaza City Centre". It's at the latter that we recently had the pleasure of staying. Five minutes' walk from the Centraal (sic) Station which, itself, is a one-stop, 3.90 Euro, journey from Schiphol airport, I thought that its location was absolutely ideal. This review breaks the mould - amongst other things. I am usually travelling with my wife, Amanda, and the nearly-three-years-old baby Josh. Amsterdam, however, is no place for a toddler and it was thus that I found myself on a trip away with two good friends, Mark and Chris. Oh dear! Mathematician that I am, I feel an equation coming on.....Three blokes + Amsterdam = Trouble! Let me say from the outset that this was a really superb hotel. We...

andymcf 18.08.2004 · Read review
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Review of Crowne Plaza City Centre, Amsterdam

A jewel of a Crowne Plaza

Advantages: Excellent location for the NEC and airport. Fantastic customer service.
Disadvantages: None

...I stayed at this hotel in November 2006 as I was in Birmingham for a business conference which was being staged at the NEC. As normal our company travel agent (who shall remain nameless) messed up the booking and despite being asked to book this hotel (complete with postal code) had managed to book my colleague and I into the city centre Crowne Plaza. On arrival and discovery of the mix up we steeled ourselves for a fight (mainly with the travel agent to try and get them to sort out the mess they had created - not for the first time!) However it was completely unneccesary. The hotel staff were fantastic and arranged a transfer with the other hotel and booked us into two beautiful suites. I stayed in the Hendrix suite which contained cd's of his music, complimentary copies of Vogue and Q magazines and a corner balcony. We ate in...

Auntyfee 03.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Crowne Plaza (Birmingham)

Crowne Plaza by name but not by nature

Advantages: Excellent restaurants, mostly helpful people
Disadvantages: Tired and dated rooms

...Bahrain is a casual, relaxed, easy-going place where things move slowly, even time. The Holiday Inn was rebranded a Crowne Plaza several years ago but people locally still refer to it as the Holiday Inn. During 2004, I stayed at several hotels in Bahrain, including the Crowne Plaza. It was not my favourite, the rooms are basic and both the décor and the furniture look like they have not been updated since the eighties. The people, however, were nice and the restaurants, in particular, are second to none! Location The Crowne Plaza is located at a corner of the city, in an area known as the Diplomatic Area, just after crossing from the airport onto the main island. Many of the banks and financial institutions are very nearby, within walking distance (except perhaps in the height of summer when temperatures rise above 45C...

Vodkaboy 06.02.2005 · Read review
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RADISSON SAS EDINBURGH (Not Crowne Plaza)

Advantages: Location, Location, Location!
Disadvantages: Can be expensive due to popularity

...Radisson SAS Hotel Edinburgh - 80 High Street, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH1 1TH Rating = 4 star Radisson SAS took over the management of the property a few years ago from Inter-Continental Hotels, and the specific Crowne Plaza brand. So, just to clarify, the hotel used to be called the Crowne Plaza Hotel Edinburgh, but is now called the Radisson SAS Edinburgh ... two very different hotel groups, with very different brands and styles. Location, Location, Location! Location is a key factor in the success of a hotel and the Radisson SAS Edinburgh could not be better placed, standing slap bang in the middle of Edinburgh's famous Royal Mile, with Princess Street (famous for it's shopping) only 2-minutes away, Holyrood Palace only 2-minutes away, Edinburgh Castle only 3-minutes away, and the famous Grass Market only 4-minutes...

newty1977 18.02.2006 · Read review
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