acCUSTOMed to your home comforts ??

Advantages: Good transport links
Disadvantages: Everything else

...My daughter ( L ) , my granddaughter ( S ) and myself recently stayed at the Custom House Hotel , Docklands , London as part of an overnight package which we had booked for the purpose of seeing the Phantom of the Opera on stage in the West End . Because we took a package deal the hotel was included , and we didnt have any alternative choices But having said that , had I made my own selection based purely on the rather attractive brochure photographs and brief description I may well have considered this hotel independently ,. My impression of Docklands , although I had never visited this area , had been of a smart , thriving up and coming area with high standard , modern hotels and facilities , well placed on the river front . That will teach me to make assumptions . On our arrival at the hotel at 4pm on a Saturday afternoon we...

Janej47 30.10.2006 · Read review
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Clean, simple and easy.

Advantages: closeness to Central London, cheap price, breakfast
Disadvantages: sorrounding area, small shower, plain

...Today I feel like writing so I will give another review - this time about the London hotel Custom House Why did I choose this hotel? Tricky question because I didn't get to choose. I am from Germany but a Great Britain fanatic, so I come to England as often as I can. The cheapest way is to go with a tourist group that travels by bus and stays in a cheap hotel. The company I went with is called Rainbow Tours. They book the hotel shortly before the journey when they know for sure how many people are in the group and then they take the best offer a hotel makes. I have gone with them four times and ended up at Custom House twice. Where is Custom House? The address is: 272-283 Victoria Dock Road, London, E16 3BY. Since I rode on the bus I can not tell you for sure how easy it is to get there, but the bus driver seemed to be...

morticiaaddams 29.03.2009 · Read review
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Curious Customs: Tips for Visiting Japan, Part 2

Advantages: A great adventure
Disadvantages: Leave that handkerchief at home!

...have to undergo rigorous training over a period of some years. The most celebrated fugu chefs are able to prepare the fish in such a way that traces of the poison remain in the flesh of the fish, causing a tingling sensation on the lips and tongue of the diner. Fugu can be enjoyed raw as sashimi or cooked in a variety of ways and with a bit of luck you'll even emerge from this experience still breathing. <7> ◄Taking a Bath► **Ofuro** The Japanese for bath is furo and it is usually afforded the honorific prefix "o", which approximates to "honourable", an indication of the importance of the bath in Japanese culture. Bathing in Japan traditionally took place in the sentou, a public bath house, and these still exist but are more in the nature of leisure centres these days. Taking a bath in the sentou meant sharing a huge bath...

Mitsudan 22.08.2007 · Read review
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When all you want is a bed for the night

Advantages: Good price; easy access from DLR
Disadvantages: It is not the Hilton !

...London is awash with hotels and B&B's. But having tried quite a lot of them - our capital city ought to be ashamed of many of them. The Custom House Hotel is one to be proud of, especially in the popular 3* sector of the market. 1 LOCATION = If you use the London Docklands Light Railway - DLR - then the Custom House stop is where to alight. You will see the hotel right beside the station entrance. And just in case that sounds like noisy, bad news, do not worry - I never heard a train all night.! This is a location right in the heartland of London's dockland renewal area. Within a short distance are the exhibition hall - ExceL, Canary Wharf, and the Royal Victoria Docks. If you are visiting or working in the centre of London, the train takes about 15 minutes. If you arrive in the London City Airport, you are...

trevorbrock 23.04.2005 · Read review
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* The Bunny House *

Advantages: Funny , Plot
Disadvantages: May Send Out Wrong Message To Young Girls!

...Recently I have been swapping DVDs with my friend ; I've been borrowing her 'up-to-date' movies and she's been watching my 'rom-coms'. One of the DVDs which I borrowed from my friend was a film called ' The House Bunny'. The House Bunny is an American romantic comedy film released in the United Kingdom on 10th October 2008. This film stars Anna Faris , (who's previous films include , Just Friends and My Super Ex Girlfriend). Running time of the movie is ninety seven minutes (seven minutes over one hour and a half). Shelley (Faris) is a playboy playmate living a luxury life in the playboy mansion. Soon after her twenty seventh birthday , she is told that she is now too old to be a playboy bunny and so it 'thrown out' of the playboy house. Feeling upset and lonely , she tries hard to fit in with other girl groups , although soon...

xdonzx 21.08.2009 · Read review
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Yamaha Stage Custom Drumkit

Advantages: GREAT DRUM KIT 4 OUTSTANDING PRICE!
Disadvantages: NONE?

...This Drum kit is amazing. If your a beginer or even really good this drum kit will suit you this kit is awsome if your looking for a reasonibly priced drum kit this is for you. I bought this kit about 2 years ago ive only made 3 adjustments like putting remo pinstripe skins on it and buying anew cymbal pack and buyong a mapex double bass pedal but thats what ive done this is a great kit and i would recomend this product to nearly anyone. The most affordable all-birch Yamaha drumset ever! An incredible value, the legendary tone of an all-birch Yamaha drumset is now available in the Stage Custom series. The low fundamental and warm tone of Yamaha's birch drums have been the top choice of drummers for over 30 years. The Stage Custom Birch series is great for the beginner or the working professional. The staggered diagonal seam allows us to...

ReviewDude12345 04.01.2009 · Read review
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house rules

Advantages: great
Disadvantages: have to wait for next seriwes

...House is a fantastic series and I missed the first one but got in to watching this in the second series, so I rushed out to buy the first series box set and I could not stop watching it, it is so addictive. If you love medical dramas then this is one for you as it's not all your normal diagnosis, each episode goes through a new medical dilemma they have to try and solve and they are not your usual colds and virus's. House is a medical programme with a diagnosis to be made, so each episode has you playing doctor trying to figure what has caused the patient's medical condition. House is an American drama and is about Dr Gregory House played by Hugh Laurie he is a fantastic doctor, unfortunately he does not seem to have the patience for patients, and Dr House is a Doctor who says what he wants and does what he wants regardless of other...

jo_field26 27.08.2008 · Read review
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A Wooden Album by Crowded House?

Advantages: 'Woodface' includes some of the most sublime love songs ever written
Disadvantages: It's all a bit much and much the same; the tracks that do dare to be different, don't fit

...Although I will always consider Crowded House to be one of my ?Dad?s bands? I have to say that I?ve developed strong feelings for many of the groups songs over the years. Teenagers are funny like that; we?ll go off on our own tour of music, claiming that Eminem and Dr. Dre are ?da bomb? before realising it was The Beatles and folky bands like Fleetwood Mac and Crowded House that vied for our earphones all along. On a couple of occasions, my Dad has bundled my Brother and I ? along with my Mum ? into the car and driven about two hours away to Nottingham in a vague attempt to educate us in terms of music. By doing so, he was making us watch the Finn Brothers, a song writing duo that have had a fairly rocky past. Neil Finn ? the lead singer and metaphorical leader of Crowded House ? and Tim Finn were once in a band called Split Enz who...

MizzMolko 23.10.2009 · Read review
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House of cheese

Advantages: Swayze, and great sound track
Disadvantages: The Cheesy Dialogue

...Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is an expert nightclub bouncer who can sort out most bar room brawls with out resorting to violence. His talent doesn't go unnoticed and Frank Tilghman (Kevin Tighe) the owner of the notoriously rough Double Deuce in Jasper, Missouri hires him to come and clean up his club and also to teach his bouncers how to be effective at their jobs. The Double Deuce is exactly what he expected, with the barman on the take, customers openly dealing drugs, chicken wire round the stage and the bouncers more interested in getting laid than doing there jobs. On his first night on the job, he finds himself getting knifed by some rowdy customers and has to be treated in the local hospital by Doctor Elizabeth Clay (Kelly Lynch). A romance between the Doc and Dalton soon starts, which angers the local crime boss, Brad Wesley (Ben...

christianfilmcritic 17.02.2006 · Read review
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The Dead House: Suspenseful.

Advantages: Good storyline, believable characters.
Disadvantages: Unbelievable at one or two points.

...Written by Anne Cassidy. 264 pages. Rating: Young adult and older. Written in third person. Can be bought new on Amazon.co.uk for £4.49, and new and used for £2+ on Ebay.co.uk. I've been a fan of Anne Cassidy's work since I first started reading her books from the Point Crime series. So when I saw this in the library I picked it up and stuck it to the top of my very long, need to finish soon 'to read' pile. The Dead House is about Lauren, ten years ago her mother and baby sister were killed by her father. She is now seventeen years old and has just recently moved back to London, now living a short distance away from her childhood home and her father has spent the last ten years in prison, but when new evidence appears that could prove his innocence. Faced with the startling fact that he could receive a not guilty verdict...

Mistybrook 26.09.2009 · Read review
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