Advantages: Comfortable, clean, firndly and helpful staff
Disadvantages: No restaurant available during our stay

...When planning a holiday, accommodation is obviously a major part of the decision. Everyone has different objectives in their selection. For our holiday to Vienna, my husband and I set out wants and needs before scouring around for suitable venues. We decided on Hotel accommodation. Although holidaying in major city, we wanted a quiet place to stay but yet close enough to local amenities to enable easy access. We wanted good quality service with double bed and bath. These were our agreed prior requirements. Obviously travel brochures and Internet sites only provide a limited description and a basic picture, so you take a risk. We came across the Hotel Harmonie, with the following blurb, “The Harmonie Hotel occupies a quiet location, next to a park belonging to a French secondary school. It is surrounded by some of the main... Read review

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Advantages: Good prices, open 7 days
Disadvantages: 1 therapist

...I recently tried out this Health and Beauty Salon in Swiss Cottage...except it's not actually in a salon. Upon arriving at Harmony for my massage, I quickly realised that it was set up in someone's home. At first I was a little uncomfortable and unsure about this but soon after arriving and meeting my therapist, and seeing that the house was spotless and looked quite professional, I felt quite at ease. My friend and I actually made an appointment to try out a Stone Massage, obviously because there were 2 of us, we were hoping to have our appointments at the same time, no-one wants to hang around and wait in someone's living room for an hour for their turn. So straight up, I thought Bugger!! We quickly changed our massge time to just the half an hour each. This was the first time I had tried Stone Massage and I have to say, I... Read review

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Advantages: Compact, all in remote for under £150, USB driven, sleek charger
Disadvantages: Small buttons, limited customisation, low res screen

...to use it. The remote control does require you to have a internet connected PC - this remote is configured using a PC and supplied USB cable. Plug it in, install the software and go to the Harmony website. Once there, a simple step-by-step guide will talk you through setting up your remote - one major plus is that there is no learning with this remote unlike the Pronto (although this has changed onlater models). All you do is simply tell the website what equipment you have and it will sift through the various makes and models until you find the right ones. Once you have finished the codes are downloaded to the remote and installed. No learning, no time spent button pressing. I was set up within 10 minutes and ready to go. So unplug it from the USB lead and go and try it out. A major selling point is that if your equipment does not respond... Read review

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Advantages: easy to use, beautiful to look at, full of features
Disadvantages: Not always perfect, a bit pricey

...Being an Audio Visual enthusiast and a massive geek, my lounge is stuffed full of all sorts of seperates that require remote controls. From my 7.1 denon amp to my Sony HDD CD player. So a grand total of 5 remote controls had to find a home on the coffee table or bookshelf and it was driving my wife nuts. Especially when she picked the wrong controller and was trying to turn the TV up with the DVD remote. If you had more than one piece of equipment on, its a pain to have to use multiple controllers to turn them off or simply adjust settings. For a long while I'd wanted a remote to do it all, more so though, I wanted one with a touch screen. After all, who doesn't love touch screen? So, I did a little research on the the internet and surfed over to www.avforums.com amoung other sites. The logitech harmony range had rave reviews... Read review

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Advantages: Control many devices using Infrared - easy to setup
Disadvantages: Can't control bluetooth or FM devices

...The Logitech Harmony 525 Advanced Universal Remote is used to control multiple devices in audio and visual systems (ie your tv, video, digital box, music players etc) Currently we use one to control an AV receiver, digital box and projector. Personally i think this is the best one i've used. Although initially to set up takes a bit of time (you have to load a program onto a computer and then add devices to the remote using the provided usb cable), the time it saves in day to day use and the practicality of one remote makes it a worthwhile task. If there is not a system listed that you want to control it has a neat feature which allow you to add other 'unknown' remote signals - its so easy - you just tell it you're going to add an 'unknown' and then point the 'unknown' systems remote at the logitech remote and it asks... Read review

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Advantages: A Walk Down Memory Lane, Remembering The pop 90's
Disadvantages: Repetitive Lyrics & Beats

...Greetings everyone, Guess what I am back with another classic pop CD review. I am again doing some annual cleaning before Chinese New Year and this CD is what I dug out. It must have been one of the few CDs I consider worth keeping, that's probably why I still have it. By the way, if I were to mention Solid Harmonie, most of you might have not even heard of them unless you were really into pop during the starting days of Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys sometime back in 1998. Well, I am here to give you a little lesson in Pop history. Solid Harmonie is made of four girls named Beki, Elisa, Mariama & Melissa. They were under the wings of Lou Pearlman, the person who brought you the Backstreet Boys and N*Sync. Solid Harmonie were considered to be the less popular version of the Spice Girls although they did receive quite a good... Read review

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Advantages: Great ergonomics, flexible functions, anti-obsolescence
Disadvantages: Slow software, need broadband to set up, some glaring omissions

...I've had my Harmony for a few months now. It works fine, exactly as I had hoped and I am now extremely pleased with it.... ....BUT, I thought I had better write a review before I completely forgot how nearly I could not get this thing to work, and I am IT and AV literate. THE PREDECESSORS I have had three 'learning' remotes in the past, none of them satisfactory. They were either too uncomfortable to hold, too battery intensive or just not good enough at learning. I was aware of the brilliance of products like the Philip's Pronto but its prohibitive expense and my now deep lack of trust in such products meant I could not justify getting one. This time though, I had ended up with nine remotes in my living room and had had enough. After reading up on a few options, this was the product I settled on, mainly because I know... Read review

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Advantages: Outstanding production and lyrical heart
Disadvantages: A few weaker joints

...Bone Thugs & Harmony have always been a unique group. With their triple cadence lyricism, harmonic flows, and R&B-ish twists, they developed a small cult following in the urban areas of Cleveland, Ohio. After their demo tape Faces of Death landed in the hands of N.W.A. founder and record executive Eazy E, he sought them out and immediately signed. The first thing they put out was their incredible EP, known as Creepin on ah Come Up. With two hit-singles, even the low-amount of songs on it were enough to push tons of sales. At last, they released their debut hit album E. 1999 Eternal. Even the death of Eazy-E didnt slow down the momentum of the group as it became the most successful. Track List & Rating 1. Da Introduction (****) 2. East 1999 (*****) 3. Eternal (****) 4. Crept And We Came (*****) 5. Down '71 (The Getaway... Read review

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Advantages: A good mix of hardcore and Indie with a good kick!
Disadvantages: maybe a little too "indie" for fans of "A Song to Ruin"

..."they're selling ad-space on the subway walls/and privatising the tenement halls/prophet and cause superseded by profit and loss". "Father My Father" is a tale of lost youth and misunderstandings (Do as we say/not as we do/and don't ask), and referencing the student riots and almost-revolution of Paris '68, before Turner wails "Father, I've tried to follow you in what you say and what you do/Father I've always followed you, I'm everything you wanted me to be". This is followed by "Engine Driver", a similar song, lyrically, and paced beauifully slowly, allowing one time to take breath before album closer and epic title track "Harmony no Harmony", a recount of a young adventurer, heading to the city for fame and fortune, only to find poverty and misery. If this album is anything to go by, this band will not be taken in by misery... Read review

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Advantages: Looks cheap to start with
Disadvantages: You get no service

...). A week into my stay in USA I called Harmony to find out where my order had got to. I was told that they had not received confirmation from their bank that they had received the money. After several further phone calls and being told the same thing, I had to call international back to my bank in UK who then called Harmony’s banker in NewYork and confirmed that the money has been sitting in their account for 3 weeks !!!! Needless to say Harmony made no attempt to deliver the goods as ordered, but I received a short abrupt email from Leon Gold that they would refund my money. 6 weeks later, and back in UK, I still had not received a refund. This time when I called Leon Gold to complain about the way this order had been handled and find out what had happened to the refund, he did not want to know and when I enquired what his position... Read review

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