Holiday !

Advantages: Nice sweet film, romantic comedy
Disadvantages: Not the best romantic comedy I have seen, some may find it too sickly sweet!

...where she discovers Amanda. They decide to take a break from their troubles and get away from the men in their lives so house swap for a couple of weeks over the Christmas period. Amanda swaps her luxurious modern house in California for Iris?s quaint little cottage in the English countryside. Iris soon makes friends with Arthur a retired screen writer and sets about trying to help him. Her love interest comes in the form of Miles (Jack Black) a film composer who works with Amanda?s ex. Amanda meanwhile meets Graham (Jude Law) who is Iris handsome brother and has an eye for the ladies. Will it be a holiday romance or will both these women find love when they least expect or want it? ***** My Thoughts ***** Having missed this at the cinema I was very keen to rent it to watch, certainly keener than my husband who did agree...

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The Holiday - a good chick flick

Advantages: Lighthearted, good cast
Disadvantages: Predictable

...The Holiday is a chick flick type film although it is not quite your normal chick flick. It is based around the story of two girls , Amanda, played by Cameron Diaz and Iris played by Kate Winslet. Amanda is a film trailer producer who has just broke up with her boyfriend, she lives in LA. Iris lives in Surrey in a little cottage and is a writer for a paper. She is still in love with her ex boyfriend who she works with and has just found out he is getting engaged. Amanda starts searching on the Internet for some sort of holiday to get away and try and forget what has happened. She stumbles across Iris's cottage on a website and contacts her about coming over to stay. Iris jumps at the chance after all the pain she has been put through. So the two girls decide to swap homes for the holidays. Once swapped Amanda meets Iris's brother...

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the holiday

Advantages: good film for over christmas
Disadvantages: chick flick

...The Holiday- I tried to get to see his at the cinema but i unfortunately missed out. Although after reading the reviews it was a mixed opinion, so as soon as it came out i purchased it so that i could judge for myself and its a great film. With Kate Winslet, Jack Black, Jude Law and Cameron Diaz it was an all star cast and a hopeless romantic film a definate chich flick. Its about Iris(Kate Winslet) who is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman and then thee is Amanda (cameron Diaz) who realizes the man she lives with has been unfaithful. The two women meet online at a home swap website and switch homes for the holiday. Iris moves into Amanda's L.A. house in sunny California as Amanda arrives in the snow covered English countryside. Shortly after arriving at their destinations, both women find the last thing...

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The Holiday

Advantages: Nice Christmas Film
Disadvantages: Nothing

...with her boyfriend but finds out he has been cheating on her, she is also heart broken and decides she needs to get away from it all and looks into booking a holiday. While trawling through the internet Amanda finds Iris' house being advertised on a house swap website and they both agree to swap houses over the Christmas period. Their houses could not be more different as Iris lives in a little cottage and Amanda lives in a mansion in Hollywood. This film shows Iris and Amanda on a journey of self discovery, travelling across the Atlantic to unfamiliar places they are able to learn more about them selves without them realising it. Both characters meet new and interesting friends while house swapping and this is where the story really begins. While Amanda feels totally out of her depth being in England living in a cottage and driving...

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Take a holiday with Cameron and Kate

Advantages: Nearly everything
Disadvantages: Cheaper Films

...that it really is over. Depression sets in and she decides that a change of scenery is the perfect idea. In England, Amanda finds the small cottage very different to her sunny LA mansion and she isn?t sure if she?ll stay. A tall dark stranger knocking on the cottage door in the middle of the night will change that. Iris?s time in America is much different, she loves the sunny LA house that she?s staying in. Meeting Arthur Abbott on a morning walk, she discovers how wonderful life can be, as he was a screenwriter during the Golden Age of Hollywood and has so much experience. She also meets Miles, an falls in love with him after his relationship falls apart, soon she realises that she wasn?t even that in love with her colleague, Rufus Sewell. There are four major stars who help to hold the film together, the strength of the acting really...

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We're all going on a .......................summer holiday

Advantages: Interesting to see the human interactions, good entertainment and fun to watch
Disadvantages: Boring narrator, some families are permitted to 'bail out' and not participate to the full

...Holiday showdown is a program that is currently being aired on ITV2 (so it is a repeat of a series that was aired on ITV1 a while ago) on Saturday lunchtimes from 12.05 ? 13.05. This is a show whereby the producers select two different families, with different tastes that have never met before. They are thrown together and have to go on holiday with each other. The types of holiday are really varied and include things like cruises, adventure holidays, camping holidays, sun and sea holidays, ski-ing holidays, missionary holidays and everything else in between. Each family will go their ?normal? holiday for a week, during which they will go where they usually go, do exactly what they usually do and just treat it like another normal holiday. The following week they will swap over and go on the other family?s holiday. During...

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Solway Holiday Park

Advantages: the farm and hot tub
Disadvantages: people in our hot tub

...I have just come back from a week in the Lakes and have decided to try and have a go at reviewing the place we stayed. Solway Holiday Park is situated in Silloth Cumbria (about 22 miles west of Carlisle) which is small village with a population of around 3000. If you want a town with lots going on then Silloth is not for you, it has a lovely large green and a great sea view although it is not a beach. It also has cafes and the odd take away along with some little shops and of course a Spar (everywhere seems to have a Spar). Near the green is amusements which also sells refreshments. The park itself was quite easy to find I got the directions from greenflag. As we drove in through the entrance the reception was quite well sign posted, when we booked we were told booking in time was 4pm (which I thought was a bit late but...

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Everybody needs a holiday!

Advantages: great film
Disadvantages: none

...I had read a couple of reviews about 'The Holiday' which were slightly less than enthusiastic, so when I watched it on DVD the other night, I wasn't really expecting a great deal. I have to say though, that I was pleasantly surprised as I found it a very enjoyable, although none too taxing film. The Holidy stars a couple of my favourite actresses - Kate Winslett and Cameron Diaz. They play women who live on opposite sides of the world - Surrey and LA - and are both quite discontented with their lives. As a consequence they decide to do a 'holiday swap' and end up living in each other's houses over the Christmas periods. Kate Winslet plays Iris Simpkins, a newspaper journalist who is the victim of unrequited love. She knows she allows herself to be used by her former boyfriend but seems powerless to do anything about it. Cameron...

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Ferris Holidays Review

Advantages: Cheap. Affordable.
Disadvantages: Journey - but you get what you pay for.

...Ferris Holidays are a coach holiday company who specialise, mainly, travelling down to the southern coast of Spain. The Costa Brava. If you are looking for a cheap 5 star hotel holiday deal, you've come to the wrong place. But Ferris Holidays do offer the cheapest enjoyable holidays you can find. Believe me. Ferris Holidays have a fleet of today-modern coaches which the option of Platinum or normal-Executive. With the Platinum travel you have to pay £15 extra per person but it's well worth the money as the extra leg room and extra reclining seats cater well for sleeping. No, the seats don't recline 90 degrees as a posed to a normal bed but they do recline enough. There are toilet facilities on board the coach but due to lack of service stops allowing drivers to empty the toilet, drivers ask passengers to take full advantage...

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Holiday Inn, Oxford (Peartree Roundabout)

Advantages: Modern, great location, excellent facilities
Disadvantages: Can be expensive if not booked through a deal

..., bath foam/shower gel and body cream, a shower cap, nail file, sewing kit and shoe shine. The main feature of the rooms is that they include wooden shutters instead of curtains which are extremely effective at blacking out the room. Internet Access High-speed Internet access is available in all rooms. It costs £14.99 for 24 hours or £75.00 for a week. Price The hotel can be very expensive if you just turn up and ask for a room so it is best to pre-book or keep an eye out for the many deals that Holiday Inn offers on its website or in the national press. I usually pay between £50 and £75 per room per night which includes a substantial breakfast, although the hotel regularly offers a deal over a weekend where you get two nights bed and breakfast and one dinner for two people for approximately £99 per room per night. Having...

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