Hoseasons - my favoruite holiday company in the UK

Advantages: Always excellent and good value
Disadvantages: none

...Hoseasons is my number one choice when booking holidays in the UK. Ive been booking holidays with them for over 18 years now and have never had any problems or cause for complaint. Customer service is always excellent. All the holiday parks I have stayed in have been excellent with first class accomodation, where attention has been paid to detail and in clean and comfortable surroundings. I have twice been tempted away by cheap offers - once at Pontins and another time at Haven - and wished I hadn't bothered, as both these places were terrible! - But that's another story... I book my holidays with Hoseasons online directly on their website, but I do use Topcashback and access the site via them as they offer cashback on all holidays booked. We prefer to stay in lodges with hot tubs these days, but have also enjoyed family holiday parks...

JEFFJEN 03.03.2009 (05.03.2009) · Read review
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Review of Hoseasons Holidays

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...

AJ26 14.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Holiday (DVD)

Good website for holiday rentals

Advantages: Massive worldwide choice of properties
Disadvantages: Sometimes too much to choose from !

...Holiday-rentals.co.uk. may be the website for you if you like to book your self-catering holiday accommodation independently. It is a part of a company called Homeaway.com based in the States specialising in online vacation rentals. Their global marketplace consists of 130,000 vacation rental homes across 100 countries under various rental sites. # Overview # The website works two ways, property owners can advertise their properties here and potential holiday renters can view what is available and of interest to them and make bookings. Each property has a reference number which can be saved as a personal shortlist to go back to later. The opening page gives the following easy search options: Click on the map - for a destination and search from there, click World, Europe or North America. For example if you click Europe...

Wisegirl 15.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of holiday-rentals.co.uk

The Holiday

Advantages: Nice Christmas Film
Disadvantages: Nothing

.... Overall I really enjoyed this film, it was one of those nice Christmas movies with a cheesy edge and easy to watch. At first I was not totally convinced about the whole house swapping idea but after searching on the internet I was surprised to find out this actually happens! Runtime - 138 minutes The Holiday can be purchased from many online and high street retailers with the price ranging from £4.59 (DVD.co.uk) to £19.99 (WH Smith). Prices taken from www.123pricecheck.com...

bagpuss1980 21.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Holiday (DVD)

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...

wendz86 19.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Holiday (DVD)

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...

jo_field26 21.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Holiday (DVD)

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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Review of Holiday Showdown

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...

kingfisher111 09.01.2008 · Read review
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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...

anslomic 07.12.2008 (24.10.2009) · Read review
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Review of Holiday Inn, Oxford

The Holiday

Advantages: Light-hearted comedy, great cast
Disadvantages: Not as funny as I'd hoped and a little dreary at times

...I bought this DVD yesterday from Sainsbury's for £6.99, it certainly isn't the worst dvd I've purchased but I was a little disappointed. Perhaps I expected too much! The story is simple, two women, one in LA (Cameron Diaz)and one in the UK (Kate Winslet). Both are unlucky in love and happen to be on the internet looking to escape their lives for a holiday. They meet on the internet and embark on a house swap. The plot sounds good and the cast fantastic. However, my expectations were not met. I am a fan of Jack Black in his other films, but this is the only film I managed to watch him in and not laugh once, Kate Winslet who plays his love interest towards the end of the film starts promisingly but soon becomes insincere and lacklustre. It's an American trying to write British humour and it is disappointing. Things are more...

pastiehen 29.07.2007 · Read review
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