Holiday Inn Madrid

Advantages: Nice staff, clean, kettle in the room
Disadvantages: The local area, rather expensive

...This is yet another hotel stayed in when travelling with work. It's a four star hotel (Ciao has it listed as a three star) and is located in the business district in Madrid. The Estadio Santiago Bernabeau, the home of Real Madrid football club is also very close by if you are interested in football. Public transport is very good-metro station and bus stop near by, the bus is one Euro into central Madrid and unlike London they have plenty of bus lanes and regular services-every 5 minutes. And no over-crowding or rubbish strewn everywhere! The hotel itself is a typical sprawling 1980's concrete block. The surrounding area is a bit dodgy at night and opposite the hotel is a boarded up cinema. In fact the whole area is pretty much a concrete jungle and I would be careful with going out after dark as it's pretty deserted once...

Katieshaz 16.10.2008 · Read review
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Hostel

Advantages: Thrilling, Chilling
Disadvantages: the sex scenes could have been little less

...Well this is one freaky and scary movie. Its rather you have to fight to survive through the movie than to watch it. This movie is completely about brutality. God knows what was goin through that directors mind while creating. The movie is packed with complete thrills, scenes which give you chills, goosebumps and some, which make you wanna puke. The violence and gore in the movie is just too horrific. You need to have a stable mind to watch the movie. The actors in the movie, Jay Hernandez has acted very well. The story starts from a hostel in slovakia. The main character reaches this hostel and find two beautiful ladies there, Natalya and Svetlana. They somehow hangout with these females and end up pairing with them. The females distract the two of these friends by showing them good times. Slowly, these two friends find themselves...

anurag440044 16.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Hostel (Unseen Edition) (DVD)

Horror at the Hostel

Advantages: Gore fans will love this, there are disgusting displays of death galore.
Disadvantages: The film lacks substance, relies heavily on shock value and little else is offered.

...Released in 2006, 'Hostel' was the third film directed by Eli Roth. Having heard good things and previously loved 'Cabin Fever' which Roth also directed I had been really looking forward to seeing this film, when I saw it however I felt nothing but disappointment. Many had praised the film for its gory and grotesque nature, and yes Eli Roth does indeed forefront blood and guts quite freely here but really there is very little substance to this film whatsoever. I like my horror films to have a bit of depth, something about them that makes them stand out as sensational; nothing of this sort is apparent here and 'Hostel' is a purely visual display of disgusting deaths. Three men are here backpacking through Europe, two of which are American and the other is from Iceland. Paxton and Josh are the two Americans, and Oli is Icelandic. They...

RazzaLazza 16.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Hostel (Unseen Edition) (DVD)

The Hostel from Hell

Advantages: Sex and gore if you like it
Disadvantages: Sex and gore if you don't

...like watching, to see whether anything still surprises me. Generally I am disappointed, sometimes I even feel guilty for watching films about extreme cruelty to people. But that is not really why I watch them, and I don't think most people who watched this film did so because they enjoy seeing people being tortured, but rather because they were curious. Story Two rather perverted young men and a shy-guy who seems uncomfortable around women are off back-packing around Europe. Sounds exciting? Well, for men, I guess. They start out in Amsterdam, staying in cheap hostels and going out for late nights of clubbing and sex. Or at least for two of them, anyway. Then they meet a man who knows of a Hostel in Slovakia, in a place where the women adore Americans and will do anything for them, absolutely anything. After showing some...

Ayesha- 14.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Hostel, DVD

Exploring the Province of Madrid

Advantages: Splendid architecture and surrounding nature
Disadvantages: destinations are scattered and hard to reach by public transport

...Many tourists who plan a trip to Madrid like to combine it with some excursions in the surrounding area. Nearby Toledo and Salamanca, for example, are places that most of us may have heard of, if only from an Ernest Hemingway novel or from Cervantes' famous account of Don Quixote de La Mancha. But this wouldn't be worth an FTC review, had I not some more exclusive places to tell you about. On the third day at the latest, every first time visitor to Madrid will feel worn out from the dry climate in the Spanish capital. At an air humidity often below 30%, one longs for some fresh air and nature. The Province of Madrid, as well as surrounding Castilia is full of attractions worth a day trip. So where to go? There are two very popular day trips for Madrid tourists: 1. To the cities of Salamanca and Avila in the province of Castilia...

From_The_Continent 26.04.2001 (28.04.2001) · Read review
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Hostile Hostel

Advantages: Not much of a plot to follow
Disadvantages: Gory, nudism and drugs

...Hostile Hostel A review by KELLYLOUJ on Hostel (Blu-Ray Disc) November 7th, 2006 Author's product rating: Did you enjoy it? Indifferent to it Story Very weak Characters / Performances Unmemorable Special Effects Good How does it compare to similar films? Satisfactory Advantages: Not too much of a plot to follow Disadvantages: Lots of sex scenes and blood Recommend to potential buyers: yes Full review On Thursday of last week I was desperate to look for something that was worth watching on TV there was nothing so I took a look at the Box office movies on Sky and saw that they were advertising Hostel. As there had been a few conversations in the office regarding this film I decided to purchase the film and give it a go. The film is about 2 American college students Paxton (Jay Hernandez...

KELLYLOUJ 08.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Hostel, DVD

Hostel Endeavours

Advantages: Some nice cinematography, decent acting during tense moments
Disadvantages: boobs and gore but little substance, just too nasty

...So it now appears that Eli Roth is so lauded in cinema that he can present his films with his name before them. Such is the case with Eli Roth's Hostel. Well in case you didn't know, Roth's previous effort was the over hyped Cabin Fever. If you've seen that film than I hope you'd agree it wasn't the saviour of horror that certain websites proclaimed. Either way it doesn't give him the kudos to throw his name before a film like a bigshot. Anyway Hostel is the latest chiller from his demented mind and once again sites like Aint It Cool News hyped it beyond belief. It was lauded as visceral cinema that would be unlike anything ever seen. The film opens with three backpackers. Two of them American, the other from Iceland and looking like he could be the dad of his fellow backpackers. The three of them are trekking across Europe...

utero 04.05.2006 · Read review
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A cheap hostel in London

Advantages: cheap rooms in london, good location
Disadvantages: loud, staff not friendly

...We stayed at the Clink Hostel for 3 nights in May. Rooms are very reasonable priced and you have a choice between -single/double/triple en suite by room -dorms from 4 to 16 beds both en suite or not Booking is possible on www.clinkhostel.com and hostelworld.com - I heard it's also possible to do it via phone. Booking was quick and easy. The location close to Kings Cross is great. Within Zone 1/2 on the underground it is easily reachable. At King's Cross you can get the following tubes: Northern Line (Black), Metropolitan Line (Dark Red), Circle Line (Yellow) and Hammersmith and City Line (Pink). From the tube station to the hostel it's a 5min walk. WE found the hostel easy to find and the location quite central. The quick connection between King's Cross and Camden town was a huge plus point. Plus points: -free walking tour...

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Review of Clink Hostel, London

Hostel part two - Twice as bad!

Advantages: quite short!
Disadvantages: hmmm!

...In 2005, Eli Roth took us to a new level, in terms of the horror movie. With the original hostel, we were shown a shocking underworld. A place where people pay to torture, and kill other human beings. Scary, in essence, because it was something that could happen, rather than the usual unrealistic tripe that we have become used to. It seemed, that Hostel had tapped into a new market. A market where people want to be shocked. They want to be scared. They want to be taken as far as they can go, and then dragged a little further. Essentially, Hostel was an exploitation film. Sado-erotica at its best. You could watch it, and drink your fill of blood, gore, sex and adrenaline pumping thrills. So, it was natural to me to want to see the sequel. It seemed to come out a bit too quickly for me, but I was still very excited by the prospect. I...

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Review of Hostel Part 2 (DVD)

Reasons not to go Hostelling

Advantages: Decent production standards which save it from being horrific
Disadvantages: The cross genre fails to gel, and the gore is not scary enough

...● Synopsis 2 American students and their Icelandic friend are currently enjoying the delights of Amsterdam's Sex, Booze and drugs culture, as they back-pack across Europe, when they learn about a hostel in Slovakia where the women are easy, especially if you have a foreign accent. With the prospect of easy women to good to be missed the three friends head to the hostel where they discover that it is even better than they believed, except strange things start to happen whilst they are there. ● Opinion I had heard and read some great things about Eli Roth's "Hostel" and although was never in a rush to watch it, when the opportunity arose to watch the DVD I sat down with expectations of being entertained as well as horrified. Well sadly I was neither entertained nor horrified, in fact I was more bored than anything as...

christianfilmcritic 26.11.2007 · Read review
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