Orient Express but not on rails - Great Istanbul hotel

Advantages: Great location, very good customer service and food in restaurants good
Disadvantages: rooms a little dark and we had no view , could not flush toilet paper in the toilet

...The Orient Express Hotel , Hudavendigar Cad No: 34-34110 www.orientexpresshotel.com This hotel is part of the Sirkeci group which is a group of hotels and restaurants in Istanbul. Sirkeci is also an area of the old part of Istanbul and The Sirkeci Railway Station was the terminus of the famous Orient Express train and was just round the corner from the hotel. GETTING THERE: We arrived at the airport after a flight from Birmingham via Amsterdam and having read a number of reviews about the taxis from the airport and their enthusiasm for speed and reluctance to accept a fair fare or take four people in one taxi, we choose to book an airport transfer. We were met by a gentleman with our name on his notice and then escorted to a taxi outside. The journey was quite speedy but incident free, a couple of hairy moments, some very close...

catsholiday 25.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Orient Express Hotel, Istanbul

Airport Express

Advantages: The service
Disadvantages: The timetable (at times)

...People who drive automatically assume that travelling by public transport is HORRID. It takes longer, it's probably more expensive, you have to sit with (get spoken at by) people you don't know and, very quickly, don't like, it's inconvenient?it has, in short, nothing to recommend it. Those of us who don't drive are intrinsically more tolerant of all of the above. We have to be. That doesn?t mean that we aren't fair-minded and capable of writing a critical review when we get rubbish service. In this instance it is fair-mindedness that inspires me to write a review about un-rubbish service. Looking up National Express coaches on the site, I discover that they are not exactly flavour of the month. My experience of them has always been pretty good ? with the exception of the one case where I was just going down with the Kathmandu...

hiker 07.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of National express

Poorly Expressed

Advantages: It tries to bring a little known hero to light.
Disadvantages: It's hackneyed in all respects.

...?s politically active brother Will. The large number of montages alone requires a lot of scoring, courtesy of Mark Isham. The majority of the arrangements centre around warm, hopeful string refrains. There are also insistent piano arrangements that set the scene, deep bowed cellos and electric guitar with rising brass and drums for Ernie?s first high school game and the usual triumphal brass for victories. However, there seem to be passages of music for virtually every scene, so you filter it out after a while. It also feels as though the composer is trying to blackmail you into feeling whatever emotion he?s pushing. The other soundtrack choices include popular music of the day from black artists, including ?Mojo Working?, and ?What I?d Say?. They add a historical context, but overall the music feels overzealous. ?The Express? is a serviceable...

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Review of The Express (DVD)

The Strand Palace Hotel

Advantages: Central location, clean
Disadvantages: Food, rooms

...We stayed at this hotel in London a little over a month ago now for two nights, we chose this hotel mainly because of the central location and because it was only a ten minuite walk from the show we had booked to go too. Check in was very quick - About ten minuites and the staff at the reception seemed very friendly. My first thoughts on the hotel was that it looked really clean and that it was nicely decorated and it looked modern. I was a little dissapointed with our room as it was very small and basic, our room had a double bed, tea and coffee making facilities, a tv with satellite and a small, basic en suite bathroom with a shower. The views from our room very very poor - A block of offices which made our room dark as they were so close. The hotel has two bars and two resturaunts, the bars were again nicely decorated...

kate44 03.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Strand Palace Hotel, London

Express comfort and service

Advantages: not expensive, good vfm, comfortable, good facilities in rooms, convenient locations
Disadvantages: no leisure facilities, continental breakfast only

...I like this chain of hotels. The little brother to the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza, it's a great way to stop in a good quality hotel for not very much money. HOW TO BOOK ONLINE You can get to them by going into the sixcontinenthotels.com site and entering the town or hiexpress.com, and doing the same. You have to put the town in, the date you want to go there and the number of adults and children, and make sure the "best rates" has been selected in the box..when you do this, the holiday inn expresses in the town you selected pop up..and there is a box "rates" next to the name that you press to see the prices being quoted for the dates that you put in. One of the best rates at the moment is "SMART RATES"..try it- you will get a great price. WHAT YOU GET FOR YOUR MONEY There are over 1,200 locations.(worldwide) All...

ginger59 03.05.2003 · Read review
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The Polar Express

Advantages: great christmas film
Disadvantages: not so good after christmas

...The Polar Express DVD I was bought this film for Christmas from my mum as I was complaining that before Christmas I had nothing to watch that would get me into the Christmas spirit. Apart from sitting watching Alistair Sims version of scrooge with my dad which in my view is not giving as much Christmas spirit as it should. Anyhow it being February now nearly March I thought it time I watched it. Seeing as I'm on my sick bed from work and too skint to afford any more blockbuster movies this is one in my collection that i had yet to watch so shoved it on to see what it was all about. The first thing I noticed when beginning to watch this film is that Tom Hanks appears to do most of the adult voices and appears as many a different character. The film starts with a young boy at home on Christmas Eve and wondering really if...

newby2 27.02.2007 (22.09.2008) · Read review
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Review of The Polar Express (DVD)

Not Quite an Express

Advantages: Can be an inexpensive way to see the country, frequent service, free wifi on board
Disadvantages: Overcrowding, old trains, journey times slower than 25 years ago

...The east coast mainline is one of the major rail links in the UK, linking London with major cities in Yorkshire, Northumberland and Scotland. Previously operated by GNER, the franchise passed on to National Express in 2007 after GNER?s parent company filed for bankruptcy protection. It was felt that National Express had paid way over the odds for the franchise and sure enough as the recession began to bite, they found themselves in a perilous financial predicament, and upon failing to renegotiate the terms of the franchise with the government, it was announced in June 2009 that the government would be taking the franchise back under state control, with the franchise going back out to tender sometime in 2010. To all intents and purposes however nothing much has changed since the GNER days apart from train liveries and the fact wifi is...

rosebud2001 02.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of National Express East Coast

Chungking Express

Advantages: Multiple narratives which are intelligently woven together showing experiences of love and loss
Disadvantages: If you don't like having to read subtitles then this will not be the film for you

...DIRECTOR: Wong Kar Wai YEAR OF RELEASE: 1994 GENRE: Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Romance LANGUAGE: Japanese (Subtitled) CAST: Brigitte Lin .... Woman in blonde wig Tony Leung Chiu Wai .... Cop 663 Faye Wong .... Faye Takeshi Kaneshiro .... He Zhiwu, Cop 223 Valerie Chow .... Air Hostess Chen Jinquan .... Manager of 'Midnight Express' Lee-na Kwan .... Richard (as Guan Lina) Huang Zhiming .... Man Liang Zhen .... The 2nd May Zuo Songshen .... Man REVIEW Chungking Express is a film which is set in Hong Kong, showing the fast paced culture that is present here and presenting the lifestyles of three main individual; the characters of Faye, Cop 223, and Cop 663. The lives of these three key individuals are woven together along with the Blonde Woman at the beginning who remains nameless despite having her own sub...

RazzaLazza 22.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of Chungking Express (DVD)

Express Travel

Advantages: punctual, cheap and sometimes entertaining
Disadvantages: can get a little cramped when full

...As a national representative of a charity I knew I would have to travel a lot so needed to find the most cost efficient way of doing so. I had received an NZ2 card when I opened my student account with Barclays but never thought of using it. I popped into my local office and decided to find out more about the benefits of this small card. At that particular time National Express had an offer on their journeys and suggested that I take them up on the offer. I knew that a party was approaching near Heathrow so went ahead and booked. Unfortunately they failed to explain that the ?ANY DESTINATION ONLY 5 POUND? offer did not include travel to airports and obviously Europe. Still with the 30% off with his little card I proceeded with the transaction. As this was the first journey of many I have decided to set out my review with these...

leofluffy69 12.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of National express

Express around the Nation?

Advantages: cheaper than flying/trains at short notice
Disadvantages: much slower than most other transport options

...the chance i would have changed seats but all were filled. The coach stop at Hythe isnt easy to find from the information on the website, but the stop itself is on the one way sytem and goes have the National Express logo on the stop sign. Victoria in London looks run down and is very busy. For those that dont know you arrive at one side of the road and depart from the other- confusing if you didnt know as I didnt took a little while to work it out. Bolton the National Express stop on the main road next to the Great Moor St bus station a short walk from the train station so it is easy to get around from there. The trip from London to Bolton was on the service that called at Manchester Airport but as that is popular it was split in to two coach loads, one terminating at the airport and one doing all the other stops after the airport. But I...

scuba_angel 24.04.2007 (15.04.2007) · Read review
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