London: Lord Kensington Hotel: Paper Thin Walls!

Advantages: Location
Disadvantages: Paper thin partition\stud walls

...of things she was obviously bracing herself! It is now 1am, and I decided that enough is enough and that I will be changing rooms, so I went down to the guy in reception to request a new room. After 5 minutes of trying to wake him, he instead suggests that he would phone up and tell them to be more considerate, but I pointed out, and I said it in these exact words: "Look mate, you can't do that - you're gonna put him off his stroke man! It's not their fault that the sound insulation in your hotel is RUBBISH!" Anyway, after about 10 minutes of arguing with the guy, I bullied him into allocating me a different room on the floor above and off to the right! However, after that I found it quite hard to get off to sleep - but at least I wasn't where all the action is! At 3 am, I heard an altercation between between porno room...

JMBox777 29.04.2008 (12.02.2008) · Read review
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Review of Lord Kensington Hotel, London

Live like a Lord or Lady - Welcome to Ston Easton Park Hotel.

Advantages: Brilliant luxury hotel. Great location. Great value on late rate. Excellent dinner
Disadvantages: Can be expensive! Back to earth with a bump once you leave!

...back in time into the world of a Lord of Viscount, never before had we felt so regal. The room was amazing. It was styled extremely traditionally but had many subtle modern flairs that blended in to keep the theme going. The bed was humungous and was easily the most luxurious bed I have ever seen in a hotel, fit for a king or a queen! The architecture had been retained and the only indication of our modern era was the LCD TV that was fixed to the wall and the designer telephone next to it. Apart from those items we could have been in the 18th Century! The bathroom was also to die for with a huge roll top bath in the middle of the floor and a double shower to keep everyone entertained! Everything was so pristine down to the designer toiletries the bathroom had been kitted out with. The views from the windows over the parkland were...

atlantis140 18.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Ston Easton Park Hotel, Ston Easton

Lording it up

Advantages: Great location, fantastic bar/lounge, good food
Disadvantages: Unappealing restaurant design

...The Lords of the Manor is an excellent hotel in so many ways. Having stayed there on several occasions, I would say the better rooms are to be found in the main original house rather than the more modern conversion/extension as the former have far more character. Sizes vary dramatically but all are comfortably furnished and I've always had a good night's sleep. The restaurant serves an interesting and varied menu but I would say the room itself is very dull in terms of decor. There is need for someone to spruce this up and making it less akin to something out of a Travel Lodge. Breakfasts however are excellent and there is a great variety on offer. The bar, however, and lounge are great places to spend a few lazy hours with tea or evening drinks and on each occasion a game of Monopoly by the fireside there has been most...

matthewsteeples 07.12.2007 · Read review
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Hotel International

Advantages: Location, breakfasts
Disadvantages: Poor rooms

...I recently went on a cultural girlie trip with a friend to Paris. I was left to do all the booking. I was looking for a reasonable hotel, near a metro stop, which included breakfast. I came across the Hotel International on various travel sites and it seemed fairly highly rated so I booked us in for three nights. LOCATION: The hotel is located 6 Rue Auguste Barbier in the 11th Arrondissement. The nearest Metro stop is Garcourt which was a two minute walk away and it was a five minute walk to Republique which gives good links to other lines. It's not really central enough to avoid the Metro and walk to the attractions but it was located so close to a stop that it seemed ideal. PRICE: Prices vary depending on size of room and season. There are singles, doubles and triples available. We paid Euro254 for the whole time...

tartlette83 17.06.2009 · Read review
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My Precious ( lord of the rings trilogy)

Advantages: best dvd collection you can own,
Disadvantages: need plenty of time to see the film

...Probably this film "LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY " have been reviewed many times. But I would still like to share my experience with this brilliant film by Peter Jackson. Everything about this film is perfect! I would suggest you to sit tight and don't let anyone disturb you while watching it, you will definitely miss something important if you did. Actually it happened to me so i just warn you! Don't make the same mistake as i did. Luckily i have the DVD set and i can watch it anytime i want to. Anyways here are some briefing on what to expect. The Lord of the Rings film trilogy consists of three live action fantasy epic films: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). The trilogy is based on the three-volume book The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. While they follow the book...

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Good Lord!

Advantages: Tasty, well balanced session strength bitter.
Disadvantages: Not the bestest Thornbridge beer!

...In the latest in my series of reviews about the beers from one of my local breweries I would like to tell you about one of their selection that seems to be the most readily available in my area at the moment. Over the past few weeks we have been out and about sampling beers in some of our local pubs ~ these pubs were all contenders in our local Spring Pub of the Season award. Out of the ones we visited some of them had beers on offer from Thornbridge and the name that cropped up most often was Lord Marples. As a person who likes to support their local breweries it seemed churlish not to give them a try (and it also gave me a chance to try a quality control test by drinking the same brand in a few different places). ~~~THE BREWERY. The "Baby Brewery" at Thornbridge Hall is so called because it started off as a kind of off...

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Lord of the Flies

Advantages: Good for school level as people of similar age in story
Disadvantages: Can be long and repetitive at times

..."How does William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" explore human nature?" In your answer you should mention Golding's use of symbolism, characterisation, setting or any other appropriate feature that helps to develop the writer's theme. William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" artfully sets out to explore the vital theme of human nature. The novel is in response to the atrocity of the holocaust and asks how our human nature allowed this evil to take place. Golding sets out to answer the question "Are we all potentially evil?" Golding questions our human nature by describing a group of young teenage boys onto an idyllic deserted island. Slowly through the book the perfect world descends into chaos and savagery. To question our human nature Golding uses a broad spectrum of believable characters. There are no adults, only children...

4591carl 12.10.2007 · Read review
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Norbreck Castle Hotel

Advantages: Out of the town
Disadvantages: Too many people!

...I'm glad that I did not get to read any of the reviews before I went to this hotel, or see the Holidays from Hell programme the night before! The hotel can be found along the seafront, about three miles from the main centre of Blackpool, heading out towards Fleetwood. It is now under the Britannia hotels group and it is easily accessible by tram and bus. We used the trams the whole time instead of me driving all the time. My husband, my two youngest children and myself went last week for a couple of nights, after finding an advert which gave a special price of £35 per person dinner bed and breakfast per night. The two children were included free of charge, including their meals. The advert did state that the hotel was ungoing a £7million pound upgrade, and that some services may not be available. This did not deter us as we...

sarah110 18.10.2004 · Read review
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Lord of the Flies

Advantages: engaging interesting story
Disadvantages: Some wooden acting, editing of the film

...Lord of the Flies ? 1963 Today, this story is probably not as powerful as it was back in 1963 when it was filmed or in 1954 when William Golding?s book was published. These days we have all become desensitised to the violence and random, meaningless killings that seem to happen on a daily basis, especially in this day and age when children whom are only three or four years older than those depicted in the film do far worse things than was ever shown within the running time of this feature. It could be said however that the film was a premonition of how lousy things were to become in the early 21st century. The film is set during an unspecified period of time where tensions about Nuclear holocaust are running high. Children are being evacuated, although they are being evacuated from the country rather than out to the country side...

sjp1966 21.08.2007 · Read review
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hotel olsanka

Advantages: Cheap and cheerful
Disadvantages: Not so easy to access the town centre of prague.

...hotel olsanka prague Having been to prague recently and having stayed at this particular accomodation a few years ago, I was keen to give this place one final chance as I had had a really rubbish stay at this place. Similarly to my previous stay, I had notice that the Hotel seems to be advertised much cheaper on accomodation websites compared to near enough all other places to stay in prague. getting to the accomodation The details of getting to prague town centre are covered in my previous prague accomodation review, and whilst this accomodation is not as easy to get to location wise, a tram journey needed to get the accomodation from one of the central location's of prague town centre. booking process I booked this accomodation using a third party reservation booking website and paid around seventy euros...

costas1234 02.12.2008 (31.05.2009) · Read review
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