Lovely Lansdowne

Advantages: Nice Rooms, Good Bar, Games Rooms
Disadvantages: Garages

..., the room was cleaned well and the waiting staff were helpful, the cooks got the food out quickly and the barman was very friendly. My Opinions: ------------------ The hotel was very nice and on the whole a good experience. I would stay there again anytime but I would not get a garage as they are not very good. The only other downside is the rattling delivery carts but they will only bother you if your staying at the back of the hotel like me. If you stay on the front of the hotel I'm sure your experience would be even better because you won't here the noisy delivery carts and you will get lovely sea views. This hotel has been given two stars, I would rate it higher than this and I would recommend a stay in the Lansdowne if you ever come to Eastbourne....

sifair 14.05.2007 (15.05.2007) · Read review
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Lansdowne Grove Hotel

Advantages: nice hotel, good restaurant
Disadvantages: ok room, loud wedding party

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neil1424 21.04.2006 · Read review
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Review of Lansdowne Grove, Bath

Great service, cheap trading but watch out

Advantages: Great site, competetive charges, good extras
Disadvantages: Extra charges and £1000 Bos savings account

...Hargreaves Lansdown are the fourth online broker that I have had the pleasure of using so, by now, I've got a pretty good point of reference to compare. Having started with Barclays Stockbrokers and moved on because of the rather expensive costs (comparatively), I dumped almost my entire holding during a month's free trading at Charles Schwab but pulled out before the exorbitant fees kicked in. After a brief but fruitless flirtation with the bargain basement broker, Sharecentre, I decided that the service, thought cheap, was entirely too limited, and landed happily in the lap of Hargreaves Lansdown, a classy joint with the added attraction of competetive fees. In my opinion, there are five elements which combine to make an online broker excellent, very poor or somewhere in between, (poor, faverage or good, lets say). These are...

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Review of Hargreaves Lansdown

Cannot be beaten!!

Advantages: Excellent service. Cheapest in UK.
Disadvantages: Absolutely none.

...I currently conduct ALL my share dealing with Hargreaves Lansdown on-line. Setting up the account was very easy on-line. The basic dealing account costs £40 per annum for which you also get 36 monthly publications relating to share tips, broker comments etc on FTSE and AIM stocks. These alone are worth some £120 per annum at normal client prices! Share dealing is carried out AT A SET £9.95 PER DEAL!! A price that is definitively the cheapest available anywhere in the UK. Trading is supported by a BOS high-interest account at approx 4% interest at present. Hargreaves Lansdown charge £12.50 for management of the Securities Account. This is more than paid for if you have an average of £1500 in the account! Dealing on the net is essentially instantaneous from an easy to use transaction page, supported by real-time prices...

wiseoldowl 23.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Hargreaves Lansdown

portfolio management service

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: do not invest

...Hargreaves lansdown have lost us thousands of pounds in their portfolio management service, we invested our life savings with them, they lost thousands off our pensions and isa products, please beware when investing with them. We were given the totally wrong advice for a short time to retirement, they invested our money in equities which was wrong. The salesmen who came to see us gave us wrong information and completely mislead us. in our opinion customers should be very cautious when listening to their advisers, they tell such a good story of other clients who are pleased with their investments, none regarding ones who are very dissatisfied, their charges are very high and this eats into any investment especially pensions, they try and tell people to invest in Sipps, but unless you know about stock and shares you can lose a lot...

deadfox 17.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Hargreaves Lansdown

Simply THE BEST!

Advantages: Very cheap, Very efficient, Very reliable. Very professional.
Disadvantages: Absolutely none!

...I started my share dealing years ago with several brokers including Charles Schwab. All of them gave me problems of poor availability, delays in processing deals and paperwork, and occasional errors. About 5 years ago I switched to Hargreaves Lansdown and have received 100% satisfaction ever since. Their telephone dealing was absolutely excellent, and their on-line dealing has bees completely without fault. A good web site, with real-time prices and share quotes, accompanied with an extremely easy to use dealing page, and high security levels, are complemented bt an e-mail return to confirm allk deals within a minute or two, and contract notes received in the post the followiong day. They also operate a high interest BOS account to make the movement of funds extremely easy and cost effective. Their dealing price of a fixed £9.95 per...

wiseoldowl 15.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Hargreaves Lansdown

Great for beginners and masters alike

Advantages: Cheapest Execution only stockbroker
Disadvantages: Takes upto a few days to get everything set up.

...Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) was my second experience with an online stockbroker, my first being with Barclays. The fact that I didn't have to maintain a bunch of paper certificates was a major factor in chosing HL, coupled with the low charges. From an extensive search of many online brokers which offered the paperless CREST system (including Barclays) I decided upon HL. At £9.95 per transaction, plus about £50 a year management free (for the CREST system) HL were the cheapest. Upon setting up the account, which took a few days, I found dealing easy and worry free, there is even a limit option to prevent you from buying (or selling) at unwanted prices. Once completed you will recieve the contract note by post and the deal is done. One irritating point I found was that, you are unable to buy if the money hasn't cleared through your...

thatboymark 11.02.2001 · Read review
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Review of Hargreaves Lansdown

Best deal around

Advantages: Efficient, keen prices
Disadvantages: Not for occasional dealers

...I have been receiving mailings from Hargreaves Lansdown for some months. I have also been looking for an online broker to hold my share dealing account and it looks to me as if HL have the best offer in the marketplace. Each deal costs £9.95 regardless of its size (of course you have to pay the stamp duty on purchases) and there is a quarterly charge of £12.50 to maintain the account. Interest is paid on the balance at a reasonable, but not generous, rate. If you deal regularly, the saving on each transaction will quickly cover the acount fee; if you only deal rarely, this account is not for you. in all my exchanges with Hargreaves Lansdown I have found them friendly, efficient and helpful; they are clearly an ambitious outfit and I would not rule out a float of HL on the stock market in the next year or so....

Elagabulus 30.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Hargreaves Lansdown

Great Discounts on Unit Trusts

Advantages: Good discounts, excellent service and useful publications.
Disadvantages: Sorry, but I've yet to find any disadvantages.

...I joined the Savers' Organization, run by Hargreaves Lansdown, many years ago as a founder member. The investment information they sent me on a regular basis was of outstanding quality and has just got better. I love to do my own research and don't see why the fund managers should be allowed to keep the commission for themselves that they would normally pay to a broker or an IFA. So, when HL offer a discount, often equivalent to the initial charge, I'm delighted to take it. They have two web sites - hargreaveslansdown.co.uk and h-l.co.uk that provides loads of useful information and provision to requests application forms on-line. Alternatively, ring them at their Bristol based office, on 0117 900 9000 and they will send the forms by the next post. Return the form to them with a cheque made out to the fund manager in the sae...

petehall 25.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers

One of the best

Advantages: very cheap and reliable
Disadvantages: ? high management charges

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sivam 10.03.2001 · Read review
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