The village hotel & leisure club in Wirral.

Advantages: Clean and fresh
Disadvantages: Like a rabbit Warren

...The village hotel & leisure club in Wirral Have recently joined here and at £32 per month, each, we feel we have a bargain. They even waved the joining fee, normally £70. We joined, my wife and I, on the ?Flexi? promotion. This is where you are only tied in for 3 months as opposed to the ?Full? 12 month tie in. Extras given include £15 to spend in their restaurants, 10% discounts in the bars and coffee shop and 2 free vouchers for friends/family. The vouchers entitle the user to a free week in the gym, pool etc worth £70. If you recommend someone and they join you also get £50 of a nights stay in the hotel. A fair few incentives but to be honest we just want to use the leisure facilities. My wife is recovering from Breast Cancer and she has some back problems resulting from the Radiography. She...

Maximus-Qualitus 07.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Village Leisure Hotel Wirral, Bromborough

Relax And Take In The Scenery At The Village

Advantages: Lovely scenery, comfortable beds, nice leisure facilities
Disadvantages: Pool not very family friendly with children only allowed certain times

...direct line with the hotel. During the night I did not notice the noise from the planes probably because I slept so well. In the morning the noise was louder again, but it didn't ever bother me greatly. Currently there are 117 rooms with en suite bathroom, colour TV (most with Sky including sports channels and movies), direct-dial telephone, hair-dryer and hospitality tray. My favourite part of the holiday and stay in the hotel was the leisure facilities. We spent a whole morning just relaxing in the pool, jacuzzi and steam room. I was a bit disappointed that the sauna was not in use when we were there, but the steam room was available and that was nice. I would have liked to go in the sauna and felt it was a bit unfair I had paid the money and couldn't use all the facilities. I liked the family changing rooms as I cannot walk...

Mickie26 08.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Village Hotel & Leisure Club, Cheadle

BEST HOTEL LEISURE CLUB IN AREA

Advantages: Brilliant unbeatable leisure club, clean and at reasonable cost
Disadvantages: Hotel food average, Chistmas parties a disappointing rip off

...). There are no consesions for pensioners either ( there is a Dudley) It seems each club has the flexibility to have slightly different tariffs and rules. Although become a member of one Village club you can attend any, I often pop over to Dudley to meet up with my Mum who is a member there and visa versa. The Club on the whole is exceptionally clean and been a member of several clubs in my 40+ years I feel I can comment. I am rarely disapppointed by this, the staff are all very friendly, cheerful and generally accommodating some I would even say go the extra mile the leisure staff managment are always willing to listen to comments/complaints. The gym is in a windowless room but well equiped with free weights aerobic equipment and other instruments of torture, again rarely am I waiting for a piece of equipment to come free, they have...

maclinks 15.10.2007 (09.09.2008) · Read review
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Review of Village Hotel & Leisure Club, Walsall

Getting fit the Village Way

Advantages: Nice hotel (from what I have seen), excellent leisure facilities
Disadvantages: Standards have slipped slightly recently

...Before you start reading this review I should make it clear that this review is predominately about the leisure club (of which I am a member). Living 10 minutes away from the hotel as I do I have never really felt the urge to stay there! I will try as far as possible though to give my thoughts on the bits of the hotel I have seen. Hotel location The hotel is situated in the Cobalt Business Park, which is just off the A19 meaning it is easy to get to from either the A1 coming from the south (leaving the A1 before the Tyne tunnel) or from the A1 coming from the North, leaving at the Cramlington turn off. The location of the hotel, in a business park means that a lot of the guests during the week are people travelling on business to the various companies in Cobalt and the surrounding areas. The weekend clientele seems...

fryera2 19.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Village Hotel and Leisure Club, Newcastle

The Village

Advantages: Atmosphere. Well produced - Escapist
Disadvantages: Story line too unrealistic for me

...Last week I came across one of those special offers in HMV (4 DVds for £20). It was end of the season sale and I picked up a film called "The Village" just to make up the numbers. It struck me as being some sort of clichéd horror film from the blurb on the cover and I didn't expect to be watching it in the very near future. But it was one of those DVDs that keep popping up every time I looked through my shelf of dozens of other unwatched movies. Well the other evening, it popped up again and I just put it in the machine without giving it too much thought. As I wasn't in the mood for thinking anyway, it would probably be an ideal film. As we got into the film, enter the monster, well, a glimpse of it. It was supposed to be scaring me but even my wife, who makes me jump out of my skin with her sudden screams in scary movies, remained...

derek-j-a 06.10.2005 (07.10.2005) · Read review
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The Village

Advantages: You will enjoy it
Disadvantages: None

...The Village, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan on a budget of 60 million dollars, was going to be a tough follow up for a director known for his twists and turns. As it turned out, there was a twist, but it was a rather low key one, and it was almost apparent from the start, though it is not without a small end revelation, that will surprise you. This movie starts off really slowly, leading you into the lives of a group of villagers, who live on the outskirts of a wood, in 1897 Pennsylvania, which is seemingly haunted by some nasty hideous monsters, referred to only as, 'Those we do not speak of'. A village where the colour red is not allowed, as it is the colour of evil. The Elders, who have set up and run the village, teach their children that the Towns outside their village is a bad place, and they must never cross into...

Paradis 21.12.2004 · Read review
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Review of The Village (DVD)

Deep Down Below.

Advantages: Easy going atmosphere
Disadvantages: Pool could be bigger

...The village hotel & leisure club in Wirral = Have recently joined here and at £32 per month, each, we feel we have a bargain. They even waved the joining fee, normally £70. We joined, my wife and I, on the 'Flexi' promotion. This is where you are only tied in for 3 months as opposed to the 'Full' 12 month tie in. Extras given include £15 to spend in their restaurants, each, 10% discounts in the bars and coffee shop and 2 free vouchers for friends/family. The vouchers entitle the user to a free week in the gym, pool etc... worth £70. If you recommend someone and they join you also get £50 of a nights stay in the hotel. A fair few incentives but to be honest we just want to use the leisure facilities. My wife is recovering from Breast Cancer and she has some back problems resulting from...

Maximus-Qualitus 26.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Village Hotel and Leisure Club, Wirral

Dover Leisure Centre

Advantages: You don't need to be a member to use the facilities
Disadvantages: Certain parts may be shut due to private events

...Living in Dover means that we don't have too many facilities. Dover Leisure Centre is about the only sporting facility in Dover other than the football and rugby pitches. Location Dover Leisure Centre is located on Townwall Street in Dover which is pretty much on the seafront and within walking distance to the Port of Dover. It is also within walking distance of Dover town, Dover Priory Station and Pencester bus station. Facilities There are two swimming pools at Dover Leisure Centre. There is a main swimming pool which is 25 metres and also a learner / childrens pool. In the main pool, there are two lanes of the swimming pool which are sectioned off to create one slow, and one fast swimming lane. The rest of the pool is then literally just open water where people can swim at their own leisure. The smaller pool is much...

daylehall 24.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Dover Leisure Centre

Keeping Fit at a Not So Leisurely Pace

Advantages: Facilities all over the city, no contract to tie you in, excellent service overall
Disadvantages: Occasional staff shortages, unruly kids

...Introduction Scotland has an appalling health record - which if you look at the nation's love of anything that comes out of a deep fat frier, whisky, cigarettes and sugar is no real surprise. I have a typically Scottish sweet tooth and in the time I have lived in Edinburgh I have tried my level best to ensure I get a decent amount of exercise to try to counter the calorific content of the sweet treats I enjoy. There are, of course, a large number of private health clubs in the city, offering fantastic facilities. However they are not cheap and many tie you into a contract that can be difficult to extricate oneself from if, for various reasons, you can no longer make use of your membership. Edinburgh Leisure Edinburgh Leisure is a company wholly owned by the City of Edinburgh Council and offers fitness facilities for all...

rosebud2001 12.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Edinburgh Leisure, Edinburgh

Village of the Damned Scared

Advantages: Good acting and story
Disadvantages: Looking for the plot twists will give you whiplash

...Pennsylvania, 1897; the inhabitants of the utopian Covington have held an uneasy truce with the creatures that live in the woods around their village for years. But when Lucius Hunt asks permission to leave, things change for the worse. Writer-director M Night Shyamalan?s films all seem to exist in the eternal twilight of an autumnal world. ?The Village? is no exception, portraying a world of muted tones and frosty nights, the whole thing awash in leaf litter. It makes for an atmospheric backdrop in a tale where the greatest horrors are imagined and not seen. Here he delivers a taut, slow-burning psychological horror that plays on our primeval fear of the dark and the things that may be lurking in it. He ramps up the suspense through the judicious use of obscured views, half-seen creatures and a shrieking score that will send shivers...

afy9mab 28.08.2004 · Read review
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