LONDON'S CALLING

Advantages: Pleasent stay, good food, central location
Disadvantages: Views from room

...difficulties in access and room lighting I really enjoyed this stay at The Strand Palace hotel. It was extremely central to our needs, and offered polite helpful, knowledgeable staff. It was very clean throughout and I will have no hesitation in booking here again. I am gradually getting more mobile so I can now manage a few steps: however, if you are mobility impaired and by yourself this hotel might be best avoided. Recommended: Thanks for reading ? Dave Contact: 372 Strand, London, WC2R 0JJ Telephone: +44 (0)20 7836 8080 Fax: +44 (0)20 7836 2077 Reservations: +44 (0)20 7379 4737 Fax: +44 (0)20 7257 9402 http://www.strandpalacehotel.co.uk/home.htm...

dabmim 28.03.2003 · Read review
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Review of The Strand Palace Hotel, London

Good London hotel in Kensington

Advantages: Excellent location and lovely clean hotel
Disadvantages: Staff could be a bit clearer about hotel details

...yourself to a full english, cereal, croissants and tea/coffee and juices. Check out is by 12pm and again they will keep hold of your suitcases until you are ready to leave. Overall there were a few minor glitches with our stay but the hotel was very nice and i would quite happily stay there again and recommend it to my friends I paid £102 for our room for one night but if you are willing to risk waiting till a couple of days before your trip then you could pick up the same room for £65 which is a great price in the Kensington Area of london...

alispencer22 09.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Executive Rooms By Shaftesbury, London

Stranded in London!

Advantages: Excellent central location; good bars and restaurants
Disadvantages: Rooms a bit old fashioned; a little pricey

..." - the inner courtyard of the hotel with the humming air conditioners at the bottom. I can live (or sleep) with that, but there was also an awful rattling, like pipes, coming from somewhere in the ceiling. We went back downstairs to complain, and were told there were no other rooms. After standing our ground they eventually checked us in to an alternative room on the 4th floor. A little bigger, but still not brilliant - probably "average", from past business stays down in London hotels. The reception staff weren't particularly friendly, as other reviews have mentioned. Despite being "club" rooms, all that appeared to be different was the decor. Instead of old-fashioned wall-to-wall flowerey decor and furnishings, it was plain duck-egg walls, and a "modern" bed (faux-leather headboard and plain brown and green blankets). Not worth the extra money...

tall_andy 12.11.2006 · Read review
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London Zoo - a fun day out for all the family

Advantages: Lots to see, good shows
Disadvantages: Lots of walking

...I have just had a lovely day out at London Zoo today so thought I would write a review on it. We decided to go today as it is my boyfriend's birthday and we both like enjoying events like these. We have never been to this zoo before so thought we would give it a go. I also found that there were vouchers for buy one get one free on the Internet if you buy train tickets. The Zoo is fairly easy to find, although the tube stations are not exactly near. We got the tube to Baker Street as we fancied a walk through Regents Park. It was a nice walk but quite a long one and there are not really any signs for the zoo so we had to use a map we had. I think the nearest station is actually Camden. Once we arrived there was a short queue and we gave the lady our voucher. She didn't even ask for our train tickets but at least we managed to...

wendz86 19.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of London Zoo, London

LUXURY IN LONDON!

Advantages: Brilliant rooms, service, food, internet etc
Disadvantages: expensive!!!

...see our room. We were not disappointed. The room was utterly huge- even with lots of furniture and bits and pieces. We had booked a twin room; however there are also singles, doubles and family rooms available too. The two single beds were fairly big, and very comfy. There was a bedside table at each side of the beds as well as one in the middle which held a telephone and a lamp. The telephone could be used to call any other room, reception or for room service. As well as the two beds, there was a large wardrobe with plenty of coat hangers, a desk, and a huge 30 or so inch television, a dining table with 4 chairs around it, and a microwave and kettle. As with most hotels we had an en-suite as well. The bathroom was on the small side, however it was fitted with a lovely, clean bath, an overhead shower, a sink and a toilet. The facilities...

SweetTooth93 08.03.2009 (12.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of The Grosvenor, London

The Living Room - London Heddon Street

Advantages: Great venue, great choice!
Disadvantages: please water the christmas tree!

...Having been reccomended The Living Room as a place to eat I booked my work christmas lunch at The Living Room in Piccadilly (Heddon Street). There was a set menu for pre-bookings which was £35 per head for a three course. We did not have to book in advance just pay £5 per head deposit (which is then taken off the bill). We arrived on time and were seated straight away upstairs. We had a table that was plenty big enough for our party of 8 (although one person couldn\'t come at the last minute). The menu looked fantastic is was hard to decide what to choose. In each of the starter and main options there was two meat, a fish and a vegetarian option. Starters: Butternut squash soup, muchroom ravioli and rissotto, pork roulade or smoked salmon. Mains: Traditional Turkey, 7hr braised beef, Seabass or baked goats cheese. Deserts...

Bex727 18.12.2007 · Read review
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Posh and civilized - unlike me!

Advantages: Lovely food, fantastic staff, private party area
Disadvantages: Very very hot at one point

...A friend's recent birthday and wedding anniversary led to her booking a restaurant for an evening of festivities for around thirty people. As a person of high standards, I knew it would be fairly upmarket; and as I don't get to go to 'nice' restaurants very often these days - can't afford them - I was looking forward to the meal. And, for once, I wasn't disappointed. Location: 69-73 St John Street London EC1M 4AN Tel: 02072539000 Email: reservations@theclerkenwell.com Website: http://www.theclerkenwell.com/ St John Street is in The City, so we got the tube to Farringdon and then walked for about ten minutes to reach the restaurant. Returning home, we got taxis, which were readily available at the end of the road, opposite Smithfield Market. First impressions Walking into the restaurant, we were very...

sunmeilan 21.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Clerkenwell Dining Room, London

The safest room in the house!

Advantages: Brilliant story, completely captivating
Disadvantages: No special features on the one disc DVD

...Panic Room is a thriller starring Jodie Foster from 2002. It runs for approximately 112 minutes & is rated 15. It received a mainly positive reception from the critics. It grossed an estimated $196,397,415 at the box office on a budget of $48,000,000. Panic Room is directed by David Fincher who is famous for working with Brad Pitt on films such as; Fight Club, Se7en & The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. He also worked on serial killer thriller The Zodiac. The main star of this film is Jodie Foster who I?m sure most of you will have heard of but if you haven?t she?s starred in films such as; Silence Of The Lambs, The Brave One, Freaky Friday & Taxi Driver. Panic Room is about Meg Altman, a recently divorced woman who moves into a new home with her 12 year old diabetic daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart). The house isn?t just...

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Panic Room

Advantages: Scary - Good
Disadvantages: Some weird acting

...Panic Room Panic Room is the story of a mother and daughter who moved into a huge brand new A three floor house with CCTV in every room, a lift, and a panic room. Wow how amazing. Now, their first night in the house they end up getting broken into by three men who are after a certain something in the house. And the three men thought the house was empty so they broke in - but when they found out there was someone living in the house, 2 of the 3 men set out to kill them, just so they could get what they were after. The noise of the men in the house woke the mother, so she checked out the CCTV to find the men wandering about her house, but when she tries to escape the men chase her up the stairs. She runs for her daughter in the top floor then gets the lift back down, and they end up hiding in the panic room, where they can get...

lesleyanne18 26.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Panic Room (DVD)

Dear Room

Advantages: honest and thought provoking.
Disadvantages: some work maybe seen as to short.

...I've got into Hugo Willaims' work over the last couple of years and i have to admit its really grown on me ,this is the second publication of this type by Hugo Williams, the first being 'Billy's Rain' published in 1999, this book was published in 2006 by Faber and Faber. Other work by Hugo Williams also includes 'Writing Home', 'Selected Poems', 'Self Portrait With A Slide', 'Dock Leaves', and 'Collected Poems'. About The Author - Born in 1942 Hugo Williams is originaly from Sussex and has worked on the London Magazine amongst a long list of other journalist ventures. He won the T. S. Elliot Prize in 1999 for 'Billy's Rain' and was first published on Faber and Faber in 2002 when he released his 'Collected Poems'. The Content - The book starts off with a two prose poem by the title 'Outline' and is a thought provoking piece...

drew_face 10.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Dear Room - Hugo Williams