Old Ship Hotel is Really Very OLD!

Advantages: Service at breakfast and breakfast itself
Disadvantages: shabby rooms, noisy doors, no sound-proofing

...As part of a hen weekend package we were upgraded to the apparently 4 star Old Ship Hotel in Brighton which is Brighton's oldest hotel. I hadn't heard anything about it prior to hearing we would be staying here but having asked a few friends who'd visited Brighton quite often I didn't hear anything positive - those who had stayed there said it was pretty shabby and those who hadn't stayed said it looked pretty shabby just from the outside. Not a good start but as if was part of the hen weekend package and because we'd been upgraded for free from a 3 star hotel to the Old Ship Hotel I had to assume it couldn't be all bad - maybe it had been refurbished since my friends had seen it/stayed there. There are apparently 50 car parking spaces for use by hotel guests which you have to pay about £15 a day and £5 overnight to use these. There...

anonymili 18.08.2008 · Read review
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Windsor Inn- Windsor Out

Advantages: Good location, triple room available, price
Disadvantages: Lots of stairs, NO HOT WATER, Not very clean

...~~The Windsor Inn~~ ~~Booking~~ A girls holiday was in order and Cork seemed like the perfect location as it was slightly cheaper than Dublin but there was still lots to do. After trailing through many search websites we finally came across The Windsor Inn hotel. So this is where our problems began. We booked the hotel through booking.com and got to the end of the whole confirmation part and paid when a pop-up came along saying the room we'd paid for was not available. I tried contacting booking.com who confirmed that no payment had been made, I even phoned my credit card company to make sure. So an hour later we'd booked another hotel and I went to my emails and low and behold I found that I had confirmation of the Windsor Inn saying that we did have the room. (I eventually paid for 2 hotels in the end and had a real problem...

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Review of Windsor Inn cork, Cork

Embodiment of old-time elegance and luxury

Advantages: Opulent environment and decor, fresh haut cuisine dishes, excellent location, friendly and helpful staff
Disadvantages: Expensive

...individually designed with air conditioning, flat screen television with radio, telephone, complimentary high-speed broad band Internet connections, and of course, en-suite marble bathrooms. Having stayed in a LOT of undesirable hotels in my time all over the country and the world, I was suitably impressed by my parents' room. The sizable rooms, like the rest of the Old Parsonage, exuded understated sumptuousness and elegant refinement. There are the basic complimentary goods such as a kettle, towels, bath robes, and more: you must resist the urge to simply vegetate in the pure opulence of your room for the entirety of your stay. Some of the ground floor rooms also have private terraces overlooking the Old Parsonage's Church garden where breakfast, lunch or dinner can be enjoyed, though unfortunately my parents' room was not afforded this loveliness...

bellahuang86 15.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Old Parsonage Hotel, Oxford

Luxury hotel, great weekend rates

Advantages: Central location, bargain weekend rates include excellent buffet breakfast
Disadvantages: Rooms slightly on the small size. Expensive to stay during the week

...This luxury hotel does cheap weekend rates, which makes it a great place for a short city-break. It is centrally located, and is just a few minutes walk from the Grande Place, the picturesque main square. The Royal Windsor offers all the trappings of a high-class hotel: 24 hour room service, fitness club, laundry service, garage, sauna etc. etc. The multi-channel TV has pay-per-view movies and even the UK channels BBC 1 & 2. The en-suite bathrooms are well equipped and the bedrooms are generally very nice if a little on the small size. I found the room got a little stuffy but the windows can be opened and it is not too noisy to sleep with them open. If you are lucky enough to be assigned one of the rooms on the Godiva floor then not only do you get an even more opulent room you also get free box of Godiva chocolates - alas, having...

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Review of Royal Windsor Hotel, Brussels

Old Macdonald had a 5-star Hotel - eee ai eee ai oh

Advantages: It's spectacular and surprisingly quiet and the best location in the city
Disadvantages: Parking, high prices.

.... The Randolph was really something special. At that time there were no other top notch hotels in the centre of Oxford and visitors had to choose between the glories of the Randolph or a B&B on the Iffley, Cowley, Woodstock or Banbury Roads. The Randolph stood alone in its magnificence but has more recently been joined by arrivistes such as The Bank and the Malmaison, the latter housed in the old Oxford Prison. A few years ago my husband and I wanted to attend a ceramics exhibition in the city and I was lucky enough to get a really outstanding bargain deal at the Randolph. For only a few pounds more than a grotty B&B, I could finally get to stay in my dream hotel. I love high Victorian architecture and the Randolph is a fine example. It was built in 1864 at a time when no architect could resist sticking just one more bit of ostentatious...

koshkha 11.10.2009 · Read review
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Legoland Windsor...Quick Day Trip Guide

Advantages: Lots to See and Do
Disadvantages: Expensive, Queues and short ride times

...Firsty I am going to keep the review to the main points. This is just my opinion and we will all make our own minds up. Trip early July 09 Legoland Windsor. Cost: Cons: Well lets be honest its not cheap: 1 Day Adult Ticket (16-59 yrs) £33.30 1 Day Child Ticket (3-15 yrs) £25.20 1 Day Senior Ticket (60+ yrs) £25.20 So for a typical family of 4 its over £100. Pros: The upside is that they must know its expensive because you can find find reductions in the ticket price all over the place. we go ours from a box of Walkers Crisps. The average reduction reduces the price of each ticket by 50%, better but still expensive. *Top tip: Look for discount vouchers, also available on Legoland web site* Travel and Parking: Pros: Its easily found with good signage. Cons: Congestion the nearer you...

livelylad 24.10.2009 · Read review
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The Raven Hotel Hook - Old English Inns

Advantages: Great Value, Great Food.
Disadvantages: Difficult to navigate th ehhotel and lots of stairs!!

...The Raven Hotel - Old English Inns. We stayed in a family room here in August 09. The cost was £19.99 per person as part of a promotion throught the Daily Mail. We stayed on the reccomendation of our parents who had stayed there a week earlier, at a cost of £9.99 and thouroughly enjoyed their stay. The Hotel has 38 rooms which are a mixture of double single and family rooms. The layout of the Hotel is confusing, there seem to be stair and doors leading everywhere. I was rather surprised that our family room was on the top floor through a maze of stairs/doors and corridors. There was a slight delay on arrival as the front desk would appear to be not manned all the time. Our room was comfortable, it was clean and tidy if a little dated. Tea/Coffee and biscuits are provided in the room. The layout of the room was...

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Review of The Raven Hotel, Hook

D' old men and old women hotel!

Advantages: Situated near the promenade overlooking St Paul's Bay and Islands
Disadvantages: Bedrooms not as luxurious as reception. More fresh fruit needed.

...roads we eventually reached our hotel, "Oh. It's lovely in there" said one of the people still waiting to get to their hotel, and she was right, it did look lovely. A huge Reception area, with beautiful leather sofas, lots of marble, a large water feature, and fresh plants in huge colourful pots. Certainly it exuded luxury 4 star. But no receptionists! Two suddenly appeared and we were dealt with efficiently, and given our room key- yes a real key! The main dining room was pointed out to us and the direction of the lifts and with "Have a nice stay" we trundled off. It might have been nice to point out to us that there was a 24hour café open should we have wanted a drink, but there was a mini bar in the room, so we had a cold one instead. At first we thought the hotel was full of lots of old men and women, and so it was! Lots of people had...

jo145 23.02.2008 (24.02.2008) · Read review
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Review of New Dolmen Hotel, Malta

Windsor Life

Advantages: trouble free investments
Disadvantages: not managed by company

...have a good web site that advises you of all their products and services they can provide This I checked on an occasional basis and provides information all funds on it have their current market price updated on a daily basis. The only problem I found was finding my fund because there are so many and because the fund on the web site was different from the name given on my statements. The web site is: www.windsor-life.com. My bad experiences with the company: My main issue I had with them was the fact that I did not feel they were managing my money as well as I would like and getting for me the returns I would have expected. When I looked at see how my fund was doing in comparison to other funds the results for me were disappointing. This made me start to question what exactly I was getting for my investments and in turn what was...

limara111 06.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Windsor Life Assurance Co Ltd

Old style gaming without violence - Hotel Dusk for DS

Advantages: A deep and atmospheric game
Disadvantages: Possibly a bit wordy and linear in gameplay

...Hotel Dusk : Room 215 is a detective and puzzle game for the Nintendo DS. It reminds me of games I used to play on the Amiga which were essentially point and click adventure games, where the game play and storyline was relatively set but gave the player lots of different options to explore the world built up by the programmers. The game appealed to me, as I'm really not that good at games which involve fighting other characters and jumping from platform to platform with precision timing, primarily as I'm hopeless at them and progress takes a long time. The plot is important to the game, and you take the role of the main character, Kyle Hyde, and you have to track down your missing friend by exploring the hotel. The game is set in 1979, in Los Angeles. In terms of game play, you will have to like reading to enjoy playing this game...

julwhite 29.06.2009 · Read review
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