Bon Vacances at Port Bourgenay

Advantages: Masses to do, something for everyone.
Disadvantages: Maybe a bit pricey in high season

...beyond our budget if it wasn't for the Clubcard vouchers that are worth four times their face value, but after much debate and research we plumped for Port Bourgenay, run by Pierre et Vacances, as it looked like it was in a perfect location, is close to the beach, and there seemed to be a lot to do. It cost somewhere in the region of £1000 for the accommodation (£250 in deals) for seven nights and £300 for the return ferry. ~*~ Location ~*~ We live in the south west, so a Portsmouth - Cherbourg crossing is ideal for us. We always get the earliest ferry (around 9am) so we arrive in France around 3pm which gives us plenty of time to drive to our accommodation and settle in by bed time. Or so I thought! This really wasn't the easiest place to find at all. We knew the main towns that we had to head towards: Rennes, Nantes, La...

chilcott1 28.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Pierre & Vacances Port-Bourgenay, Talmont

Vacancy

Advantages: Read opp
Disadvantages: Read Opp

...Vacancy was a film I actually only saw a few months back, even though the film had been out for some time prior to this. Vacancy starts the gorgeous Kate Beckinsale, and Luke Wilson, brother of Owen Wilson. The film opened in April 2007; however it wasn't a smash hit horror film only ranking in as high as number 4. Plot: David and Amy fox, a married couple are driving back from a counselling session, when during the middle of the night their car breaks down in some random, unknown area, near the LA region. After a few minutes of arguing the couple decide that rather than staying in their car the whole night, they check into a local motel for the night, the comfort of a bed and somewhere warm soon takes over their minds. They approach a local motel, which is run by the local manager Mason (Frank Whaley), and request a room...

jaygami1986 24.10.2008 · Read review
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Vacancy

Advantages: Lovely Acting
Disadvantages: Typical Start

...Vacancy is a movie which has Luke Wilson and Kate Beckingsale as its main parts David and Amy. The film is supposed to be a horror/thriller, but when I first saw it advertised on the television I really could not take the time to go down to my local cinema and watch it, for the following reasons: - • There is a different horror movie realized every week and three quarters of them are pathetic and I don't enjoy. • Films come out on DVD so quickly that even if I wanted to watch it that much, it would be so much that I can't wait for its DVD release. • Kate Beckingsale is lovely and very beautiful, and Luke Wilson is one of my favourite actors (he and his brother Owen) but I couldn't personally see them pulling of the thriller story, especially not as a stage couple, don't ask, I just had a feeling! • The story...

amyloop 30.08.2007 · Read review
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Pierre et Vacances - great holidays in France

Advantages: holiday apartments, ideal for families, a lot of activities
Disadvantages: expensive extras

...This year, we spent two weeks of our summer vacation in France, in a club village of Pierre et Vacances. Pierre et Vacances is the largest company offering holiday apartments and holiday homes in France (if not in the whole of Europe) with more than 60 locations (residences, hotels and club villages). Most of the locations can be found at the French south coast (Provence, Côte d'Azur, Languedoc-Roussillon), but there is a large choice available at the Atlantic coast, in Normandy and Brittany, as well as a few locations in Paris and in the French Alps. There are studios for two, apartments for four, six or eight, and houses for 10 persons, all built in the regional style, furnished appropriately and quite cosy. There are two-, three- and four-star locations (the stars are called suns at Pierre et Vacances). Depending...

Michael-S 28.08.2001 · Read review
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Marco Pierre White in my kitchen - 3 in 1 Hand blender +

Advantages: One gadget does so much - blends, mixes, chops, easy to store and light
Disadvantages: lead too short, have to hold the button in all the time you are using it,

...Russell Hobbs Marco Pierre White 3-in-1 Hand Blender 14334 with Balloon Whisk and Chopping Bowl I was lucky enough to have enough points on one of my survey sites to be able to get this for nothing but it is on Amazon for about £35 I notice. I had given my big food processor to my daughter when she moved out as I never used it. I kept a little hand mixer and a blender. The blender died so I replaced it with a cheap one from Tesco which was total rubbish so after the third replacement I asked for my money back. Now I only had a hand mixer which wasn't that useful for soups hence looking for something small that would do the job. I saw this and thought it would be perfect as it would fit in a drawer ( most of it) and would do all I wanted I thought and best of all it was for nothing except points earned from surveys. I certainly was...

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Now known as Le Bistrot Pierre!

Advantages: Relaxed atmosphere, great quality food, great service
Disadvantages: Reservations sometimes necessary for lunch and always for dinner

..., with an attractive frontage, in the centre of town. Reservations a few days in advance are essential for the evening sitting, the bar is open till 12 and you won't be hurried out of your seat to make way for the next sitting. Atmosphere was great on both occasions - once in the evening and again at lunch. Le Bistro Pierre is at 18 Friar Gate, reservations on 01332 370470...

mandrea 20.01.2007 · Read review
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Vacancy - a must see film for 2007

Advantages: Surprisingly good acting in different roles for Wilson & Beckinsale - suspense throughout
Disadvantages: Slightly cliched horror film but doesn't really have an effect on the film

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emmajt81 25.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Vacancy (DVD)

They've checked in but will they check out?

Advantages: Good, solid acting, interesting story, very atmospheric, not too gory,
Disadvantages: Some flaws in story, somewhat predictable

...sequence - not much can be said about this really, it uses one of the latter sequences of the movie and at the end focuses in on the couples car license plate, which is where the movies originally starts from, focussing on the license plate * The Cast & Crew of Vacancy - This is quite a good documentary, where the main actors, Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale and Frank Whaley, as well as the director, Nimrod Antal and a couple of other crew members, talk about the movie. The actors discuss what they liked about the script and what they thought of the movie and the director talks about his view on the story and what he hopes others take away from it and so on. He talks about how he sees it as being quite a sort of Hitchcock-ian movie, which I agree with, as I've already mentioned this above. It talks about some technical elements too such as...

IzzyS 17.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Vacancy (DVD)

Creepier Than Crossroads

Advantages: Well paced, Good performances, Keeps You Gripped
Disadvantages: Not the most original concept

...In recent months we've seen the advent of films subbed as 'torture porn', films that pass themselves off as horror films but then see the need to push the envelope of what they can get away with when it comes to on screen death. Thankfully such films as Hostel 2 have died a death at the box office, in my view purely because above all else they weren't very good. So here we have Vacancy, a film that pretty much went under the rader upon release about a couple who find themselves the potential victims of a snuff film. However what seems like dark material rife for making the audience sick turns out to be a slick little thriller. Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson play a couple who are on a long road trip at night, the atmosphere is dicey as they are about to get divorced, having never recovered from the death of their child. When their...

utero 28.12.2007 · Read review
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Makes Elm Street Look Like A Picnic

Advantages: A decent thriller, which I was not expecting
Disadvantages: Lack of loose end collection

...Vacancy begins in a very dated but good fashion, like the beginning of the original psycho back in 1960 the opening score is a thumping but 60?s style track. Add to this the credits as they run across the screen at a series of vertical and horizontal lines; having run through the entire title sequence the camera pans out and you see all the titles again in a sort of reverse motion, as has been done before it appears that all the lines are going to create a map, but this is not the case they converge to form a car number plate. You see this is the nice thing about a major proportion of Vacancy, it sets to surprise you. Having run through the titles you?re introduced to Kate Beckinsale, and Luke Wilson in the roles of Amy and David Fox as they drive through the night. With two cast members such as this, while I knew this to be a horror...

sghawken 10.06.2007 · Read review
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