San Remo in style

Advantages: Luxury par excellance!
Disadvantages: Snobby staff!

...We booked this holiday through an Irish travel company called Abbey travel based in Dublin and although it was expensive (Italy usually is expensive in my opinion), we loveld the look of the hotel. Flight was to Nice form Dublin with a personal taxi transfer to San Remo at hurtling speeds across the French/Italian border. The hotel is very grand indeed and would be a lovely place to take your most precious partner for a luxurious break and a bit of pampering. It really is 5 star in all aspects. The rooms are sumptious and the decor is right out of an antique catalogue, the clientelle are all well heeled and the atmosphere is like out of a 1930's novel with Brits abroad emulating the grand tour of the 18th century. As we are in Italy, it goes without saying that the food was gorgeous throughout our stay and the Italian style...

markcathcart 08.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Royal Hotel, San Remo

San Remo CD34 - Style, Performance AND subtlety?

Advantages: Panel Release - Lots of Features - Great Price
Disadvantages: Screen susceptible to Glare.

...I bought this head-unit over a year ago now for about £80. It's now much cheaper than this, but at £80 it was great value. The front panel is attractive and looks great on the dashboard. It looks striking but doesn't use garish colours like other popular brands, Alpine, Sony, Clarion etc. The white on black display is also very nice, but is susceptible to glare if you're using it in the midday sun! Feature-wise, the San Remo CD34 is rich. It features a great EQ allowing you to manipulate Bass and Treble, and also what's called X-Bass, which is a nifty tool for creating harmonics above a certain sub-bass note which allows the ear to perceive lower harmonics than are actually present. Great if you have speakers unable to replicate deep bass frequencies. It also has 3 EQ presets, Rock, Classical and Pop, which are useful for quick...

Radical-Machine 12.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Blaupunkt SAN REMO

Martial arts with a difference

Advantages: James Bond meets Abbott & Costello
Disadvantages: good but not brilliant

...could do with learning this to deal with my vicious cat}. One of the other beauties fo this film is that it also plays a touch like a James Bond movie. Allow me to elaborate. Remo Williams {Fred Ward} is a New York police officer. He is in his patrol car on a stakeout when suddenly he is attacked and left for dead. Remo is hospitalised and starts to recover. When finally compus mentus he is greeted by a man at the end of his bed who tells him that he is needed by them and that he is not the same man etc. Remo looks in a mirror to discover his appearance has been altered. Naturally Remo is pretty miffed and is a touch unco-operative. Eventually he becomes reasonable and is taken on as a secret agent to bring down a some corrupt high ranking officers in the military. Remo's first mission is to assassinate a Korean man. Remo sneaks in...

tayloa22 06.09.2007 (30.10.2007) · Read review
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Review of Remo - Unarmed And Dangerous (DVD)

Truly classy

Advantages: Cheap, full of character, welcoming
Disadvantages: Smoking is allowed (an advantage to some I suspect!), shared bathrooms

...I stayed here in November last year, and would have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone. Accommodation in San Francisco is very expensive - apparently it is the second most expensive city in the US after New York. But the San Remo is very reasonable, clean, welcoming and full of character. We stayed here for about £40 a night, after negotiating with the manager (it was the off-peak season). The hotel is situated in a nice, quiet area of San Francisco, very near North Beach. We walked here every morning and ate breakfast on the pier whilst listening to the Sea Lions and overlooking Alcatraz - the pier is very quiet in the mornings. The rooms are very clean with comfortable beds and individual furniture. Each room is uniquely furnished. The hotel is decorated with antique art and furniture and Victorian touches - it...

e_l_parker 06.02.2001 · Read review
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Review of San Remo Hotel, San Francisco

Phenomena with a budget at a historic hotel

Advantages: An inexpensive hotel in a decent neighborhood, clean, really kewl claw-foot bathtub, haunted
Disadvantages: Some poorly-designed shower rooms, inattentive chambermaid, parking accommodations are not the most convenient

...Let's face it. The biggest attraction for guests to the San Remo Hotel in San Francisco is the price. For anyone traveling on budget, it offers a bed and plumbing facilities at a rate that won't break the bank of someone with limited resources. I had stayed there when my British girlfriend, Jayne, came to visit a couple years ago. Even though it lacks most of the amenities offered by today's hotels, it has one other attraction newer ones don't have: ghosts. My boyfriend's, Russell's, birthday was coming up. He had never been to Alcatraz and had mentioned an interest in seeing it. After spending my last couple of birthdays with me in Arizona, I wanted to arrange something a little special for him on his. Despite the challenge to our privacy those two nights, I nonetheless found this little hotel charming and may have even...

ajfoster 16.01.2004 (22.01.2004) · Read review
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Review of San Remo Hotel, San Francisco

Sanremo: when a name isn't a guarantee

Advantages: A famous place
Disadvantages: Prices

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pesadilla 24.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of San Remo (Italy)

best for bashing

Advantages: one of the most amazing sounding kits you will play.
Disadvantages: can be pricey and the sounds created many not suit your style of drumming.

...The mapex pro-m drum kit is an amazing kit for I would say the intermediate to the professional drum players out there. Mapex is one of the leading drum brands and their pro-m maple shell collection is in my opinion one of the best type of drums you can get. Starting around £850 for what what you get it is worth it. Anyone who purchases one of these excellent peices of sound mastery and pure qaulity will be thourughly happy with the outcome. Each drum is already built with remo heads. Its best to buy it from a mapex dealer because you get the best warranty deals and a much broader choice of colours and perfect slection. My oppinion.....one of the best kits in the market and one of the best if you want to get a step ahead from the begginer and intermediate part of the drum market....

hueyboid 13.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of mapex pro-m

Great looking, sounding drum kit for fair price...

Advantages: Price, lacquered, looks great, sounds even better, easy to get hold of extra features
Disadvantages: Remo U2 head?s that come with the kit are disappointing, but you can?t have everything?

...possible attached to the toms so they can vibrate freely. This creates a smooth sound, which you can reply on. The hardware is not the best because it does not come with double bracing. But there is not much reason why it needs to be that strong anyway unless you plan to be maintaining a lot of weight on them. The skins (Remo U2) for the drums do not quite keep up with the quality of the drum kit. But lets face it the heads obtained with a new drum kit, are never very good anyway. I added Remo Pinstripe to my Yamaha Stage Custom and they really do it justice. Once with good quality heads have been fixed that?s when you can really get the sound out of them, which you bought it for. The type of sound, which you get with the original heads, is more of a jazz sound, but as your average rocker I prefer the deeper sounds, which come from...

stevedamouth 14.07.2002 (15.07.2002) · Read review
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Review of Yamaha Stage Custom Drumkit

Qualitt at a good price

Advantages: Great value for money
Disadvantages: bass drum pedal

...Although I would generally recommend saving up a bit more and investing an Export set, the Forum is a great first kit that should last any beginner a few years before they upgrade. For a kit of this price the heads are very good, but I would sill recommend getting new Remo heads when you can afford them, and maybe upgrading the bass pedal, but the actuall drums themsleves should last a good few years of practice and gigging and the plastic coating does result in a durable finish, which although not that amasing looking, with s certainly withstand a few knocks when its being transported. Very good value for money, recommendd for any beginner....

Ryan-Simpson 13.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Pearl Forum Drumkit

Yamaha Stage Custom Drumkit

Advantages: GREAT DRUM KIT 4 OUTSTANDING PRICE!
Disadvantages: NONE?

...This Drum kit is amazing. If your a beginer or even really good this drum kit will suit you this kit is awsome if your looking for a reasonibly priced drum kit this is for you. I bought this kit about 2 years ago ive only made 3 adjustments like putting remo pinstripe skins on it and buying anew cymbal pack and buyong a mapex double bass pedal but thats what ive done this is a great kit and i would recomend this product to nearly anyone. The most affordable all-birch Yamaha drumset ever! An incredible value, the legendary tone of an all-birch Yamaha drumset is now available in the Stage Custom series. The low fundamental and warm tone of Yamaha's birch drums have been the top choice of drummers for over 30 years. The Stage Custom Birch series is great for the beginner or the working professional. The staggered diagonal seam allows us to...

ReviewDude12345 04.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Yamaha Stage Custom Drumkit