Walking Among Ghosts in Santa Fe Style

Advantages: Beautiful small city in a dramatic desert and mountain landscape
Disadvantages: Expensive and somewhat pretentious, having lost the laid-back attitude of the past

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Modern Santa Fe in Context - An Editorial ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Santa Fe is a small urban gem. Nestled in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and surrounded by the haunting beauty of the high desert, it truly is a lovely small city--a city well worth visiting. In addition to being the state capital of New Mexico, Santa Fe offers visitors marvelous museums, excellent restaurants, and the vitality of a vibrant artists' community. Its historic 17th-century Plaza still serves its original purpose well, providing an attractive and effective focus for much of the city's political, cultural, commercial, and religious activity. So, why can't I embrace this lovely city? What's not to like? What's my problem? My problem is that the Santa Fe of today, for all its very...

BawBaw 29.12.2003 (17.01.2004) · Read review
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Review of Santa Fe

Santa Fe - The New Mexican Experience

Advantages: Positive, welcoming atmosphere. Delicious Food
Disadvantages: Overcrowding on Saturday nights

...Recently my friend and I decided to treat ourselves by dining at Santa Fe, a New Mexican variation restaurant based in Reading, Berkshire. It has an optimum spot on The Riverside within Reading's Oracle Shopping Centre and offers outside seating for that Al Fresco experience or inside dining amongst their reasonably bright and exuberant interior settings - definitely adhering to the vibrancy of the Mexican atmosphere. We chose to go into Reading on a Saturday night planning to eat around 9pm so we were expecting things to be reasonably busy. There are a total of several other Santa Fe restaurants located across the country, others placed within Birmingham, Bluewater, Nottingham and Portsmouth and although each venue is supposed to be slightly different in style and décor they are quoted as offering the same levels of service...

kelr101 24.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Santa Fe Restaurant, Reading, Berkshire

My Santa Fe

Advantages: Comfortable ,Great Vision
Disadvantages: petrol consumption

...Hyundai Santa Fe----2.4 CDX (petrol) Now you wonder why would I go for a 4x4 well try spending a winter in Livingston then you will see. Last January we had some major snow fall and because I work in Edinburgh I tend to drive in. Well I had a Hyundai Coupe and let me tell you that car did not like the snow . Looked out my window in the morning and the snow was about 6/7 inch deep. Tried to get it out of the street with no luck so had to take the day off work. That's when I decided I would get the 4x4. I went to my local Hyundai dealer as they have provided me with excellent service in the past and explained to them my dilemma. They suggested the 4x4 Santa Fe. So took it out for a spin and loved it straight away it got off it's mark quick enough this is important for me as I stay in a place with lots of roundabouts so pick off...

maggieedwa 17.10.2005 (22.03.2006) · Read review
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Review of Hyundai Santa Fe 2.4

7-seat Santa Fe-- a 4x4 that doesn't drink fuel!

Advantages: Lovely to drive, looks great and reasonable fuel efficiency.
Disadvantages: Hard to manoeuvre in the dark.

...I will hold my hand up now and admit I drive a 4x4. I do not live in the wilds of scotland or up some inaccesible lane but I do have an excuse, I tow a family caravan. I need my vehicle as a work horse as dragging the caravan (very slowly) behind a Mondeo up a hill once was enough to send me out to the car dealershipsfor something with a bit more grunt! I am now on my second Santa Fe. The first one I had from new for 5 years. I had a problem when it was quite new and the clutch kept slipping whilst towing. This was a recognised fault and the whole clutch was replaced under the warranty. In the later years it developed an electrical problem with the dashboard lights which irritated but didn't effect the performance of the car. The only reason I changed to the newer model was because family commitments meant that sometimes 5 seats were...

Meggysmum 11.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Hyundai Santa Fe 2.2 CRTD 7 seat

Being Santa

Advantages: Entertaining for adults and children
Disadvantages: Silly...but what do you expect?

...forward to when my niece is old enough to appreciate it - then I've got a valid excuse to watch it! I suppose some very young children may be upset by the old Santa dying at the beginning of the film, but this is obviously something for parents to judge. There are some special features on the DVD along with the film that will no doubt keep children occupied for an extra half hour or so. The first is a training day for Santa's elves, run by Bernard the Elf. Then there is an interactive game, which involves pressing the arrow keys on the remote control to drop Christmas gifts for children. For those who like making things, someone called Wolfgang helps a group of children make Christmas snacks, such as cookies and cocoa - my only gripe with this is that the ingredients aren't listed in the feature, and it is necessary to click through to...

sunmeilan 18.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Santa Clause (DVD)

Santa-stic!

Advantages: Very funny, great cast, a Christmas film for adults!
Disadvantages: Not that Christmassy, rather crude in parts!

...I absolutely adore Christmas films, and my favourite ones are actually aimed at Children; The Santa Clause, Elf and Home Alone. I find the cuteness is perfect at this time of year, and there is nothing better than sitting in the dark on a winter's evening than watching one of those films. But the other evening, Channel 5 were showing a preview of an adult Christmas film, one I hadn't seen before called 'Bad Santa', and I was quite intrigued to see just how Christmassy this was going to be. So my other half and I settled down to watch, not quite expecting the brilliant film that was shown! Willie and Marcus have an unusual business going on. Every year, they get a job as Santa Claus and his elf in big department stores across the country. Then on Christmas Eve, they rob the place of all the money and anything they want, then flee town...

mummy2harry 27.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Bad Santa (DVD)

Santa Fe - It Disney get cheaper than this!

Advantages: Value for Money
Disadvantages: Basic Facilities, Restaurant

...I stayed in the Hotel Santa Fe in September with my boyfriend for three nights as part of a package booked through the Disneyland Paris website. This was the cheapest Disneyland hotel and the package was very good value - we got 3 nights at the hotel, breakfast included plus four days park tickets for both the Disneyland park and Walt Disney Studios for £292 for 2 of us. This was on the Early Booker September deal. To buy four days of park tickets for 2 adults (yes, it was 2 adults, no kids!) would cost £242 (based on the website prices for a 3 day hopper ticket (£89 each) plus a one day hopper ticket (£32 each)), so the hotel worked out at an incredibly cheap £16 a night for two of us. Bearing this in mind, although the Santa Fe was not the most luxurious hotel I have stayed in, and a lot more basic than the Newport Bay hotel (one...

uglyboots 12.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Disney's Hotel Santa Fe, Marne-la-Vallee

Santa Fe Review

Advantages: great staff and food
Disadvantages: not enough of them about

...Santa Fe is not a mexican restruant, but a 'new' mexican restruant so don't go in and expect to order your chicken fijitas or your nachos. they do however serve enchilladas and quesadillas. 95% of the food cooked at santa fe is cooked from fresh and it is all cooked on the kitchen line by fully trained chefs. Your average wait for food (dependant on what is ordered) is around the 15 minutes mark, unless of corse you order a well done steak. The selection of food goes across the board from salads, to enchilladas and linguine pasta through to steaks, aswell as accomidating for the sea food lovers, with red snapper, salmon seafood platers and paella. the service at santa fe is very good, and the waiters are always making sure that you are as happy as possible. if i had to reccomend a dish it'd have to be a santa fe homemade burger...

iamjedipaul 06.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Santa Fe Restaurant, Reading, Berkshire

A desperate woman on a desperate trail

Advantages: Excellent storyline, one for everyone
Disadvantages: none, it's great

...The Desperate Trail is an 129 minute, graphic western starring Sam Elliott {Road House, Tombstone}, Craig Sheffer {Nightbreed, A River Runs Through It} and Linda Fiorentino {Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Dogma}. By and large this film centre around these three actors. Characters: Craig Sheffer- Jack Cooper, outlaw and con man Linda Fiorentino- Sarah O'Rourke, outlaw Sam Elliott- Bill Speakes, U.S Marshall The film starts with Jack Cooper, Sarah O' Rourke and Bill Speakes among others travelling along in a Stagecoach. Jack keeps trying to make small talk with Sarah. Speakes tells him he's wasting his time with Sarah and shows him that she is cuffed to him, and tells him Sarah is heading for the gallows. A short time later there is an attempted hold-up on the Stagecoach that get's foiled. However in the excitement Sarah is able to...

tayloa22 09.09.2007 (02.11.2007) · Read review
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Review of The Desperate Trail (DVD)

Santa behaving badly - It can't be!

Advantages: The boy character, the concept is a novelty and its pretty amusing
Disadvantages: The swearing is a little over the top

...where you get to see the previously unheard of - a potty mouthed Santa whos a drunk and doesn't have any interest in kids. The ending is kind of funny, though you may feel kind of cheated by the outcome too but its hard to explain it without giving too much away. - Would I Recommend It? - This certainly isn't a movie for kids or otherwise to be shown as a family film, obviously. If your a fan of dark movies and you like something a bit different, if your the 'bah humbug' type this time of year and you think the concept/story would amuse you, then I'd recommend it I guess but its hardly a masterpiece movie by any real standards. I thought it was just worth watching the once and I certainly wouldn't say its worth buying the DVD outright, not if it costs more than a few quid certainly but its diverting enough to watch once...

IzzyS 14.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Bad Santa (DVD)