Airport Express

Advantages: The service
Disadvantages: The timetable (at times)

...People who drive automatically assume that travelling by public transport is HORRID. It takes longer, it's probably more expensive, you have to sit with (get spoken at by) people you don't know and, very quickly, don't like, it's inconvenient?it has, in short, nothing to recommend it. Those of us who don't drive are intrinsically more tolerant of all of the above. We have to be. That doesn?t mean that we aren't fair-minded and capable of writing a critical review when we get rubbish service. In this instance it is fair-mindedness that inspires me to write a review about un-rubbish service. Looking up National Express coaches on the site, I discover that they are not exactly flavour of the month. My experience of them has always been pretty good ? with the exception of the one case where I was just going down with the Kathmandu...

hiker 07.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of National express

Poorly Expressed

Advantages: It tries to bring a little known hero to light.
Disadvantages: It's hackneyed in all respects.

...?s politically active brother Will. The large number of montages alone requires a lot of scoring, courtesy of Mark Isham. The majority of the arrangements centre around warm, hopeful string refrains. There are also insistent piano arrangements that set the scene, deep bowed cellos and electric guitar with rising brass and drums for Ernie?s first high school game and the usual triumphal brass for victories. However, there seem to be passages of music for virtually every scene, so you filter it out after a while. It also feels as though the composer is trying to blackmail you into feeling whatever emotion he?s pushing. The other soundtrack choices include popular music of the day from black artists, including ?Mojo Working?, and ?What I?d Say?. They add a historical context, but overall the music feels overzealous. ?The Express? is a serviceable...

afy9mab 01.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Express (DVD)

The Polar Express

Advantages: great christmas film
Disadvantages: not so good after christmas

...The Polar Express DVD I was bought this film for Christmas from my mum as I was complaining that before Christmas I had nothing to watch that would get me into the Christmas spirit. Apart from sitting watching Alistair Sims version of scrooge with my dad which in my view is not giving as much Christmas spirit as it should. Anyhow it being February now nearly March I thought it time I watched it. Seeing as I'm on my sick bed from work and too skint to afford any more blockbuster movies this is one in my collection that i had yet to watch so shoved it on to see what it was all about. The first thing I noticed when beginning to watch this film is that Tom Hanks appears to do most of the adult voices and appears as many a different character. The film starts with a young boy at home on Christmas Eve and wondering really if...

newby2 27.02.2007 (22.09.2008) · Read review
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Not Quite an Express

Advantages: Can be an inexpensive way to see the country, frequent service, free wifi on board
Disadvantages: Overcrowding, old trains, journey times slower than 25 years ago

...The east coast mainline is one of the major rail links in the UK, linking London with major cities in Yorkshire, Northumberland and Scotland. Previously operated by GNER, the franchise passed on to National Express in 2007 after GNER?s parent company filed for bankruptcy protection. It was felt that National Express had paid way over the odds for the franchise and sure enough as the recession began to bite, they found themselves in a perilous financial predicament, and upon failing to renegotiate the terms of the franchise with the government, it was announced in June 2009 that the government would be taking the franchise back under state control, with the franchise going back out to tender sometime in 2010. To all intents and purposes however nothing much has changed since the GNER days apart from train liveries and the fact wifi is...

rosebud2001 02.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of National Express East Coast

Chungking Express

Advantages: Multiple narratives which are intelligently woven together showing experiences of love and loss
Disadvantages: If you don't like having to read subtitles then this will not be the film for you

...DIRECTOR: Wong Kar Wai YEAR OF RELEASE: 1994 GENRE: Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Romance LANGUAGE: Japanese (Subtitled) CAST: Brigitte Lin .... Woman in blonde wig Tony Leung Chiu Wai .... Cop 663 Faye Wong .... Faye Takeshi Kaneshiro .... He Zhiwu, Cop 223 Valerie Chow .... Air Hostess Chen Jinquan .... Manager of 'Midnight Express' Lee-na Kwan .... Richard (as Guan Lina) Huang Zhiming .... Man Liang Zhen .... The 2nd May Zuo Songshen .... Man REVIEW Chungking Express is a film which is set in Hong Kong, showing the fast paced culture that is present here and presenting the lifestyles of three main individual; the characters of Faye, Cop 223, and Cop 663. The lives of these three key individuals are woven together along with the Blonde Woman at the beginning who remains nameless despite having her own sub...

RazzaLazza 22.06.2006 · Read review
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Express Travel

Advantages: punctual, cheap and sometimes entertaining
Disadvantages: can get a little cramped when full

...As a national representative of a charity I knew I would have to travel a lot so needed to find the most cost efficient way of doing so. I had received an NZ2 card when I opened my student account with Barclays but never thought of using it. I popped into my local office and decided to find out more about the benefits of this small card. At that particular time National Express had an offer on their journeys and suggested that I take them up on the offer. I knew that a party was approaching near Heathrow so went ahead and booked. Unfortunately they failed to explain that the ?ANY DESTINATION ONLY 5 POUND? offer did not include travel to airports and obviously Europe. Still with the 30% off with his little card I proceeded with the transaction. As this was the first journey of many I have decided to set out my review with these...

leofluffy69 12.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of National express

Express around the Nation?

Advantages: cheaper than flying/trains at short notice
Disadvantages: much slower than most other transport options

...the chance i would have changed seats but all were filled. The coach stop at Hythe isnt easy to find from the information on the website, but the stop itself is on the one way sytem and goes have the National Express logo on the stop sign. Victoria in London looks run down and is very busy. For those that dont know you arrive at one side of the road and depart from the other- confusing if you didnt know as I didnt took a little while to work it out. Bolton the National Express stop on the main road next to the Great Moor St bus station a short walk from the train station so it is easy to get around from there. The trip from London to Bolton was on the service that called at Manchester Airport but as that is popular it was split in to two coach loads, one terminating at the airport and one doing all the other stops after the airport. But I...

scuba_angel 24.04.2007 (15.04.2007) · Read review
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Review of National express

National, yes. Express, no.

Advantages: wide range of destinations; cheaper than train
Disadvantages: journey times sometimes excessively long

...When you need to get home from university for a weekend and can't get a lift from your parents, or if you're visiting someone on the other side of the country in the holidays, you need a method of transport that's cheap and reliable. After hours of looking through train times and realising that even the shortest journey would cut quite heavily into my student loan, I decided to give National Express a go, hearing that their fares were relatively cheap, and that they travelled to a wide range of destinations. BOOKING: Booking your coach tickets is easy. If you have Internet access, and are willing to submit your credit/debit card details online, then this is probably the easiest option. Tickets booked online are mailed to you free of charge if you book far enough in advance, but if your ticket is for travel soon after the tickets...

emmorticia 06.05.2003 · Read review
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Orient Express but not on rails - Great Istanbul hotel

Advantages: Great location, very good customer service and food in restaurants good
Disadvantages: rooms a little dark and we had no view , could not flush toilet paper in the toilet

...The Orient Express Hotel , Hudavendigar Cad No: 34-34110 www.orientexpresshotel.com This hotel is part of the Sirkeci group which is a group of hotels and restaurants in Istanbul. Sirkeci is also an area of the old part of Istanbul and The Sirkeci Railway Station was the terminus of the famous Orient Express train and was just round the corner from the hotel. GETTING THERE: We arrived at the airport after a flight from Birmingham via Amsterdam and having read a number of reviews about the taxis from the airport and their enthusiasm for speed and reluctance to accept a fair fare or take four people in one taxi, we choose to book an airport transfer. We were met by a gentleman with our name on his notice and then escorted to a taxi outside. The journey was quite speedy but incident free, a couple of hairy moments, some very close...

catsholiday 25.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Orient Express Hotel, Istanbul

Staynight Express

Advantages: Ronseal hotel - it does what it says on the tin
Disadvantages: Ultimately forgettable

...Stay night Express ********************* The Express by Holiday Inn chain is part of the Intercontinental Hotel Group (Holiday Inn, Crown Plaza and Intercontinental brands amongst others). The Express by Holiday Inn chain is their budget hotel offering ? competing in the market with the Premier Travel Inn and Travelodge chains. It is unlikely that any of these hotels will win design awards. These are not boutique hotels, this is a place to crash out for the night, a chance to stop and recharge your batteries. A few years ago, the UK had little to offer in this market. City centres had business hotels and there were country house type places between. Other than that, it was down to small private hotels and bed and breakfast places only, and the standard, to be kind, was very variable. The great advantage of the national...

andyk910 20.08.2007 · Read review
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