Royal Tunbridge Wells

Advantages: nice place to visit
Disadvantages: none

...Tunbridge Wells- A Nice Town to visit The official name is Royal Tunbridge Wells and it is in the West part of the county of Kent. You will find Tunbridge Wells along the northern part of the High Weald and it borders on to Surrey,West Sussex and East Sussex .Tunbridge Wells is graced with woodlands and parkland. The larger area of woodland is the Tunbridge Wells and Rusthall Common that is 250 acres in size and it has wood and heathland and is situated near the town centre. This area is very popular with people and in the summer there are many who go there to picnic. Near by is the cricket ground which you will find near Wellington Rocks Calvery Grounds which is a historic park where there you find a bandstand and ornamental gardens. This park was part of the Mount Pleasant Estate where there was a house there which in...

ruth1957 06.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Tunbridge Wells (England)

Tunbridge Wells:Royal Spa

Advantages: Varied architecture.Elegant shops. Green open spaces
Disadvantages: Lack of night life

...Royal Tunbridge Wells,to give it its official name,is a elegant Spa town,long renowned for its "medicinal" chalybeate -non-impregnated- spring waters.It is also famous for its colonnaded Pantiles precinct,which today houses antique shops,genteel English tea rooms,jewellers,book stores and furniture shops. Just north of the Pantiles,Chapel Place is a quiet and very picturesque pedestrianised area replete with small specialist shops. This leads into the High Street with shops selling designer clothes,home furnishings,oriental rugs, gifts and fine arts. Mount Pleasant,the more "modern" part of the town is another good shopping area. The Wells is also renowned for its parks and 250 acre common which stretches to within a stone's throw of the town centre.Then there are the denuded high rocks such as Eridge Rocks,Toad Rock and the High Rocks...

ashford 26.06.2000 · Read review
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Review of Tunbridge Wells (England)

The Wells on the Bus

Advantages: Pleasant surroundings, the best part of the country
Disadvantages: Hustle and bustle, traffic

...Sorry about the title. I have just been singing this to my two-year old daughter, and a slight perversion of the title is fitting for this opinion. Okay, here we go. I was born in the picturesque town of Royal Tunbridge Wells (hereafter referred to as RTW) 33 years ago. I was born in a village on the north-western edge called Rusthall. When I was two I moved (well, my parents moved and I went with them) to a village on the eastern edge called High Brooms, where my father had grown up. I spent the next 24 years, more or less, living in that village. So where should I start... Well, why not at the beginning? THE BEGINNING The town of Royal Tunbridge Wells is a spa town resort located in the middle of the High Weald of the South East of England. It has been around as a settlement since around 1620, when Lord North, a fabled...

Nolly 28.04.2002 · Read review
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Review of Tunbridge Wells (England)

Things to Do In Tunbridge Wells

Advantages: lively picturesque town with wide range of activities
Disadvantages: expensive

...As a 18 year old resident of Tunbridge Wells since 1996, I have a wide knowledge of the attractions and facilities available to young people in the town. The Chalybeate spring from which the town was born was discovered in 1606, thus, in comparison to the surrounding towns, Tunbridge Wells is quite a newly developed community. The older part of the town is the most historically interesting and beautiful, with the pantiles, an area of mostly Tudor townhouses running along the bottom of the common. In 1630, the town was christened 'Royal Tunbridge Wells' following a visit from the Queen Henrietta Maria, mother of Charles 1. In 1678 the Chapel of King Charles the Martyr was built. But Tunbridge Wells did not start to develop as a town until about 1680. From then on houses were built at Mount Ephraim. In 1682 land near the common was sold...

ehallam 25.03.2005 · Read review
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The Royal Wells Inn- "The Royal"

Advantages: 24 hr bar, luxury, well presented rooms, Affordable!!
Disadvantages: Having to leave!

...Firstly the Royal Wells Inn/Hotel/"the Royal" are the same things, a beautiful hotel in Tunbridge Wells. The Royal Wells Hotel Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8BE I was lucky enough to attend a wedding this weekend very near Tunbridge Wells, and of course we had to look for accomodation. It was a complete surprise, that my boyfriend had already booked a hotel when the bride announced the date and place nearly a year and a half ago. Apparently she had recommended this hotel as an excellent place to stay to all of her guests. The Royal Wells Hotel got its name from Queen Victoria, who often visited as a young princess in the early nineteenth century. Later through her rein,she allowed the use of her Coat of Arms, which are prominently displayed at the entrance. Today the hotel still retains much of its Victorian...

armychick 02.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of The Royal Hotel (Tunbridge Wells)

Gym'll fix it

Advantages: Light and welcoming to get you motivated
Disadvantages: An expensive luxury if you don't attend often!

...When I moved out of London, finding a new gym was pretty high on the list of things to do. For me, easy parking is essential and the Esporta Tunbridge Wells is in a purpose built entertainment park, Knight's Way, at the northern Tunbridge Wells turning off the A21. The staff who first show you round are predictably very friendly and can be a little pushy in trying to get you to sign up, but I was impressed by the facilities and managed to negotiate a good deal. If you pick your moment well, there is bound to be some kind of promotion on and expect a small reduction in the monthly fee or waive of the joining fee. I paid a very reduced joining fee of about £30 (this is 2 years ago) and pay 52 pounds per month. If you can pursuade a partner or friend to join too you can save money with joint membership. On the ground level there is...

Nell31 17.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Esporta Club, Tunbridge Wells

SOMEONE HAD A VERY DIRTY WEEKEND HERE

Advantages: Good location
Disadvantages: See review

...On a recent business trip to Tunbridge Wells in Kent, I was rather hard pressed to find a decent hotel. The town is very popular with tourists, but modern, well-equipped hotels are still quite few and far between in the town centre. My corporate booking agency finally came up with The Swan so that’s where I ended up. The hotel is situated approximately ten minutes walk from the train station, right in the middle of The Pantiles – the main shopping/tourist attraction in the town. One side of the hotel (the side where the main entrance is) faces directly onto the main road through the town centre – the other side looks out onto the pedestrianised Pantiles. Needless to say, the roadside is infinitely less attractive than the other, so I was a little bit dubious as I made my way into the building. The Swan is not...

LostWitness 12.09.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Swan Hotel, Royal Tunbridge Wells

A Champagne of Hotels

Advantages: Pure unadulterated luxury and great service
Disadvantages: erm... nope can't think of any

...I like doing really daft spontaneous things. That's why I told my partner we were going out for dinner at the Hotel Du Vin in our nearby town of Tunbridge Wells, but secretly booked us into a luxury double room upstairs too. Now seeing as Tunbridge Wells is only a few miles away, it was a tiny bit of a decadent gesture but hey, let's go mad once in a while. I nearly managed to blow the whole surprise when in the bar for an aperitif I told him the glass of wine had already gone to my head! 'How are we going to drive home then?' he said worriedly. He then preceded to spend the whole evening weighing up the options of trying to catch the last train home, or splashing out on a cab and collecting the car the next day. Knowing our bags were already upstairs from when I'd checked in that afternoon I smiled to myself. Luckily the food...

Nell31 24.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Hotel du Vin & Bistro, Royal Tunbridge Wells

The only good thing to come out of Tunbridge Wells

Advantages: A thoroughly good read
Disadvantages: Only published once a month

..., but this page gives us a comical and sarcastic look at Doctor Who and life. EDITORIAL CONTACT Panini Publishing Ltd Panini House Coach and Horse Passage The Pantiles Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 5UJ 01858 410510 APOLOGY Apologies for the title to anyone who lives in Tunbridge Wells! The magazine has no website, but the BBC have a superb Doctor Who site at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho Thanks for reading, don?t let your tea get cold and hot tail it to your friendly newsagent and get your copy now before they all dematerialise....

borntoloaf 29.07.2002 · Read review
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Stay in Ancient Wells

Advantages: Amazing period features, friendly staff, great food, four-poster bed
Disadvantages: Could be expensive, not much parking, small beds

...A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to have a wedding to go to in Wells, Somerset. I'd never been to Wells before and I was impressed with what a lovely place it was. Not only does it boast a beautiful cathedral, it also has a very impressive bishop's keep surrounded by a mote. Prices and Booking As the wedding was quite early in the morning we decided to go down the night before and stay in a hotel or a B&B so that we'd have time enough in the morning to get up and get ready. So we looked on the internet and it turned out that everything was pretty expensive. We tried looking up a hotel that was right next to the cathedral just to see what kind of prices it charged and it seemed as though it was going to cost us over £100 per night. However, when we delved deeper into the site the price seemed to become less and less as we...

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