All Suites Warwick Reine Astrid, Lyon

Advantages: Wonderful city
Disadvantages: Pollution

...it is a 50 minute journey. Accommodation Lyon like any other major city offers a wide range of hotels at different prices. I personally stayed at the very reasonable and very nice Campanile Part-Dieu. This hotel was ideal. The rooms came with en suite bathroom and cable TV. The rooms were clean and the hotel itself modern and very well looked after. The best thing of all about the hotel though was its situation. Part-Dieu is one of the main areas in Lyon. Firstly, it is home to a large SNCF railway station that links Lyon with the rest of France. Secondly, and most significantly for anyone on holiday, the 'Centre Commercial' is here. This is a massive shopping centre with over 260 shops and spanning 4 floors; one of the largest shopping centres in Europe with all big name shops and some really nice places to eat. If you stay... Read review

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Advantages: A clean hotel in the heart of Barcelona.
Disadvantages: Web page not very trustworthy.

...This year was the first time ever I went on holidays at Easter. For reasons too complicated to get into, we left it a little late to book our hotel in Barcelona, and when searching online, found that we didn't really have as much choice as we had hoped for. Hotels were either very expensive, or about 20 km out of the city. Finally, we found Hotel Lyon through lastminute.com. Let me quote from the website: "Due to its perfect location Hotel Lyon is ideal for young tourists who want to discover the vibrant city of Barcelona while spending more for fun than for accommodation. Rooms are simple yet comfortable without any extras that would inflate the price". Reading the description, all sorts of alarm bells were ringing. My thoughts were running along the lines: For 'young tourists', read party animals, for 'simple yet comfortable... Read review

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Advantages: Luxurious, accomodating and friendly staff, family friendly, excellent location
Disadvantages: High chair was too trendy for our baby

...After a very busy first year of marriage, without any kind of holiday (terrorists decided that the day we were meant to go for our honeymoon was the perfect day to cause worldwide mayhem). We decided that we really needed to go away at least for a few days on a short city break and decided on Antwerp as a good destination. Reasons being: We could go on the Eurostar (thereby no popping ears for our baby - aged 7 months at the time) It is reasonably close to London There are Jewish facilities (synagogues for regular prayers, kosher restaurants to eat in) We found a good deal on staying in what seemed like a very plush hotel - the Astrid Park Plaza There seemed to be an aquarium to visit, amongst other things to do (Aquatopia - absolutely brilliant, hopefully I'll write a review of it too) We booked a Monday to Thursday trip... Read review

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