Basilique St-Sernin, Toulouse

Advantages: Cosmoplitan Atmosphere, Excellent Restaraunts
Disadvantages: None

...Toulouse is a wonderful City that is often missed by the traveller. It is used by many skiers during the winter as a transit point for the Pyrenees or Andora. The city is a true contrast between ancient and modern. The ancient being the old town full of wonderful museums and quaint resturaunts. The modern being the new developments associated with the new industries moving into Toulouse mainly attracted by the presence of the Airbus Industrie facility. Toulouse is now one of the major centres of the European Aircraft Industry and as a result has quite a cosmopolitan flavour. I can highly recommend it as European destination for a short (or long) break.... Read review

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Advantages: Location
Disadvantages: Dirty

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Advantages: Clean, basic accomodation
Disadvantages: In the middle of traffic hell

...It was my girlfriend's 21st birthday and I had a week of holiday to use up before Christmas. So, as you do, I booked a trip to Toulouse for the two of us. The Kyriad is probably not the hotel I would have chosen if I'd had an unlimited budget and more time to reflect on the trip. A huge 2 star hotel at the wrong end of Toulouse's Boulevard de la Gare, everything about its decoration, situation and lack of facilities suggests that it's not a hotel for a romantic break, more one for the low end business traveller. It's next to a canal, but at the exact point where the still waters are covered by a large concrete bridge. Crowds of typically French pedestrians throng past for much of the day, and unfortunately most of them seem to be typically French prostitutes. The kebab shop around the corner serves possibly the dodgiest kebab I've ever... Read review

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