Bastion Hotel Bussum Zuid / Hilversum, Bussum

Advantages: Food is edible
Disadvantages: Where to start!

...branches in other salubrious locations in The Netherlands, half of which I've never even heard of - Amersfoort, Amsterdam, Bussum, Maarssen, Utrecht and Zeist. There is some space outside to dine in the summer, which is when you find a few tables out on the front, so you can more or less see the main square from here. The outside appearance is quite undemonstrative; there are a couple of small logos with the restaurant name and a menu posted by the door, but otherwise it's quite understandable why I hadn't been here before. From the outside, the restaurant looks quite small, and it's something of a surprise to walk in and see that it is quite large, with the building being pretty deep. The décor was very pleasing; old style tables and chairs, coupled with artefacts all around that pertained to be types of antiquity; musty looking bookshelves... Read review

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Advantages: Comfortable airy rooms, good food, reasonably priced beer & cheap international telephone calls
Disadvantages: Bad location, stuffy staff

...The Bastion Amstel Deluxe Hotel was the final leg of an exhausting journey around the Netherlands visiting a range of Universities, and was to be our final stop for two nights before the onward journey with the KLM “I believe I am a racing driver” Pilots. Bastion is a Dutch chain which currently has 28 hotels across the Netherlands and one in Germany. Arrival at the hotel quickly established that we were in the middle of nowhere, save for a petrol station next door, situated on a business site with an apparent direct metro connection to Centraal Station close by (actually about 15 minutes walk). CHECK-IN Nightmare – 16 people all arriving in one go – reception refused to check for individual names but insisted that we would all crowd around and wait for our names to be called out – not a service you would expect from a 4* deluxe hotel... Read review

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Advantages: Wonderful
Disadvantages: More expensive than avarage

...I simply love it. Well, maybe it is because I was born there, I breathed its air, I tanned and made friends there for many years. Sunshine assured at least 6 monthes a year. The summer starts early and finishes late, so you have many monthes to choose from. But, please, avoid August: it is the most expensive and less enjoyable of the monthes. It is Ferragosto time and everybody is away, so it is likely that you find many closed shops around. Sardinia is expensive. So it is not for the ones of you with a tight budget. It is for the better off. With the sun and sea and good Italian food. The fish in the sea is likely to kiss your feet when you bath. The water is usually clean and transparent: you can sea the bottom. Where to stay? Well, you can choose from many solutions: there are Hotels, pensions, apartments and villas on the coast... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful