Bastion Hotel Leiden/Oegstgeest, Oegstgeest

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... Read review

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Advantages: Luxury, Friendy Service, Well Situated, Price
Disadvantages: Small Shower Screen, Small towels, location after dark

...The Bastion Hotel, Oslo, is independently owned and operated under the Best Western marketing group, and is certainly one of their smarter hotels, being officially classified as a four star establishment. The hotel is conveniently located just a few minutes walk from the main city thoroughfare “Karl Johansgate” and was refurbished, to much local acclaim from the press, during 2001. Website and Booking -------------------------- I booked the hotel, on line, approximately four weeks before my arrival date, having been attracted to the hotel via the website www.laterooms.com. My initial plan was to book the SAS Radisson Plaza and I had been watching their late availability rates, however this one grabbed me because of the attractiveness of its rate, and its interior, which was just that little bit different from the normal four star... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, clean and safe
Disadvantages: Not for the faint-hearted if you don't like the real world

...especally when well-meaning people sometimes tag on to you - it pays so much to be understanding, and try not to cause offense. I had some interesting company including visiting American sailors and some tourists, as well as some local Chinese and Indians. All of my three seperate evenings in this little part of Singapore were highly memorable, and I ate well. This cannot be a review of Singapore as a whole but I did go to the city centre and I would recommend a visit to the Raffles Hotel, a bastion of the old Colonial days, but throughly modernised with an interesting shopping and eating interior which welcomes casual visitors. I walked around the Singapore River, with lovely pedestrian free precincts and I discovered , much to my pleasant surprise, a large and beautiful sculpture of a large black bird by the world-acclaimed Colombian... Read review

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