Best Western Hotel Flamingo, Lisbon

Advantages: Independently Owned & operated Good Quality
Disadvantages: Very Few

...Best Western Hotels are among the world’s largest hotel brands but is actually somewhat unusual. This international hotel chain is made-up of individually owned and operated hotels and inns around the globe. However, reputedly it is not easy to qualify for membership of Best Western – prospective members must meet some very exacting standards and each hotel in UK is independently inspected on an annual basis by the AA. Globally there are around 4,000 hotels in the group whilst there are several hundred in the UK. Some are bustling city centres hotels, others are nicely converted Elizabethan lodges and some are plush Georgian style country manor houses. Among Best Western hotels in London are the Delmere Hotel, Hyde Park, the John Howard Hotel, Kensington, the Mornington Hotel, Lancester Gate, Raglan Hall... Read review

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Advantages: Plenty to see, good food, the trams, nice people
Disadvantages: Can't think of any, unless you count having a really odd-sounding language!

...most kids can’t! I like kids but I couldn’t eat a whole one. Lisbon is a coastal city, about halfway ‘up’ Portugal on the western coast. It sits by the estuary of the Tagus River, or Rio Tejo. Despite being an Latin country, it is NOT a Mediterranean country since all of its coast borders the Atlantic Ocean – it’s very easy to forget this simple fact as some aspects of Portuguese life are so similar in feel and infrastructure to those of neighbouring Spain – just don’t tell anyone Portuguese that I said so! There are plenty of differences to make the experience uniquely interesting in its own right. GETTING TO THE CITY Flying time was about 2¼ hours from London. Lisbon’s Airport lies about 20-30 minutes by taxi or Aerobus shuttle from ‘downtown’ Lisbon. We had arranged a personal pick-up by minibus, complete with fluent... Read review

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Advantages: 3* Hotel in a 5* location
Disadvantages: Noisy rooms.

...This Best Western hotel is one of about six Best Western Hotels all in this old part of Istanbul known as Sultanahmet. It really is in a very convenient location and the LOCATION is its greatest asset. It is a three star hotel in an area containing five star holiday attractions. The hotel advertises its roof terrace as the sort of restaurant under the stars of everyone's dreams. I thought it was jaded and thus overrated with a distant view of the sea which was hardly on the waterfront. The rooms are OK. I had a de-luxe room which had been reduced on-line from an advertised price of Euros 134 to Euros 75.The TV had CNN and BBC World and the bed was very comfortable. I found the decor a bit drab. A buffet breakfast on the roof was fine but the service was non-existent. Didn't really matter though - the stuff was all there, I... Read review

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