The Brit Hotel Amandine is a modern hotel set in Nantes' business district, opposite Stade ... more
de la Beaujoire and 15 kilometres from the Muscadet wine region. The 60 guestrooms are decorated in soft neutral colours with patterned fabrics and wood furnishi...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
The Brit Hotel Amandine is a modern hotel set in Nantes' business district, opposite Stade ... more
de la Beaujoire and 15 kilometres from the Muscadet wine region. The 60 guestrooms are decorated in soft neutral colours with patterned fabrics and wood furnishi...
Information:
Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Hotel - Lotissement, Centre d'Activities du Pin, Beaucouze, 49070 Angers, Centre d'activité du Pin, 49070 Beaucouzé, Pays de la Loire, France - 2 Stars - 42 Rooms
Advantages: Pretty city, some good attractions, good places to eat out, transport links Disadvantages: Everything comes to a standstill on Sundays
's the latest is 2.30am. You have to make sure you're back in time for the last tram or risk walking back to your hotel/accommodation!
**Shopping**
Ahh, France - the shopping capital. Not! Perhaps it's because I'm used to Birmingham city centre and the Bull Ring, but the shops in Nantes disappointed me. There's just not very many of them.
On the main shopping street near the Place du Cirque tram stop, you've got some familiar faces: Zara, H&M, Sephora, C&A - as well as some French high street staples. Across the road and towards Bouffay you'll find a huge department store called Galeries Lafayette?and that's about it.
Oh, there are plenty of couture shops - the sort that you'd have to take out a mortgage to be able to afford, but for the average high street shopper there's very little.
I was pleased then to find out that at the end ...
I would just like to write a little on British people who go abroad, as I have been on to the continent on a number of different occasions - with both negative and positive aspects. Or rather, for those whom I accompanied more than on my own stance (although I will admit to some a little later on!).
Language
For some reason, in my opinion Brits all do appear to think that people abroad can speak at least a few words of English. But some of them either can't or won't, and this makes it very difficult - especially if you are unable to speak any of the language of that particular country. Why is it, that Brits tend to speak very loudly and very slowly when talking to foreigners!?!?
Therefore, my advice would be to at least learn the basics. There are a number of good sources about in my opinion, such as phrase books ...
Advantages: Clearly laid out with really useful information. Disadvantages: -
and knew our mainstay of the holiday would be Walt Disney World (WDW). I spotted the Brits Guide in my local bookshop. It appealed because several books that I had glanced at were obviously aimed at an american market and I thought that this would be better. The guide was not pocket sized by any imagination but would fit ok in a backpack if we were out for the day.
As soon as I got home I started reading. I ended up reading it cover-to-cover whilst reading snippets out to my family about all the excitement we were to experience. The book is written in a very easy to read format. It is clearly laid out with chapter headings in bold print on the top of each page. There are lots of colour photographs of the attractions as well. Each chapter is clearly broken down into sub-headings and "Brit Tips" are extra useful pieces of information that are ...
