City Apartments Newcastle Quayside, Newcastle

Newcastle City Hall

Advantages: Easy to get to
Disadvantages: Can be expensive, depending what/who you are going to see

Newcastle City Hall is used for various purposes including meetings and plays. However, I normally go to see pop concerts. The building usually holds 2000 people. As with everywhere else, prices for such events vary but it's rare to pay more than £30 for a ticket to a show at the City Hall. The venue is slap bang in the middle of Newcastle and is literally only 10 minutes away from the nearest Metro station (Haymarket) and bus stops (New Bridge Street). The building is functional but pleasant and staff are very helpful if you are having difficulty finding your seat. I find it's better to sit 3 or 4 rows from the front if you can, so you can see better than if you were at the back but you aren't craning your neck in the front row. There are seats upstairs and there is quite a good view from the front of the balconies ...

Mel27 29.02.2004 (21.08.2004) · Read full review
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Review of City Hall (Newcastle)

Choose Newcastle!!!!!!!!

Advantages: Read on and find out.
Disadvantages: It is a long way from the rest of the country.....

the way of bars, restaurants and nightlife and new establishments are popping up all the time. Additionally, the city is very arty, with loads of theatres and a good live music scene. There is loads of great arcitecture and old buildings to admire. Grey Street on the way down to the Quayside was voted the nicest street in Britain!! Newcastle is great for shopping and the Metrocentre is just a short trip away and if you're in to football as everyone else here, then St James is slap bang in the centre of town, on home days you can hear the crowd roar across the city! There is the Quayside which really sold Newcastle to me when I first visited. Here you're find the newly built armadilo shaped glass domes of the Sage Music Centre, the Baltic Centre for Comtempory Art (one of the largest changing collection of comtempory art in the country ...

nickyturnill 29.06.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Newcastle University

Newcastle

Advantages: The nightlife, the shopping, everything!!
Disadvantages: None!! A weekend prob isnt long enough!

are loads of museums etcx in Newcastle, like the Life Science centre, the Discovery Museum (which is free) the Hancock Museum, and art Galleries like the Baltic(on Gateshead side of the Quayside, just over the millennium bridge, and the Laing (in town), both of which are free. A day just spent wandering alon g the quayside, over the millennium bridge is also recommended. Theres also the Odeon cinema in the Gate. There are also a number of historical places around the city, if you want to do the tourist thing, I'd recommend gettin gthe Newcastle sightseeing bus, form the Quayside, near the millennium bridge, as it takes you round all the main places, and you can get on and off as you wish. PLACES TO EAT The are hundreds of restaurants in Newcastle, there's The Gate (see above) with a choice of restaurants, the Quayside, with some ...

helloiamkirsty 11.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Newcastle in general