Holiday Inn Resort Safaga Palace, Safaga

Advantages: friendly staff, on the beach, shuttle bus into city,
Disadvantages: 45 mins from city centre

...We visited the Holiday Inn Resort Damai Beach whist on a package tour of Borneo. We stayed for 4 nights in May 2006. The hotel is located about 45 mins from the city centre - they is a mini bus which we take you in to the city. (if you veggie try "Thank Food Vegetarian" it's a chinese restaurant in kuching and so far the best meal ive eaten in my life. everything is veggie lots of mock meat things ) The hotel complex is quite big but the staff were genuinely pleased to help you. The reception staff were particularly friendly. If you want to put your bills on the room you need to give them your card details when you check in. It was our honeymoon and we were upgraded to a room that was 100 metres from the beach - it was a huge room - very clean - in the welcome booklet it said you could use the hotels electric mozzie device... Read review

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Advantages: cheap at first glance
Disadvantages: not really cheap, overall insufficient product & service quality

...Hotels, 5 Stars ~ the lowprice Holiday Inn Express Hotels, 2-3 Stars ~ the Holiday Inn Resorts, upmarket holiday resorts The HI Group is itself part of a larger Group, Bass Hotels, which also includes the brands Inter-Continental and Forum Hotels. I have myself stayed at five of the HI Group's hotels, and have spend a total of around 25 nights there: ~ Holiday Inn Hotel, New York JFK Airport ~ Holiday Inn Hotel, Warsaw ~ Holiday Inn Hotel, Paris CDG Airport ~ Holiday Inn Hotel, Istanbul ~ Holiday Inn Crown Plaza, Istanbul In order to stay within the right category, I will only discuss my experiences with the classic Holiday Inn Hotels - and there the picture is very doom. At first sight, HIs often appear to be the cheapest international business hotels in the city, boasting themselves with five big stars... Read review

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Advantages: Comfortable and Reasonably priced
Disadvantages: Not ideal if you want to stay out past midnight

...I stayed at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend on a recent trip to Disneyland Paris, here's what we thought... Booking and check-in was easy with no problems but getting the card to work in the door was our first hurdle which we eventually managed to overcome, it's a quick swipe from top to bottom, take the card out and push the handle when you hear a click so I hope that helps you get in! Next the free shuttle bus which visits all the hotels outside the main complex is yellow and not pink (which goes to the Disney hotels within the complex) as a lot of travel guides state. When you come out of Marne-le-vallee station if Disneyland parks are in front of you go left towards Disney village and left round the side of the station to find the bus terminal, you want the first stop on the right hand side of the road (poorly signposted... Read review

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