Hôtel Balladins Limoges Express, Limoges

Advantages: Great location, very good customer service and food in restaurants good
Disadvantages: rooms a little dark and we had no view , could not flush toilet paper in the toilet

...The Orient Express Hotel , Hudavendigar Cad No: 34-34110 www.orientexpresshotel.com This hotel is part of the Sirkeci group which is a group of hotels and restaurants in Istanbul. Sirkeci is also an area of the old part of Istanbul and The Sirkeci Railway Station was the terminus of the famous Orient Express train and was just round the corner from the hotel. GETTING THERE: We arrived at the airport after a flight from Birmingham via Amsterdam and having read a number of reviews about the taxis from the airport and their enthusiasm for speed and reluctance to accept a fair fare or take four people in one taxi, we choose to book an airport transfer. We were met by a gentleman with our name on his notice and then escorted to a taxi outside. The journey was quite speedy but incident free, a couple of hairy moments, some very close... Read review

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Advantages: The service
Disadvantages: The timetable (at times)

...People who drive automatically assume that travelling by public transport is HORRID. It takes longer, it's probably more expensive, you have to sit with (get spoken at by) people you don't know and, very quickly, don't like, it's inconvenient…it has, in short, nothing to recommend it. Those of us who don't drive are intrinsically more tolerant of all of the above. We have to be. That doesn’t mean that we aren't fair-minded and capable of writing a critical review when we get rubbish service. In this instance it is fair-mindedness that inspires me to write a review about un-rubbish service. Looking up National Express coaches on the site, I discover that they are not exactly flavour of the month. My experience of them has always been pretty good – with the exception of the one case where I was just going down with the Kathmandu... Read review

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Advantages: not expensive, good vfm, comfortable, good facilities in rooms, convenient locations
Disadvantages: no leisure facilities, continental breakfast only

...I like this chain of hotels. The little brother to the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza, it's a great way to stop in a good quality hotel for not very much money. HOW TO BOOK ONLINE You can get to them by going into the sixcontinenthotels.com site and entering the town or hiexpress.com, and doing the same. You have to put the town in, the date you want to go there and the number of adults and children, and make sure the "best rates" has been selected in the box..when you do this, the holiday inn expresses in the town you selected pop up..and there is a box "rates" next to the name that you press to see the prices being quoted for the dates that you put in. One of the best rates at the moment is "SMART RATES"..try it- you will get a great price. WHAT YOU GET FOR YOUR MONEY There are over 1,200 locations.(worldwide) All... Read review

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