Hotel Octavia, Cadaqués

Living with an Octavia VRS for 4 years

Advantages: BHP for £ - practical, fast, overall reliability
Disadvantages: Immage, Niggly repetative faults, finding something to replace it

if played too loud. This brings me to my biggest problem - Finding something to replace the Skoda with, I have a 2nd car - a Lotus Elise - so am looking for something as an every day car. But the Octavia VRS does everything just a little too well.. Any other car I get now, will either be slower, less practical, or do a lot less MPG - it's strange to explain but am finding it very hard getting something else and have been looking over a year now. For the first 2 - 3 years of ownership depreciation was minimal - mine is still fairly low millage and upto about a year ago they were still selling for close to £6,000 this has now dropped to £4500-5 tops with the current climate. If you're happier with higher millage you can pick these cars up from £2000 and it's an awful lot of car for the money - but be warned, anything afterwards will ...

gallan947 20.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Skoda Octavia RS

Skoda Octavia 1.6 GLi

Advantages: Spacious, comfortable, economical to buy and run.
Disadvantages: Not a car for the fashion conscious.

Skoda have a bad reputation for their cars, and these days its definitely a reputation which is undeserved! About a year ago, my husband and I decided that we needed a new car, and started our investigations, at first we looked at the more popular Ford Mondeo, but all the second hand ones we could find in our price range were much older than we wanted, so we turned out attention in other directions. My mother had recently bought a Skoda Felicia, and was very happy with it, so we thought, OK, why not give Skoda a look, after all it couldn?t hurt could it! What a pleasant surprise we had when we discovered that not only was the Octavia much more highly recommended by the various car review magazines than we had thought it might be, but that for approx. £5,000 we could probably afford a 2 year old car, and the level of trim we were ...

vialdana 20.06.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Skoda Octavia 1.6 Hatchback

The Strand Palace Hotel

Advantages: Central location, clean
Disadvantages: Food, rooms

We stayed at this hotel in London a little over a month ago now for two nights, we chose this hotel mainly because of the central location and because it was only a ten minuite walk from the show we had booked to go too. Check in was very quick - About ten minuites and the staff at the reception seemed very friendly. My first thoughts on the hotel was that it looked really clean and that it was nicely decorated and it looked modern. I was a little dissapointed with our room as it was very small and basic, our room had a double bed, tea and coffee making facilities, a tv with satellite and a small, basic en suite bathroom with a shower. The views from our room very very poor - A block of offices which made our room dark as they were so close. The hotel has two bars and two resturaunts, the bars were again nicely decorated ...

kate44 03.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Strand Palace Hotel, London