Hotel Son Baulo, Can Picafort

Advantages: Great food, good service, location
Disadvantages: Service a little too over the top and food a little cold

...*Please note ? this is a review of the restaurant part of the hotel* A few weeks ago Mr Tart and myself headed to his parents? for a family gathering. We were all going out for a posh meal on the Sunday and the French Horn was chosen as the location for the event. LOCATION: The French Horn is in Sonning-on-Thames. Sonning is not a big place and the restaurant is on the main road so you can?t miss it (sorry I can?t be more specific ? it doesn?t even give a road name on the website!). It?s not the easiest place to get to as the approaches are all through small, busy roads. There is plenty of parking in the French Horn?s car park opposite the restaurant. The restaurant?s location is what really makes it. It is right on the Thames with the gardens leading down to the river. We went on a beautiful sunny day and the setting... Read review

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Advantages: Quiet
Disadvantages: Intermittent hot water, ants! Quiet! very small rooms.

...Holiday Fun! (although this may not look as if it is connected to the review it is) We got up at some unearthly time of the morning, drove to Gatwick, flew on a prompt, clean plane, landed in Majorca, everything was going so smoothly. We took a taxi, to Can Pastilla, and asked to be dropped at the entrance to the Hotel Can Pastilla where we had booked a self catering apartment for the first week of June 2006. Our first thought was the taxi must have dropped us off at the back of the hotel, so we lugged out cases round the block to the front, or so we thought, the front looked more like the back than what we thought the back was. So we picked up our cases once again and went round the only side that we hadn't yet seen. Then we went round the front again. While my husband stood and pondered what to do next I read the rather scruffy... Read review

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Advantages: Exciting, engaging and a brilliant end to a great saga.
Disadvantages: Not everyone will like the ending, but most will.

...Sons of Destiny is written by Darren Shan, an author widely believed to be the best children's horror writer ever, and one of the best writers for children in any category around at the moment. The book is part of a series called The Darren Shan saga, in which a teenage boy has his life changed forever when after attending an illegal freak show, he steals an amazing spider, which belongs to a real-life vampire, Mr. Crepsley. When his friend gets bitten by this spider, he is forced to trade the rest of his life so that his friend can continue his, when he agrees to fake his own death, flee from his family and become a half-vampire in order to get the cure for the bite for his friend. In order to save lives, Darren and Mr. Crepsley kill a mad vampaneze (the vampaneze are blood cousins and sworn enemies to the vampires, as they kill... Read review

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