Howard Johnson Hotel Emaus, Bogotá

Advantages: Easy to navigate
Disadvantages: Traffic jams

...This city is immense and viewed from the vantage point of Monseratte it seemed to fill the entire plain below. The phenomonal difference in the northern and southern suburbs is sometimes ovewhelming but both have thier own beauty. In the the north there are elegant and palatial homes, areas of great beauty and historical interest, modern shopping malls and restaurant areas (Zona Rosa). You can buy emeralds, sleep in comfortable and expensive hotels, and pretend for a while that this is a city in central Europe. In the south you will experience the shanty towns, poverty at ground level, literally, and some large part of the real Colombia which is the friendliness and happy disposition of the people. The city offers a multitude of historical and interesting sites all of which are better described in the Lonely Planet but the city itself... Read review

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Advantages: easy to get to, on main hotel/recreation strip into the city
Disadvantages: dated, noisy

...My wife and I stayed here for 1 night in early September 2006. The place is easy to find, on the busy main hotel/motel/restaurant strip on the outskirts of the city. The hotel has the appearance and feel of a motel from the moment you drive in, from the reception area to the rooms. there is plenty of parking and we found no problems getting our car right outside our room. Our room was on the ground floor at the rear of the premises. the room was clean (ish), and had the usual facilities, of TV, iron/board, hairdryer, coffee maker etc, however everything looked a bit old and tired. I was concerned about security, as the doors and locks did not appear too substantial, and being round the back of the premises with the door leading directly on to the car park, I felt a little uneasy. There may have been CCTV monitoring the car park... Read review

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Advantages: Location and staff
Disadvantages: Dirty, smelly, disgusting, revolting

...This is actually a review about the Howard Johnson Hotel in Kingston, Ontario, but I can't seem to find how to request a new product review. There aren't enough words to describe how dreadful this hotel is, but I'll try - dirty, grubby, smelly, rusty, unpleasant, filthy, disgusting. When we arrived in Kingston, which is a lovely place to visit and stay because there's so much to see and do and people are so friendly, there was unfortunately some kind of University graduation weekend and so the only rooms available at any downtown hotels were in the Howard Johnson (HOJO). We were initially told that there were fully booked, but if we wanted a smoking room then they could find us something. Both me and my husband both smoke, so we didn't really mind. The first room we had was on the 1st floor, which is really the basement because it... Read review

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