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Advantages: Cheap and cheerful, central location secure car parking Disadvantages: Not far from fire station and police HQ, the sirens!
Anyone who has stayed in a IBIS will know they use the same format throughout, this IBIS is no exception. The car park is around the back and underground, I have been there many times and never found it to be full.
Outside and to the left is the newly opened electric tram system serving the whole of the city.
The reception are is a bit dated, but arguably so are all hotels in France. The reception staff speak numerous languages and seemed happy to converse in English. Check in was fast and efficent.
The hotel is over about 11 floors and all floors are served by one of three lifts so waiting times are kept to a minimum. Each floor is based around a square doughnut, the quiet rooms with no view are on the inside, the view and the sirens are on the outside. Last year they fitted triple glazing and unless your a very light ...
Advantages: Beautiful, lots going on, many shops Disadvantages: Lots of graffiti
I vistied Bordeuax in the summer for the Bristol-Bordeaux exchange. This consisted of me going to Bordeaux for two weeks trying to improve my French. It worked!
there is a lot of great features in Bordeaux. the airoport was the first thing i saw. It was very clean and ran on time.
I then was on the road where you see all the vine yards and big houses. the only bad thing was the amount of grafiti. this was probably becasue i was driving through a bad suburb.
The shops in Bordeaux are very good with a huge selection of shops. The main shopping street is about 1km long (well so i was told.) they had all the good English shops which were a little cheaper. Those of you who know how much Quicksilver costs will be suprised that you could buy shirts for 5euro about 3-4 pounds. Then they had my favourite shop which i think should be ...
I once had the pleasure of acquiring a few bottles of Chateau Tassin amongst others for free, which a friend had bought on the cheap from a Spanish supermarket some years ago. One was totally corked and tasted of wet mattresses and fungus. The other bottles were drinkable and tasted pretty much like a slightly better quality of generic Bordeaux. Thick sediment seems to collect at the bottom of the bottle even when stored on its side (supposedly) but the wine remains fine. From what I gather you can buy the Château Tassin red for about 5 odd euros a pop. Good to drink with dinner and otherwise. It is also good to add to sauces and the like. Otherwise theres not much to write home about. ...
