Advantages: location location location Disadvantages: not cheap for drinks etc from the bar.
...The crown Plaza hotel in the centre of the old town of Toulouse is a great place for a romantic weekend break. BMI fly in to Toulouse from Manchester so two hours after boarding the plane we had just a twenty minute (20 Euro) taxi drive from Toulouse Blagnac airport to get to the hotel. I booked using the www.ichotelsgroup.com website which is a very easy way of finding the best hotel anywhere in the world within the group (Holiday Inn, Intercontinental and Crowne Plaza). So I had read that the location for this hotel was on Place Capitole in the centre of the old town of Toulouse. What a result. We didn't hire a car because we just wanted to stay in the city centre and do the café / museum / cathedral / restaurant chill out weekend and from this hotel just a short walk to all the above was possible. One of Toulouse's best known...
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...Toulouse is a wonderful City that is often missed by the traveller. It is used by many skiers during the winter as a transit point for the Pyrenees or Andora.
The city is a true contrast between ancient and modern. The ancient being the old town full of wonderful museums and quaint resturaunts. The modern being the new developments associated with the new industries moving into Toulouse mainly attracted by the presence of the Airbus Industrie facility.
Toulouse is now one of the major centres of the European Aircraft Industry and as a result has quite a cosmopolitan flavour.
I can highly recommend it as European destination for a short (or long) break....
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Advantages: Not very crowded Disadvantages: Expensive
...Toulouse is a beautiful old city in the South of France that is sometimes overlooked by most travellers.
It has beautiful architecture, interesting museums, fantastic restaurants and a lovely large park right in the centre.
The people are friendly and helpful to tourists (in particular when using public transport – all the announcements are in French and my French isn’t that good, it takes me a while to understand it!!). Public transport into and around the city is fairly cheap (depends where you are travelling from), and reliable.
I would say that you could enjoy a city break in Toulouse of a couple of days, particularly in you where then travelling on the Dordogne or the Pyrennes....
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