L'Europe, Tournai

Advantages: Excellent location, remarkable value for money
Disadvantages: May have to book in advance to get a good deal

...I stayed one night at the Best Western Premier Carrefour De L'Europe in October 2005. I got a really good price of 80 euros a room for 2 people including breakfast - particularly cheap when you consider it is Brussels. The hotel is ideally situated on the Grand Place - my room overlooked this - which is the main square in Brussels. It is also just around the corner from Central Station which has frequent links to the airport. The room was huge - a large bathroom, bedroom and seating area. The breakfast buffet was very good - eggs, cheese, bread, cold meat etc and plenty of fruit juice and coffee/tea. Even better, the hotel receptionist decided not to charge us for our mini bar! I would definitely stay there next time I visit Brussels.... Read review

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Advantages: Conveniently located for Calais ferries or Tunnel. Very comfortable
Disadvantages: On-line booking was a little fraught, but nothing I couldn't cope with

...Some poetry, for all it's worth, by Sir John Betjeman: Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for humans now, There isn’t grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death! It’s relevant to this review, and yet it isn’t. Calais is not Slough, yet both towns suffer from a similar malaise. Neither is one that you’d really want to rush to visit, yet each boasts a Millennium Copthorne hotel. The first of these I ever visited was in Slough. The second was – you've guessed it – in Calais or, more accurately, a quiet suburb called Coquelles. And Coquelles isn’t at all bad, as it happens, being close to the French entrance to the Channel Tunnel and the magnificent shopping centre that is “La Cite de l’Europe”. We’ve just returned from a night away in France. A luxury for those, like us, fortunate enough to live near... Read review

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Advantages: Lots to see in a weekend
Disadvantages: Difficult for vegetarians

.... **** Where we stayed **** Despite having names to the districts, Paris is divided into Zones which are numbered. I am not sure of the purpose, but it does make it easier when looking on the map for an area. For instance, Montmartre is a popular tourist destination. The map index tells me it on a certain page and the reference for the page, but it also tells me which Zone it is in (18) so hey presto, I can look at any map and find zone 18 and put my finger on where I want to be. I have been to Paris a few times now, so knew that the Latin Quarter (Zone 5) is quite a buzzing place and so this is where we stayed, in the Hotel de Saint Severin L'Europe. A comfy hotel with a variety of room sizes and mostly en-suite. It was an old building so the rooms were not huge, but had a television and a mini-bar. Unfortunately there were no tea... Read review

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