La Ferme du Grand Clos, Brittany

Advantages: excellent customer support and booking advice service
Disadvantages: not a lot for 'tweenagers' to do on board the ferries

...Brittany Ferries is not just a ferry operator, but also a holiday and hotel booking service. ~~ Booking ~~ Somehow, no matter how hard we try to plan things in advance we always do things at the last minute. Last July we decided, rather late in the day, that we’d like a ‘little holiday’ in France. This was to be our third short break in France, having previously travelled to Caen and Cherbourg, both from Portsmouth. This time we chose St Malo, and gave ourselves a week to arrange it and get there! Brittany Ferries offers what appears to be a great online booking service, trouble is we were too late to use it and I had to use the phone to make the booking, referring to the website to find details of hotels. We wanted bed and breakfast somewhere we could use as a centre for a quiet sightseeing family holiday that we could... Read review

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Advantages: Only place to see the Mona Lisa
Disadvantages: Very busy all the time

...and the Jardin du Carrousel. In those times this garden was the entrance to the Palais des Tuileries. The Louvre was still being added to by Napoleon III. The new wing 1852 – 1857, by architects Visconti and Hector Lefuel, represents the Second Empire’s verson of Neo-baroque, full of detail and laden with sculpture. Work continued until 1876. The central courtyard of the museum, on the axis of the Champs-Élysées, is occupied by the Louvre Pyramid, built in 1989, which serves as the main entrance to the museum. Recent Additions The Louvre Pyramid is a glass pyramid commissioned by then French president François Mitterrand, designed by I. M. Pei and was inaugurated in 1989. This was the first renovation of the Grand Louvre Project. The pyramid covers the Louvre entresol and forms part of the new entrance into the museum. La Pyramide... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap booze, cheap fags, good entertainment, swimming pool
Disadvantages: Bars have no late licence, Pool not open long enough

...cabin you want. These include standard, superior or luxury cabins. If you opt for the superior cabin, you get a flat screen tv and for the luxury cabins you get a dvd player as well. Also the luxury option gets you a continental breakfast, morning coffee or afternoon tea and some even have their own private balconies. There is also a choice of inside or outside cabins. Dining: As mentioned earlier, there is 4 restaurants on the Pont-Aven. The main restaurant (Le Flora) is very stylish and has great ocean views. The food in here is either a buffet or an a la carte set menu. The next restaurant (La Belle Angele) is self service with a wide range of traditional menus. Le Cafe du Festival is a self service cafe which is open 24hrs. Here you can pick up sandwiches and pastries. The final restaurant is the Freight Restaurant which is for lorry... Read review

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