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As anyone who has read my early reviews knows- I love Italy! I've been going there now for the past ten years with my parents, and for the first time last year I made my own way there with the boyfriend for a nice Italian holiday. The GrandHotel Excelsior was my residence for numerous weeks holiday, and it certainly not one for the faint hearted! In the Thompson guide book it is described as 'quaint' which to put it politely is rather an understatement. One thing that can be said for it is it is completely oozing with Italian charm.
ARRIVAL/ LOCATION
If you book with Thompson as we did (though other tour operators go to the same location) flights go from Manchester Airport on a Friday morning, taking just over 2 and a half hours to get to Naples International Airport. From Naples the coastal resort of Amalfi is approximately ...
Advantages: We actually felt like royalty Disadvantages: Absolutly none.
and pointed us in the right direction.
Whist finding our way to our room, one couldn?t help notice the elegance of the hotel, chic glass fronted elevators and palm trees stretching far up into the open space, and that was just the start of the hotel.
The Hotels rooms were excellent, clean, elegant, and nicely furnished with a gorgeous en-suit bathroom with a balcony. A perfect hotel room if you ask me, we felt like royalty.
Having settled in, we went down in the posh glass lifts to get a drink at the hotel bar, which was sophisticated in every way, it had its own grand piano along with player and an expert in cocktails at hand at the bar. But don?t worry, you don?t need to wear a tuxedo at all times, simple casual wear is generally excepted at this particular bar in the hotel.
Moving on to the pool area, when we went outside for the first ...
Advantages: Those Public Rooms Disadvantages: Standard Rooms small, but hay that was our choice and your all the same at breakfast
We have just returned from a Week-end in Porto.
We were looking for a Hotel that had good location and some olde world charm, so this one seemed to tick the boxes.
We booked it thru Octopustravel.com for £165 that being for a Double Room with Buffet Breakfast for three nights (About £27 per person per night B&B).
Getting to the Hotel from the Airport can not be easier. You get the Metro from the Airport, you can not get on the wrong one as that is the start of the line, no changes necessary just stay on unti the BOLHAO stop (approx 25 mins) cost 1 Euro 85 Cents (purchase ticket from Tourist Info Booth in arrival hall, or if braver from the Ticket Machines in the Metro (Do have an English Button) for instructions.
At the Bolhao stop come up into the Street Opposite a large Church With Blue Tiles, turn corner about 90 yards ...
