NH Trier, Trier

Advantages: Historical, Beautiful & Friendly Place, Relatively Inexpensive
Disadvantages: Not a lot for kids

...Excuse the op title, but Trier is a fab place, that won't be known to too many people. Trier is officially Germany's oldest city and is located close to the Luxembourg border in Western Germany, in a major wine growing region on the Mosel. Historians & booze fans would love a trip to Trier, I'll explain.... Trier was a former Roman stronghold and a number of the monuments made it safely through the wars. If we start in the town centre, there is the imposing Porta Nigra, which will give you a good view of the city. Trier is also home to a number of cathedrals, one of which, according to cathedral fans(!) rival the best in Europe. Along with the Basilica and other ruins, the historian will find a number of things to do in the area. Trier is also Karl Marx's birthplace and there is a museum and other related stuff... Read review

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Advantages: Close to town, Quiet, Nice rooms
Disadvantages: Expensive bar

...We had immense trouble deciding on a hotel for my husband's birthday break in Amsterdam. We're trying to find a reasonably priced hotel that wasn't too shabby and in a decent location. After reviewing all the options, we went for the NH City Centre, if only because of it's 1920's styling and proximity to town. We were not disappointed. The hotel is lovely with each room finished beautifully, if you like the modern thing (and we do!). The overall atmosphere is very calm and serene. It took us forever to find the hotel, but that may have been because I insisted, as I had been to Amsterdam a couple of times before, that finding our way around would be easy, we could walk there and we didn't need a map. About an hour later we finally found the back of the hotel, exhausted from dragging our suitcases up and down a zillion canals... Read review

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Advantages: Value for money. Sparkling clean. Superb food.
Disadvantages: Noisy trams if you get the wrong room.

...An apology for boring you all with yet another travel / hotel review, but hopefully this one will be just a little different, due to our initial and entirely unscheduled discovery of this particular hotel. Indeed you could say that the room here fell into the "panic purchase" category. We needed a room for the night in Dresden and the Astron (as the NH was then called) had one available. In actual fact more importantly than us, my then fiancée and I, needing a bed for the night, it was essential that we found secure parking for the car. The circumstances, you need to understand, both personally and on the global stage leading up to our very first stay in Dresden were to say the least, slightly unusual. The purpose of our journey was one of those once in a lifetime, life changing events. I had driven out to Poland ten days earlier... Read review

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