Novotel Cardiff Centre, Cardiff

As you may know by know, I’m always up for a bargain or a free holiday. So when my boyfriend got a free hotel voucher (due to a muck-up on one of his bills) we thought we’d make a weekend of it and have a mini city break. Living in the South our first choice was London, but looking through the list of available hotels we were allowed to choose from somewhere else stood out. Neither of us had ever been to Cardiff and we figured that we were close enough to get there by car and it was be a good excuse to suss it out. Our first choice was the Hilton hotel, but we were offered the Novotel. However ... more

After booking tickets to see James Blunt at the Cardiff International Arena, I decided I didn't really fancy driving back to Bristol afterwards and it would be quite nice to spend a couple of days in Cardiff, so I set about looking for a affordable hotel not too far from the centre of Cardiff. Searching various internet sites I came across the Novotel hotel. For those of you who have never heard of them, Novotel operate more than 412 hotels in 56 countries and market themselves as an 'international network of convenient, modern hotels for comfortable business and leisure travel'. But back to ... more