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Advantages: Great Location. Excellent standard of service. Relatively good value for London. Disadvantages: No Pool. That's about it!
INTRODUCTION
I booked dinner and theatre for my wife's thirtieth birthday, and needed a relatively up-market hotel in London - with a bit of ?wow? factor - to overnight in. I am a frequent visitor to IC Hotel Group properties on business (these include the five star Intercontinental Hotels, the four to five star Crowne Plaza, and the three to four star Holiday Inn) and am a member of their award-winning ?Priority Club? loyalty scheme, so I decided to use my accumulated points to redeem a ?Reward Night? and stay for free. The hotel is on Buckingham Gate, with extensive frontage featuring an attractive red and white brick façade with decorative arches, reminiscent of Florentine architecture.
GETTING TO & FROM
The hotel is in the heart of Westminster. It?s a short, three minute, walk from StJames? Park Tube ...
can sit with a gelato, coffee or something stronger and enjoy a wonderful view across the lake.
The excursion we went on also briefly visited Arona, which has a giant statue of the archbishop of Milan, San Carlo Borromeo, and to give visitors an idea of its scale they say the pointing index finger is 6 feet long. You can climb up the steps and inside the statue and look out through the eyes but we did not have time for this although I should imagine you get a wonderful view of Lake Maggiore.
A walk along the lakeside promenade
( Lungolaga) away from the town takes you to the funicular and the local water taxis. The funicular takes you first to the Alpine garden and then to the top of Motterone, which is a mountain almost 5000 ft above the lake. There are some that walk or even mountain bike to the top and collapse in the local ...
Advantages: very nice sightseeing locations Disadvantages: none
The Lago Maggiore or Verbano as called by locals is located some 50 km northwest of Milan or just 20 from Malpensa International airport.
Tis lake lays on area of glacial era origin.
The north tip of the lake is belong to Switzerland while the west shore is in Piedmont region and the est in Lombardy region.
All around the lake you will find a lot of old villas with gardens and parks.
Our tour starts in Arona (on the west shore of the lake).
ARONA
Is a nice small city famous for a tall and big bronze statue of San Carlo Borromeo (the locals call this statue "San Carlone" that means big Charles)that was the archbishop of Milan around the end of 1500 century.
This statue has been erected in 1697 on the top of an hill overlooking Arona and it is 36 meter tall.
With a small fee in can enter inside the statue and climbing ...
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