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Beautiful Hotel right on sea front

Advantages: good location, lovely hotel, good food and atsmosphere
Disadvantages: N/A

The Isle of Man was the place I spent most of my summer holidays with my family when I was younger and I have great memories. Now I have a family of my own I decided that we should go and visit the Isle of Man as I had not been there in about 20 years or so. We got a great deal on active hotels and stayed at the Empress Hotel for five nights. The hotel is situated right on the sea front and there are fabulous views just sitting in the lobby looking ...
...The hotel decor inside is very rich in taste. The bedrooms are nice and spacious and most importantly clean. They provide tea and coffee making facilities, tv all the usual things you would find in a hotel. For dining you have a good choice if you just want to stay in the hotel, they have a choice of two restaurants. During our stay we ate twice in the hotel and I must say the food was really beautiful with a wide selection of choices. For kids they ...

colocube 07.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Empress Hotel, Douglas

Cheap and comfortable

Advantages: Good location, good price
Disadvantages: breakfast expensive and not inlcuded in the price paid.

We had a comfortable and clean double room. I nice touch was the access to free papers every day. The reception was helpful and allowed us to check in five hours early at no extra cost. There were no problems with noise as suggested by other guests' reviews and we stayed over a weekend when you would expect it to be noiser. The leisure facilities were excellent and the pool was open late and never overcrowded. Good price found after searching on ...
...£57 a night over four nights. Bar was expensive but included free entertainment. When we stayed there was a wonderful harpist playing on the Saturday night. The adjecent pizza place was good value and suitable for children too. About a fiver for a pizza. Location was excellent overlooking the sea and close to many of the toursit attractions on the island. ...

cheryl13 10.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hilton, Douglas

THE UNFRIENDLY CLUB'' -

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: So many

...will refuse to do especially when they have taken £25 of my good earned cash. They really do not care about their members, they seem to forget that it is us members that keep them in a job. Avoid the camping and caravan club like the plague. ...

Karen110271 07.01.2010 · Read full review
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Holiday Inn Shepperton - prebooked? Beware - if you cancel

Advantages: NONE
Disadvantages: ALL

...to cancel the stay with Holiday Inn re the current extreme bad weather problems for the journey by car from the North West for my 93 year old mother whose health would not be up to making such a potentially dangerous / uncertain journey. Holiday Inn Shepperton have refused to give us a refund for cancellation of the booking which we find unbelievable given the current weather conditions. Its the Holiday Inn attitude that pees me off, basically ...
...had a problem with a Holiday Inn booking in the '80s in the USA - wishing to transfer from a Holiday Inn in Hollywood where we had been staying to one at Anaheim - they made the transfer ok - but still charged us for the days stay not taken at Hollywood ! BEWARE FOLKS IF YOU MAKE A PREPAID BOOKING WITH HOLIDAY INNS AND THEN NEED TO CANCEL - THEY WILL STILL CHARGE YOU REGARDLESS !! BETTER NOT TO BOOK AT ALL AND JUST TURN UP IF YOU NEED TO USE HOLIDAY ...

Judibith 07.01.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Holiday Inn, Shepperton

A freezing cold with broken heating not so Welcome Cottage

Advantages: nice spacious family holiday home
Disadvantages: no help contactable when heating broken in mid-winter

...in Norfolk - arranged though Welcome Cottages, although you can rent this place through other sites like Country Cottages too. The house is owned by Mike Franklin, who would appear to own many holiday lets - he certainly owns number 5 Bure Cottages too. We arrived at 4pm in deep snow (with more falling) to a house so cold you could see your breath in the living room. The heating was broken and we couldn't find any instructions on who to contact ...
...times in 2 hours) or Welcome cottages (tried them at just after 5pm and they were shut - and no emergency number on ansaphone) Eventually (after 2 hours there with miserable cold 2 + 4 year old) a heating engineer we'd left a message with called us back and talked us through relighting the pilot light. We had to partly dismantle the kitchen cabinet to do this, with our own tools, and there's no way we'd have been able to work this out without the ...

Dollywombat 06.01.2010 · Read full review
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