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Advantages: Location, views, food, quality of accomodation... no more room left to write!!! Disadvantages: none
back in 1971 by a local farmer and a local baker. Then it was a small service area with just 28 members of staff. In 2005 it has grown to a multi-sited operation and employs over 500 people. They boast the consistency of their values. They are dedicated to both their individuality and quality. The buildings are built by local builders and use the majority of local materials.
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ETC 3 star, AA 73%. It is nestled in the hillside where the Pennines meet the Lake District, just north of Lune Gorge. The hotel offers 50 luxury ensuite rooms: standard, executive and junior suites, all with fabulous views. The hotel is long and rectangular in shape ensuring that all the bedrooms have magnificent views of the 'car free' environment including a wooded area, brook and rolling hills. In fact the only transport we could see ...
Advantages: beautiful gardens free to visit, good location, very clean and polite staff Disadvantages: expensive internet
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Anyway back to the hotel, it is named the grand view gardens because out the back is a huge garden which was infact used for a television show in china! It is free for those who stay in the hotel but if your not staying in there you have to pay. We spent a good couple of hours walking round it all. there is a huge man made lake in the middle with lots of trees and little chinese buildings and ornaments around. There is also a small animal 'zoo' which was quite nice. Peacocks, rabbits, guinea pigs, deers, goats, monkeys etc. It was quite sad though because all the animals were so hungry and the staff sell food to visitors so you can feed them - so we did - and most of it! it was gone in a few seconds. Definalty worth visiting the gardens as they area beautiful, and in the evening there are shows. We didnt stay in the evening ...
Advantages: Beautiful scenery - great restaurant Disadvantages: a little pricey - rooms a little out dated
We had the pleasure of being invited to my husband's best friends traditional Swedish wedding in Hjortnas, Sweden which was to take place on the shores of Lake Siljan which is the seventh largest lake in Sweden.
As Hjortnas is a small village in the countryside, there was little room for all of the guests to stay with the family, we therefore took the recommendation of the groom and booked this charming four star hotel for two nights last August.
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It took us two hours to arrive at the hotel from our starting location. En route we took in many beautiful views of the county of Dalecarlia or Dalarna as it is also named. For around twenty minutes on our approach to the hotel we were following the shores of Lake Siljan which was a spectacular sight in itself. We soon arrived at Tällberg which is a little picturesque ...
