Yanggakdo International Hotel Restaurants, Pyongyang

Advantages: Unique, Extremely Comfortable, Location, New build, Service
Disadvantages: Maybe a little pricey

...OVERVIEW If you are considering a trip to Ireland, one of the most popular areas to visit is around Cork. Although I've been to Ireland almost annually since a child, I'd never visited Cork until this year. The area differs enormously from the West Coast, in that there are more rolling hills, arable farming and very reminiscent of Cornwall or Devon. On my travels I always like to stay in nice hotels, well at least the best that I can afford, and that usually entails trawling through the various travel booking engines to see which is offering the best deal. I tend to find that the airport hotels are usually slightly cheaper than those in the centre of town, and for me there is the added bonus that I can do a bit of plane spotting and photography as well!! When booking my recent trip I came across the Cork International Airport... Read review

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Advantages: Ease of use, good offers
Disadvantages: Inconsistent

...The Hanover International Hotel chain only have hotels in the UK (well actually having checked the locations it is only England and Wales). They have 14 Hotels in Skipton, Huddersfield, Scunthorpe, Ashbourne, Hinckley, Daventry, Dunstable, Harpenden, Cardiff Bay, Bromsgrove, Reading, Basingstoke, Chewton(Bristol) and Eynsham (Oxford). The hotels are all 3 or 4 stars and 'most' of the ones I have visited are very good. All have good facilities such as pools, saunus, gyms, and most offer good business facilities as well. The standards of hotel and service vary quite a lot across the hotel chain so it pays to check out each hotel prior to any visit. For example, the Hinckley hotel is a very large modern and impersonal hotel. The staff are reasonable, the restaurant is passable and the facilities are excellent. Compare... Read review

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Advantages: -
Disadvantages: safety first of all

...forced to reduce the number of flights and destinations. Right now Air Koryo flies only to Beijing, Macau, Bangkok, Shenyang (China) and Vladivostok (Russia). In the past Moscow, Sofia and Berlin were included. A month ago I went, with one of my Italian customers, to Pyongyang (the capital city of North Korea) on a business trip. We made our reservation through a travel agent in Beijing, travel agent specialized in organizing trips to North Korea. We got two Business Class tickets for 243 US Dollars (be careful, don’t pay in Euro as Air Koryo exchange Dollars to Euro with ratio 1 to 1….and note that it is the same in the hotels or restaurant within Korea, so bring with you a lot of cash in Dollars because credit cards are not accepted at all in North Korea). On leaving Pyongyang a 10 US Dollars departure tax is applied. So we flew... Read review

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