…art of a day to see the Zimbabwe side of the Falls as well. There are many hotels and lodges in the Livingstone area to meet all price levels. The Southern International Group own the 2 hotels closest to the Falls. In fact they are so close it is minutes walk to the Falls themselves. They are both situated in the Maso-o-tanya park. The Royal Livingstone is the premium hotel and attracts a mixed group of travellers from USA, Western Europe and what…
…y strange in this day of computers, networks and databases. So my pet hate hotel service is the Pullman Rive Gauche (formally Sofitel). I have stayed here so many times I even know more or less which rooms in this 600 bedroom hotel I like and do not like. Plus I am a member of the loyalty scheme and every booking has that on…. And yet EVERY time I go, they ask me to complete address and other details. It drives me nuts. Yet, when checking into a S…
…n a podcast that I do not mention), to saying that I have no taste and the hotel is top notch. I thought I would post the review and video here on my blog… This hotel has recently been renamed the RAINBOW TOWERS, and is no longer a Sheraton run property as they have pulled out of the country. I am not sure if this was their call or they were pushed out or just left as they made no money. If you are mad enough to visit Zimbabwe, which is spiraling…
…y stayed at better hotels in Singapore. But there is no doubting that this hotel is a good hotel and is a good place to stay. It is, of course, not a cheap place to stay. The rooms, food etc is all fairly costly. The rooms themselves are enormous and very comfortable. The room (which you can see in the video I have posted here) is massive. The bed is very large and very comfy, although other chains do have even softer pillows, there is no doubting…
…oms plastic and the central heating/ cooling just does not work. Luckily for me it was winter when I stayed and I could open the windows to get the room a decent temperature to stay in. The staff in the restaurant were great and the food was good. But expensive for what it was. The hotel was just not worth it. I would not stay here again. Berlin is a dynamic and changing city. There are just much better places to stay at that in some old thing dre…
…partnership with the COMO Hotel group, and especially the launch of their hotel in Miami, to be followed series of other hotels around the world in rapid succession. What did I learn at the event? VHip is a Virgin Holidays venture with the Hip Hotels group. These are a selection of the more up-market and trendy hotels all around the world. Vhip have elected a range of hotels from the portfolio covering the main regions that Virgin (and their part…
…more or less.For what it costs, it is not great value. I did not like the hotel much, though as a straightforward, no nonsense place to stay it is fine. Though not as central as some of the other Scandic hotels in the city. The room I had faced into the atrium, and it felt a bit like you were trapped – so probably an idea to ask for an outward facing room. The room was ok. Though the furniture, fixtures and things like towels and bedding felt che…
What can I say really… The Novotel Hotel at Warsaw Airport is a hotel near the airport by Novotel. So you know exactly what you are getting. At least from that perspective they are consistent – not exciting, not special but reliably consistent. Overall I am not crazy about Novotel hotels. They are in unremarkable to ugly 1970s inspired buildings that look and with a finish that says budget was not high. They are always clean but decor is well mea…
…e. This trip I had a large room which was very quiet as at the back of the hotel and not overlooking the main road. The air-conditioning is very quiet which is a boon as I hate air-conditioning noise and in most hotels have to switch it off at night no matter how hot or cold it gets! The rooms feel dated and uninspired decor wise, although they are not shabby at all. The bed and pillows were very comfortable and this combined with the quiet made f…
…he west coast north of Holetown and just after the Fairmont Royal Pavilion hotel. A striking white colonial style building houses a small hotel and the large restaurant. You go down a long wooden staircase to the restaurant which is right on the beach. The decor is striking and the staff wears white boiler suits. Overall though, a visit here is not especially memorable. This is because the attitude of the staff on the door and the waiting staff wh…
…p! This is not really to do with the hotel which I was pretty pleased with as usually Ramada’s I have stayed at have been not that great. The rooms were a good size, clean and comfortable. The reason for being unhappy was it was after a long and bad day due to Virgin Atlantic (who I usually praise) who treated us all so badly after a problem with one of their planes – we took off from Newark and 40 minutes later after dumping our fuel was forced t…
