Long weekends.

McBabe · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject:

We have just had a lovely weekend in the Royal garden apartments in Edinburgh for our anniversary.

They are on Queen street which runs parallel with Princes street and everything is within walking distance so you can park you car up until you leave.

There is a reception which is always staffed, breakfast room/coffee lounge, housekeeping come in on a morning and clean (they even washed up our breakfast things)

we paid for a one bedroommed apartment but when we arrived we were given a two bedroomed apartment so we had a bathroom each and lots of room for getting ready to go out. we had sattelite TV, cd player, internet connection.

It cost us £255 for two nights but they are 4 star and worth it

http://www.royal-garden.co.uk/

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nickmacuk · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject:

Looking in the papers is a good tip. I really enjoy it when checking out at a hotel and only paying half as much as the next couple who had just accepted the price was the price,
Also quite enjoy the small independent hotels, at least you know you are somewhere different. Most of the big chains you would have no sense of where you are till you leave the hotel they are all the same.
Last week was a good example of a bargaun we stayed at the Wye Valley Hotel in Tintern got a deal £40 p..p BB &. D. I think it is only ** or *** but it is clean and comfortable (we had the same room as Dennis Waterman had used when filming in the area so if its good enough for him its good enough for me) The food was superb much better than some **** & ***** I have been in. You also get the personal treatment in these kinds of establishments.
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GoldenChippie · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject:

yeah but you can get some rubbish ones too lol

i seem to get rubbish ones on spec when we do bike tours lol - maybe its how we look!!!

Guest1 · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 8:47 am Post subject:

The food in some 4 and 5 star places is too pretentious sometimes. more for looking at then actualy eating.

McBabe · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:18 am Post subject:

We don't eat in hotels, we prefer to go out to a restaurant.
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Guest1 · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject:

McBabe · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

Hotels have a sorth of 'captive' audience but restaurants have to compete.
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nickmacuk · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject:

Prefer to eat in when we've been walking its nice to relax with half a doz lagers and and a couple of bottles of wine

Another thing we used to be in was that "Free Accommodation" thing you see in the Sunday papers stayed in some really nice places, it is part of the deal that you eat at the hotel costs average about £35 pp per night some of the hotels either have min. stays or restrictions on certain times but we always managed to get fixed up for where we wanted to be.

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