Crown plaza Gerrards Cross room 307

As last week

Malmaison Birmingham

Very nice.  Excellent continental breakfast - not worth the extra for a full english.  Good free wifi.  Achingly cool, which means dark.  No car park so add on an extra £20.  Part of the Mailbox along with Harvey Nicks.

Holiday Inn Express, Exeter

Ok.  Tricky to get to though close to motorway.  Puzza ok.  Wifi free but poor.

Last nights hotel: Crowne Plaza Gerrard's Cross

Very comfortable, good free wifi, nice restaurant, gym if I had time to use it, but oddly cold (temperature not atmosphere).  Some free water, kit kat, soft drinks in minibar.  Which is nice.

Mercure Swindon

This week's hotel: Jury's Inn, Swindon

Gosh the Magic Roundabout is frightening!  No car park but one about 5 mins (actually across the road but the entrance us on the wrong side).  Cheap but breakfast not included.  Breakfast rather dried. Bit noisy.  Thin walls?  Shower curtain and wall mounted shampoo.  Variable water strength and temperature. The comped Internet is blisteringly fast. Its fine enough.  Travelodge next door.  No gym

Hotel 53 in York

Never stayed there but had many successful events there.  Sorry to hear they have been flooded.  Lovely people, lovely venue

A forgotten hotel: Jameirah Creekside hotel, Dubai

One I missed out. Two,stop,over . It was lovely.  Inevitably it was not actuallly Beside the Creek.  But you could see it from there. Probably.

Tonights hotel: doubletree by Hilton, Cambridge

Great view, great balcony

Tonight's hotel: Carlton al Moaibed hotel, Damman

Last night's hotel: Mariott al Jaddaf, Dubai

Lovely, if not doubt expensive.  Rather in an island in a sea if desert at the moment.  Nothing around it but a petrol station.  No doubt that will change.  Stonking wifi (free), great plumbing, hightly trained staff, great attention to detail.  Free shuttle to Dubai Mall.  Just wish I want under the weather and could enjoy it more.

Tonight's hotel: Premier Inn Dumfries

Perfectly servicable

Last nights hotel London Continental Hotel

Back to an old haunt, now surpringly expensive

This week's hotel: The Platinum hotel, Muscat, Oman

First the good news: lovely staff, good location, great city, amazing view from rooftop pool, fantastic country.  Then the intermediate news: the decor tries hard but the finish is not top notch.  Finally the bad news: intermittant (but free and sometimes good) wifi, cafe not great shakes, plumbing a bit random (which way is cold for the sink?).  Not the end of the world, is it?

Last night's hotel: the Wharfhouse, Canal Basin, Gloucester

Rather lovely.  Imagine it would fantastic in summer.  Lovely room with bicvies, super breakfast.  Only problems are that is is in the middle of nowhere

This week's hotel: La Fermee, Rimboval, France

Last nights hotel London Continental Hotel

Back to an old haunt, now surpringly expensive

Last night's hotel: De Vere Devonport hotel, Greenwich

A favourite

Last Friday's hotel: Radisson Edwardian, London

Lastnight's hotel: Premier Inn, Pacific Quay, Glasgow

Nice food, very comfy, but a bit slow for food - better book.