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British Hotels, Inns and Other Places (Alastair Sawday's Special Places to Stay) by: Alastair Sawday List Price: £14.99 City Travel Guides Price: £9.89 You Save: £5.10 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914 EAN: 9781901970944 ISBN: 1901970949 Label: Alastair Sawday Publishing Manufacturer: Alastair Sawday Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: October 25, 2007 Publisher: Alastair Sawday Publishing Studio: Alastair Sawday Publishing Sales Rank: 12711 Related Items:
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 Rating: - "Special" Just Took on a Whole New MeaningThanks to Alistair Sawday I have much more room on the bookshelf; the AA, RAC, Michelin and Johansens books won't be needed again so they have all taken a long holiday to the charity bookshop! Sawday's British Hotels & Inns is much more then a book; it is a guide that will change your attitude towards `going away' forever. In the past trying to find a nice place to stay was always the job of my wife who would spend hours researching places, but now there is a sprint to the bookshelf to find this book whenever we decide to go anywhere. Once I've found somewhere I like the feel of I don't even bother doing any additional research...what's the point, the guys at Alistair Sawday have done it all for you. When you initially ... Read More: Rating: - If only I had more time and more money .........and then I could spend every weekend in one of these hotels ! Actually, the next best thing is to curl up on the sofa with this book and plan some trips for next year. The Sawday books are just so much nicer than your average hotel guide - and I've yet to find a bad recommendation. There are always tempting photos of the hotels/pubs and they steer well away from the bland corporate chain hotels - basically, it's more like having a really good personal recommendation from a friend. You get a good idea of the character of each place from the text - and it will be honest too, ie telling you if somewhere is "folksy" or "eccentric" or if the food is "simple but filling." so you should be able to tell whether ... Read More: Rating: - You only live once!I'm no snob, but I am very particular about the places I stay. I've long been a fan of Sawday's B&B Guide and use it wherever I can. I've never been disappointed. This book is the perfect companion volume. There are times when you want to stay in a hotel rather than a B&B and to be honest, finding a good one is becoming increasingly difficult. I bought this book after a particularly toxic experience in a Holiday Inn, where my complaint about being given a 'smoking room' was handled by giving me a large can of what is euphemistically called air-fresehner. I can now relax, certain that whatever my need, wherever I travel, there's somewhere to stay that's passed the Sawday test. What's surprising, is that many of the hotels in ... Read More: Rating: - Buy one of these and start planning..........As the days get shorter and you go to work and come home in the dark, I've sometimes thought that in any next life I'd come back as a cat but now I've changed my mind and I want to come back as a Sawday's Inspector. However, for the moment I will content myself with drooling over the yet to be sampled possibilities, smiling over memories of the ones already visited and wishing there were more weekends in which to explore these. Anyway, what is there to say about the guide itself? I'm sure existing Sawday's fans will appreciate the new, clearer layout, but for any new to these guides, it's the excellent photos (usually the place itself and a bedroom) and the honest, factual and often entertaining reviews (and from my experience these are reviews ... Read More: |
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