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Top 10 Hotels to Stay in Madrid
Madrid is Spain’s capital but often seen as a poor second to Barcelona by tourists and travellers; apart from its lack of a beach though Madrid is every bit as much a tourist destination and top European city as Barcelona. A lot of the sites in Madrid include Art Galleries and also traditional Spanish architecture, the best of which is mainly located within a relatively small city centre where hotel prices can be higher. Madrid has a f...
Top 10 Hotels to Stay in Rome
The centre of Rome is noisy and chaotic and the hotels are often fitted into old Renaissance buildings and so have small rooms, often overpriced simply because owners know that visitors will pay. Many of the best hotels in Rome are a little way away from the centre with much bigger rooms and owners who put in a lot of effort to keep guests happy. Unlike most major cities there are few modern, purpose built business hotels but there are m...
Top 10 Hotels to stay in Paris
Paris sera toujours Paris (Paris will always be Paris) as the saying goes but your stay can be greatly enhanced by staying in a hotel where you can feel relaxed and safe and where you are ideally close to attractions or at least a metro station. Paris has few hotels in the style popular in much of Europe where clean and bare is what people expect, instead Paris has some of the most beautiful and creatively decorated hotels in the world, som...
Top 10 Hotels to Stay in Barcelona
Barcelona feels like a capital city and like the greatest cities of Europe there is a lot to see and do and sites are spread over different areas each built up over the city’s long history, location therefore isn’t too important, though if you are going to have a night out it might be handy to be based near Las Ramblas. With Barcelona being such an artistic city some hotel owners try to make their hotels artistic as well, some do this w...
Top 10 Hotels for the London 2012 Olympics
Many of London’s best and most prestigious hotels are in the West End, these are an option for visiting the Olympics and ideal for events in Hyde Park and at the Horse Guard Parade ground where Beach Volleyball will be held, some of each day will be taken up getting to the Olympic Park though. Stratford and Greenwich, by the Olympic Park and Excel and O2, don’t have very many established hotels, though we have tried to include some that...
Top 10 Hotels to stay in Athens
Athens has a lot of beautiful sites and a lot to see and do so location is important, at the same time though it can be a choice between a very expensive central hotel, a hotel close to the centre in a busy noisy area or going a little further out and having to take transport in to the sites each day. Don’t forget that Athens is a living breathing city though and not a time capsule: it is busy, noisy and in some places quite grubby. When ...
