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The InterContinental hotel group made it into the news twice last weekend - once with a good idea and once with a rather stupid one.

To start with the good one: The InterContinental Berchtesgaden introduced a new gadget called the InterContiButler. It is GPS device that guides you around the picturesque national park of Berchtesgaden.

The not so impressing news come from their property in Paris where a new spa treatment was launched. The bad news is for the planet as the used water is extracted from 3,000 ft near Bora Bora and leaves an immense carbon footprint until it reaches Paris, not to mention the sore of another rigging platform in the Pacific.

If you are heading to Reading festival and are worried to be stuck in a tent on a rainy weekend (and jugding by this summer - the chances are very high!), you can avoid this by booking yourself a room in the new Malmaison in Reading. The hotel opened just recently and we know they haven’t started selling the rooms for the weekend of the Reading festival (24th - 26th August).

Check out their website www.malmaison.com or compare Malmaison Reading on sletoh.

Rock stars love to smash up hotel rooms and NH hotels recently let some lucky competition winners smash up one of theirs!!

30 winners were given sledge hammers and carte blanche to destroy an entire floor of an NH hotel in Spain that was in need of renovation. 200 stressed out punters applied but only 30 passed the psychological tests to run riot. I am next in line!

For pictures check out the BBC.

Are you travelling to London and worrying about getting lost in one of Europe’s biggest and most hectic cities? Or are you one of the tourists who find it really difficult to read a street map and always end up on a bus going in the wrong direction? There is a simple way to get your bearings and keep abreast of London’s tangled streets to get the most of this wonderful city: stay in accommodation close to a tube station

London’s Underground rail network (the Tube) was the first of its kind in the world and is the perfect way to travel and navigate through the city in the shortest amount of time. The tube map is easy to read as all the lines are colour coded and the whole network is broken down into 6 zones. Zone 1 is Central London and the main tourist area, whilst zone 6 is outer London.

With 275 tube stations and 11 recognisable tube lines, tube stations offer a unique network of reference points. This station network is the perfect basis for a website to help London visitors find accommodation. The website is called www.TubeHotels.com.

Location, Location, Location

Tubehotels.com shows the location of London hotels, hostels, bed & breakfasts and apartments relative to London tube stations on an interactive Google map. The website incorporates accommodation from several leading hotel reservation websites to give users a huge range of places to stay. In fact, there are more than 800 hotels, bed & breakfasts, guesthouses, hostels and apartments to choose from.

To help users decide which accommodation to book, each one has a description, photos, a map showing the exact location and distances to the three nearest tube stations. Many websites describe location as ‘it takes 5 min from here to there’ but this is very subjective as everybody walks at a different pace. TubeHotels gives distances in miles from accommodation to the nearest tube stations and with the map you can calculate for yourself the actual time to get there.

Compare Hotel Prices

When users check availability, TubeHotels compares prices from several websites and presents a table of prices for each hotel ordered by price, with the cheapest price first. Links to each website’s booking page are provided for a quick and easy reservation.

TubeHotels compares prices from these accommodation sites:

• ActiveHotels.com
• diytravel.co.uk
• Laterooms.com
• OctopusTravel.com
• Reservahoteonline.com
• Superbreak.com

Tubehotels.com is a free service and there are no hidden costs or fees added to the accommodation prices.

How To Book London Accommodation

6 easy steps to booking accommodation in London:

1. London is a big city so you need to have some bearing on where to stay. Ask friends for advice or research the things you want to see and do on the web. When you know where you want to be, note down the Tube Station.
2. Enter the Tube Station into TubeHotels.com 
3. Decide how many stars you want your accommodation to have: 1-3 stars are budget hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts and guesthouses. 4 and 5 star are upmarket and luxury hotels and apartments.
4. Decide how far you want to be from the tube station and enter the distance.
5. Enter your dates and room requirements and search.
6. Available accommodation will be listed with prices from each web site. You can sort the list by price, distance, star rating and hotel name. TubeHotels does not list reviews but the sites we link to do provide them so click through for reviews. When you find the right hotel, click the ‘Book’ link next to the prices to reserve your room.

Accessibility

For hard of sight users, TubeHotels includes a text resizing tool at the bottom right hand corner of the site.

We added France to the site recently so you can now compare Paris hotels or Nice hotels or any other city in France. Find yourself a hotel bargain, jump on Eurostar (trains are better for the environment than planes) and enjoy gay Paris!

We are almost finished adding Spain too. Compare Madrid hotels or Barcelona hotels for a city break, or try one of the Costas, Balearic or Canary Islands for a beach holiday.