Archive for July, 2007

InterContinental group – good and bed news

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 More >

Hotel or tent for Reading festival

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.

NH hotels – smashing!

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.

London Accommodation Near Tube Stations

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 More >

Added France and Spain

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.