Fortnum and Mason

I think 50% of the people who have found my blog have been searching for information about Fortnum and Mason. The funny thing is that they have not been searching for FORTNUM and Mason, but Fortune and Mason... that's a different thing... :)

D'Angleterre Hotel, Copenhagen

For many years I have been dreaming of staying at this hotel. I have had lunch there, but never stayed.

Now I have... And to be honest, it looks better than it is! The first impression wasn't that good. The receptionist was kind of grumpy, didn't welcome us and didn't smile. The room was small and the bathroom were dated with stains in the bathtub. At least there were Molton Brown products!

We had dinner in the restaurant. Very, very good food, but it felt more like a bistro than a restaurant.

The breakfast was also very nice, with Champagne. I would say the breakfast was 5*, but the rest a good 4*. However I would def. return next time in Copenhagen! The hotel is all over nice, although not a true 5*, and the location is the best.

Hotel Radisson Gothenburg 4*

Very central and nice hotel. The breakfast was ok so was the hotel. Nothing special, very typical Radisson.

Looooong time no see!

I feel terrible bad for neglecting my blogs the last year. I will take a quick summary of where I have been since last time. (I had to check when "last time" was! :-))

Well, where have I been...

4* Radisson Blue Gothenburg, Sweden
5* Cordial Mogan, Gran Canary, Spain
5* Grand Hotel, Oslo, Norway
4* IC Toronto Yorkville, Toronto, Canada
4* IC Toronto Center, Toronto, Canada
5* IC Dusseldorf, Germany
5* IC Berlin, Germany
5* IC Rome De la Ville, Rome, Italy
4* Crown Plaza, Liverpool, UK
4* Crown Plaza, Nottingham, UK
4* Crown Plaza, Copenhagen, Denmark
4* Crown Plaza Caserta, Naples, Italy
4* Holiday Inn Marghera, Venice, italy
4 * (?) Holiday Inn Munic South, Munic, Germany
5* IC Park Lane, London, UK
5* Montebello Splendid, Florence, Italy

I will make some small, quick reviews of the hotels and places later. When in Italy we visited lots of outlet villages, some I can recommend and some that are not worth the fuel! :)

Betty in the sky with a suitcase

Betty is a flight-attendant and she tells about her "traveling-life" in this podcast. I listen to it when walking to/from work and I find the stories amusing, interesting and sometimes hilarious. People must think I am totally out of control seeing me laughing by myself.

Batavia stad outlet-village, Amsterdam

We went to this outlet with train from the central-station. Mind you, all the information at this train-station is in Dutch! The train takes about 1 hour and 10 min. depending on the route, how many times you have to change train, 1 or 2.

From the train-station in Lelystad there is a bus, bus number F, which takes you to the outlet-village. The bus takes about 10 min.

The bus stops at the Mexx outlet, which is outside the village itself, but only 100 meter. The selection were good, with some very good offers and some 30% discounts.

In the outlet-village there were some nice shops (look at the link), but the offers weren't very good. Some of the shops had mainly 20-30% discounts! Seriously, I don't mind paying for clothes, but if buying clothes from last season, or even older, I demand 50%. This is what you get at the ordinary sale, so why not at an outlet-village? With regarding the discounts, this is the least exciting outlet I have ever been to.

If I would go back to the outlet? Maybe, to go to Mexx...

Crowne Plaza Amsterdam 4*

I went to Amstedam with my best friend and we booked a 2 room suite.

Checking in went very quick and we were escorted to the room, which was on the 6th. floor, at a corner. The bed-room was like a normal hotel-room but the living -room was huge. Some weeks before we arrived I had called the hotel to ask for an extra bed, but she said it would be 50 Euro extra per night so I said we didn't need it. When we arrived to the room I asked the receptionist for an extra pillow and duvet. He asked if we wanted an extra bed as well and when I asked if it would be any extra, he told me to not think about it! :)

Bed-room

Bed-room

Bed-room

Bath-room connected to the bed-room

Toiletries

Nespresso-machine in the bed-room

Living-room

Living-room

Toilet connected to the living-room

Terrasse with entrance from the living-room

Everybody at the hotel were very nice, warm and smiling.

We had lounge-access in our rate. The lounge was very small and, except from the breakfast, there were almost no food, only some snacks. There were coffee, tea, mineral-water, beer and wine all day. We had continental breakfast in the lounge the first day. OK, but not impressive. The second day we had breakfast in the restaurant. This was much better and nicer, full English with somebody making egg/omelet.

Having a 2 room suite was an excellent choice when going with a friend as you are together but still it is easy to get some privacy.

At this trip I didn't bring my camera, just the iPhone, so the pictures aren't that great.