A-devil-phi (Adelphi)

Member Name: zoe_page_1

Product:	Adelphi
Date:	05/07/01 (103 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good location

Disadvantages: Where should I start?

One Friday last February I was in a minibus with 5 fellow Manchester students (4 nice and normal, one rather odd 35 year old, but let's not go there). We were off to spend the weekend at the student volunteers uk annual conference which was being held at Liverpool's Adelphi hotel.

First the boring facts :

the hotel is about 2 mins walk from Liverpool Lime Street. I wasn't driving (I was in the back eating chocolate and gossiping and totally not paying attention) but I know we got slightly lost when we left the motorway. Still, get yourself an A-Z and you'll be fine. For more details, the official website is :

http://www.britannia-hotels.co.uk/locations/ad elphi.html

Now we've got that out of the way, we can move on to what it's really like. It was, well, old. Ancient in fact. The rooms didn't seem to realise that we were living in the 21st century. They were kinda musty, they creaked and you could never be certain something wasn't going to crawl out from the dust under the beds. Some of the paintwork was chipped and peeling and though the bathrooms were clean, they were not sparkling. The rooms were too hot and the bathrooms too cold which was an interesting combination..... This is not the kind of hotel where you would want to walk around bare foot, even for a second.

Most of our meals were provided in a buffet style, but since one of my friends and I don't eat normal food, we skipped a few of the formal meals and went for Pizza. The first night we headed for Pizza Hut, but the second we though we'd try the hotel Pizzeria. Oh how I wish we hadn't. To get to the Pizzeria you can either go through the bar (tiny and full of old men - aarrrgggghhhh) or through the gym - nice! The service was pretty slow. No, I take that back. It was incredibly slow considering there were only 5 customers. The food was ok, but nothing to write home about (and certainly not on the one free postcard
we got in the room that 3 of us were sharing....).

We also went to the gym which was pretty nice. Locals can join as well as hotel guests, so it was pretty busy. The pool was tiny, but then aren't most hotel pools?

The staff were pleasant enough but again, nothing special (and they looked at you in such a way you could tell they were thinking "scruffy students". Well pardon us if we didn't wear our ball gowns at all times.

Any redeeming factors about the hotel? Let me think..... Well it was nice and central - tons of bars and restaurants within 10 mins walk, and the pedestrianized shopping streets were just across the road.

Will I go again? Probably, to next years conference. Will I choose to go there when I'm paying for it with my own money? Not likely.

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