Hilton Basingstoke

Hilton Basingstoke: Character-less Quality (216 words)
by Halibut88 - written on 13.03.04 (Useful, 41 readings)
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Stayed here in February 2004. Nice chain hotel with staff who are trained to provide service. Have you been to those reception desks where you just know that your presence at the desk is just an annoyance to the receptionist. - Definitely one of the more easily discernable differences between.. a very cheap hotel.. and a hotel where you are paying for the service. The hotel itself is everything you mgiht expect from price range. Clean with that touch of laura ashely pseudo cottage character chain chic. (as Cottage charater chic goes in a multi-million pound hotel). Nice pool and leisure facilities, nice room, nice bathroom, ... its all.. nice. The most ...

The Hilton Basingstoke. (1113 words)
by andymcf - written on 21.04.03 (Very useful, 214 readings)
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Hampshire is a lovely county and Basingstoke sounded nice. And there's a Hilton there. The chance to earn a few "Hhonors" points and write a review about a previously un-rated hotel was irresistible. An old school friend of mine lives in nearby Winchester. It all added up. We booked the hotel on-line and let Simon know that we were coming. Things started to go terribly wrong. We were staying 15 miles away from Simon. And he had decided to spend the weekend with his family - you guessed it - 15 miles away from us. This was communicated in an e-mail in which he demanded to know why we were staying in such a "Godforsaken" ...