The Fridays Tour 2013 with added poll

[AnythingButVanilla]

£196 later and I now have a Travelodge for the 14th and on the 9am boat out and 5pm boat back

I just hope the hotel lets us keep the bikes in the room rather than leave them locked outside.

 

[mmmmartin]

Do you think when travelodge say on their website:
"Important information

Please be aware that Portsmouth is a popular destination for groups of young adults and groups for local sporting events at the weekend and all reasonable measures are taken to control any of these groups that stay with us."

they might be referring to us?

 

[ianmac62]

I've just had an e-mail from Travelodge saying that their sale (for rooms between April and June) is ending. Today or tomorrow might be the time to book a room at the Portsmouth Travelodge if you haven't done so already.

On the other hand, Travelodge sales are a bit like buses - another one will be along shortly.

 

[StuAff]

The Portsmouth Travelodge may be handy for the ferry port, but the reviews that Trip Advisor has are very, very, very bad indeed. There's an Ibis in the city centre (and not much further for the ferry, really), worth a bit extra.

In other news: got the confirmation of my first three weeks' leave allocation today. Got 16th June, so I'm in. Ferry (Saturday morning, was tempting to join the Caen-Cherbourg ride, but...) now booked.

 

[wanda2010]

Return ferry (Portsmouth/Cherbourg) and hotel now booked. Stu, I hope you are right about the IBIS.

 

[StuAff]

Return ferry (Portsmouth/Cherbourg) and hotel now booked. Stu, I hope you are right about the IBIS.

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_...outh_Centre-Portsmouth_Hampshire_England.html Sounded reasonably complimentary on the whole. I've stayed in a few & they've always been OK.

 

[mistral]

It's only one night, what is the worst that can happen?

 

[StuAff]

Oh I'm sure it could be worse than that, this is in Portsmouth after all.

Oi! Enough already!!!

 

[StuAff]

Have I ever told you that I spent three years in S**********n?

OK, that's worse.....

 

[martint235]

OK, that's worse.....

Worse than Portsmouth? Surely not! I would have thought the lower circles of hell were preferable?

 

[wanda2010]

Guys you are NOT helping!

 

[wanda2010]

The IBIS reviews were slightly less worrying than the Travelodge reviews but I'm still a bit nervous about staying there. Hopefully I'll be too tired to care in June.

 

[wanda2010]

La, la, la I'm not listening to you.......................

 

[martint235]

Let's face it you're staying in Portsmouth, how high can your expectations be? I'm aiming to get to the port with about 10 mins to spare

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

It never occured to me to check the reviews of the Travelodge. They're prefab hotels by numbers and all much of a muchness so how bad can it be?