[16.08.2008] In the golden age of rail travel, the railway hotels were giants of hospitality. You only have to see some of the grand railway hotels like those around St Pancras or the Great Eastern at Liverpool Street to get a sense that there was a time when the best of architecture went into railway hotels. These days however, the term 'convenient for the railway station' is often short-hand for 'shabby, run down and in a dodgy [more]

[26.07.2008] There's nothing really wrong with the Maritim but it seems to be stuck in a time warp to another era [more]