Recent reviews Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
[ProfMagellan, 13/09/2011] This is a very pretty hotel in the centre of Chamonix. The room was small but well appointed.
The front desk staff were very stand-offish from the moment we arrived. This was not a language or cultural problem as Mrs Magellan and I are both French speakers. Rather they had been poorly trained. What was lacking was a senior management figure. And on the one evening which we wanted to enjoy in the hotel, the main (actually the only) reception room was roped off for a travel agency meeting. It reminded me then of Fawly Towers. The lift (elevator)was the slowest I have ever experienced in the worl
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[EOS_snapper, 08/02/2010]
To set the seen for this skiing holiday, on our arrival we witnessed a group of Slum dwellers
on a piste bashing holiday from Dharavi, complaining bitterly about the quality of the rooms and facilities. This is the kind of hotel that makes the stag pits of Blackpool look like Conde Nast travellers choice destinations and a week in the down-town Baghdad YMCA seem quite appealing
On our first day we found eleven species of rare and endangered fungi growing in our
bathroom and once spotted a pair of blue mottled latvian tree skinks mating in our bidet late one night. UNESCO have declar
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