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Post by drhickman1983 on Aug 16, 2022 4:22:29 GMT
Not sure what's on but the M Shed had some decent exhibitions on at times.
Idk tbh, I live in Bristol but only really leave the house to work and older boardgames, my finger isn't exactly on the pulse.
I know some good pubs and brewery tap rooms. Less useful as your with kids.
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Post by Bird Of Prey on Aug 16, 2022 7:27:03 GMT
One thing you can do is get a train to Bath which is quite nice to look around. They're quite frequent. Or there's down to the coast to somewhere like Clevedon or Portishead or even Weston super Mare, but I've not been there for a while.
Cheddar gorge is nice and there's Glastonbury Tor.
As for your original question, I've no idea I'm afraid. I'd just be in Tripadvisor or something.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Aug 16, 2022 7:30:04 GMT
Actually, i will say that particular Travelodge is a bit run down... I mean you get what you pay for, but I've had work colleagues stay there any I've visited the bar... It's very shabby.
Not sure what the prices are like but if it's not too much more, the City Centre Marriot is still fairly cheap and much nicer (comparatively)
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Post by dam on Aug 16, 2022 8:34:59 GMT
I have 3 days off this week. I think that's my first time off since Lockdown in 2020... not counting a few days off for new year. Going to Disneyland... kids super hyped, I'm dreading it. Hours standing in long lines in 36 degree sun. Yay. Still... at least it's time off. Definitely plan ahead - buy the Genie thing, and get up early and book a popular ride you really want to do on the app. Then every 2 hrs you can book another. You can use the time in between to check the app and see what's quiet and head for that. It costs extra and is a bit of effort, but if you can get on 4-5 rides you want a day, that's good going. Worth the extra expense. I don't understand why folk wait for hours in the sun in these queues.
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Post by dmukgr on Aug 16, 2022 8:38:05 GMT
I'm on holiday from this afternoon for a week - going around Wales, to bits I haven't been before. Excited
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Aug 16, 2022 8:40:13 GMT
Actually, i will say that particular Travelodge is a bit run down... I mean you get what you pay for, but I've had work colleagues stay there any I've visited the bar... It's very shabby. Not sure what the prices are like but if it's not too much more, the City Centre Marriot is still fairly cheap and much nicer (comparatively) Oof just checked out the Marriot for 3 nights - £505 + about £60 parking compared to the Travelodge at £275 where we can park for free (missus has a blue badge) so quite the difference unfortunately, does look a lot nicer though but that's a big hike. That said I won't quite feel so guilty with my rabid kids running amok in something a bit run down.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Aug 16, 2022 13:24:04 GMT
Definitely plan ahead - buy the Genie thing, and get up early and book a popular ride you really want to do on the app. Then every 2 hrs you can book another. You can use the time in between to check the app and see what's quiet and head for that. It costs extra and is a bit of effort, but if you can get on 4-5 rides you want a day, that's good going. Worth the extra expense. I don't understand why folk wait for hours in the sun in these queues. This assumes the Disney App works on my old android phone, which it doesn't.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Aug 19, 2022 20:08:15 GMT
Hmmm so I booked the dodgy Travelodge in Bristol only to receive a text this evening to say the breakfast facilities would not now be available due to refurbishment, well that kinda sucks cos the whole point of an actual hotel to me is the convenience for breakfast etc, kind of them to only inform me after I'd booked, anyway due to an unreliable cat-sitter for the first time in my life I had actually paid a bit extra for the flexible booking so it only cost a few quid to cancel an booked the next crappy Travelodge down the road, albeit that one is a little pricier. Dickheads.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Aug 20, 2022 13:53:41 GMT
From recent experience, the whole point of staying at a hotel is so the kids can jump around on the beds.
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Post by elstoof on Aug 22, 2022 22:48:16 GMT
Vancouver Chinatown is even rougher than the tenderloin. In the 5 minutes we spent there I saw two people jacking up and one of those was sat next to us while waiting at the bus stop. Wouldn’t recommend
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2022 22:56:19 GMT
oh yeah, mad junkies in Vancouver. I remember driving from my airbnb to the CBD and it's just blocks and blocks of homeless, with syringes just thrown all over the place. Then you get to the shopping districts and it's the set of a CW show.
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Post by elstoof on Aug 22, 2022 23:17:19 GMT
I’m going back that way for a gig later so I get to enjoy all it’s delights at night time
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Post by elstoof on Aug 23, 2022 5:43:45 GMT
It’s like a zombie movie, good lord
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Post by Dougs on Aug 23, 2022 6:23:25 GMT
What gig? Worth it?!
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Post by elstoof on Aug 23, 2022 6:53:02 GMT
A band called Polyphia, saw them back in toronto a couple of weeks ago as well as their tour happened to be both places I was going. The venue was pretty fancy inside to be fair, just with a row of encampments alongside the queue. I’ve done the whole stepping over tents to get through the door of a hot new bar in San Francisco which is it’s own kind of grim, but this is on another level. There’s no hot venues hidden away, just boarded up buildings and block after block of homeless junkies. It didn’t even feel dangerous, just incredibly sad seeing the state of some of these people.
Then on the bus home the driver disappeared for 10 minutes while he got a coffee and presumably had a good shit
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Post by Dougs on Aug 23, 2022 7:03:51 GMT
Really grim. Amazed me when I went to LA to see how things changed when you crossed an intersection. From deprivation to sheer opulence. Sickening.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2022 7:22:31 GMT
Yeah, but Vancouver's really another level though. It's not like there's a homeless person at every corner, or under a highway pass or anything. It's literally a main road where on both sides it's just tent next to tent next to tent, with junkies just sitting on the curb shooting up or smoking out of their pipes. It's sad, and nobody really talks about it.
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Post by dasbooter on Aug 23, 2022 8:38:43 GMT
Just booked a 2 day trip to Alton Towers later in the year as a surprise for my missus' 40th. I was suckered in by the relatively cheap ticket prices but then realised the almost obligatory fastrack passes were quite expensive, followed by parking. By the time I added 2 nights in the cheapest nearby Travelodge I could find (no breakfast) I'm looking at £400 all in 😳
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Post by Dougs on Aug 23, 2022 9:06:32 GMT
Fuuuuuck.
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Post by dfunked on Aug 23, 2022 9:23:31 GMT
Jesus. Fuck that noise. You could probably manage a nice weekend break via the Eurostar for that.
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Post by paulyboy81 on Aug 23, 2022 10:05:37 GMT
Speaking of theme parks...
Don't suppose anyone has accommodation recommendations for Disneyland Florida outside of the park? Wife is determined that we take the kids next year and I'd rather we weren't bent over by the prices for on-site hotels.
Somewhere close-by preferably, but a bit further afield isn't the end of the world either, we'll probably be renting a car anyway.
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Post by dasbooter on Aug 23, 2022 10:32:11 GMT
www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/travel/mcosv-sheraton-vistana-resort-villas-lake-buena-vista-orlando/We stayed here in 2018. It was great - spacious, clean, nice pool, little shop. We had a balcony overlooking a pond and watched the terrapins & birds in it. It was a family holiday and my parents paid so I haven't the first idea what it cost though, probably a lot. It was a 10-15 minute drive from all the Disney parks and Disney Springs. About 20-25m to the Universal parks. 5m drive to Walmart and 10m to Target. About 35m from airport via a toll road.
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Post by paulyboy81 on Aug 23, 2022 22:19:56 GMT
Thanks for the recommendation. Actually not that bad price wise, was expecting more but it's in the ball park of what we're looking at, and still less than half what even the cheapest Disney hotels are charging.
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Post by elstoof on Aug 24, 2022 0:36:04 GMT
Don’t forget to factor in the car park if you’re driving in from a far away hotel, that’s about a hundred bucks per day
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Post by 😎 on Aug 24, 2022 1:09:42 GMT
My family is flying out here for a wedding next April and asked me to plan how to get them (three adults, two kids) to Disney World in Orlando for three days and how much it would all be. Worked out it would be probably $8-10k in total unless they wanted to fly Spirit and stay at a Motel 6, and that’s on top of the flights to get from the UK to Boise in the first place. It was quickly decided not to bother.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Aug 24, 2022 1:51:57 GMT
Wow. Suddenly my overnight trip to Tokyo Disneyland doesn't seem so crazy expensive!
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Post by Dougs on Aug 24, 2022 5:47:52 GMT
Don’t forget to factor in the car park if you’re driving in from a far away hotel, that’s about a hundred bucks per day Holy shit! That's mental.
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Post by Dougs on Aug 24, 2022 5:49:59 GMT
My family is flying out here for a wedding next April and asked me to plan how to get them (three adults, two kids) to Disney World in Orlando for three days and how much it would all be. Worked out it would be probably $8-10k in total unless they wanted to fly Spirit and stay at a Motel 6, and that’s on top of the flights to get from the UK to Boise in the first place. It was quickly decided not to bother. Yeah, my neighbours did the full Disney/universal experience a few years ago, were in Florida for 3 weeks in an Air B&B villa. About £15k for them and the 3 kids.
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Post by dasbooter on Aug 24, 2022 7:34:35 GMT
Don’t forget to factor in the car park if you’re driving in from a far away hotel, that’s about a hundred bucks per day I remember it being $25 a day at Disneyworld in 2018
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Post by pierrepressure on Aug 24, 2022 11:19:44 GMT
Yeah same here, has it really jumped up by that much??
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