{"id":133,"date":"2007-08-16T23:12:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T13:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=133"},"modified":"2007-08-16T23:12:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T13:12:30","slug":"our-accommodation-in-chester-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/britain-ireland\/our-accommodation-in-chester-england","title":{"rendered":"Our accommodation in Chester &#8211; England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>DAY 7 &#8211; After the Lake District, we travelled south to Chester and our hotel for the night was the Holiday Inn.\u00a0 Tony and I are scarred from our stay at this hotel due to the instant coffee they served in the hotel restaurant.\u00a0 Tony can smell instant coffee a <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/8231-2\/GB_0388.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Chester Rows\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Chester Rows\" \/>mile away and when he complained to the restaurant manager, she was rather taken aback.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the fuss with instant coffee, that&#8217;s what they use in this hotel!!<\/p>\n<p>I must say that the buffet dinner that we had was just as appalling as the instant coffee &#8211; trays of boiled carrots, boiled peas, boiled cauliflower&#8230;just the kind of &#8216;food&#8217; that caused people to flee the empire in the old days!\u00a0 I must say that the restaurant staff were not particularly friendly either.\u00a0 So who can blame them if they have to constantly field complaints about the food and beverage in the place.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/8249-2\/GB_0403.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"City Walls of Chester\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"City Walls of Chester\" \/>Just to be sure that I wasn&#8217;t being unduly unfair due to our distaste of instant coffee, I checked up the hotel reviews in Trip Advisor and was amazed at the number of really bad feedbacks.\u00a0 It is such a shame that one&#8217;s initial and ongoing impression of this beautiful city should be tainted by this hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Holiday Inn aside, Chester is a\u00a0great place to visit\u00a0 and it\u00a0steps you\u00a0back into Roman times.\u00a0 We saw the city\u2019s ancient encircling walls and its remarkable 13th century black and white galleried \u2018Rows\u2019, which are now shopping arcades.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAY 7 &#8211; After the Lake District, we travelled south to Chester and our hotel for the night was the Holiday Inn.\u00a0 Tony and I are scarred from our stay at this hotel due to the instant coffee they served in the hotel restaurant.\u00a0 Tony can smell instant coffee a mile away and when he [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain-ireland","category-england"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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