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Leicester Slideshow
Top Hotels in Leicester
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Holiday Inn Leicester
187 reviews -
Holiday Inn Express Leicester Walkers Stadium
71 reviews
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Mercure Leicester
30 reviews
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Days Inn Leicester Forest East
31 reviews
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Campanile Leicester
55 reviews
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Sky Plaza Leicester
142 reviews -
BEST WESTERN Leicester Stage Hotel
76 reviews
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Premier Inn Leicester Central (A50)
54 reviews -
The Belmont Hotel Leicester
171 reviews -
Ibis Leicester
130 reviews
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Premier Inn Leicester (Braunstone South)
71 reviews
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Brook Westfield House Hotel Leicester
53 reviews -
Quality City Westbridge Wharf Leicester
10 reviews
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Premier Inn Leicester City Centre
126 reviews
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Travelodge Lutterworth Leicester
18 reviews
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Spindle Lodge Hotel Leicester
11 reviews
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Westbridge Wharf Apartments Leicester
2 reviews
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Premier Inn Leicester North West
48 reviews
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Premier Inn Leicester (Braunstone)
30 reviews
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Etap Hotel Leicester
121 reviews
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Fieldhead Hotel Leicester
93 reviews
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Travelodge Leicester Markfield
30 reviews
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Mill on the Soar Leicester
35 reviews
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Premier Inn Leicester (Forest East)
27 reviews
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Comfort Nights Hotel Leicester
7 reviews
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Stoneycroft Hotel Leicester
58 reviews -
Badgers Mount Leicester
8 reviews
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The Charnwood Hotel Leicester
1 review -
Ramada Hotel Loughborough Leicester
83 reviews
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Premier Inn Leicester South (Oadby)
66 reviews
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Best Western Sketchley Grange Leicester
170 reviews
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Croft Hotel Leicester
10 reviews
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Travelodge Leicester Hinckley Road
15 reviews
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Stakis Leicester
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The Bradgate Hotel Leicester
8 reviews
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Glenfield Lodge Hotel Leicester
4 reviews
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Holiday Inn Leicester-West
1 review
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Mitchell Hotel Leicester
5 reviews
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Hotel Maiyango Leicester
88 reviews
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Castle Park Hotel Leicester
37 reviews
Leicester
Travel Blogs from Leicester, United Kingdom
Only 4 days to go
At the time I'm writing this entry we have only 4 days to go. I just found out today that the rest of the guys are flying to Buenos Aires and then getting a ferry to Montevideo while I'm going straight there. It seems like I need to get an accomodation ...
5 days to go/Noch 5 Tage
Hey everyone/Hallo zusammen We have five days to go before the adventure begins and we are busy packing and preparing. We are both a little nervous but extremely excited and ready to go. Also looking forward to some sun as it is freezing here!! we are ...
Wedding Week in Leicestershire!
... dinner, and we all get along like a house on fire - which is great considering our family is split between Australia, Gloucester, Newcastle, and Leicester. It was great to see how easy we all fall right back into things. We may not speak or see each other ...
day 3, a different route
welcome to day 3, todays trip to work was the best so far, not only did i manage to complete martins snook challenge, but i also saw an old lady with an orange perm, honestly her head looked just like an orange!, that must be the best hair ive ever ...
Its all Over
Home safe and sound! It was fun whilst it lasted. Touched down and developed man-flu !!! ...
Trip Preparation
After returning from Peru it was decided that we would visit China, however due to one thing or another the plan to go there got delayed. So in the year that the Olympics arrived in London after having been in Beijing, we had planned to head off to ...
Come back and further preps
Back to the reality for a change and time to do some work eventually. There's still a lot to do for the trip though and plenty of money to be spent. The list of essential purchases includes: Tyre levers and tyre repair kit Tank bag Fleece, ...
The adventure starts here!
Well, OK it has not started yet, but this will be day 1 of what we hope will be an amazing 3 months which will see us go around thw world TWICE!!!! We cannot ...
No wonder they f%$king left!
He says: Hi all, just a quicky to say we made it to old blighty safe and sound after another marathon couple of flights (transited through Zurich, incredible airport!). For anyone that's interested Swiss Air is great, comfortable seats, huge ...
Leaving tomorrow!
Well the bag isn't packed, but I know what I'm taking and all I need to do is to work out how to squeeze it all into a 35 litre rucksack. Impossible? Well, I hope not - there's always the daypack for the overflow. It's hard to believe that tomorrow ...
Looking back- Reflections on travelling
So, a year on from our journey, what do we look back on the most? What would we do again, what would we avoid, what was the most unexpected thing we experienced while travelling? Well I guess the first surprise was how popular this blog has ...
10 Reasons to Live and 1 reason to go to Leicester
... the lead singer Paul, the bass guitarist Next day, after a gorgeous POWER shower, we both got up early and did some more shopping. Bargain bought a pair of blue suede heels for £35. Oh Leicester - there really isn't much to be said ...
Goodbyes...
Hannah: One of the exciting things about travelling is meeting new people, and that's something I'm really looking forward to. But I'm sad to be saying goodbye, albeit temporarily, to my friends and family. It all became a bit more 'real' the other day ...
Summer School - Leicester Part 1
... with 'explosives' were rendered safe prior to there detonation in London. However on the Saturday evening we arrived at Leicester University a third such ‘explosive’ laden vehicle exploded in Glasgow. Whilst sitting in a rather crammed and ...
Summer School - Leicester Part 2
... ; I threaten. ……………. Stares of disbelief. Then, ‘sorry mate’, was uttered in a broad Leicester accent. ‘oooops!’ I thought. ‘Not you’ I bellowed, ‘the Italian kids’. I ...
...Go...1st Stop, England...
Early morning flight to visit with Siobhan's family for a farewell before our journey. We met with the family and had dinner with some friends. The weekend went by quickly as we were trying to say goodbye and buy our last minute supplies for the ...
A miserable day
Today I have been nowhere that isn't Leicester for a couple of weeks now. And I am miserable. Last night I went to my friend Angela's new house in Leicester via a new way through the town centre. This enabled me to find a new seedy side of the city ...
The Christmas Message
... planning courses etc. A new challenge for a new year. Gemma has been working as a temp in the HR department of Leicester University for the last couple of months and has thoroughly enjoyed it but this week started a full time graduate scheme with a ...
going to work, again
Hello again, Firstly i need to mention yesterday's trip home, i must admit it was not the best in the world, as i had just had a root canal, and so i felt like i'd been kicked in the face, i cant even remember wich security guard let me out, they must ...
Trevor gets his Degree
... pig in mud) roving reporter trevor, have i got some news for you and its so exciting the UK does have SUN I found it in Leicester whoo hoo and boy did i give it a tonuge lashing it then promptly went and hid behind some clouds, sheesh fickle things these ...
monday 18/05/09, trip to work
Well here we go, my first going to work blog, To be honest i forgot all about this untill i got to work, so the much awaited horse update will have to wait untill later, let's just say they are all ok and eating grass as per usual. traffic was down ...
81,778 km later!
Well here we are, back at home! As Gemma wrote at the end of the last entry, I was looking out of the window at LA airport like a lost puppy. Not really sad to be coming home but sad that the adventure had come to an end. And it was an ...
Not Long Now
OK, so when we first came up with the idea to do this trip back at the beginning of january we had no previous experience of traveling proper. Apart from the usual boring hotel booked from the travel agents that looks the same as any other ...
Back to reality
So... back to reality... I have arrived safely and instantly got immersed in a totally different, fast pace of English life. Visit to Oxford on Saturday, climbing in Birmingham on Sunday, work and climbing during the week. I haven't yet got used to the ...
Preparations
... so it could be put onto a freight ship going to Montevideo, Urugway. The bike was just collected from the best motorcycle garage around Leicester - Bike Tec . These guys did such a great job on my machine that it now runs better than brand new BMWs ...
Back home
So this really is it (except for filling in those entries I never finished. My flight was boring and long but happily uneventful and touched down at Heathrow at 11:50am. 40 minutes later we got off the plane, having been in a queue for a parking space ...
Final leg of visits before we leave
Last couple of days before were off round the world. Stopping off at home to see friends and family. Early start on Sunday morning to get going to the airport. Next entry ...
Life in Leicester
... to go in about 20 minutes, the architecture is really nice, they are literally up to their necks in castle like structures. Leicester is also very diverse, their are loads of immigrants for the middle east, India, and northern Africa. When I walk ...