Ashling Hotel

... AGAIN!”.  This is a summary of what we were told. And it explains the photo of me standing outside the hotel with a thumbs down. Echalotte and I were pretty much incredibly disappointed and agreed to write to lonely planet to tell them a small ...

... in tow they land in Manila airport. They have just fallen from the great heights. A pretty faced Phillipino woman stands behind Ashling the queue for passport control, excited, every minute is too long because it adds to the four years it has been since ...

We arrived in Dublin just after midday and had an interesting taxi trip to our hotel the Ashling. We have a day in Dublin tomorrow where we plan on doing a couple of walking tours before leaving on Monday for our tour on South West Ireland.   ...

... lauren, TOP SHOP, BOOTS?! MARKS AND SPENCERS???! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? Hmmm... this place wreaked of retail excess....we pull into the hotel about 15mins after winding through all sorts of crazy back streets...pretty plush. 100,000 for me to be added to ...

... is a 3,000 Euro fine! Guinness Brewery - Note that it is wrapped around an ancient church on the right hand side. Our hotel was almost across the street from a major transportation center where the Metro, all the City and National bus lines, the ...

... I met in Ho Chi Minh) and I had planned to meet at 8pm at a pretty obvious t-junction. It didn't take long to find Ruby Hotel from the bus station, Bill and Jess decided to jump on my hostelworld booking and in the end we got a room with 2 double beds ...

... that I am it came up green and I fobbed off offers of taxi's at 40 euros having been told "20 y no mas!" by my hotel contact. 2 seconds later i am sorted with Humberto. traffic here is pretty rammed and honking your tonk is how it moves...many a mini ...

... from Abu Dhabi to Dublin. We arrived in Dublin at 2:15pm and managed to locate both the public transport network and our hotel with minimal difficuly. Went for a wander through the streets of Dublin to the Temple Bar district (the Hastings street of ...

... and thus the hat seemed like the perfect apparel for my upcoming safari. Dusk had arrived and it was time to check into the Laico Hotel so off we went and said goodnight to Jimmy. We showered and I decided to have a go at my aloe vera vicks vapo rub for ...

... on us anymore, we had no alarm clock to make sure we were up in time for our 8.45am exit from the hotel. But surprisingly at 7.00am both ashling and I were lying in bed awake and ready to start our day. As Ashling lay in bed, a few repeated bangs of ...

... (they are amazing!). During the time it took to load up the photos (I will grant it took a while over a GPRS connection), Ashling paraded around the hostel in no less than 3 outfits before settling into her ensemble for the afternoon. We decided to ...

... we tried to hang back until the crowd had cleared but we were conscious we were really late for our dive course introduction.  Ashling and Paula managed to find my bag but somehow Lois' had ended up out on the deck.  I guess someone realised it ...

... time quickly arranging to meet in the Plaza de Armas to ring in the New Year. My induction was essentially a very concerned Ashling asking for assurance that she is appropriately equipped. This guy is super chilled, todo bien, todo bien, and ends ...

... do Kubah and leave one day free in case the red raffelesia showed up. So this waterfront is esentially something run-starved Ashling cannot resist. She ate some food at one of the many stalls along the waterfront (be warned: just because you buy a little ...

... out of the two mini glass champagne flutes I picked up at Blokker. We headed to the privium lounge…where a few "a la Ashling" mishaps occurred: failing to land ass on suspended seat whilst trying to pick up Choufleur’s second call and landing ...

... Ray was my boyfriend (or rather, whether I was his. full stop).  WHen we answered no, and no we weren't in the same hotel, they laughed and said "ah tonight, tonight one bedroom". Ray piped up "it'll take a few more of these". This was the point at ...

... food but it's not really my thing. I was, however, all over the 4000 shilling lumps of grilled lobster. I pitstopped back at my hotel and Judi was back (errr, from hospital, having had a rebound of malaria... 10 mins later she was having all my stuff in ...

... But...I had my mind fixed on my hotel, hot shower, hot LONG shower and feelign like a woman again. haha! No hot water in the hotel which means the tepid shower in the Andes was a step up to my hotel in the big little lights, right? Anyhoo, no rest for ...

... the idea of good coffee cannot be expressed. Pip was most amused as I  yelped "I have my loyalty card back at the hotel!'.   I resisted, saving it for another day and we instead scoured a   dvd place and Pip walked out with ...

... you argue with a meter? It shouldn't cost more than 8 bucks, about 120,000....Pff, I was too tired, I got to my hotel hoping the extravagance of a double bed and ensuite bathroom would cheer me up. oooooooooooooooooh it did. mini bar to keep my water ...