2025.10 UK & More – Hilton Garden Inn Silverstone

We needed a place to stay near her relatives after the wedding.  Most of them live in and around Milton Keynes.  Know what is relatively close to Milton Keynes?  The Silverstone racetrack!  And guess what’s on the grounds?  Yup.  A hotel.

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2025.10 UK & More – Best Western Abbots Canterbury

After a quick overnight near London Heathrow our first stop was Canterbury and Dover.  In Dover we wanted to explore the iconic castle watching over the Channel, and in Canterbury, the historic cathedral home to the Church of England.  Our home for three nights was in Canterbury at the Best Western Abbots.

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2024.01 Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Grand Cayman (Part 2)

I booked this hotel on the basis that it was close to the port and was a reasonable rate. The hotel was maybe 10 minutes from the airport, if you included the traffic jam to get past and around the traffic for all the other terminals at Fort Lauderdale airport.

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2023.10 Edinburgh and London (Part 7)

There are so many hotels in London, selecting one could be an overwhelming experience.  Our choice was the combination of; a central location, and a Hilton property, because we could use Hilton’s loyalty benefit of staying five nights and using the point cost of four nights.  Without needing an indoor pool, and wanting to be close to an underground station, I selected the Conrad London St. James.

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