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New to Infotel..................................................................................4 Sta! Picks.........................................................................................5 Featured Group (Beales Hotel Group)..........................................6 Featured Group (Vision Hotels) ...................................................7 Special O!ers....................................................................................8 Featured Properties .....................................................................10 What our Clients Say......................................................................21 The Big Interview............................................................................22
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Beales Hotels is a long established independent hotel company that goes back to 1769. Currently with the two highest rated 4 star hotels in the area to the north of London, with both hotels being the recipient of 80% quality ratings and 2 rosettes each from the AA. Their number one strength is their team, with decades of experience of hotels, catering, functions and projects among the 200+ sta! that make up Beales Hotels.
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West Lodge Park Hotel
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Friendly, a!ordable and accessible At Vision Hotels, they have a unique proposition and it all centres around people, community and providing choice in abundance. Having a great holiday means di!erent things to di!erent people, so the Vision Hotels experience can range from a winter break whiling the hours away relaxing by the "re or a summer holiday trekking in the mountains. The choice is yours.
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Netherstowe House Hotel & Apartments Netherstowe House, Netherstowe Lane, Lichfield, Staffordshire
Dinner Bed & Breakfast for ÂŁ170 for 2 people!
The Manor Hotel 7-9 Manor Court Road, Abbey Green, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Great rates! Rooms starting from ÂŁ35
Rendezvous Hotel Keighley Road, Skipton, North Yorkshire
Dinner, Bed & Breakfast. Discounted rate Offer available from: 03 Jun 2013 to 30 Nov 2013
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Kimberley Hotel 11-19 Kings Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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Featured Accommodation
Manor House Huxley Close, Godalming, Surrey
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Located just outside Godalming town centre, and only six miles from the county town of Guildford, The Manor House is an independently owned conference centre with excellent hotel facilities. They blend the traditions of hospitality and friendliness with "rst class facilities to ensure a comfortable stay. “Excellent room, superb view, large The Manor House o!ers an imaginative clean bathroom. Wonderful building.” menu, created to re#ect the fresh, local 8.1 produce available from our suppliers. Finish your meal with freshly brewed co!ee ee and hand made petit fours. Complementary wines can be selected from a carefully chosen list. $
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Featured Accommodation
Pendley Manor Cow Lane, Tring, Hertfordshire
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“The location was great, easy to get to and not too far from London a great chance to relax. It's a beautiful manor and would stay again.�
Pendley Manor prides itself on o!ering guests the very warmest welcome, beautiful surroundings and highest standards of service. This grade II listed Hertfordshire hotel is set in 35 acres of beautifully landscaped and wooded parkland close to the picturesque Hertfordshire town of Tring. The hotel is little more than an hour from Central London, very close to the M1 and M25 motorways.
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Featured Accommodation
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Best Western Valley Hotel Ironbridge, Telford
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BEST WESTERN Valley Hotel is situated in the heart of Ironbridge, providing a perfect base for visiting the Ironbridge Gorge Museums. With a Riverside setting and breathtaking views of the surrounding parkland, this charming 44 bedroom Georgian listed building, is the perfect choice for your stay.
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Canal Court Hotel Merchants Quay, Newry, Co. Down
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“Everything was a lovely. Would recommend it to people to visit.”
A 4* Hotel & Spa o!ering the highest standard of quality, service and comfort. Excellent restaurant and bar as well as "rst class leisure and superb business and conference facilities. Ideal for both business & pleasure. The Hotels Granary Bar on the ground #oor is the ideal location for a drink after work, or the place to meet with friends at the weekend.
Special midweek package for "Leisure Magazine" Readers Overnight Accommodation with Full Irish & Continental Breakfast, Full Use of the Health & Leisure Complex & New Rooftop Hot Tub, £85 per couple. Enjoy a Complimentary Bottle of House Red or White Wine when you dine in the Old Mill Restaurant & 20% discount on CC Spa Brochure Treatments.
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Browns Hotel King Street, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire
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Browns Hotel, Laugharne is one of the great literary addresses. Dylan Thomas put the township on the global map through Under Milk Wood and the years he spent living and writing$here, and Browns is the watering hole most closely associated with him.
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“The friendly sta sta!, open area at the rear of hotel, which we used quite a bit in this lovely weather, mix of styles in bedroom.”
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Featured Accommodation
Monk Fryston Hall Hotel Main Street, Monk Fryston, Leeds, North Yorkshire
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A Stately and picturesque mansion situated in the Vale of York. Dating back to the 1500's the hall and the grounds evoke a colourful history. A grand hotel o!ering all guests charm and tranquillity whilst maintaining high standards.
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Featured Accommodation
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Abodes of Oxford 6 Blackman Close, Kennington, Oxford, Oxfordshire
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We take pride in building a professional yet friendly relationship with all our hosts and in personally knowing the accommodation they provide. Whether it is an informal family home ideal for the longer term, or rooms o!ered ered purely on a bed and breakfast basis for the more
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“The host family was really friendly and helpfull to organize my stay. The breakfast was just wonderful. Situation is peacefull and easy to reach.”
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Featured Accommodation
Acityabode @ Century Wharf Cardi! Century Wharf, Cardi!, South Glamorgan
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Acityabode are pleased to o!er these luxury, high quality serviced apartments in the prestigious Century Wharf development. Century Wharf is conveniently situated in Cardi! ! Bay – only a 5 minute walk to the bars and restaurants of Mermaid Quay Proximity to the wharf was a plus. Gated and the Wales Millennium Centre or a community. A full apartment is great when 9.6 10-15 minute walk in to Cardi! City traveling with older children as a hotel room gets small real fast.
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Featured Accommodation
Acityabode @ Bristol Horizon Cabot Circus Broad Weir, Bristol, Gloucestershire
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The Acityabode Serviced Apartments o!er a home away from home in the heart of Bristol’s new and vibrant Cabot Circus. There is a huge range of shops, bars and restaurants literally on your door step. Wi-Fi is complimentary for guests staying 4 nights or more. With a stylish but neutral décor, each apartment o!ers a spacious living space and a modern "tted kitchen with a dining area. All apartments have a 32inch #at-screen TV with a DVD player, and a modern bathroom "tted with power shower and designer tiles. The Horizon Apartments are located next door to the famous Harvey Nichols store. Bristol’s main bus and train stations are less than 1 mile away, as are all the main road and motorway links for easy and accessible car travel.
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Featured Accommodation
Netherstowe House Hotel & Apartments Netherstowe House Netherstowe Lane, Lich"eld, Sta!ordshire
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Dinner, bed and breakfast Starting from ÂŁ170.00
From its exquisite afternoon tea through to its Fine Dining Restaurant, Netherstowe House makes every visitor experience a very unique occasion.
Now, enjoying an
overnight break at the award-winning hotel and restaurant in Lich"eld, Sta!ordshire is easier and even more a!ordable with the latest dinner, bed and breakfast special o!er.
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Netherstowe House Hotel & Apartments
At a new "xed rate, this overnight package means you don't need a particular reason to indulge in the highest quality food and excellent service that sees every guest treated as a VIP.
Starting at just £170 per room, the o!er includes sumptuous
evening dinner, fresh and "lling English breakfast and charming double accommodation in one of Netherstowe House's individually designed boutique bedrooms.
Alternatively, courtyard apartments are also available as part of the
package. These breaks would also make the ideal gift for family or friends who deserve a relaxing treat in the tranquil surroundings of this period mansion house.
9.2 Just over a mile from Lich"eld eld city centre,
“Sta are attentive and well trained. The hotel “Sta! is spotless and well maintained. Breakfast is normally served later on a Saturday, but as I had to leave earlier ensured that we could still have a full breakfast.”
Netherstowe House is a small, family owned and operated hotel that strives to be the best, with a friendly, personal touch. The family and team are very proud to have been voted 'Restaurant of the Year' at the most recent Taste of Sta!ordshire Good Food Awards and remains the only establishment in Sta!ordshire to be recommended by The Good Hotel Guide.
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Name - Jackie Dickson Works for - Infotel (16 years) Job Title - Sales Executive Job description - My job involves telephoning hotels and discussing our service with them, to see if we can work with their hotels for accommodation bookings.
Jackie Dickson What is the best piece of career advice you have been given? A very wise man once said “You can only eat a bit of the elephant at a time”. What is the funniest moment you’ve ever witnessed? This was quite alarming at the time and funny afterwards. It has to be the day Davy - one of the founding directors that sadly passed away - stood on a table to talk to everyone in the office, and there was a fan spinning round about half an inch above his head.
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The big
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When did Infotel come into your life? It came into my life via my Colleague Babs Smith who telephoned me one day to say they needed sales people at Infotel. So along I came for an interview and 16 years later still here. What does Infotel mean to you? Infotel means a lot after being here for 16 years it is like having an extended family.
What is your favourite holiday destination and why? Las Vegas without a doubt, the hotels and everything about it is amazing.
What achievements are you most proud of? My sons both have grown up to be lovely people in their own right. One of which works and lives in Hong Kong so only get to see him once a year, the other works in Lincoln and see him a lot with my Granddaughter Millie and soon to be step granddaughter Ferne. You have to spend £1 million in 24 hours, what would you buy? House, Car, Clothes, Holiday, Houses for my sons, Money to my family and Special Friends.
What is your guilty pleasure? Brandy & Baileys, all in one glass ... yummy, oh and a Galaxy Bar.
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