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The best romantic hotels near gatwick
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Whether you buying city centre retreat or a countryside escape, you might find oodles of romantic rooms on offer.
Roses and chocolates are all fine and dandy, But they can take on roll top baths, Jacuzzis, And luxurious theme. These hotels offer the best in good old fashioned romance.
With a selection from Manchester city centre and a handful under two hour drive away, There plenty of scope to make this Valentine Day one to reconsider.
These are the most useful romantic hotels near Manchester.
manchester City Centre Hotel Gotham, King road
luton newest five star hotel, hotel and resort Gotham, has become a favourite among the city VIP crowd since opening in April 2015. The venue is an expert in recommending fun and fruity overnight stays; Their minibar even includes a kit Club rooms are upwards of 155 to a Directors Suite for around 205 or you will completely push the boat out and get a Bank Manager suite with a roll top bath and emperor size bed yours from about 355.
Based in the neighborhood centre, You well placed to explore the nearby bars and eateries, But a visit to the wonderful in house restaurant Refuge run by the team behind neighbourhood bistro Volta would be just as rewarding.
Standard rooms are refined and stylish, And prices begin with around 120 per night, Or splash out on a superior suite what i needed 163 per night. Take in the views of the city as you take a dip in the infinity pool, Or enjoy a drink on the cosy patio.
Its quirky decor makes for a perfect valentines retreat, And the luxe JS suite encompasses a super kingsize bed, Free standing bath with a view over the neighborhood, And a romantic and cosy lounge area from around 372 per chnlove.com night.
Book a room in the luxurious Midland Hotel and add on a Rasul rehab (50 for 60 mins for two the public) With the undercover spa below, Where mineral muds and steam combine for a relaxing and refreshing body treatment.
One night spa breaks with dessert, foundation, Breakfast and a 60 minute treatment begin as 150 per person.
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To Amy: for the joy of Petra Kvitova making the Miami Final 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcjWd-O4jI
Thanks Elizabeth! What a great night it turned out to be with both Petra and Jannik winning!๐๐
I saved that Miami final on DVR. It is unrealistic to think she will make a habit of winning titles this year, but I would love to see her win another Wimbledon.
Moving Back to Portland has become a reality! It will take all the energy I have, but I refuse to live out life in Idaho.
I don’t have any family but many lifetime friends in Portland. Wish me luck! ๐
If I disappear now and then, it’s because I’m temporarily unable to post.
That’s fantastic Elizabeth!!๐๐
Really honestly you have to get out of Idaho which is full of armed far right lunatics and Trumpers! ( obviously these 2 groups intersect) I couldn’t bear living there.
Wish you tons of luck!!๐
I would love for Petra to win wimby but I can’t get worked up about it like I did in the past. Just too much heartbreak investing in Petra…
I really am very pleased for you Elizabeth!! I did say way back when I thought it was a good idea to get out of Idaho….
Fingers crossed…๐
Amy: Dominic Raab, the psychopathic bully, resigns! What a day to be alive!
One psychopathic bully down Margot but so many left!
Please let Braverman be next! She is a bona fide fascist!
I agree it’s a very good day because of the miserable jerk going…๐
Braverman is evil ๐
Amy: Got your bunting/flags/quiche/curtsey ready? Ready to swear an oath of loyalty to Big Ears and Randy Pandy?
#feelingsick
I’m in full on vomit mode Margot!๐
This is so ridiculous it will alienate people further away from monarchy I hope.
Meanwhile in another glorious first for the first time ever, for absolutely no reason, I wasn’t sent my voting card so have been disenfranchised.
Orban’s Hungary and the GOP ‘s America are just around the corner with the assault on voting rights…๐
You don’t need a polling card, you just need to be on the electoral register, which they’ll have at your local polling station. So you can just zip down there with ID and vote the horrors out!
Have just been reading about people turned away from the polls even though they brought photo id…Many turned away who don’t have it…
Sickening…
Hey Ricky,
I just wrote a post to Margot and amy. It disappeared. I won’t write another one. If you have it feel free to post it. I may have forgotten to add my name and email.
Another message disappeared.
It is mysterious or straightforward.
I swear I had put my name and email on them.
testing…
Now I can’t remember the topic. I was emotional, just as well they went to heaven.
It’s good news that the jury found Trump guilty of sexual abuse and defamation.
He is going to have to pay!
But his admirers are oblivious, and they would vote for him anyway.
For now, I am happy. It’s a brief feeling.
Mira Andi/Farah Diba, I checked what time it is in your part of this blue planet. You are happy and doing well, I hope. I also hope you continue to chat here, and, of course, we get to see you in the TDF most weeks. I miss you, and you still are on my mind!
I broke my toes, yes, all but the smallest toe. That was last week, and now I wear a boot so I don’t scream in pain when I need to put weight on my foot and go to the store and do what I do. I am unsure how long I’ll need this boot, maybe a month. Thank gosh, I didn’t hurt anything else! I feel lucky ๐
I made a playlist today, and if I can, I will post a link later. ๐๐
Hey hey hey RC!…long time no chat!๐..it’s gud to hear from u RC!..
Sorry bout yor toes RC!..it must be hard to walk for the next few weeks..hope u will be patient & strong with this unfortunate accident k?
Hey!..u’re kicking us all in ATP so far!..hahaha!..and u’re also awesome in TDC in general too!..new year new resolution huh?..i donno what u eat RC..but u kicking butt almost every week!..hehe๐
Ohh..miss u too RC!..how time flies!
*Waves to AM* Good to “see” you girl!:) x
Hey hey hey M!…gud to ‘c’ u too!๐๐..hope u’re ok & happy with yor clarissa!wherever u both r!
It’s terrible, and I can’t do much without help. Thank God, it’s my left foot; at least I can drive my car. I need crutches, though, and I only have ski poles.
I have my check-up this coming Monday; waiting feels like forever.
Poor you! I broke a bone in my ankle a few years ago and had to wear a moon boot for weeks. Plus a crutch and I did learn to walk very quickly. People used to get out of my way, sharpish. Excellent.
As Amy will tellyou, we have the most awful bunch of racist criminals in charge here and no election till 2024. Dreadful times.
The heat is suddenly hot here, which doesn’t help. The weather was great until this week, but suddenly it jumped from the low 60s F to the mid-90s and it doesn’t cool off like it used to at night.
Margot, I can’t even think about what’s going on in politics. NNY would chastise me for giving up, but criminals are running the country. Bernie Sanders is backing Biden, and he was my last hope. There is no representation for me in Idaho. And the move to Oregon is just too expensive right now.
That was such a sweet win for Anhelina Kalinina. Last night, she was the underdog of all the Semifinalists, and I did not expect her to win over Kudermetova.
But I have to miss Rybakina and Ostapenko. My foot is due for a check-up.
Just as well that troll who hates me will have to talk to himself.
I reckon the anon that hates me is Hawkeye. He is hiding among the many guests and anons. But his writing is distinct. Hawkeye, if I am wrong, please let it all out; I have been a cowardly anon, yes, and an opportunist, as are you; of all the things you hate most, I believe it is that I’m an American. I’m sorry for being an asshole, I am known to be one, but I try to be honest and do no harm, especially now, at this time.
Please communicate with me here. I noticed with amy and Margot you are happy, but it seems I annoy you most, along with another female poster I won’t mention.
Hope to hear from you. We used to be more than civil to each other, and you used to make me laugh, and that’s rare.
Anon is not hawkeye Elizabeth!!
Please! he wouldn’t write that kind of stuff. And if he was going to attack someone it wouldn’t be you.
There was a poster called Curious George who came on here during RG last year who wrote some rude stuff who I thought was hawkeye but it wasn’t to you. The reason I thought it was hawkeye is because nny wrote to him ” cut the crap!” and he replied ” cut the cake! ” and immediately linked it to a song of the same name.
Now that is so idiosyncratic to hawkeye I was sure it was him.The witty retort and the linking to online music. He always did that!
Really honestly it isn’t him!!! You are way off base. He posts on tennis x under a moniker but I am sure it is him.won’t say what the name is.
The rude remarks were to me and nny btw…!!
Please will you stop this paranoia about hawkeye Elizabeth!
I remember you thought he had left an astonishingly rude comment to you before calling you a four letter word. No he wouldn’t do that! And if he was going to attack someone it wouldn’t be you. Much more likely to be more or nny. He never liked me very much.
Hawkeye was a very witty poster, I seem to remember, not rude at all.
I like to link to music. I almost came right back with “Being Boring” by the Pet Shop Boys. I want Hawk-eye to come back.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=7RUCFQ0xHZw
Okay, I will try not to think anons are Hawk-eye. Sorry, amy.
So are you saying you’re an “anon?” But why? And so annoying for the rest of us, especially that stupid echo chamber nonsense.
If you aren’t, just ignore this post.
You thought I did that?
Sorry Margpt, I am not an anon.
I can’t ignore your posts; you are one person I look up to.
It’s 5 am here, and I am up because I am going to the hospital ER.
But I wanted to take down my WTA brackets; I don’t have time to finish them.
Oh, brother, Wog Boy also assumes a lot about me.
Self-importance is not my problem; the opposite fits.
Amy seems good at explaining me to myself and others, but not quite.
For Wogboy
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gfWpnouRHpo
Well, you did write, “I have been a cowardly anon, yes…” so?
Me or nny I meant..!
Who I was thinking about was Nny.
Over There, do you mean Zed? There was a Wog-Boy sidekick that hated the hell out of me!
I don’t feel too well today. It is my crushed left foot toes, and my AC isn’t working, and the temperature will be 90F and worse this week. I am not prepared.
Sorry you feel ill Elizabeth!
Try and switch off from negative thinking. When I feel unwell I always have very negative thoughts which distort reality.
Sorry about your foot! You need to be as nice to yourself as possible if you are in pain.
But really honestly I can categorically reassure you that it is not Hawkeye trolling you. You were always one of his favourites.
It’s just anon. He has been ranting and raving about America for 18 months. He attacks Ricky constantly as,well for being American. Do you honestly think Hawkeye would come here to troll Ricky?!!๐
Hawkeye isn’t anti American anyway. Just anti Trump and the fascist elements of the GOP.
No Elizabeth it’s not Zed!!
I can’t out Hawkeye here because tennis Xers read here.
โOver There, do you mean Zed? There was a Wog-Boy sidekick that hated the hell out of me!โ
Do you really believe that you are that important either here or on TX so the people are after you, you are delusional or on somethingโฆor both?! Donโt give yourself such importance, thatโs worrying sign!
Zed, who I had privilege to meat and share (quite a) few beers with this January in Melbourne during AO cannot be my side kick nor I can be his and we are not interested in your existence unless you address us as you did now.
Zed is an Melburnian (Australian) academic, very smart, well educated, eloquent and well spoken, the only problem for you (woke leftist) is that he is conservative who thinks and acts differently from you, woke leftist people, and beats you in any conversation with arguments.
It is meet, not meat.
The Democrats have a Majority in the Senate. But the Republicans are a majority in the House. Speaker of the House, Republican Kevin McCarthy, is a Trump buddy. I don’t hold my breath; I cry; seriously, the man has no humanity. He is terrible. His way of fixing the deficit is cutting Social Security, and he doesn’t care about the lower classes; he is for the 1%. Trickle-down economics/Reaganomics is his solution. Senior citizens are unnecessary, especially those who didn’t plan for retirement. Cut all social programs and let them die. And about Ukraine? Why are we helping? Thank God he is in the minority on that!
Hi Elizabeth, hope your health issues are improving.
We’ve got a set of hard right wing horrors here, with an 80 seat majority in the HOC. However, their popularity is falling away, as people realise BREXIT was a lie and a disaster.
As for Ukraine, in the end you have to, “Jaw, jaw, not war, war” as Churchill said.
It’s improving. Thanks, Margot.
I will still be in the boot for at least six more weeks and counting.
What did Churchill mean by that?
Evangelical Christians are standing by their darling Trump. Gosh, almighty, can’t they detect that he is a liar by now?
Hi Elizabeth, good you are improving.
“Jaw” is slang for talk. All conflicts end in one of two ways. Either one side gets pulverised into the ground and surrenders, or both sides reach a stalemate where they can’t go on and must start to negotiate, or “jaw.” I can’t see either side winning, I think at some point saturation/stalemate will be reached, hopefully before Ukraine becomes a pile of ashes, or there’s a nuclear war. Russia will never surrender or give up the dombas, I wouldn’t have thought. The West/China can’t supply weapons for ever, their ecomomies wont allow it. A settlement is, at some point inevitable, the sooner the better.
Women, children, the old, these are the casualties of war.
Why do you keep talking about ” the West ” arming Ukraine? The countries who have pushed to arm Ukraine right from the beginning are almost entirely from the East, the Baltic s and Scandinavia. The West has largely been dragged kicking and screaming to arm Ukraine with endless red lines. If they had given the weapons to Ukraine which they asked for they would already have defeated RUssia.
If you look at arms as a percentage of GDP the West is way down the list. Estonia has given the most with other countries such as Poland and Finland and recently Denmark giving large amounts. These are the countries bordering Ukraine which Russia threatens constantly with invasion and subjugation.
If Russia gets a chunk of Ukraine it will use that territory to take the whole of it. Everyone knows that. Then they will move into other countries and the situation will become mindbogglingly dangerous.
Opinion polls in Ukraine show constantly that Ukraine wants to fight. It’s not for the West to deny it its identity and agency but to support it in a just war of defence against an imperialist revanchist fascist enemy.
Zelensky can’t, in any case, give territory to Russia because he knows what Will happen if he does. It will mean more Bucha, more rape, torture, murder, eradication of culture and language and the endless kidnap and deportation of children to Russia which isvone of its central aims.
If Ukraine gave up territory in the South it wouldn’t be able to access the sea to export grain so its economy would be crippled and the global food market would be controlled by Putin with horrific consequences. Putin also wants to use access to sea routes to speed up global warming.
It’s up to Ukraine to make its own decisions and it’s absolutely clear what they want ie arms. In Europe the balance of power has moved East to East and central Europe who stand 100% with Ukraine.
Making decisions on behalf of other countries or calling them puppets of Ametica/ NATO whatever is classic imperialist and colonial thinking where the country itself, and its people are denied subjectivity and agency.
Zelensky himself has said he can’t cede territory without the agreement of his people and they are united in their desire not to do so.
https://www.statista.com/chart/27278/military-aid-to-ukraine-by-country/
The logic of your position is that eventually Ukraine is reduced to ashes
Thanks,
If jaw = talk, he’s saying the first step is to negotiate and find a way to peace; if that doesn’t work, and the war is on, don’t give up. Keep trying to deal again. When there is a stalemate, and it’s reached the point where we are now: much has been reduced to ashes, and thousands have given their lives, including innocent human beings, mainly in Ukraine. There is not adequate housing or resources to accommodate the displaced and victimized. It’s time for war or no war. It has gone too far, but no one wants to give up. This war has gone on for too long. Ukraine cannot give up, and Putin won’t quit. It’s like the last scene in Game of Thrones. Too many atrocities have been committed in Ukraine. Putin must stop or be stopped. All I can do is cry and then go back to my hobby: tennis. I’ll sleep on it. I admire Winston Churchill. Too bad he is not here now.
Churchill didn’t believe in jaw jaw!he believed in absolutely defeating your enemy and then you impose your conditions.
He hated the policy of appeasement ie Czechoslovakia where land was traded for peace with absolutely disastrous and completely foreseeable consequences.
Many analogies with today.Churchill would have been completely on the side of arming Ukraine to drive Russia out.
Sorry Amy but that is merely supposition, you can’t possibly know what Churchill would/would not be doing. That was then, this is now.
He might not have turned a completely blind eye when Russia inaded and annexed the Crimean peninsula however. This is when this war actually started
The war started in 2014. when USA/UK financed (bilions of dollars), organised and executed overthrow of legitimate Ukrainian President, Ukraine lost its sovereignty then and there, now itโs their playground for a proxy war against Russia.
Crimea was Russian after they captured it from Turkey some 300 years ago, same as SE of Ukraine. Crimea was given to Soviet Ukraine (very important to know) in 1953 by one signature of Ukrainian raised Nikita Khrushchev as a gift to his Ukrainian wife, he is the most hated person in Russia, even more hated than Stalin. Soviet Union was in its core anti Russian, thatโs why it was made at the first place after October Revolution which was organised and executed by nonRussians, peasant Russians were just a foot soldiers in destroying their own country and nation.
Ukraine never existed as a country and nation in this shape or form and never will again.
Some of you lack basic history education, MSM and YT is not right place to educate yourself.
Cheers
You are a complete and utter moron.
No intelligent person should bother to engage with you.
Go f#ck yourself.
Agnes Obel, Fuel to the Fire
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZGvkF00DI
Here it is; about Putin’s Ukrainian genocide
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/psychologist-says-she-broke-down-102645129.html
Dire Straights-Brothers in Arms
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mfmWvfU3dNw
I know about this already Elizabeth.
I told that fascist what I thought of him. See above. It’s extremely disappointing that some people have sought to kiss up to him.
I agree with you on all you say. To know what atrocities are going on and to remain loyal to Putin – it’s chilling.
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Heartbreaking news to me. Makes me sick.
Agree 1000% Elizabeth. But I don’t want to talk about my feelings regarding a sacred subject with people like him around.
Please don’t engage with him. He is just a pathetic idiot with a huge inferiority complex. It’s not worth being rational with him.
You know how I feel about all this…
The only thing one can do is to do everything one can however small to help Ukraine. Ie writing to politicians and signing petitions. They desperately need planes! Because of the lack of them people are dying. Also one can lobby for confiscated Russian/ oligarch assets to be transferred to UKraine now.
This article deserves Goebbels award, which doesnโt surprise me since they were staunch allies with them during WW2 so they learned a lot from Goebbels.
One has to wonder how someone can be that brainwashed and dumb to believe that Russians would do that and let them walk free to tell the โstory โ?!