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Bygone days are recalled when one enters the Britannia Hotel, New Street, Birmingham. Faded caramel wallpaper and dusty chocolate wood panels abound in the corridors and public areas of this once grand provincial hotel, a true relic from the great age of steam. Our bedroom was functional if not a trifle bland. Conrad, my Danish traveller companion, commented more than once upon an almost blancmange like consistency to his bed pillows and subsequently found it difficult to turnover during the night. However, Leonard, my other companion, an Alaskan, found our rooms baking temperature a welcome respite from his familiar frozen desert homeland. Personally, my only criticism is, following a late night Indian feast, there was a regrettable lack of essential stationery in our bathroom.

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Very comfortable room, and excellent breakfast. A hotel with a lot of history...used to be the old Midland Hotel, the sort of place my father would have loved to stay in in the 1930's. All refurbished, but traces of Victorian here and there. Not for the plastic and chrome glitzzy. Highly recommend if you have the sense to appreciate it.

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Bygone days are recalled when one enters the Britannia Hotel, New Street, Birmingham. Faded caramel wallpaper and dusty chocolate wood panels abound in the corridors and public areas of this once grand provincial hotel, a true relic from the great age of steam. Our bedroom was functional if not a trifle bland. Conrad, my Danish traveller companion, commented more than once upon an almost blancmange like consistency to his bed pillows and subsequently found it difficult to turnover during the night. However, Leonard, my other companion, an Alaskan, found our rooms baking temperature a welcome respite from his familiar frozen desert homeland. Personally, my only criticism is, following a late night Indian feast, there was a regrettable lack of essential stationery in our bathroom.

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Very comfortable room, and excellent breakfast. A hotel with a lot of history...used to be the old Midland Hotel, the sort of place my father would have loved to stay in in the 1930's. All refurbished, but traces of Victorian here and there. Not for the plastic and chrome glitzzy. Highly recommend if you have the sense to appreciate it.