A delightful town - my home town - with a Roman wall circling the old city, & a Norman Castle surrounded by a park. History includes saxon Holy Trinity church and victorian Town Hall (both pictured).
Easy red bus (free in airport zone) to modern welcoming hotel with many rooms having good view of airport.
A welcoming team, small lounge with Priority Pass access and choice of starter, main and dessert served from bar. Chicken a la king tasty. Landside. Boarding pass details are requested and noted.
Lovely Hill with many historic buildings leading from the High Street & Castle down past St James the Great to River. Two Thai restaurants - one half way down;2nd in an older building at the bottom.
A lovely Italian restaurant serving tasty food and with friendly attentive genuine and unfussy service. Nice ambience. Veal in green peppercorn sauce recommended. Tasty tiramisu. Gr8 thin garlic bread
Adjacent to rail station, Tesco Express and 5 minutes walk to town centre. Coaches to Stansted Airport.
Really nice new store with good quality and remarkably affordable male and female clothing.
Super newly opened (2015) lounge - Priority Pass accepted - great ambience, lots of space, warm efficient staff, tasty crispy bacon rolls for breakfast, pastries, coffees etc. Strong wifi signal too.
(most recent visit 24/12/2016) A very good store but do make sure that deals do get recognised at the till. They are pretty good at correcting errors without a drama.
Very impressive huge building, visible from much of Bucharest and well worth going to look at from the outside.
Now FENWICKS and totally refitted September 2016 and looking great. Classiest Store in Colchester stocking most things apart From food for home.
Vue Cinema Stratford Westfield Mall upstairs. Cash tickets purchase at the food & drinks counter. Get seat in rows G upwards or you will be looking up at screen in your face.
