Hotel Alpha

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Each guest room has either a balcony or patio and comes with Satellite TV. Some feature a hydromassage shower or bathtub. Contributions should be travel related. The most helpful contributions are detailed and help others make better decisions. Please don’t include personal, political, ethical, or religious commentary. Promotional content will be removed and issues concerning Booking.com’s services should be routed to our Customer Service or Accommodation Service teams. The hotel was approx 30-40 mins walk from Sorrento. 30 minutes down the busy Corso Italia and 40 mins if you choose the more scenic route. We do enjoy a walk, but be advised that either way the route isn’t exactly picturesque so don’t expect a relaxing stroll into the centre. Clean and modern rooms on the second floor. Great showers with plenty of hot water and towels changed daily. I felt that the plot was fairly limited in this book. It's a simple story of two people's lives in the hotel on the surface and all the revelations etc take place off stage. I have mixed feelings about this idea- it kind of works because of the conflicting narratives yet at the same time feel like the reader is dropped from anything too exciting. This is a light read which makes the reader feel like a passive observer of the drama. It doesn't sweep you up the way a thriller would but it is comforting and a nice book to wrap yourself up in.

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Contributions should be appropriate for a global audience. Please avoid using profanity or attempts to approximate profanity with creative spelling, in any language. Comments and media that include 'hate speech', discriminatory remarks, threats, sexually explicit remarks, violence, and the promotion of illegal activity are not permitted. The story of the hotel is told in alternating chapters by Graham and Chas and gradually a picture of the hotel and its guests and staff appears. Things are not quite what they seem and as events gradually work towards a climax the tension rises. I thought the author made each of the voices, Chas and Graham, distinctive and I really felt I could understand Chas's life and the problems he faced in his blindness. I liked Graham too and I felt the way his life was the hotel really stood out as did his pride in doing his job as well as he possibly could.Swear words, sexual references, hate speech, discriminatory remarks, threats, or references to violence

Evening meals were very hit and miss- some nights ok, other nights dreadful. Restaurant manager not particularly friendly. Graham's narrative says a lot by what he doesn't say - his repeated meal at home, his loyalty to his work. Chas's world of darkness is on the surface, the more moving tale, though his growth over time to me meant the constant Graham looked even more set in his ways - not embracing changes in technology, wistfully remembering the past.

You may be unsurprised to learn there’s a touch of The Grand Budapest Hotel to this one. Hotel founder Howard York, though he sounds an awful lot like an Ayn Rand creation ( i.e. Howard Roark, the architect-hero of The Fountainhead), is most like the Ralph Fiennes character. He uses his influence to finagle anything for a guest; “you could believe, sitting here in his castle, that he really did mean to live a couple of centuries and that everything he had built would still be standing around him.” But even he can’t stop tragedy; a fire at the hotel in the 1980s orphaned and blinded a small boy named Chas, who Howard then adopted. I desperately wanted to like this book, and was sure that it was a solid four star, if not an illustrious five star rating, in the making. Early promotions about this novel gave me the impression that this would be Eleven but in the setting of a hotel. The constant narrative changes, a catalogue of unique voices and a plethora of individual stories that were all woven together to create a tense over-arching plot. I knew from Watson's previous novels that his talent as an author is superlative, and therefore my expectations were very high. I didn't read on to the 100 extra tales (told by other hotel guests), I liked the story standing on its own and didn't feel the need to explore further, though I liked the idea.

Ideally, we would publish every review we receive, whether positive or negative. However, we won’t display any review that includes or refers to (among other things): I loved how the story develops, how Chas's adolescent then adult narrative complements Graham's as we see the hotel's story from their differing points of view, and their views of the entrepreneur Howard. It's a fascinating, and at times heartbreaking tale. Anyone who spots something suspicious can always report it to our Customer Service team so that our fraud team can investigate. The issue was then in the concept. I wanted to see the world of the Hotel Alpha through the voices and eyes of those living within it's walls. I wanted to know how everyone felt, and was disappointed when the voices were only given to Graham and Chas. For a stand-up comedian, Mark Watson is an excellent novelist. Hotel Alpha is mostly set around the fictional hotel of its name, a sort of modern day Hilton in London. The story is told through alternate narratives. The first comes from Graham, concierge and lifeblood of the hotel. The second is from Chas, the hotel owner's blind, adopted son. Both love the hotel and need it but a dark secret threatens to ruin it for both of them.

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Graham, the concierge, has been behind the Alpha's front desk since the day the hotel opened and knows everything about it. Chas, Howard's blind adopted son, has almost never ventured outside its walls. Both of them believe that the Alpha gives them everything they need - until two mysterious disappearances raise questions that no one seems willing to answer. As the years forge ahead, Graham and Chas must ask themselves whether Howard's vision of the perfect hotel has been built on secrets as well as dreams . . . I have no knowledge of Watson as a comedian, and saw this mentioned and purely liked the sound of a novel set in a hotel - I always enjoyed Hotel Babylon, and I did think of it numerous times as I read this. Dalaman Holidays | Dominican Republic Holidays | Dubai Holidays | Egypt Holidays | Goa Holidays | Florida Holidays | France Holidays | Fuerteventura Holidays | Germany Holidays | Gran Canaria Holidays | Greece Holidays | Ibiza Holidays | Italy Holidays | Izmir Holidays Beautiful grounds, a large swimming pool, a typical restaurant; Hotel Alpha gives you all this and more in peaceful SantAgnello, a 2-minute train ride from the centre of Sorrento.