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The Crescent Townhouse

This is an elegant building on the corner of Botanic Avenue, just a short stroll from the city centre. The ground floor is taken up by the Metro Brasserie and Bar/Twelve, a stylish club-like bar with oak panelling and snugs, which particularly lively and popular at night (necessitating 'greeters' for the entrance), so noise could be a problem in front bedrooms.

The reception lounge is on the first floor. Spacious bedrooms - which include several superior grades, and six rooms fairly recently added - have phones with data points, TV and trouser press, and are comfortably furnished, with good tiled bathrooms. Suites and superior rooms are more elaborate and have luxurious bathrooms with roll-top baths and separate showers, but all rooms are regularly refurbished.

A good choice for business visitors: fax, photocopying and secretarial services can be provided through reception. Breakfast is taken in the contemporary split-level Metro Brasserie, which is open for all meals: more than just a hotel dining room, this restaurant has a following for its good contemporary cooking.

The early dinner menu is especially good value.

Children welcome before 7pm (under 14s free in parents' room, cots available without charge, baby sitting arranged). No pets.*Weekend breaks offer good value. Rooms 17 (1 suite, 2 junior suites, 5 superior, 6 shower only, 1 disabled, 2 no smoking). Wheelchair lift. Room service (limited hours). B&B from £60 pps, ss £30. Metro Brasserie Seats 70. D daily from 5.45 (Sat from 5.30, Sun from 5pm). Early D & Vegetarian menus available. Lunch also at BarTwelve: Mon-Sat 12-3. Amex, MasterCard, Visa, Switch.

Directions:

Opposite Botanic Railway Station.