OUR STAY AT IDA'S PLACE (February 2023):


Hello, my name is Dean and my girlfriend and I spent a weekend staying in Ida's Place. My girlfriend had never been to Lincoln before and I thought why not go for a valentines weekend away. We arrived Friday evening and decided on getting a pizza for dinner. We had a lovely meal from Dough Loco which is next door to the castle, they offer a wide variety of pizza toppings and meals. They have good reviews for a reason, it was amazing and people travel to Lincoln for their food. On Saturday we woke up and decided we wanted some breakfast, luckily for us we have a shop opposite which is reasonably priced so bought all the ingredients needed.

We went and visited the International Bomber Command Centre, a multi-award winning IBCC opened to the public for the first time in the January 2018. The site includes the one of the UK's tallest War Memorials called the Spire, which stands out on Lincoln's skyline at 31.09m tall, the same height as the wingspan of a Lancaster Bomber. It was very interesting with lots of history and videos, if you wanted you can have a guide show you around too. For lunch we stopped in to 'The Hub Cafe", which we both had ham and cheese ciabattas with a coke. 

In the afteroon we had tickets to Lincoln FC vs Portsmouth FC, our AirBnb was only 8 minutes walk to the stadium so had to take up the offer, tickets were cheap for a Football match too, £24 each! We decided to buy replica team shirts and headed in for 90 minutes of action packed football. Lincoln have a very good team which is amazing in defence, the keeper was execptional too. The game ended in a draw but was still exciting nevertheless, we walked back and relaxed in the AirBnb for a couple hours until it was time for dinner.

We booked a resturant for Saturday evening, we saw it when we was driving into Lincoln and thought it looked nice. It was called 'The Centurion' which is an Embers Inn franchise. The service and food quality was great, we liked that we could order from the table using the app and pay straight away. It's a posher version of a Wetherspoons and we didn't know what to expect but I enjoyed the meal. I had a steak with beef dripping sauce, the sauce was exactly how I was expecting it to be and it tasted exactly like what I get from Miller and Carter, for the half the price! My girlfriend had a chicken katsu curry and for dessert she had treacle sponge.

When we arrived back at the AirBnb we decided it was movie night, we cosied up on the sofa and we were spoilt with choice, we had Sky Q and Netflix loaded on the TV for us! We picked Grown Ups and spent the end of the evening laughing to the movie, after that we headed into bed which I can only describe as the most comfortable mattresses and duvets you could ask for, I was sleeping on a pillow. As soon as I got home I asked where I could order them and then placed my order. Our stay at Ida's place was amazing, it was clean, tidy and modern which we both loved. Plenty of room for 4 people to stay too. We are definetly going to stay again as we have plenty more activites we want to do but didn't have enough time, you should go for a long weekend to make the most of it.

Dean - February 2023

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