What's On In Nottingham - July 2013

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For even more ideas on what to do, you can check out our Discover Notts page (Experience Nottinghamshire and LeftLion are also great resources for ideas)

RIP Henry + Hetty

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Henry and Hetty Hoover have both died on us... within a week of each other.

It's either really annoying or kind of romantic (like the hoover equivalent of Johnny Cash + June Carter). I guess it depends on how you want to look at it.

RIP.... you both sucked :)

Igloo Recommends - The Secrect Kitchen Cafe

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Anyone heard of The Secret Kitchen Cafe yet?! Well you should, because it is far too great to be kept a 'secret'.

We LOVE the concept and will be going down for a social meal next Tuesday (June 19th, 2013). Join us if you can......we are hoping our Japanese resident busker will also be down to provide nice sounds for everyone's ears :)

For those who have never heard of it before, here is a quick description: 

Looking forward to spending some time there, eating tasty food and meeting some cool people! (click here for directions on how to get there from the Igloo)

Download Festival 2013

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Download Festival starts tomorrow night... and the 'downloaders; have already started arriving at the Igloo (and more will be coming in the next few days). Should be a great weekend of metal and mud.... we salute you!

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Our Resident Busker

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If you are in town and you see a man playing an xylophone, digerido, and kick drum —all at the same time— then I guess you've just seen our resident street busker from Japan (he also has a guitar).

We sure do get some interesting people coming through our doors :) 

What's On In Nottingham - June 2013

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For even more ideas on what to do, you can check out our Discover Notts page (Experience Nottinghamshire and LeftLion are also great resources for ideas)

Igloo is a Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence winner!

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When we logged into our Trip Advisor account the other day we were greeted with a lovely little pop-up…

“Igloo Backpackers Hostel is a Certificate of Excellence winner! Congratulations on being one of the top 10% of all businesses on TripAdvisor.”

​Which was a very lovely thing to read (and so have been all the recent Trip Advisor reviews you have all been writing), especially after recently having a guest give us a 4.2 rating on Booking.com (one of the things they were upset about was how we offer free tea, coffee, and sugar but do not provide milk).

Guess that proves that old saying of “you can't please every one, all of the time”. But we are glad to know that we are pleasing most of you, most of the time :)

New Mattresses For All Dorm Beds!

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P̶a̶p̶a̶'s̶ Igloo's got a̶ some brand new b̶a̶g̶ orthopaedic mattresses! For every single dorm bed!

Because we think everyone should be able to wake up feeling like a James Brown song is playing :)​

Dot To Dot Festival - Venue Breakdown + Mix Tape

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The excellent Dot To Dot Festival is almost here (have you got your tickets yet?) and they recently announced where everyone will be playing. So now is the time to start planning where you need to be at what time in order to see you know who.

To help with your planning (or maybe it will just complicate it), we made a mix tape of 20 of the artists that we're looking the most forward to seeing. So if you hear something you like, check the venue listings and make note of when they're playing (and remember to get there a bit early).

And if you don't have tickets already, you really should do something about that… it's going to be a pretty ace today of music in Notts. 

(for further exploring of the huge amount of artists playing, check the Dot To Dot website, the Bodega site, and you can also just bust out some googling).