Great 'Best Travelodge Holidays' Hunt: Which travelodge's offer the perfect get away?

retiredlady

Wonder if anyone can help? We are booked into Heathrow Travelodge Terminal 5 and will be travelling by public transport. Does anyone know how to get to the hotel - where do we get off the underground? Can we walk there from the airport or do we have to pay out again for a shuttlebus, if so where do we get that?

Thanks for your help, I am starting to panic a little now!

bobstheboy

Info on Harrogate would be helpful please.

fiendishly

I think it has already been mentioned, but Swansea Central is my favourite, fabulous for a proper holiday, brand new, in the city centre and the Gower is lovely.

Thursdays_child_3

We did a couple of mid week nights last week in the Blackpool Central one which was opposite the North Pier and had a lovely large quiet room with a hugh bay window. I believe it opened up in December and everything was lovely. All the staff we had contact with were very friendly and most helpfull and the breakfast was superb. Because there were not many staying in the hotel the cooked breakfast was plated up and cooked fresh. There was so much choice and the waiter/chef couldn't do enough for you.

Mardrew

Just a tip for anyone staying at the York Central Travelodge - on the road opposite the Travelodge there is a sign pointing to indicate parking in the Castle Mill car park but if you go up the road (in the opposite direction to the sign) there is a council owned carpark at the top of the (small) road and the parking is free in there from 6 pm on a Saturday night until 8.30 am on Monday morning.

We stayed at this Travelodge on Sunday. This was my first ever stay in a Travelodge and I had no complaints.

Also, we ate in Ask in the city centre and used the 2 for 1 voucher available on this site. The building is fantastic.

jeppy

suffolkb wrote: »

If you want to visit London, then the Covent Garden lodge - just off Oxford Street - is ideal. You can pop back to your room for a cuppa during the day. The Euston lodge is new and also recommended. Considering it`s location, it is very quiet. The 3 near Kings Cross are easy to get to, but only go there if the others have no cheap rooms. I will be trying the Marylebone one next month. They don`t appear to have any family rooms there, but it does seem to be well located.

I love the Docklands. It has a nice bar - so many others are just a seating/reception area. It is in a good location with parking. There is a train within 2-4 mins walk so very easy to get around!

We always stay there or at Royal Park, however I will be checking out other recommendations from this thread!!

DDonut

mum2one wrote: »

I know this is best of Travelodge - but thought Id give my worst experience.

Bridgwater jct 23? M5. The Travelodge is built on top of the motorway services, so whether you have a front or back room, its awful. From the front rooms, your woke up by cars revving, lorries engines, and the bright lights of the service station car park. The rear rooms you get the noises from the air vents and general noise as well.

The Travelodge is scruffy, in desperate need of an upgrade, and as for the cleanliness of the rooms, they are poor. I have had cause to complain on more than 1 ocassion.

1st - pulled the sofa bed apart to get the sheet tucked in, to be greeted by a phone charger, a receipt, half eaten mars bar, and lumps of mould.

2nd ocassion - Oct last yr - the bedding, there was stains all over the quilt cover, dirty brown stains and blood, upon taking off the quilt cover the quilt was soaked in blood - it hadnt even dried in..........

The best bit...........toe nail clippings in the bed........... had we of not been that shattered we would of left, luckly as it was a family room, able to use teh spare quilt and shhet, but slept fully clothes......... I did look a right site in the morning dragging the quilt and cover up the corridoer to reception.

I DID GET A REFUND ON BOTH OCASSIONS - BUT THATS NOT THE POINT!

Hi, sorry to gatecrash the positive vibes! Just wandering how did you manage to get a refund as I couldnt find any way of complaining ( there isn't a section the website.. The travelodge at watford central I would not recommend the heating was off when we had the snow in Jan and the fire alarms went off so many times during the night it defeated the point of a hotel!!

I am looking at booking an alton hotel .. though I know there are a few within driving distance. Can anyone pleaseee recommend me which one is the nicest ) looking to book it for my birthday xx

Penny-Pincher!!

We stayed at the Portsmouth Travelodge last year and it was lovely! Local take-aways cheap and very friendly staff.

PP
xx

Elspeth

Hi. I'm really keen to bag a cheap break for me and my partner when the latest batch of £19 rooms go on sale tomorrow.

Martin says: "the majority of rooms are in Travelodge's roadside and motorway service area hotels" and the snag is that neither of us drive so we would need to make our way there by public transport and be able to get out of the hotel without a car for meals and entertainment.

We don't want much but a small town for meals (that aren't service station) would obviously be nice and somewhere pleasant to walk if it's sunny?

I've been through this thread and Ely, Burford and Inverness look like they might work.

Can anyone suggest anywhere else (assuming that I won't be able to get a town/city-centre deal)?

Thanks
Elspeth

Elspeth

In case it helps anyone else, after trying various dates and locations, I plumped for Chelmsford (http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=384).

Now have my fingers crossed that 4 nights for £76 will still feel :T when we're there!

Will update in late August...

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I have found some information on things to do in Chelmsford. Looks a sleepy sort of place, but that's what we're after really, since we live in London.

Walks (especially the Navigation Walks): http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/vip8/ecc/ECCWebsite/dis/guc.jsp?channelOid=16098&guideOid=16090&guideContentOid=121501 and http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/vip8/ecc/ECCWebsite/dis/new.jsp?channelOid=16098&guideOid=null&oid=114426

Museums, houses, parks, leisure centre (mini-guide on the right-hand side, and links on the left): http://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=9175