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

ipswichblade

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

I can recommend Leeds Colton Travelodge. I've just spent my 285th night there (not consecutively!) and I've never had a bad experience!

Same here, we've stayed a few times and going back for a night next month. No problems at all and very reasonably priced even on saturday nights.

shirlsky

holidaysforme wrote: »

Does anyone know if there's another sale towards the end of the year?

I am sure there will be another sale but it is rare for a Saturday night to be £10 a night in a Central London hotel. Lots for Sunday and Monday though.

BTW, how was the Covent Garden Travelodge?

hethmar

Edinburgh Waterloo Place is in a lovely old building at the end of Princes street. A corner room gives you great views and huge windows. BUt it is noisy at the back of the hotel which is next to a set of traffic lights.


In London I stayed at the new TL in Waterloo. Its lovely but no air con and windows dont open- so a winter break should be fine. In June last year it was 90 degrees in the rooms - dreadful.

holidaysforme

shirlsky wrote: »

I am sure there will be another sale but it is rare for a Saturday night to be £10 a night in a Central London hotel. Lots for Sunday and Monday though.

BTW, how was the Covent Garden Travelodge?

Thanks, thinking back, i think it was around September last year when we booked our February dates for this year. Yes, not sure I've ever got a Saturday night in the sale for anywhere in central London, but can usually get the Friday and Sunday , so that balances out the high cost of Saturday iyswim.
The Covent Garden TL was great,- no complaints at all. We've stayed there twice before.

holidaysforme

hethmar wrote: »

Edinburgh Waterloo Place is in a lovely old building at the end of Princes street. A corner room gives you great views and huge windows. BUt it is noisy at the back of the hotel which is next to a set of traffic lights.


In London I stayed at the new TL in Waterloo. Its lovely but no air con and windows dont open- so a winter break should be fine. In June last year it was 90 degrees in the rooms - dreadful.

Oh dear.:eek: We're staying here next Wednesday night before catching the Eurostar on Thursday morning. Hope we dont melt:)

hethmar

When I was there they said it got worse the higher up the building, so go for a low floor! The poor cleaners were wiping sweat from their faces as they walked down the corridors. One fellow lodger said he left his shower on all night on cold. I asked and got two extremely small fans for the room which did nothing at all to cool it down. I ended up laying a sheet of polythene on the bed!!(it had been my suit cover in my case) and then soaked a towel in cold water and put that on top of the polythene and laid on that all night!

May be a year later they have installed some air con or may be it wont be a hot day.

Jo4

Hubby & I have managed to book 10 nights in Travelodges for a total of £140.50! :money: Hopefully we will still be after we have stayed in them.

andan

holidaysforme wrote: »

Oh dear.:eek: We're staying here next Wednesday night before catching the Eurostar on Thursday morning. Hope we dont melt:)

I stayed there last July and found the london waterloo travelodge great. You could open the window a bit and air con was available on the gadget, but it was already pretty cool in the room. In fact i liked it so much last year i am booked to stay there for three days next weekend. Its fairly new, so much better than some i have stayed in in london.

My fave travelodge in London is tower hill, great location, really nice and modern room and no traffic noise!

shirlsky

If you are worried about the heat, I was surprised to see that the Travelodge Southwark had air conditioning. So book there for summer. However the entrance was really hot!

hethmar

Andan:
Air con was available on the gadget? Whats that? If they had a huge amount of complaints - certainly people were lining up to complain in June when I was there, may be they had second thoughts about putting in air con after all. It was brand new last June and the windows fixed so you couldnt open them more than about 2 inches. Reception said it was for safety in the area. Im surprised if they managed to fix windows and air con in just a month though if you say that was there in July.

Southwark is supposed to be good.


NB just had a google and it appears they still have the same problems. I wonder if andan went to a different lodge?


1 review
“Don't go without you're own air con.”
Reviewed 7 June 2011
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My family (2 adults and 2 children) just stayed at the Waterloo Travellodge over the past week-end. The hotel itself is great for loaction, cleanliness, staff friendliness and even food. However despite our room being sufficient for the family the heat and humidity was terrible. The only ventilation was a small window in the corner and a small desk fan.
Trust me this was not enough and the children hardly slept complaining of the heat and humidity. It was that bad that my wife's lipstick melted on the desk.
I'm not sure if it was just our family room that suffered, but if any of the others are like ours, stay somewhere else, you won't regret it.


“Room was like a sauna”
Reviewed 7 July 2011
The hotel was fine, exactly what you'd expect from a Travelodge, basic, clean etc. However, the room was unbearably hot and humid. There is no air con and the window only opens a small amount. Do not stay here in the summer!

“Too damn hot!”
Reviewed 1 July 2011
We booked the Waterloo Travellodge because there was a special deal on, and it was convenient for where we needed to be in London. Whilst all the facilities were there, and the staff were all polite and helpful, the temperature in the building was absolutely unbearably hot. We couldn't open the window more than a crack. A fan was provided in the room as standard! We spoke to the staff about it and they said they had received a lot of complaints. There is no way we would return to this Travellodge unless something is done about the ventilation.