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

xcalgalx1

We have sale rooms for four days at Travelodge - Barcelona Hospitalet and flight tickets with air miles. :j Now we hope with some help from fellow 'Travelodgers' to make the most of our first trip abroad as a couple for a very long time and extend the savings to a hat trick as well!

We can use information about the hotel, but especially need information about:

:question: Transportation From the Airport - Public transportation in and around the hotel area - Places to eat locally - will help.

:question: As Barcelona is a new adventure for us some tips from those in the know on what to see would be super as well. (We're both reasonably fit so walking is an option as is cycling if hire price is low enough.)

Thanks so much for all your help - I'll post a review with useful information when we get back to help others plan their trip for the next T'lodge room sale in Spain. :T

JC_Derby

Jaynee123 wrote: »

Oooops just been told by hubby it was Newquay! Doh!

LOL:rotfl: its by the sea, thats all that matters!

Rachelois

xcalgalx1 wrote: »

We have sale rooms for four days at Travelodge - Barcelona Hospitalet and flight tickets with air miles. :j Now we hope with some help from fellow 'Travelodgers' to make the most of our first trip abroad as a couple for a very long time and extend the savings to a hat trick as well!

We can use information about the hotel, but especially need information about:

:question: Transportation From the Airport - Public transportation in and around the hotel area - Places to eat locally - will help.

:question: As Barcelona is a new adventure for us some tips from those in the know on what to see would be super as well. (We're both reasonably fit so walking is an option as is cycling if hire price is low enough.)

Thanks so much for all your help - I'll post a review with useful information when we get back to help others plan their trip for the next T'lodge room sale in Spain. :T

We stayed at Barcelona Hospitalet TL last September. It is quite a way from the centre but we used the Metro to get about - it's about 10 min walk from hotel. Would recommend buying the Barcelona Card which gives you free transport on the metro and buses, discounts or free entry to several museums/places of interest, free Golandrinas boat trip around the harbour and up the coast (from the bottom of Las Ramblas) and a booklet with lots of information about the places to visit. Would recommend Placa Espana if you are there on a Friday night for the coloured fountain and music display. Also Parc Guell, Sagrada Familia and the Olympic Port. Lots of places to eat in the City Centre, nothing by the hotel itself - it's in the middle of a big exhibition complex! Hope this helps and you haven't gone already.

megfyp

squirrelchops wrote: »

NOT the travelodge at East Midlands airport.....mind you, you wouldn't want to sit under a lfight path for a holiday!!!! Seriously though it was awful. Bed uncomfortable, room never warmed up and was smelly and unkempt. Great way to start out holidays before we flew abroad..NOT!!!

We stayed here last year and it was AWFUL! The whole place was run down and the carpets were threadbare! NEVER stay here, no matter how low the price!!

h15t0r1an

lito_rozza wrote: »

Thats awful charging per pet it used to be a tenner per stay poor* Beauty *wont be going on holiday in a travelodge again

Good. There should only be special hotel rooms for pets. I suffer from allergies and let's be honest even when a fee is paid the room is often not specially cleaned after a pet has been there - even in top hotels. Misery and disruption to life caused by dog hair has affected me for weeks when I've been caught unknowingly by contact when a dog has been in a room before me. If people want to travel with their dogs or other pets and if hotels are prepared to accommodate this, then I believe the only sensible policy is to allow pets in certain particular rooms only which are never offered to anyone who mentions they would prefer to avoid a room which has been occupied by a pet. I do think pet owners sometimes underestimate the issues that unfortunately others can suffer from so perhaps thisi could be a compromise. PLEASE don't underestimate the misery this can cause.

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We just stayed one night at the Travelodge in Dunkirk, Kent close to Canterbury. Quite enjoyed the setting, The TL is build in some woods just off the A2. Quiet despite the proximity to the busy road. Two minutes walk from a service station and a Little Chef, in case you need a snack or a newspaper. Recommendable, especially if you get a room for a tenner:D

Tarry

In October I stayed in the Halykn travelodge in North Wales, to be honest with you, it was rather dated especially the bathroom and bit grubby in certain corners, but I had a good nights sleep which is all that matters. But I only paid £19 for it, and I wouldn't recommend paying full price.

Inner_Zone

Tarry wrote: »

In October I stayed in the Halykn travelodge in North Wales, to be honest with you, it was rather dated especially the bathroom and bit grubby in certain corners, but I had a good nights sleep which is all that matters. But I only paid £19 for it, and I wouldn't recommend paying full price.

I stayed their last week for £25 (last minute booking). Smell of damp in the corridor directly behind reception but room OK and noisy pumps in the small plant room adjacent to room 22, I was over the hall so could not hear them in the room. OK for the price but not worth full price.

I also stated in the Cardiff West one last week for several nights, very run down and grubby public areas, room OK up to fairly recent TL standards with flat TV but bathroom untouched from previous owners and still in the 80's and urgently in need of refurbishment, mould etc in bathroom, peeling mastics, ugh!

Tarry

I stayed in room 17, but I didn't notice the smell of damp in the hallway, it was definetely better than the accomadation that I stayed in on the way over as the smell of damp was overpowering! (but I won't go into that one as it wasn't a travelodge). Like I say, I wasn't the best travelodge I have stayed in but it wasn't that bad. I don't pay £19 and expect something amazing I slept well and didn't hear the traffic as much as I thought I would, which was the most important thing.

As whom I travelled with had a seperate room, I had a nosey around the room, and I think the room I got (17, theres was 18) was better.

houseswap

Hubby and I have stayed at several travelodges over the last few years and i have a major gripe with all of them.. Why oh Why don't they have mattress protecter on the beds.. it makes me shudder when looking at the sheets to see just the bottom sheet and nothing else between you and the mattress. surely good housekeeping practice includes the nee:(:(d to freshen up the bedding regularly. I have written to Travelodge voicing my concerns but never received a reply...