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Express at Holiday Inn

Advantages: Good deals
Disadvantages: Can be expensive without discount

...but have recently changed to Holiday Inn Express. This is good for those not paying the bill, but can be expensive if it is coming out of your own pocket. I recently stayed at the Holiday Inn Express next to the NEC in Birmingham - watch out if an event is on at the NEC - the price rockets to £100 per night!! still I was not paying. The lounge area is comfortable with a small but expensive bar (the Village Inn next door is much better value). ...
.../ coffee etc. All have computer points and even supply pens & paper for your use. The shower is excellent. Breakfast, which is included in the price is contenental but you can eat as much as you like and it was fresh and to a high standard. A good touch, if you say at these premises a lot is the loyalty card. Your company pays the bills and you rake up the points for free accomodation when you are away on a leisure break. In all they are of a ...

tangosierraone 06.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Holiday Inn Express Birmingham NEC, Birmingham

Good budget hotel

Advantages: modern
Disadvantages: lack of restauarant at weekend

...have recently been refurbished, standard holiday inn express feel and design and very clean which for me is the most important thing. The bathroom was clean with a shower and shampoo and liquid soap. Tea and coffee facilities as is usual and a decent sized television with a good reception. One of the things that I like about the Holiday Inn express brand is that a free breakfast is standard meaning you get one even when you pay on points which is ...
...yoghurt, tea, coffee, orange juice etc. The hotels location really is only convenient if you have a car, please don't be fooled by the "Birmingham" title, as this hotel isn't in the city centre. I'd recommend this hotel, although only if you can get a good value rate (under £50.00, especially on a weekend when the hotel appears to run on limited service with no restaurant etc). I did notice in the reception area though that there is a microwave that ...

jack2794 03.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Holiday Inn Express Birmingham-Oldbury M5 Jct.2, Birmingham

Taking the P out of "Quality"

Advantages: Somewhere to park, food quite good
Disadvantages: Filthy cramped rooms, uncomfortable beds, noisy

This is possibly the least aptly named hotel I have ever had the misfortune to stay in. You know when irritating people do that annoying thing with their fingers to describe speech marks in the air? This hotel is the only situation where such gesturing becomes permissable. It is de rigeur to use this hand gesture when speaking the name. When I was booking in there was a large party of asylum seekers being booked in and the receptionist was having ...
...not having the correct paperwork and doing that old English chestnut, talking loudly to try to make herself understood. Meanwhile, the queue grew and grew. Eventually, one of the other people stood staring at the queue decided to start booking in as well and I finally got booked in, and was given a key. Taking myself up to room 154 I tried my key and found that it wouldn't fit the door. I dragged myself back to reception, where themore helpful of ...

JeffFromPoole 29.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Quality Hotel Cobden, Birmingham

Meetings at the Mal - not what I expected

Advantages: Comfortable stay in a large, clean room
Disadvantages: Meetings were not thought out properly

I stayed in Malmaison for a four day training course last week and I wasn’t going to write a review because it is so similar to the one I wrote on Malmaison London, I would have just repeated myself. However, there were quite a few little things that could have been improved with the meeting facilities and I thought I had to air my views! The Room Ok, so briefly I will write about the room. As we booked through work I assume we only had a ...
...the one we had in London. The bed was huge and there was a lot of walk round space in the bedroom. There was a large desk with broadband internet access – either from a cable or wireless, a large TV, CD player and a really big wardrobe. It was really comfortable and was air conditioned. The only thing was that the window was quite small and overlooked the Mailbox, but this was a minor fault. The Bathroom The bathroom had everything I would ...

wolfey59 14.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Malmaison, Birmingham

Hotel Birmingham Metrpole,Birmingham

Advantages: Close to NEC
Disadvantages: Very poor value for money. Inefficient service.

I booked in advance through conference organisers. This was a mistake. Suggest you make own arrangement with hotel direct. I paid £135 for a small single bedded room with an old TV. I reckon I could have got this same room well under £100 if I had booked myself direct. Being the closest hotel to the NEC is probably why it is one of the most expensive. I compared my facilities with others in different hotels. They all had better value for money. Hotel ...
...newspaper. I was charged for it but it never arrived. Then I made use of the rapid checkout service which promised a receipt would be sent on to me. This did not occur so I had to telephone the hotel for this. In summary a very overpriced hotel for facilities offerred and service provided. ...

steben 11.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hilton Birmingham Metropole, Birmingham