Birmingham Hotels > £60 to £79 Birmingham Hotels

Much, much more than "Satisfactory"

Advantages: Luxury hotel with a very friendly and helpful staff
Disadvantages: No problems with the hotel, but I suspect that the locals damaged my car tyre - what did it actually achieve?

...ways, staying in the Birmingham Marriott on the way up, and the Newcastle Marriott (review to follow) on the way back down a week later. Both hotels were booked via “Priceline” and I thought that the (room-only) rate of UKP 45.00 (plus fees and taxes amounting to about UKP12 in total) per room per night that I managed to secure was superb. Before we left, I checked availability on the Marriott website and our room was available for UKP 195.00. So ...
...and the directions from the Marriott website were very clear indeed. Both Amanda’s driving and map-reading skills are infamous (or, at least, they are now – thanks to the power of the Internet!). I could, I suppose, have navigated and let Amanda do the driving. Wanting, however, to arrive in one piece, I drove and she navigated. This would have been fine, but – although I love her to bits – she just can’t read a map. So we enjoyed a jolly tour of ...

andymcf 03.11.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Marriott Hotel, Birmingham

Disappointing pampering trip

Advantages: Spa, reputation, location
Disadvantages: Customer service, rooms, organisation

...friend through SpaBreak. Having used the De Vere, Swindon as the reception venue for my wedding last year, I was expecting it to be fabulous. I was sent a confirmation email advising me that rooms were guaranteed from 3pm. We planned our journey to arrive soon after 3 so that we could get settled in right away, and make the most of our short time break. We arrived at reception at 3.40pm and were told by reception that the room was not ready. She ...
...did not assure us that the room would be ready then, nor did she direct us to the lounge or any other place we could spend the half hour. We wandered away aimlessly from reception, too stunned to complain. Eventually we were directed to the sports bar by the (very helpful) doorman. When we returned in 40 minutes (well we didn’t want to walk all the way back to find the room still not ready) reception had to phone through to check our room was ...

Furr80 05.03.2004 · Read full review
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Review of The Belfry Hotel, 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

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