... Ibis seemed to fit that bill - It was £47 a night with continental breakfast being £5.50. I booked in for a 3 night stay.
From the outside it just seems to be a standard chain hotel, nothing spectacular. Expectation was that it would be fairly minimalist but clean and friendly.
The guy ... Read review
Ibis Stevenage Centre provides comfortable, good value accommodation and a restaurant, a ... more
conveniently short walk from Stevenage Train Station. There is also a leisure park nearby.All of the modern rooms are well furnished, with comfortable beds and a T...
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...select somewhere of reasonable price. Ibis seemed to fit that bill - It was £47 a night with continental breakfast being £5.50. I booked in for a 3 night stay.
From the outside it just seems to be a standard chain hotel, nothing spectacular. Expectation was that it would be fairly minimalist but clean and friendly.
The guy at check in was very friendly and helped me register my details - he was consciencious and helpful. ... ...is where the pleasantries stopped. The lift up to the rooms was rickety and felt like it was going to stop working at any moment - it was ancient.
After the little lift scare I found my room. I entered the room and all seemed fine until I looked in the bathroom which to my utter disbelief was dirty: The bath/shower had what looked like mud on the bottom of it and the toilet lookd like it needed a good clean too.
I was starting a new job in the Stevenage region about a month ago and needed somewhere to stay so it seemed logical for me to select somewhere of reasonable price. Ibis seemed to fit that bill - It was £47 a night with continental breakfast being £5.50. I booked in for a 3 night stay.
From the outside it just seems to be a standard chain hotel, nothing spectacular. Expectation was that it would be fairly minimalist but clean and friendly.
The guy at check in was very friendly and helped me register my details - he was consciencious and helpful. A credit to the company.
However this is where the pleasantries stopped. The lift up to the rooms was rickety and felt like it was going to stop working at any moment - it was ancient.
After the little lift scare I found my room. I entered the room and all seemed fine until I looked in the bathroom which to my utter disbelief was dirty: The bath/shower had what looked like mud on the bottom of it and the toilet lookd like it needed a good clean too.
I am not really a confrontational sort so kept my feelings to myself. Cleaned the bath and got on with my stay. Except I was woken up at 4am by drunks at the hotel who were running up and down the corridor - how nice?
On my second night it was the night when there was an earthquake in the Uk so I was a little shaken up and went down to reception. I tried to make conversation with the night receptionist and bought a bottle of coke off of him. When I asked if he felt the earthquake he laughed at me and said "oh I am so scared, can't you see that" in a really sarcastic manner which I wasn't really in the mood for. He was quite rude in general about other things.
This whole thing soured my stay.
I do not wish to be entirely negative as a major plus however for the hotel is it's food. The breakfast is excellent and healthy. Lots of variety to it. Plentiful and filling.
On the whole i'd say pay a little extra and get yourself a much better quality service or just be better organised than me so you do not need to rely on hotels.
Advantages: Cheap, good location Disadvantages: No free parking, poor service
...and I stayed in the IBIS hotel in Stevenage town centre for one night in June.
***Getting to the hotel
The location was in a convenient location for us as we wanted to stay in that area as we were visiting relatives, and we thought £35 for both of us for one night was a pretty good deal.
The map and directions to the hotel provided on IBIS Stevenage's own website (http://www.ibishotel.com/ibis/fichehotel/gb/ibi/2794/fiche_hotel.shtml) were not ... ...month after our visit to IBIS Stevenage, I received my credit card bill. To my annoyance, I noticed that two separate payments of £35 had been taken by IBIS. I have contacted the hotel who say that there is only one payment on their records, but they will sort it out if I fax them a copy of my credit card bill. I expect that they will refund me, but it has just been hassle that I could do without!
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tishnumf 18.07.2007 (20.08.2007)
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