Breakfast stops on M5

[Overtherainbow9]

We have a long drive from the north west to the south west coming up. We are thinking of setting off very early, 5am ish and stopping for breakfast somewhere off the M5. I want to avoid service stations really, would prefer to come off the motorway and find somewhere nice for a decent stop as we have a young 4 YO.

Any recommendations from anyone would be appreciated! TIA

We have a long drive from the north west to the south west coming up. We are thinking of setting off very early, 5am ish and stopping for breakfast somewhere off the M5.
That's too vague. Whereabouts (which junctions) do you think you will be at breakfast-time-ish?

Joining the thread just to say Gloucester services. Not going would be very wrong. They have a good play area for kids.

I was gutted when dm moved from
Somerset to Yorkshire and we no longer got to go to Gloucester Services anymore. We go to Scotland a lot, Cairn Lodge is not a patch on Gloucester/Tebay.

We once stopped off at Gloucester services on the way to Center Parcs at Longleat. On the way home my DS asked if next time we could just have a weekend at the services! 😁