Are there any decent Travelodges?

[Quenelle]

We have a voucher for Travelodge. Are there any nice ones in the UK? I'm thinking of a one night break either in London or within two hours or so of northern Home Counties.

Someone on another thread said the Redditch one is okay- see Kenilworth/Redditch thread...

Ah, that's me on the Redditch thread. IME they vary hugely from the clean and bland to the revolting.

Tripadvisor is your best bet for working out which one's which.

We've stayed in the Edinburgh one a few times and it's fine - but probably not within your required zone!

For goodness sake, don't go to Redditch. The Travelodge may be okay (I don't know) but the town itself is horrible.

I think the Covent Garden/ Holburn one in London should be okay - it's certainly v central.

The Margate one is crap. They built a cinema next to it which farked up the tv aerial, i spent the evening watching every channel in a snowstorm!!!

WE stayed in the Billingshurst one once.

It smelt of hairy truckers.

Put Dh off his stride...

Ooh BG- what a mean thing to say! Where else could you spend all day driving round and round a road island that contains a supermarket?

TBH I would focus on where you want to go rather than the hotel itself.

It's a travelodge for goodness sake so use it as an opportunity to go to a place you want to visit. We were fooled by excellent reviews of the Premier Inn at York, got there, and blow me it was a Premier Inn no better or worse than any other.

PMSL at nonnomum though.

Friends of ours stayed in the Waterloo one for a couple of nights recently - no complaints.

There's a brand new one in whetstone (north London, easy access to barnet branch of the northern line). It's fine, we just paid for DP's mum to stay there for a week (no room at our house!) and would allow you to get in to London without staying in the centre.

Stratford upon Avon one is nice - basic but fine.

Lincoln Travelodge is fine. And lots to do there.

Bath is great. Fab location, right in town.

The Central Brighton Premier Travel Inn is a good 1, www.bedandbreakfast-directory.co.uk/uploads/estate/hotels/hotels27735.htm

our friend stayed there with work & loved it & we ate there with them & it all looked very good & Brighton is a great place to visit

You are right, DarkSkies - where else, indeed? I have only been to Redditch once. You get off the train and enter a shopping centre. On leaving the shopping centre you find that there actually isn't anything else there - or did I miss something? :)

We stayed in the Bath one a few years ago and it was fine.

We love London City Airport travelogde-the kids love watching the planes take off, the man who runs the breafast buffet is a legend and we all love going on the space age DLR through the docklands to wherever we're visiting-it's cheaper and better than some of the more central London ones.

There's also a really nice one in Barrow in Furness which overlooks a large pond with loads of birds to look at and is near a huge ASDA where we had breakfast for under a tenner for 6 of us (not much use for London or the Home Counties though!)

edinburgh haymarket is lovely! converted old terrace with huge sweeping windows and walking distance of the city

right - just spotted the london/home counties bit.

Note to self - read the OP carefully! :)