Originally Posted by
lifetimeblue
Staying here at the moment. It's fairly busy with a show on at the NEC and some conferences.
The room I was allocated on the app/given digital key for already had someone in it... mildly annoying after wandering for 5/10 minutes trying to find the room in the first place as I found the signage hopeless from reception. Second room fine and without an existing occupant
Room nice, view vaguely looking out to the water. Bathroom feels distinctly unclean though.
Exec Lounge offerings I'd say are pretty poor. During the day soft drinks and not as much as a biscuit.
Evening service of frozen spring rolls, samosas with cheese with some cut veg. No sauces with the spring rolls/samosas unless you wanted ketchup? Rubbish crackers, no chutney with pretty mediocre cheese.
All very cheap and minimal effort. Pretty pathetic when this place is charging £200+ for a cheap room tonight, never mind the executive rooms.
Hopefully breakfast is a bit better.
Off to Nando's for some actual food..!
Quite poor isn’t it, I remember a while back ( I probably reviewed it on here ) myself and a mate had a reasonable night in there but we had issues entering, guy on door checking room nos , etc didn’t believe me as I had a twin room and wasn’t upgraded.
That night we planned to go to Nando’s too but simply couldn’t be arsed so we had a few more beers and some tapas in the main bar….cost a fortune!
Fast forward to my last stay the lounge door was propped open , no staff member and it was rammed, I’m pretty sure some of those folk was gate crashing.
Funny sorta place yet I strangely like it.