I've stayed at this hotel twice and this was the first time we had been upgraded to the Executive Floor (husband has a Platinum card with Holiday Inn)
Our room was lovely and the bedrooms are a very good size, I would honestly say they are double the size of their standard rooms!
The pictures on the Holiday Inn website seem to be taken using a camera with a wide angle lens so the rooms look a decent size, however, I think the Executive rooms appear smaller than they are whereas the standard rooms look small in the picture and when you get there you find out they are tiny.
The Executive Lounge was very comfortable, serving continental breakfast and snacks later in the afternoon. Good range of drinks available with soft drinks, beer/lager and wine. There was also a coffee machine which suprisingly for a machine made a various types of lovely coffee.
The lounge was quiet during the day but busier at night, I would ask for a room as far away from the lounge as possible as it could get quite noisy.
We would stay at the Crowne Plaza again but only during the winter as its very well placed for the shops and restaurants and I am quite lazy about walking around when its freezing outside.
During the summer we prefer to stay at the Holiday Inn Castle Marina. Rooms have just been refurbished, they are also a good size so comfortable for a weekend stay, car parking is free and the marina area is lovely, on a nice day its a beautiful walk along the canal into Nottingham centre.










