In my experience, Holiday Inn hotels pride themselves on the quality of your sleep: beds are uniformly firm and a range of pillows is available that caters for all tastes. Rooms tend to be of a similar standard in all their hotels, which is precisely why the seasoned traveller may be tempted to use them as a default booking.
My issue with their hotel at Eight Ash Green, Colchester is its location. Perfectly placed within 30 drive of the A12, in a rural location handy for Colchester, it is sadly even nearer to the busy railway line. Throughout the night my sleep was constantly interrupted by freight trains of varying length trundling or speeding past.
When I mentioned this the following morning the management offered to move us for our second night and gave us a bottle of wine by way of compensation. This typified the approach of the staff here which we could not fault, they were some of the nicest we had met in hotels.
In actual fact because of travel arrangements, we knew that there were going to be engineering works on the line that night and the next day and so we gambled, stayed put and had an excellent sleep on the second night.
This hotel is simply too handy to avoid whether on business or leisure visit (probably the handiest placed hotel for Colchester Zoo). As a simple rule, when booking say that you don't...In my experience, Holiday Inn hotels pride themselves on the quality of your sleep: beds are uniformly firm and a range of pillows is available that caters for all tastes. Rooms tend to be of a similar standard in all their hotels, which is precisely why the seasoned traveller may be tempted to use them as a default booking.
My issue with their hotel at Eight Ash Green, Colchester is its location. Perfectly placed within 30 drive of the A12, in a rural location handy for Colchester, it is sadly even nearer to the busy railway line. Throughout the night my sleep was constantly interrupted by freight trains of varying length trundling or speeding past.
When I mentioned this the following morning the management offered to move us for our second night and gave us a bottle of wine by way of compensation. This typified the approach of the staff here which we could not fault, they were some of the nicest we had met in hotels.
In actual fact because of travel arrangements, we knew that there were going to be engineering works on the line that night and the next day and so we gambled, stayed put and had an excellent sleep on the second night.
This hotel is simply too handy to avoid whether on business or leisure visit (probably the handiest placed hotel for Colchester Zoo). As a simple rule, when booking say that you don't want a room in the same wing as the one in which the Leisure Club is located. This wing points towards the railway line with rooms 228 and 229 at the end of the corridor nearest the line. My party had these and the two next to them.More
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