Why are British hotels so unremitingly crap?

[Fab Foodie]

I rec you've over-valued yourself, kebab and a park bench at best.

You're right of course, but I believe in aiming high!

 

[User482]

No, Best Western are the pits; they specialise in buying up failing hotels and running them on a budget. Most of their places are worn out old house conversions or seventies concrete dumps. Definiteley at the crappy end of the scale.

Not true IME. I stayed in one with good food, a comfortable room, nice leisure centre, and best of all, a whisky bar.

 

[Fnaar]

I don't want a boring list of how the people at Dunroamin in Cleethorpes are lovely), but I think by and large service in hotels in the UK is dramatically below par.

I stayed there once. Run by Peter and Edna Bastard.

 

[srw]

Yeh I like Best Westerns too, they have pools and stuff without so much of the pretentious crap that goes with it.

They're a mixture of the good and the bad. Which reflects the fact that they're not a chain, they're a marketing group of independently owned and run hotels.

 

[gbb]

I rec you've over-valued yourself, kebab and a park bench at best.

..and you're not having any salad with that kebab....think we're made of money !!!

 

[Black Sheep]

[QUOTE 1813891, member: 45"]We stayed at the Redwood last year. It's built like a Lego missile silo, but we must have had one of the better rooms, and the breakfast was ok. It was on a deal though, and we wouldn't have payed the proper price.

I think our problem is that sub-£60 privateers can't compete with the chains. At that price people are happy with a clean room and breakfast, and with the motel lot you know exactly what you're getting. So people just book premiertravelinnlodgexpress.

The best bet here is to find the good B&Bs.[/quote]

my wife and I are at that stage in life where everyone we knew at uni are getting married all over the country,

she looks up prices of local travellodgeinns and then goes looking for b&b's
we've stayed in some great b&b's, some of which were actually a pub.

we've also stayed in a b&b in Scarbrough where, due to the shape of the room, it was obvious a large bedroom had been divided, with what in the morning turned out to be a thin wooden wall, we were woken up to the sounds of another couple enjoying themselves,
we presume it was a couple, could only hear the lady.