Ramada Jarvis Bolton

My sister and I attended the wedding reception of our friend and fellow Unilocaler Lesley B here on Saturday. We also managed to get a room here for the night.
This Ramada hotel is well loacted, about a minute from the M61 motorway and a few minutes from the Reebok stadium, home to Bolton Wanderers. Fortunately, we were here on a non footballing weekend and we didn’t have to share the premises with lots of football fans.
The hotel has some nice amenities like a health centre, endorsed by Sebastian Coe himself, no less. Obviously, running the 2012 Olympics campaign still leaves him some free time on his hands! The health centre has a nice pool, spa bath and sauna as well as a gym.
We had a really good wedding reception and the most important thing was that Lesley and Andrew really had a good time. It was a joyful occasion shared with friends and family and revellers of all ages joined in the ceilidh dancing.
The kitchen however did struggle at times — there was a long gap between main course and dessert and I saw the suden appearance of the managers on the floor, helping to serve the dessert. The service for the dinner started well but did go downhill as the wheels gradually came off. There was little sign of teas and coffees at the end of the dinner.
Fortunately, this didn’t detract from Lesley and Andrerw’s enjoyment of their day but I wonder if the hotel struggled to cope with having more than one wedding party going on that evening.
They did give us a good rate for the room — £30 per person for the night. I’m not sure if that was a special rate for the wedding but it was good value for that class of hotel.