Travelodge

I booked into this Travelodge which is known as Travelodge West End (69 Belford Rd). This is a bit misleading as West End to me means Shandwick Place. My room/​bathroom is clean and bright and has a window facing the main road (Room 518) but not too noisy. The staff are friendly and helpful. Lovely places for walks. The food so far has been good and the prices for staying at a Travelodge hotel are affordable. Fantastic news in times of recession!

The rooms are clean. Also small, very poorly lit (no desk lamp even on request, so dark at night you can’t even write a letter), and worst of all, they smell. The bathrooms in all 3 of our rooms stank of mildew. The rooms themselves smell bad, perhaps because there’s a brewery nearby putting out hops or yeast? The front staff are nice but terrifically overworked. There’s next to nothing within walking distance. There were some drunks screaming in the lobby and just outside it at about 2 am, and no one bothered stopping them or calling the police. It went on for a full half hour, and started up an hour later again with no one intervening. I would not stay here again, even if someone else paid for it.