Hilton Park Services

If you are traveling to either to Scotland or England there is no doubt at one point you will have to stop at one of these service stations.
Services.
Just as you walk in there is an ATM but it sadly charges you to take out your own money.
Male and female toilets quite a walk upstairs they do look well maintained and clean.
WH Smith shop next to the entrance, they also have inside a costa coffee machine & a self service crispy Crème counter.
Food on offer
There are a few places to eat here from a coffee & cake from the costa coffee shop, a Burger King that’s not that good, there is also another place that serves hot meals such as fried chicken & other main meals but can’t recall what it was called.
There is also an arcade & games room for the kids.
Overall a pretty expensive place at least they don’t charge for the use of the toilets.

Does anyone really like service stations?
This one was like most others that you’ll visit when you fancy being ripped off whilst on a long journey, the difference being is that this one seemed to be bereft of cleaners.
I can maybe understand a sevice station being a bit messy if it is either late at night or early in the morning, but not in the middle of the day.
Expensive and a bit messy, disappointing…

Stopped for BK & loo break. Worst BK I’ve had & toilets rank.

I only stopped for a coffee and that was standard motorway coffee bland and overpriced. Nothing special but nothing disastrous either. Eating areas had been cleared but are not clean. Décor and fittings look a bit tired. Toilets were clean and in working order. Service was poor.

Worth stopping off here for a nice meal at the EDC outlet (as we did on the 31^st May this year) — let the lovely friendly lady (Cathy) serve you an excellent and delicious chick pea curry with rice! She brought ours to the table — the plates even had covers to keep the meals piping hot! There are many other meals available there of course, both hot and cold, full meals or snacks. The man (Ashley — not sure of spelling) who was also serving was really friendly — I must say that he and Cathy made our stop here very pleasant!
The décor is OK in the usual bland sort of way you’d expect and there’s a central eating area with lots of solid chairs and tables.
There’s also a WHSmith, Burger King, Costa (very nice coffees we had there too) and a games room.
All toilets (except for the disabled one) are upstairs but there is a lift available.

Specifically I’m reviewing the «Eat & Drink Co.» which, when I was unlucky enough to end up at Hilton Park services, was the only place offering a hot meal. I wish I hadn’t bothered. It was one of the worst meals I’ve had in my life. After asking for a couple of other items that were off the menu, I got chicken and chips– and that’s literally all I got. No veg, no sauce (not even after asking). There were sachets of salt if I wanted to use them, but no vinegar. The chips were extremely dry, the chicken was tough, the food was too hot and not in that freshly-​cooked way and the service accompanying it was lacklustre to put it mildly.
Next time I’m on that stretch of motorway and desperately hungry I’m going to start chewing the upholstery of my car, instead of eating here.

Another Moto run motorway services, again with M&S outlet and WH Smiths to add some quality — not a bad place really and got Costa Coffee franchise in there.
You can cross the carriageway on foot (using the bridge, silly) if the fancy takes you — not sure what advantage there is in this, must be some unfathomable logistic value there but just eluding me for the moment — well I like pictures and words not deep motorway puzzles.
AND, guess what? Yes, FREE WiFi — log on easy enough and works pretty well.
Good enough.