shock of horror.

We chose the Grosvenor Hotel in Sheffield after checking their website and due to it's fantastic location, walking distance from all the main areas in the city centre.

The picture on their website is really nice. The rooms look simple but cleam and modern.

Well I don't know where that room was but I don't even beleive it's in the same hotel.

I love sheffield but after spending 2 nights there, we couldn't wait to go home.

The place is very akward to get to by car. We spent aging finding the carpark.

We got in the old and dingy elevator to the reception. There a group of men were arguing with the staff. The staff was absolutely un-helpfull and let us wait 15 mins.

We finally got to our room. It was a big room with 2 double beds although we only asked for one. At least it was big. The place was filthy, smelled dusty, windows were cracked and you could barely see through them. The bathroom was moldy and dirty.

The staff was completely uninterested and never apologised. Not an trace of the famous Yorkshire hospitality here!

After two days we were feeling tired and dirty and shorten our stay.

I stayed here one night in September 07 as I was attending a wedding at the nearby City Hall (literally five mins' walk away). I was braced for it being bad given the reviews here, and I wasn't wrong. First impressions are awful - and don't improve.

Parking the car in the hotel's car park is easier if you have night vision goggles (incredibly dingy) and a small car that's easy to manoeuvre (pillars in ridiculous places).

Before checking in I went to the loo in reception and it could have been a municipal city centre public loo. Happily, I was early but they were fine about me checking in before the official check-in time, for which I was grateful. I was told that as I had booked a smoking room (I hadn't - but the room didn't smell of smoke, so it didn't bother me), my room was on the eleventh floor. Both lifts were out of order so I bust a gut lugging my stuff up the stairs. The carpet ran out after the third floor and it had all the air of a block of council flats, or old student digs.

The room was certainly tatty and run-down, but clean. However friends staying in another room said their bedsheets were marked/stained. The window could either be shut, or opened fully with nothing inbetween. The mattress was fine and I slept well (although the booze at the wedding will have helped, of course). The ads on top of the telly for several channels of TV porn were tawdry and naff. The view was awful; not the hotel's fault, but net curtains would have been clever.

Bathroom was adequate although the bulky towel rail means you can't sit on the loo comfortably. Hot water was great although the shower head height is designed for people under five-foot-six.

I did not stay for breakfast, but went to the cafe in John Lewis over the road instead. However there was a free newspaper available in reception when I checked out. Staff were helpful enough but the receptionist did treat me as if I were a bit of an inconvenience.

Overall, I don't know if this hotel was ever nice. Was it zingy and modern when built (1960s)? It has certainly had no obvious investment since then. I paid £54.50 for my double, room-only. It was worth 30-odd. Location is great for the city centre (I didn't have the problem with noisy clubs other reviewers mention; I stayed on a Sunday and they were shut, perhaps), but quality is dire. Never stayed in a Corus hotel before, and am not remotely tempted to stay in another. Should have gone elsewhere and caught a cab from City Hall!

NB: driving in Sheffield was a pain with lots of road works going on, with several closures and unpredictable diversions. Allow plenty of extra time.

The Hotel has seen better days,
we went for a stag party and just stoped one night,
our room was O.K. but dated, beds were comfy and our sheets and towels clean,
Altough other members of the group mentioned dirty rooms and blood on there sheets,
the hotel has its own car park a big plus ! but its not sutible for minibuses as its multistorey and has a low roof,
its a short walk from all the pubs and clubs and is really well located,
breakfast in the morning was very good it had to be for £7.50
Would I go back ?
Yes it wasnt that bad but wouldnt stay for longer than a couple of days though
other members of the stag group proberbly would not !

My boyfriend and I chose the Grosvenor Hotel in Sheffield due to it's fantastic location, just at the top of the Moor and near to all the bars and shops.

Unfortunately, having just spent 2 nights there, the location is literally the only good thing we have to say about it!!

To summarise:
- Grimy, dirty, dark, dingy and dusty
- Unhelpful staff on reception - customer service it wasn't!
- Only one lift ever seemed to work and you had to wait up to 10 minutes for the lift
- The door to our room stuck, which resulted in us being locked out when we returned to the hotel at 2.30 in the morning. We went to reception and asked the porter to help us and the lift took so long to come that he decided to take us through the kitchens and use the service list, saying 'this lift is so scary - it's 45 years old and is being ripped out next year' - encouraging!!
- The hotel is across the road from a club with the loudest, boomiest music you've ever heard - bang bang bang bang!! And we were on the 8th floor!
- The bed squeaked like nothing I've ever heard before - cunningly though, it was so narrow that you weren't actually able to move, which minimised the squeaks
- You had to run the water for about 20 minutes before the water got hot - not good when you're in a rush!

There were rumours that this hotel is being knocked down next year, which could explain their lack of improvements, but they need to knock back prices as I paid a standard hotel price and received a shoddy service.

If you're considering going here, think again!!