First of all, I want to thank the people who posted the walking directions from the North terminal. I would like to add that the mentioned "Gathering Area" signs were either invisible (6:30 PM) or were easy to overlook; but your main guiding point should be the merging upper (departures) and lower (arrivals, where you get off) decks; from the merging point make a left, walk for a couple of minutes, cross the road towards the BP gas station, go through the bushes encircling the hotel's parking lot towards the main entrance (illuminated electric purple at night time).

The rooms are good, the staff is courteous, the amenties are all right. When using the hotel's phones with a c/c the rates are highway robbery but the hotel sells its own Premier-something-phonecards with the five times lower rates; don't forget to purchase them at reception since you find it out only after you get to your room and then it's too late to go back etc. Of course for $130-plus a night you can get a palace (compared to this hotel) in the US but the location beats everything else. Not bad at all... great for passengers departing from the North terminal.

I stayed here and left my car in the car park when I went on holiday. As usual the Premier Inn is good value for money and customer service is a strong point. It really took the stress out of getting an early flight and I also stayed on the way back as I did not want to drive late a night.

A positive experience I will be taking advantage of again.

You get what you pay for. The location is hard to beat. Minutes from the south terminal. We parked our rental car there for the night and droped it next door to the terminal the next morning. The rooms are specious and well equipted. The food is not gourment but you drive elsewhere easily. Sure, it's a "machine" but it's a nice machine!

I inquired if I could walk to the hotel but was told that it was too far to walk so I waited 20 minutes for the shuttle bus. The cost was £2 which would have been fair enough if I hadn't been on the bus for 22 seconds! I could have walked the distance in 2 minutes. How dare they charge £2 for a 22 second journey?! Defies belief! The hotel is run-down and cramped. The rooms are horrible, the bathrooms don't event have plugs. Awful, absolutely awful. Every single staff member I encountered looked harrassed and was rude. The rooms are stinking hot and there was a lot of noise outside all night, including what I can only imagine were delivery lorries beeping to get someone's attention. We made a reservation at the restaurant for 20:30 but were told to wait - 15 minutes later we were still waiting and rather than apologise for the delay, they simply treated us as if we were a nuisance. Unfortunately though this is the cheapest hotel around and so is guaranteed a busy flow of guests...but what an awful way to start your holiday. Never again!