Got this through Priceline for an overnight stay on our way to India via London. Reasonably close to the airport -- shuttle costs $2.50/person. Run down, peeling wallpaper, really tired looking, across the street from a gas station and convenience store -- all in all, just another motel close to the airport.
Would pay a few more bucks to stay in a comfortable place.

Decided to stay here for one night as the prices in the Gatwick area were ASTRONOMICAL!! This was the only good thing about this hotel. Bus to the hotel (H3) comes every :30 minutes but it has no place to store luggage so everyone, despite their physical condition, must drag there bags up and into the bus as there is no storage area on the bottom, this included elderly people and women with many bags and children in tow. It was as if England just discovered tourism 2 weeks ago. Check in took awhile, the room was fair and in the bathroom the facia was coming off the walls and the shower sprayed out in 360 degrees thus neccesitating a well closed shower curtain. The restaurant charged me $16.00 or 8 pounds for a tuna salad, beer was extra. Gatwick Airport, while less of a refugee camp then its older brother Heathrow, bulged at the seams and security seemed to go out of its way to anger everyone. I made 10 seperate flights on this tour and Gatwick was the only one who made me check my carry on bag. I would suggest that the U.K. either shape up its airports from the current third world ghetto stage or issue an all points bulliton for tourists NOT to come and visit for the next 10 years!

What can I say that hasn't already been said? I can usually find something positive to say about hotels but this place really is very bad. I'm just relieved that we arrived at 11pm and left for our flight at 5.30 the next morning!

The decor in the main parts of the hotel is tired with peeling paint and bare boards in places - tape on the carpet to hold it down and stop people tripping over it. Our room was small and had a musty smell with tired decoration. The bathroom was teeny and very slippery when the fllor was wet. We actually managed to lock ourselves out of the bathroom from the outside so we were in the room itself and couldn't get the bathroom door to open!! We rang reception and a very helpful man arrived fairly quickly with a screwdriver - he managed to get the door unlocked but told us we had to be careful when shutting the bathroom door or it might happen again!! The room was very hot so we had to sleep with the window open which was very noisy especially as it seemed that just outside our window was where people congregated to smoke, so we had people chatting outside our window all night. I reckon I got about 2 hours sleep. I couldn't believe that we had to pay a fiver each for the 'courtesy' bus to and from the airport - never had to pay for any of the courtesy busses when we've stayed at airport hotels before.

We waited yonks for the bus on the way back from our holiday and luckily when we got back to the hotel our car was still there and they had our car keys - others weren't so lucky, staff on reception couldn't locate one poor familes car key, they just kept holding up keys saying is this one yours!! A manager eventually came out to assist the reception staff who didn't speak much english and was frankly just plain rude.

All in all I'd say look elsewhere - not worth it even if it is just somewhere to lay your head overnight before a flight.

Don't stay there, really. Such a grim place stuck on a roundabout with no escape. Courtesy coach from Gatwick decided to wait for forever at one of the stops to change drivers. I'm sure the driver thought his endless banter was funny. It wasn't.

Check in was hopeless. Check in girls asking unecessarily for information but couldn't understand when it was given to them. We had to repeat the postcode 6 times before giving up and writing it down. We asked for the times of the coach in the morning and were told at 10 to and 20 past the hour. We said we would get the 10 to 10. She told us that wouldn't get us there early enough and we needed the 20 past 10.....

Everything rather grubby and run down from the filthy canopy on the way in to the taped down carpet, flaked and stained paint everywhere in the room. The heat in the room was intolerable even with the window open and the pathetic fan full on. No chance of sleep at all.

Restaurant was completely empty - not surprising if it matched the standards of the rest of the hotel.

Pub attached to the hotel served absolutely average food. It has a place to sit outside but the charm of the garage and Sainsburys has limited charm.

Can't think of a positive thing to say.