Good location near the town centre and within walking distance of the train station. The rooms and facilities are very much what you expect from the Premier Inn chain. Staff were friendly, the hotel was clean, breakfast was fine and I got a good nights sleep.

The parking situation is well explained by others who have reviewed this hotel. How the adjacent car park is managed is obviously outside the control of Premier Inn. It is a pain not being able to get an overnight ticket before 6pm and then having to get back before 7 or 8 am the following day to 'top up'.

Overall good stay for 1 night at a decent price.

We stayed here for a show at the Birmingham NEC – it was only 10 mins away and cheaper than staying at the Premiere Inn next to the NEC. But I guess the old saying “you get what you pay for” comes alive here!

There is no onsite parking. The parking outside the hotel is pay and display up until 8am, after which it is max 30 min stay. There is a car park directly next to the hotel to compensate.

The pillows had stains on the white pillow cases and the bathroom smelled like it had been wiped down with a smelly damp cloth (you know the smell when you don’t air dry your clothes properly!)

The shower rail actually fell off whilst my sister was in the shower and narrowly missed giving her a Harry Potter forehead scar!

Breakfast was unmanned so one could actually walk straight in and help themselves without paying (as was demonstrated by some cheeky guests!) – it’s actually £8.95 per person.

Overall, the hotel needs to tidy up their rough edges.