I Stayed in a Holiday Inn Express! Convenient, but was it worth the Money?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- Hello everyone! Thought I'd do another accommodation review video and this is one from my recent travels around Scotland. I've been in many Holiday Inn Express hotels before but there was something special about this one - the view!
Have a look and let me know if you'd stay here and whether you think it's worth the money.
Thanks as always guys for taking the time to watch my videos. All likes, comments, subs are massively appreciated and it really encourages me to make more content for you all to enjoy.
Cheers for now.
Mark
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📖Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:44 - Breakfast
03:50 - Room Tour
08:07 - Summary
Another great review. This also reminded me to sort out my Ko fi membership for you. All done now. if anyone else is contemplating it, it is well worth it.
Thanks Gemma and welcome back 😊 Just to add, I’ve uploaded some pics onto Ko-fi to accompany this video. They’re open to everyone guys, you don’t have to be a member to see them (though that would be very much appreciated if you did want to sign up 😊).
There's something I just love about staying at an Airport Hotel the night before a flight, it just adds to the pre holiday atmosphere. Liking the Hotel reviews. :)
Cheers Eunos, same here (although I must confess, I was catching a bus the next morning on this occasion!).
I'd always pick a holiday inn over a premier inn ❤
Collecting the points mate 👍
Ah great to see this pop up tonight! Aye, Dublin hotels are ridiculously expensive, the number of times I've found cheap flights and then realised I can't afford to stay over! Looks like a pretty good deal here though, I'll bear it in mind! Some hotels around the world charge £50 for the breakfast alone :D
Cheers Steve, don’t know about you but I find Aberdeen hotels in-particular are better value than other Scottish cities for comparable dates. I gave up on Dublin in the end and, like I said, it was cheaper to get a flight + hotel somewhere else!
Probably good value because of the amount so offshore traffic arriving and departing - Aberdeen is the only year-round UK destination from my local airport - Norwich - which is also very busy for the rigs, but not much else!
Always nice to recognise great staff and great service👍
Absolutely Sheila 👍
I’ve increasingly been using Holiday Inn Express for a while over Premier Inn and now try my best to use them whenever I can. The hotels, staff and service are pretty consistently good. Sadly not the case with PI who also have some hotels that are pretty long in the tooth. I believe HIE are a class above. Great review as always.
‘There’d be room for 3 people - perish the thought’ 😂 cracked me up that!
Quality video as always!
Think I might have got a strike off TH-cam if I’d released that video 😂 Cheers mate 👍
1.5 per bed 😂
@@LetsMakeaTrip haha!!
I have stayed in a couple of Holiday inn Express hotels. Last time booked 4 nights near ramsgate for £212 total. Premier inn close by was £210 for 4 nights so staying at the Holiday inn Express was a no brainer. Im mean breakfast for both of us for 4 days would have been £80 in the premier inn. Really great staff and good food during the stay. Enjoyed your video
Great Video Mark, You should review the Holiday Inn on Bath Road in Heathrow, That is something else! It's so comfy .. and the breakfast.... Is fantastic you can make your own Waffles! Again, great video and perfect timing as I love HI at the minute after staying in the one in Heathrow Bath Road a few months back.
Luv these down to earth. Reviews.. so entertaining.. and honest.. 👍
Cheers Brioche, thanks for another comment too - much appreciated 😊👍
Brilliant little hotel review, looked well nice,.i'm impressed ,.cheers,.
It was Mike, especially with the breakfast included 👍
Enjoyed this, we’ve stayed at quite a few Holiday Inns, both the normal ones and the Express ones. We’ve found the breakfast is more extensive at the normal ones, but an advantage of the Expresses is that they actively encourage you to take some food for later which is quite rare! I think it’s because people might be in a hurry so they can just grab what they want and take it to eat elsewhere.
Good price inc brekkie …we paid about £80 recently at prem inn Edinburgh airport 👍🏻
Ever thought of visiting Stay City apartment hotels. Several all over Dublin. Also RCI timeshare apartment s. I prefer apartments to hotels. As an avgeek I spent two nights at Heathrow Hilton some years ago. The window was like a giant tv screen of aircraft coming and going.
Hi David. No that’s not a name I’m familiar with tbh. I do like the Premierinn T4 at LHR which is also good for airport views if you ask for a room high up overlooking the planes. I’ve found they’re pretty accommodating with all that too. Cheers 😊👍
Love the videos Mark. Keep up the good work
Cheers mate, thanks for commenting 😊👍
Hi Mark. Wow what a bargain. Over the years I have stayed on lots of chain hotels like the Campanile and whilst it's France centric they have a small number here too. They are quite variable depending on where they are but maybe one for the future. This was though another well produced video. All the best.
Thanks David, Campanile, I have heard of them but like you say, I thought it was a French thing only tbh
Oh my god this is the hotel I use the most when I go offshore! I find it better value as you get the breakfast which you don’t get with Premier Inn. Plus you get points which you can use for future stays. Remember everything there is priced for the offshore worker. You would know if there issues with flights offshore as that hotel would be rammed full with oil workers at the bar!! The staff have always been superb in there, and believe me they put up with a lot in there
Small world and all that Walter! Interesting comment this and presumably why there does seem to be lots more hotels around here than I would otherwise have expected. Yes very quiet when I was there and cheap considering it was also a Saturday night. But like you say, if it’s for the workers I can see why and it’s probably not the place you want to go to for a weekend break either.
I stayed in the moxy at Aberdeen airport few weeks ago. £50 for a night. Surprised at the cluster of hotels there now
Wow that's pretty reasonable with breakfast included,nice hotel tour
Look out walk with me tim.
Haha, cheers Greg, I’m not sure Tim’s got a lot to be worried about 😂 (would love his viewing figures mind!).
Holiday inn Express is my international go to. I have IHG membership so it helps. Excellent value for money. Cheers Mark.
Cheers, I have IHG too - does help. Had a free week in Mexico last year 😊
@@LetsMakeaTrip Cool! I was just pricing an Aberdeen stay...I am thinking of doing the ferry to Lerwick.
Comfortable room well equipped and friendly staff, can't really complain for the money, stay safe and thanks.
Cheers Simon, yep, great hotel and staff rightly praised as they were excellent 👍
That's good value for that Holiday Inn Express particularly at an Airport. Just paid over £200 for 2 nights just outside of Bristol this weekend (yes bank hol weekend but still a bit steep). It was 50% to more than 100% more to stay in the city! Not worth the money my end I must say. Your hotel looked more modern than the one I was in. Mine needed a bit of a refresh. Was your breakfast hot? Mine didn't quite get to that standard but was acceptable none the less and it's good that it's included with the room.
0:25 Yellow Car!
Seemed pretty good value for money. Definitely much better than Ibis, where I got charged £57/night. Yet breakfast in Ibis was ridiculous, but the room very comfy
Ibis I’ve found are a bit ‘hit and miss’. Pretty sure HI are a bit more consistent (in my experience anyway£. Cheers mate 👍
Very interesting - I've only stayed in a HIE once and that was in Edinburgh city centre. It wasn't during Festival time but was still twice what you paid. Great price, though - especially if you're going to watch planes all day 🙂
Liked Aberdeen, though and the Loganair flights to Shetland 🛩
Yep, I find Aberdeen particularly good value for hotels in Scotland and I love the city too!
Wow great value for an airport hotel that is walkable to the terminal.
Agree Paul. Lot of budget hotels on the outskirts of towns not so good for people using public transport 👍
I stay in the one in the Auckland CBD every month or so, it's fine. Everything you might reasonably want for a night
Cheers Dave, I agree.
Very reasonable. I stayed in the HIE in Gibraltar a few weeks ago and paid £115.
I try not to pay more than £100 a night tbh but not sure whether that’s good or bad for Gib at this time of year?
What an excellent bargain, room and breakfast just slightly more expensive than the parking...lol!
Haha, yep, good point!
They are rather pricey in my experience but more upmarket than the Travelodge although I wouldn't pay the extra if I could avoid it!I don't do breakfast and value a hotel with a 12hr checkout and I find it amazing some still have a 10hr checkout!
I've stayed in many HIXs in my time, and they're all of a likeness (including tomorrow night!) My only gripe is the scrambled eggs - I'm sure they're dehydrated! Everything else is spot on! (except maybe the spelling on their signage - that one was also in Aberdeen!)
Maybe it’s all an ‘American thing’ 😂
Wow. 54 quid including breakfast is fantastic value. We have a campervan and this year the nightly fees are £42 a night. This does NOT include breakfast. So if we buy items to cook for breakfast and the cost of gas or electricity for cooking it and our time spent over our stove this difference is negligible. If we camp but wander down to a local eatery and purchase a breakfast then I reckon it would more. So thanks for the review.
On a general note thanks for your reviews on all your travel vlogs they are informative and entertaining. We particularly appreciate your time spent on long distance coach journeys ,getting a numb bum so we don't have too. Hero. Lol. Again appreciate your time effort and commitment 👍👍👍👍
Hi Ed, well many thanks for the kind words and encouragement. I had this same quandary a few years back and had several camper vans. Honestly, they were just money pits really, the whole thing just got more and more expensive and I’m not surprised to hear the price of pitching up on campsites these days. I just thought I good get a room in a budget hotel for around the same price with a decent bed and, importantly, a good, private, shower. I’d never go back to camper vans now but, then again, for some people it’s a lifestyle choice and I wish them all the best on that. Cheers 😊👍
I know it's April but quite surprised the price includes breakfast seems a great deal
Yep, breakfast always included with HIE👍
Walsall art gallery when they built the new gallery had those weird blue lights put into toilet cubicles, when I asked why I was told it was to discourage needle use as it makes it pretty impossible to find blue under the skin veins in order to inject oneself, wether that is correct I’ve no idea but it does seem plausible
What an interesting comment - wouldn’t have even crossed my mind that. Though in the bathroom you can put the normal lights on anyway so if you’re really desperate. Tell you what though Poggy, I’ll ask next time I’m staying and see what they say. Cheers 😊👍
Very good, Mark .It looks like a really decent place. Apparently, due to the oil industry, Aberdeen Airport has the most helicopter movements in the UK.
Yes I heard somewhere it’s like the busiest helicopter ‘airport’(?) I might have mentioned that in one of my earlier videos somewhere, long forgotten tbh but yep, you have the constant drone of rotor blades. My next vid out on Friday you can hear them quite clearly in the background 👍
I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Cheers Mark
@@LetsMakeaTrip Yes when observing Flightradar24 there does seem to be a lot of flights but I think daytime only mainly, also I find that there is also a lot of helicopter activity at the Air Defence School based at Shawbury in Shropshire, lots of night time movements, but of course that is military and not commercial, anyway just worked it out Mark….not Paul as I referred you as in a video a few weeks ago, the hotel was very similar to one my wife and I use from time to time about three miles from where we live in West Bromwich, The hotel is near to Jcn 2 of the M5 in Oldbury , we are both getting on a bit and we like to spoil ourselves, leave the car at home, catch the bus ( Free travel ) and stay for one night, plenty to drink, hopefully no night time activities going on in the adjoining rooms , and just a good nights rest and a good hearty plenty to eat breakfast, and yes Mark worth every penny, thanks for a good review…..Poggy
When are you and @stevemarsh making a collaborative video somewhere in Scotland?! Would be quality mate!
I’d love to! You must leave him a comment to that effect on one of his videos 😊
Another good review but one with which I can supply a little bit of history. I worked for Holiday Inns back in the late 70's for what was then the CHIC division, which operated the first H I Hotels in the UK, about 6 properties then, within which Aberdeen was their first Scottish hotel location. H I was then, a new concept to the usual UK Hotel operational style, now recognisable everywhere across the UK.
H I Aberdeen had its advantages for the rest of the group, as the company Inspectors always started at Aberdeen and by the time that "nit-picking team" arrived at my workplace at HI Heathrow, we were all well aware of what aspects they scored badly and what they rated highly; of course we always had perfect scores!!!
Your rate of £50 for the day isn't bad but obviously driven by Head Office policies; there are some Hotels both chain and independently owned that may charge lower, but it is always dependent on location too.
Cheers Iain, I’m sure you can tell me that yep, location is a major factor in the pricing. I stayed in Mexico City last year with Holiday Inn - really cheap (I just used points for a whole week) but I’ve found this year, bargains with IHG are hard to come by. £50 though like I said, I’d quite happily stay here again especially with the breakfast included. 👍
Yep great price with food ! Little john from chichester
Cheers LJ. Agree, if no free breakfast I might have chosen Premierinn but yep, this was better value imho.
That was cheap! Btw there's a great path right next to Dyce station which joins the disused Buchan line, crossing the River Don and leading North to Buchan. I got as far as the bridge over the Don as it started raining. If ever you'll be in Dublin again, and I'm sure you will be, try the Castle Hotel, cheap and nice.
Cheers for the info, I’ll try both those recommendations next time. That path at ABZ sounds fantastic 👍😊
Really good value. Are all rooms is in the same layout in Holiday Inn Express ?
I would imagine so unless they do the equivalent of a ‘premier plus’ room. You should get the option when booking if there is such a thing.
I still don't think Premier Inn can be quite beaten for that little extra but the Holiday Inn express you've been in does seem very good accommodation for a reasonable price
I do prefer the beds in a Premierinn, you know what you’re going to get every time. Actually somewhere I’d like to review is a Premierinn Hub - they have been excellent in my experience, especially the soundproofing. The only other thing I maybe should’ve mentioned is loyalty. You can get IHG points with Holiday Inn and there’s no loyalty with PI (as far as I’m aware). Cheers John 👍
@@LetsMakeaTrip I loved PIs beds so much I bought one of their Hypnos mattresses from their website although I did bulk at the pillow prices! I suppose "knowing what you're going to get" is half the issue with PI as every room in every location is pretty much identical whereas sometimes it's nice to have different decor or ambience.
@@LetsMakeaTrip It's also amazing how these chains manage soundproofing be it at airports or next to busy nightclubs/high streets. It's a little disappointing to not be able to open a conventional window but certainly a worthy price to pay for a restful night sleep... Especially having just came back from a Blackpool stay where you can hear every move from annoying hen/stag parties in any other B&B near the front normally!
The blue lights are to discourage people who inject naughty substances into their arms.
Yes I heard that somewhere else, never thought about it before. Then there was a normal light in there as well which could just be turned on 👍
Much cheaper than the premiere inn in Inverness. Nearly £130 PN with breakfast in late September last year.
I can believe it. Check out the premier inn in Oban for summer, I was shocked!
Breakfast looked good..
Yep, I don’t see much difference between this and a Premierinn really for breakfast and if you stay with them, they’re going to want an extra £9.99 (or I guess you can tie it in with a ‘meal deal’’). I would say PI beds are better personally but apart from that, there’s not much in it. The other thing is you get IHG loyalty points with Holiday Inn 👍
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Love a premier inn breakfast more. #controversial as macmaster would say lol.
I’ve had good and bad Premierinn breakfasts. I don’t love them tbh, think they’re adequate but no more than that.
Id love to stay in a holiday Inn but they ask for photo ID, I don't drive or go abroad lol.. looks nice though 👍
Hi Sarah, I didn’t realise that and I’m not sure I was asked tbh. I am an IHG member so may be worth signing up to that. Either way, I’d ask them about the photo ID thing as it shouldn’t really be a thing. Cheers 😊👍
@@LetsMakeaTrip ok thanks and no worries 😊
I’ve stayed at the Bradford one many times since 2008 and the Middlesbrough one twice and have never been asked for ID. Both hotels are pretty good. The Bradford one used to have reliability problems with the lifts but this was fixed with an overhaul a few years ago.
@@srfurley oh ok sounds good 👍
Great video as always although I’m a little disappointed no one bumped their head in this video 😂
Haha, yep I should’ve tried harder! I stubbed my toe on the chair but that was off camera unfortunately 😂
@@LetsMakeaTrip great content as always!
Why did your hair look so untidy at the start of the video?
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premier inn is a rip off,