Travelodge Milton Keynes Central Hotel
199 Grafton Gate
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK9 1AL
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Milton Keynes Central Travelodge has everything you need for a good night's sleep, offering great value rooms just outside the town centre, with easy access to the M6 and Manchester Airport.
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DATE OF STAY: 6TH SEPTEMBER 2008 NIGHTS: 1 NUMBER OF GUESTS: 20 ** REASON FOR STAY ** We are part of a car club who were attending TRAX motorshow. This was the nearest travelodge that could take 20 of us and wasn't fully booked. Also we wanted a bit of night life for the night before so decided milton keynes would be okay. ** PRICES/BOOKING ** The booking was made by someone else but when i have booked with travelodge before its always been very easy using their online booking system. We paid £19 per room in the £19 sale that had been on earlier in the year. ** LOCATION ** The hotel is situated just off of one of the main roads in milton Keynes, its very easy to miss and we actually drove right past it and had to turn around and come back. Mainly because it looks like offices and nothing like a travelodge. The hotel is in quite a good location, and only a 10 minute walk to all the local pubs and restaurants that Milton Keynes offer. ** PARKING ** Parking for this place is a complete nightmare.. it does say when booking that parking is very limited and well they are right! It wasn't so bad when we arrived because we arrived early and got a space quite easily.. But when the rest of the car club turned up 3 hours later it wasn't easy, especially because we had a big transit van to park as well. We asked the reception about parking and they said to park out on the road etc.. well most people were worried to do that in case they got a ticket, so people were making up their own spaces.. which was not fun in the morning.. I definitely suggest getting there early and leaving later in the morning.. ** RECEPTION ** Well what can i say.. i think a bunch of monkeys would be more organised than the people who were running this hotel! When we arrived we were without the person who made the booking.. he was turning up in a few hours.. well it was raining outside and we had no idea where we were so we weren't going to wait like he suggested doing... We explained this to him and he asked us to "guess" the information that was given when all the rooms were booked.. To be fair we don't know the person that well and he wanted us to guess his address, phone number, credit card details etc.. This was madness.. we managed to convince him we weren't going to be running off with the not so white towels and bible any time soon! So he let us have 1 of the rooms. It seems everyone else had the same problems.. Later on when we came back from our night out we were peckish so we paid for a few items out of the vending machine.. they didnt come out, so the reception guy (same one as before) literally started kicking the vending machine and going slightly mad trying to get the items out for us.. he knocked loads of other items out too and kept them for himself.. ** OUR ROOM ** Well i know travelodge is basic we don't expect much more for £19 but what we found was something that looked like a setting of a horror film.. lol okay not quite that bad but it wasn't pleasant. The room consisted of a bed, desk, mirror, chair, wardrobe, kettle,tea, coffee etc. The bed: if you could call it that.. the legs were broken and it was half on the floor, the mattress was no thicker than a pillow and we only had 1 pillow each and i had a sock that was thicker.. the sheets had some very very suspicious looking stains on them! The mirror was more like a piece of glass, the chair had holes in the material, the net at the window was so dirty! The bathroom wasn't much better i am afraid.. there was a toilet which had seen better days, the sink was falling apart with a big crack in it, the shower over the bath was very powerful but the shower curtain was so filthy i think we would of got dirtier for having a shower.. so we opted to having a wash with my own flannels. The towels we were given looked like they had been washed with coal and didn't smell much better.. ** CHECK OUT ** Couldn't come soon enough and was easy enough as we just handed our key over , told them how disgusting the room was they just shrugged and didn't seem to care and then we legged it lol. Getting out of the car park was NOT FUN! ** MY OVERALL OPINION ** Travelodge need to charge £19 to get anyone in there, it needs a big time refit.. it wasn't just our room we looked at the other 9 rooms that we had and some were worse than ours. I would not stay there again in a hurry unless i was desperate. The only good thing about the hotel is that its close to the pubs etc. The staff are incompetent, it smells and its dirty. I know people will say "what do you expect for £19" but that's silly because other nights they charge £50 and over for them and people must pay it! I feel for them... Please do some work on the place travelodge!
kirsty briant - 16/10/2009 | report this review
Great!
Great little place near train station. McDonalds over the road. Normal Travelodge style. Rooms basic but do the job. Car park round back of hotel a bonus Worth it for a stop over.
N Jones - 30/06/2008 | report this review
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