Travelodge Wembley

I have stayed at travelodges before and found them basic but satisfactory. This one, however is of very poor standard.

Firstly, if you are visiting wembley arena or stadium and hoping to save on parking, dont be fooled: This hotel is not really in Wembley proper, and is a 1 hour walk through a rather frightening area, or else two bus rides (92 and 112) and a short but just as frightening walk away.

Secondly, the hotel is generally tatty, with desk staff who were abrupt and unhelpful. On arriving in our rooom, we went to close the windows because of the roar of traffic noise from the north circular road outside, only to realise that the windows were in fact already closed.

For the cost of parking at wembley stadium, you may as well spend a little more and spend the night at the Premiere Inn next to Wembley Park Tube station. Thats what we did, and we were far more impressed. It's the first time I have ever checked out of a hotel I have paid for, before spending more than even half an hour in my room.

Booked one night here for myself and my daughter after the Coldplay concert at Wembley, unfortunately I had booked before looking at the reviews here.

The location although only a 5 minute drive to the stadium is horrendous being on the North Circular in the middle of an old industrial estate. Double glazing should mean a reasonable nights sleep in the front rooms until you spot the gaps around the window which means the noise changes to that of a jet taking off, luckily my daughters room at the back meant she at least got a decent nights sleep.

Reception staff were ok and the room was of a reasonable standard if a litle 'tired'.

The disappointing breakfast confirmed why most travelodges don't do food - cold undercooked bacon, no sausages, cold scrambled egg, cold beans, cold tomatoes and cold mushrooms don't really satisfy my breakfast requirements. Two domestic 2-slot toasters meant a longish wait while you made your own toast (but at least it was hot!) washed down by a decent cup of coffee, sorry I forgot the coffee machine wasn't working, so you had to make yourself a cup of Nescafe.

In conclusion the worst travelodge I have experienced

after paying £49 for the room i expected it to be reasonably nice. but it was in fact truly awful. there were 5 holes in the walls which made me nervous that the people could see me from the next room it smelt like somebody had wet the bed so i asked for a different room and the staff were extremely rude and queried why i'd had a shower and 'dirtied' the room and thought it was unreasonable because they couldn't give the room to somebody even tho they only had to change the towel. after much complaining and saying i'd ring head office they agreed. the next room was slightly better as it only had 4 holes in the wall and a sock over the smoke detector. lovely!!! i decided to stay and had food which came to around £10 it tasted awful and was inedible as the microchef had put it on for a few seconds too much. to top it off the noise from the dual carriageway next to the hotel is so loud i'd just as well slept on the crash barrier. NEVER AGAIN!!!! AVOID!!!!