Holiday Inns - a good value overall (Holiday Inn in general)

Member Name: melldrew2

Product:	Holiday Inn in general
Date:	23/07/01 (150 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy access to main routes, known standard

Disadvantages: sometimes out in the sticks

I travel quite a lot with my job, and in Europe I prefer to drive.
Quite often I have to make overnight stops for one night only - mainly in Germany.
I don't have a limit on what I spend on a hotel and could easily go "top notch" if I felt like it.
But I prefer comfort at a reasonable price, and the Holiday Inn chain seem to offer me that.
I stay at the holiday Inn Aachen or Bonn/Cologne airport quite often as they are on a regular run I take to Italy.
Being usually quite busy I joined the Priority Club, which the chain offer. It is a kind of frequent stayers programme where you can earn points for free weekends and stays etc. The main reason I joined is that I find by using their toll free number, they find me a room on my route, to what spec, I require and usually exactly where. If the one I want is full they find me the closest one.

The rooms are usually well equipped, sometimes TV teamaking facilities, (rare in european hotels) en suite etc.
A good choice of room service menu. I liked the pizza service at Aachen.
The restaraunts are usually quite good- although I wasnt over happy with the recent scandinavian theme they wee running.
Aachen has one restaraunt with adjoining bar, Bonn/Clogne has a large restaraunt with a separate bar which offer good bar meal alternatives.

In the main they tend to be on the outskirts of town (except Dusseldorf which has two - 1 in the city). But they are well site for autobahn exits and entries.
If my wife is with me and we are at the place I go to in Italy we usually spend the weekend in Trieste staying at the Diuno Holiday Inn.
I have also stayed in the far east (China, Beijing, and Indonesia, Jakarta) and found them equally as good.

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