Holiday Inn, Ashford Central

We went down for a wedding and were actually reasonably impressed. It's in a good location just 3 minute walk from Ashford town centre; although some might say this isn't far enough! It is easily accessible from the M20. The rooms are spacious and kitted out with tv and various drink-making facilities. The hotel will order you a newspaper in the morning and the rooms are kept immaculately clean. The bathroom has one of those power-shower things which I personally prefer to one that just dribbles water on you. For the happy couple, I believe the Honeymoon suite even had a Jacuzzi. There is a nice bar downstairs with a decent selection of drinks at ...  Read the complete review

This review will possibly suffer from the usual DooYoo capitalisation problem. I've never managed to get my head around this - despite kind offers of help! I do hope that you enjoy the content, nevertheless! Regular readers - and I love you all to bits - will no doubt once again raise their eyebrows Heavenwards in supplication one more time when they read that I've just stayed in a hotel in Ashford, Kent. This time, however successfully I have managed to root out an undesirable holiday location - and, believe me, it is - there was method in my madness. It may be a convenient conference location, but there are certainly better centres from which to ...  Read the complete review