Budget Hotel (Travelodge Silverlink (Newcastle-upon-Tyne))

Member Name: jensibobs

Product:	Travelodge Silverlink (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Date:	20/04/09 (67 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Clean

Disadvantages: fair way from Newcastle city centre

I have stayed in a few budget hotels in my time, and a fair few of them have been a Travelodge - so when my and my sister decided to desend on Newcastle for the weekend, all we wanted was somewhere clean to rest our head!

We paid £19 to stay good friday - we was aware it was several miles outside the city centre and tried to work out roughly cost of taxi's based on distance from places in our home town to the city centre.

Firstly the taxi was £10 by a private hire car and knocking on £20 in a black cab.

The hotel staff was very polite, friendly and helpful. The reception is 24hr and was very clean and there was ample parking space and a retail park across the way which had a macdonalds.

The bar is open 24hrs and had internet access and various vending machines.

Breakfast was around £7 which was all you can eat with a large selection to choose from.

You needed the card key to access the rooms on each floor.

Now the disappointment was the room - majority of the rooms over looked the retail park opposite or the roof - but i suspose only staying 1 night, it doesnt really matter that much!

The room was clean, tidy with extra towels and pillow -however our carpet was coming away from the wall and unlike other travelodges or hotels i have stayed in there was no shampoo, conditioner or shower gel. But there was hand soap and two plastic beakers.

There was also a travel ketle with 2 cups and a selection of tea and coffee and a 15" LCD TV with inbuilt freeview.

To sum up this hotel, clean(ish), friendly & polite staff and reasonable for the price.

Summary: cheap & cheerful hotel