We booked a weekend away and stayed for one night in the Thurrock Formula1 "hotel".
The sat nav happily sent us through the Dartford toll crossing, then got us to do a U turn because it was convinced that there was a slip road off the QE bridge to the hotel forcing us to go right over the QE bridge again. We then turned round and went through the dartford crossing again and tried to manually navigate to the hotel with more success.
So we had to pay 3 toll crossing as well when we only really needed to pay the one!
Anyhow, if you were wanting cheap accomodation the F1 is not worth it. £33 per night and I felt ripped off. The toilets were were told were in the corridors, not ensuite, and it smelled literally like people had used the corridors. The toilets were those horrible self cleaning jobs. The lock on the room was dodgy to say the least and we were greeted in our room, not with WELCOME enjoy your say messages but 2 notices.
1) The TV is alarmed - do not nick it. It will not work if you do nick it. (The TV was about 12 inches in size anyway and offered a dizzying 3.5 channels to choose from anyway!)
2) Do not disconnect the smoke alarm. £60 fine if you do and the authorities will be notified.
If the room had been painted grey I would be convinced it was a prison cell, although they do have an ensuite toilet!
I didn't realise that hotels could be reduced to the level of a vending machine but they've managed it. Travellodge next time then.
The sat nav happily sent us through the Dartford toll crossing, then got us to do a U turn because it was convinced that there was a slip road off the QE bridge to the hotel forcing us to go right over the QE bridge again. We then turned round and went through the dartford crossing again and tried to manually navigate to the hotel with more success.
So we had to pay 3 toll crossing as well when we only really needed to pay the one!
Anyhow, if you were wanting cheap accomodation the F1 is not worth it. £33 per night and I felt ripped off. The toilets were were told were in the corridors, not ensuite, and it smelled literally like people had used the corridors. The toilets were those horrible self cleaning jobs. The lock on the room was dodgy to say the least and we were greeted in our room, not with WELCOME enjoy your say messages but 2 notices.
1) The TV is alarmed - do not nick it. It will not work if you do nick it. (The TV was about 12 inches in size anyway and offered a dizzying 3.5 channels to choose from anyway!)
2) Do not disconnect the smoke alarm. £60 fine if you do and the authorities will be notified.
If the room had been painted grey I would be convinced it was a prison cell, although they do have an ensuite toilet!
I didn't realise that hotels could be reduced to the level of a vending machine but they've managed it. Travellodge next time then.