Where do I start? We as a family regularly stay in different Premier Inns, usually twice a year, but this was an experience in itself. Travelling down from the North to attend a family party. Stayed 2 nights at another premier inn, then moved on to this one. Arrived at 1.30pm and took advantage of the early check for £10, suited us as we needed to get changed for the party. No drop at the front of the building and the car parking information is shocking. There is no clear signage to say what the current tariffs are. We spent 35 minutes checking in and changing and we were shocked when we entered the reg to leave, and we were charged £7. We didn't have time to look into at this point but enquired on our return; drop off is free for 10 minutes only and after that the shortest tariff is for 6 hours at a price of £7. You can reserve a disabled space, but it's not guaranteed that other cars won't park there despite not displaying a blue badge. Apparently, the hotel has no control over the parking, which is fine if there had been signage and information before entering the carpark. The manager of the day was not overly polite or helpful at check-in, and it was very hard to obtain information from him. We were offered to buy breakfast but told you couldn't book a table and to just come down..it would be busy between 9-10 but food was made to order and it shouldn't be a problem. The room was ok and clean, but a few towels were dirty despite being folded as new/clean in the storage space. Had a decent nights sleep. Breakfast, however, was chaos. I'm not sure if they had staff off sick or they are trying to keep costs down, but it was ridiculous and made fawlty towers look organised. There were 3 members of staff, the cook, the manager and one poor girl trying to do everything. There were no tables ready and we were told it would be a 20 minute wait. OK, fair enough or so we thought. A member of staff took our room number and said we could get a drink...it went downhill from there. The manager had to go into the kitchen to help the cook, but she obviously hadn't been trained in basic food hygiene. No overcoat on or hat, lanyard with keyfob, hand gel and badge dipping down into the food she was trying to plate up. Though admitly despite that she was getting food plated up fast, but there was no-one to serve it as the other girl was trying to fix the coffee machine which kept breaking, was clearing and cleaning tables, trying to refill the continenal buffet and look after the check-in desk. Eventually, a member of housekeeping was asked to come in and help clear tables. Unfortunately for us we had a long drive back and didn't know the area so needed to wait for our table. The food was edible, though very cold by the time we ate it. We had to go up to the kitchen ourselves and take it off the side as the manager had then been called away and the other girl had gone missing so our food just sat there. We lost 2.5 hours of our morning to this chaos. On check
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