Holiday Inn Express Rotherham North, an IHG Hotel

Value for money

Accessible room was not very good. The room was freezing, and we had to get a heater from the reception. the Wet room needs more hand rails as there's no rail near the door my wife was going in the shower when the door closes on her fingers, also the light switch near the beds are too far away you have to get out of bed to turn the lights on or off. possible fault with the new TV I was unable to watch it sat in the chair as the TV screen went blank when too close. Tap in the wet room, loose Tiling around the sink needs attention and top it off no hot water thd next morning. not forgetting the house keeping staff letting thd door close on its own making a loud bang each time

Unfortunately, I didn't read the other reviews before arriving at the hotel, BIG mistake. At the entrance sat two men, one either side of the door. This unnerved me a little, after several minutes at the desk waiting for the very nice polite man to find my room, I realised the two men were security. The man on the desk said he couldn't find my room on the system, I'd booked a twin room. Instead he offered me an accessible room, only staying for one night I agreed to take this room. The lighting was dim and we decided to open the curtains, this meant we could turn off the lights. only we couldn't because the light switch by the bedside lamp was broken. We returned to reception and told them about the light. The nice man apologised and moved us to another room this time on the second floor. The smell of food, hit us as we got out of the lift, children were playing in the corridor and in the stair well. In the room we found a double and a sofa bed even though I had asked if it was a proper single bed and reassured it was. In the bathroom at first glance it looked okay, but when I looked in the shower their was soap scum around the plug hole from a prior customer, Yuck! Also I noticed when washing my hands at the sink the overflow was blocked with scum and who knows what. Because we had places to be, we didn't complain. We came back to the hotel around 10:30pm and it was very quiet in the main area. In the room we put on the TV which was very loud, the remote didn't work and the buttons on the TV didn't work so we turned it off again. The next morning we had a light breakfast and left. We will never book into this hotel again, I would rather pay more and stay at the Premier Inn half a mile down the road. Talking to locals they said the hotel is used as a half way house for refugees and for people who have just got out of prison.