By Fiona Duncan 800AM GMT twenty-one March 2010
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Brighton"s Premier Inn is five mins from the post 
Oxford is not remarkable for the bill hotels, but the Premier Inn lies usually 3 miles out of locale 
The Yotel, Gatwick, is well locatated for travellers with early flights 
Cardiff"s Big Sleep highway residence is close to the Millennium Stadium Budget hotels suggest a at large varying grade of worth for money. Just since they are poor doesn"t meant they are worth staying in a poor sequence highway residence that requires a two-mile cab float in to locale from the ring highway might not be worth your money, however little. But a poor highway residence that additionally occupies a good place subsequent to the London Eye, say, or unaware rolling Worcestershire scenery that"s a conflicting story afterwards it becomes a genuine bargain.
More UK highway residence reviews More UK legal holiday ideas Britain"s cosiest hotels for winter Great nation residence hotels The Queen Mother"s prime highway residence Britain 2010 place to live guideHere are the twenty-five bill sequence hotels that take up the infancy enviable locations in the country.
Mecure Francis, Bath
The Francis occupies a Grade I listed, mellow mill construction in Bath"s largest Georgian square, with the Roman Baths, Royal Crescent and Thermae Bath Spa all inside of strolling distance. Other plusses embody friendly, beneficial staff and parking (�12 for twenty-four hours). On the down side, infancy of the bedrooms, bathrooms and community areas are really bad in need of a little TLC.
Queen Square (0122 24105; mercure.com); from �82Ibis, Belfast Queen"s Quarter
Ibis has dual new hotels in Belfast one in the city centre, the alternative in the Queen"s Quarter, a district buzzing with smart coffee shops, bars, restaurants and boutiques. The (small) bedrooms here are unadulterated and warm, with really gentle beds. Street parking outward is free, and it"s a 10-minute travel to the centre, with the overwhelming Botanic Gardens nearby.
75 University Street (02890 333366; ibishotel.com); from �49Village Hotel, Bournemouth
The location, conflicting the General Hospital on the hinterland of Bournemouth, might not arrange as one of the glorious but guest are compensated for the lifeless environment with an glorious camp centre comprising outrageous indoor pool, and showering room pool, steam room, showering room and gym, enclosed in the cost of a room. If you are on vacation Bournemouth for the object and sand, but it"s raining, this is the place to stay.
Wessex Fields, Deansleigh Road (0844 847 2972; village-hotels.co.uk); from �75Premier Inn, Brighton City Centre
With Brighton"s engorgement of costly and mostly unsatisfactory boutique hotels, bill place to live creates a essential choice, withdrawal copiousness of slot income for the city"s nightlife and shopping. This five-storey dilemma construction on North Street is usually five mins from The Lanes and the Pier, and less than a mile from the station. Roomy, � la mode open areas, with integrated restaurant; atmospheric bedrooms; beneficial staff.
144 North Street (0870 990 6340; premierinn.co.uk); from �29Travelodge, Burford
On the A40 roundabout, a short travel from Burford"s poetic tilted high street, and ideally placed for furloughed the area, the Travelodge is housed in a large Cotswold mill construction and is a singular e.g. of a bill sequence highway residence in a farming setting. What you save on accommodation, outlay on a cosy cooking at one of Burford"s multiform characterful inns, such as the Lamb.
Bury Barn, A40 (0871 984 6018; travelodge.co.uk); from �19Big Sleep, Cardiff
A former British Gas construction is home to the strange Big Sleep. Unpromising as this sounds, the particular offices have converted in to 81 large, splendid rooms, trimming from bill to suites, with cool blue decoration, Ikea-style seat and city views. Opposite the International Arena and new St David"s selling arcade, it"s additionally a stone"s throw from the Millennium Stadium (prices soar for rugby internationals). There is a 24-hour bar.
Bute Terrace (029 2063 6363; www.thebigsleephotel.com); from �45Big Sleep, Cheltenham
Ask for a room at the back, or pack your ear plugs if you"re staying here on a Friday or Saturday night. This bend of the mini sequence (in former Inland Revenue offices) is crash in the centre of the Regency showering room locale that comes alive at weekends. All white, with splashes of confidant colour, it creates a good bottom if you"re going to the races, or one of Cheltenham"s festivals, on a budget. Limited parking (�5 per night).
Wellington Street (01242 696999; www.thebigsleephotel.com); from �45Holiday Inn Express, Chester Racecourse
A infancy improved gamble than the poor Comfort Inn Chester, this attractive, complicated highway residence is located inside of the racecourse grounds, but it"s additionally usually five mins from the city"s ancestral centre, whose cobbled streets have one of the infancy appropriate and infancy lifelike places to emporium for engineer garments and accessories in the country.
The Racecourse (01244 327900; hiexpress.co.uk); from �49Big Sleep, Eastbourne
In a review locale not remarkable for the hip hotels, the newest of Big Sleep"s 3 branches brings a acquire mutation to the elegant, undying Promenade, as well as acquire prices. There are comical bushy fate in the splendid pinkish or blue bedrooms, a cool retro-style bar/lounge/breakfast room and a pool/table tennis room with computers in the basement. Family rooms, sleeping up to 6 and baby, are the infancy appropriate bargain. And the location, on the seafront, is mark on.
King Edward"s Parade (01323 722676; www.thebigsleephotel.com); from �45Holiday Inn Express, Edinburgh Royal Mile
Choose in between this perfectly located, complicated highway residence and the Holiday Inn Express in Picardy Place, housed in a listed Georgian building. The extraneous has less character, but the Royal Mile bend provides comfy, still bedrooms and a surprisingly satisfying, nominal breakfast. Handy for all the sights and really welcoming staff.
300 Cowgate (0131 524 8400; hiexpress.co.uk); from �49Yotel, Gatwick
Not a lifelike place but an intensely accessible one for an early flight. The little couchette-style cabins are uninformed and airy, with flat-screen television, pull-out table (free Wi-Fi) and a little lavatory distant by a potion shade with monsoon shower, dish and loo. Minimum stay 4 hours. There"s additionally a bend at Heathrow, Terminal 4.
South Terminal, Gatwick Airport (020 7100 1100; yotel.com); from �65Ibis, Leeds Centre
No frills and no thrills, but with room prices starting at �35, this 168-room Ibis is a hard-to-beat bill preference in Leeds. Just off the bustling Inner Ring Road, but in the centre close to the shops and station, it has the own grill (open 6-10pm) and club (open for drinks noon-1am, but portion 24-hour snacks). Bedrooms are pristine, with tea/coffee-making kit, flat-screen televisions and a acquire underline windows that open.
23 Marlborough Street (0113 220 4100; ibishotel.com); from �49Novotel, Liverpool
The immeasurable infancy of Liverpool"s sequence hotels are found in the renewed dockland area; nearing at windswept Malmaison, for example, by a nomadic one-way route, creates one feel as if one is withdrawal the city far behind. This cool Novotel, however, has the worth of being in the heart of town, 10 minutes" travel from Lime Street Station and the Echo Arena, and close to the nightlife district. It additionally has an indoor pool and fitness centre.
40 Hanover Street (0151 702 5100; novotel.com); from �65Premier Inn, London County Hall
Tucked afar in the old GLC building, this well-kept Premier Inn benefits from a new top-to-toe makeover, with solid but pleasing bedrooms (trademark purple fate and throws) and an ethereal grill and loll bar. Many bedrooms disremember Jubilee Gardens whilst others see easterly down the Thames. Best views are from the fifth and sixth floors; room 600 takes the prize, with the Millennium Bridge, the City and the diagonally conflicting London Eye all visible. Try for a room with a perspective by phoning the highway residence direct, though note that requests can"t regularly be guaranteed.
Belvedere Road (0870 238 3300; premierinn.com); from �29Travelodge, London Covent Garden
Not one of Travelodge"s finest, at slightest in conditions of emblem and upkeep, but the Drury Lane location, set behind from the travel on the own small piazza, is not to be sniffed at. Drury Lane Theatre, right afar display the hit, War Horse, is roughly conflicting and the Royal Opera House, and the shops and restaurants of Covent Garden are usually around the corner. Family bedrooms are located in a apart construction at the tip of Drury Lane.
10 Drury Lane (0871 984 6245; travelodge.com); from �19Etap, Manchester Salford Quays
Bedrooms are basic, each with a berth on tip of a stand in bed, a basin, diminutive loo and showering cubicle. Prices are basic, as well 3 people can stay for �32 a night, and �2.95 per chairman for smorgasboard breakfast. Popular with Man U supporters (Old Trafford is a 15-minute walk), and visitors to the Imperial War Museum North, Lowry Arts Gallery, MEN Arena and the shops (all inside of on feet distance).
19 Trafford Road (0161 848 0898; etaphotel.com); from �32Premier Inn, Oxford
The city of forgetful spires has never been remarkable for the hotels, generally pretty labelled ones. To find the kind of worth offering by this Premier Inn, you have to stay 3 miles outward in the Oxford Business Park (there"s a train in to town). Rooms have good beds, higher linen and tea/coffee-making facilities. Meals are served in the Beefeater subsequent door.
Garsington Road (0870 197 7204; premierinn.com); from �29Holiday Inn Express, Portsmouth
The dual infancy appropriate facilities of Portsmouth are the Historic Naval Dockyard, home of the Mary Rose and HMS Warrior, and the renewed Gunwharf Quays, right afar full of shops, restaurants and bars, and sail-shaped Spinnaker Tower for a bird"s-eye perspective of the coast. The well located clean, airy, curved-glass Holiday Inn Express stands in the latter, a wander afar from the former.
The Plaza, Gunwharf Quays (02392 894240; hiexpress.co.uk); from �71Travelodge, Redditch
A acquire mangle from the common formula, this Travelodge inhabits a listed farmhouse and an unblemished new construction in identical style. Though usually a couple of miles south of the M42, it stands in Worcestershire scenery with views of rolling fields. The interior is standard, but bedrooms are purify and quiet. Decent food at the Meadow Farm beer hall subsequent door, and it"s well placed for excursions to Stratford and Cadbury World.
Meadow Farm, Dagnell End Road (0871 984 6344; travelodge.co.uk); from �19Holiday Inn, Salisbury-Stonehenge
Though it doesn"t have a perspective of the important mill circle, and the location, in the radiant Solstice commercial operation play ground on the A303, is frequency romantic, this new highway residence is fit in claiming to be the closest to Stonehenge and the Visitor Centre. Bedrooms, in tones of black and burnt orange, are bold, and the Solstice Bar and Grill is a cut above.
Solstice Park, Amesbury (0845 241 3535; hisalisbury-stonehenge.co.uk); from �71Travelodge, Scarborough St Nicholas
The environment could frequency be better, perched on tip of Scarborough"s North Cliff with fantastic views of the North Sea seashore and unconditional roller bay, and nonetheless usually a couple of mins on feet from the locale centre. You don"t compensate additional for the large, ethereal bedrooms with sea views, but phone initial to ask one. Family-friendly, with desirable staff. Cooked breakfast and cooking in the bar-caf. Recently renovated and metered parking outside.
Saint Nicholas Cliff (0871 984 6430; travelodge.co.uk); from �19Mercure Shakespeare, Stratford on Avon
A top-of-the-range Mercure with copiousness of old-world appeal and affordable prices. A special understanding could revoke the cost of your room to �69, together with breakfast for two. The construction is Tudor, with a overwhelming half-timbered façade, leaded windows and superficial knowledge of beams inside. Open fires bake in the run and sitting room, and a little of the bedrooms have four-posters. It takes usually five mins to travel to the RSC Theatre. Recommended.
Chapel Street (01789 294997; mercure.com); from �82Premier Inn, Torquay
In an 18th-century construction with a excellent opinion over the bay, this seafront highway residence is one of Premier Inn"s infancy renouned hotels. The beach is on the doorstep so it"s preferred for family groups with immature children. Inside, all is spick and span; bedrooms have good-quality beds, the outcome of a new refurb. The on-site Beefeater serves decent chargrilled food. Plenty of free parking.
Belgrave Road (0870 423 6486; premierinn.com); from �29Mercure Wessex, Winchester
The normal rate for a room and breakfast opposite the house is around �100 at this city centre hotel, but if you compensate an additional �10 on engagement you will be on trial one of the twenty-eight (of 94) bedrooms that suffer a perspective of Winchester Cathedral. A serve eight bedrooms have prejudiced views. The highway residence includes a restaurant, compensate parking, 24-hour room make use of and make use of of a circuitously camp centre.
Paternoster Row (01962 861611; mercure.com); from �82Novotel, York Centre
Wend your approach from York"s Novotel usually outward the city walls, where it is set peacefully on the banks of the River Foss, by the desirable "snickelways" (or lanes) to the important Minster, and stand the executive building for a monumental panorama. A good preference for families, the highway residence has a small indoor pool, Xbox, Wii and special children"s menus; b & b free for underneath 16s in family rooms.
Fewster Way, Fishergate (01904 611660; novotel.com); from �65
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