Last weeks hotel ; Holiday Inn Birmingham

Snow Hill.  Ok

Yesterday's hotel: Park Regis, Birmingham

Dont be fooled by the purple - its not a Premier Inn.

Last week's hotel: Holiday Inn city, Birmingham

Been done up since I was last there.  And they upgraded me to a mini-suite which was nice (but I dont think I would pay £350/night for it).  Very hood free wifi, good breakfast, and good easy to use shower. And best of all about 2 minutes walk from New Street Station (if the traffic lights are against you).

Tonight's hotel: Travelodge Broadway Plaza, Birmingham

Upstairs in an entertainment complex.  There is a lift.  Walkway outside window.  Hot and stuffy.  Oh look, another Trevelodge night.  Wifi £3 but ok.

Last night's hotel: Park Regis, Birmingham

Very nice.  Good free and easy to use wifi, nice breakfast, comfy big bed.  Apparently this room was an upgrade. 

Today's hotel: Jurys Inn, Birmingham

Reliably good.

Last week's hotel: IBIS City Centre Coventry

Well it's not cheap, for what it is.    Parking and Breakfast, which is not great, are extra.  But at least the wifi was free and ok.  I am not fond of their bathroom pods which have a shower and sink and toilet, but it was ok (at least until I slipped trying to get out of it).  I was not paying the bill, and I think that I was generous last time in saying it was cheap.  I get rooms in London for less, which is my benchmark.  Admittedly not nice rooms.

The major good thing about this hotel is that it is 5 minutes walk from the station, and also 5 minutes from where I was working (and these were not opposite directions!).

I was in a bad mood when I got there because the Birmingham-Coventry line was closed because of a fatality, and I had to take a taxi from Birmingham New Street.  and when I did get there the key did not work first time.  Again.  But it does the job. And things could have been worse.

Breakfast is a sort of small scale buffet featuring limited choice and dried up eggs for about £8.  Not good enough to be enthused, not bad enough to be angry.

Last week's hotel Birmingham Radisson Blu

Another new one for me.  Achingly funky.  Rather deliberately so.  Only problem was that the door key kept on losing magnetism.

Great wifi, great shower, good breakfast ( though the eggs were a bit over complicated.  The point is eggs shoukd be simple)

5 minutes easy walk from New Street Station - when you know where you are going.  Googlemaps found it difficukt to locate, but in reality it is easy.

Hope to go back.

Didnt use the small gym on the 18th floor which looks suitable for only 4 or 5 people - but was empty when I visited