Hotels near Haydonleigh Skatepark, Swindon

Our vintage car club held its annual AGM weekend at this venue last weekend. There were some 20 cars and their owners most of whom spent 2 or 3 nights there. The grounds and the setting are exceptional and everyone I spoke to agreed that the rooms were spacious, clean and comfortable. Our annual dinner was excellent, tasty and varied food all served in a timely manner. The food from the bar and the restaurant was also very good indeed - tasty and well presented. The staff without exception made us very welcome and could not do enough to help and serve us despite being very busy with several other events over the weekend. I thoroughly recommend this beautiful hotel with its swimming pool, gym and spa, not to mention tennis court, football area and excellent children's playground.

A return visit, Lovely to be recognised by some staff, who gave us a very warm welcome. The Hotel is clean, the staff friendly as well as professional. Food is plentiful, tasty and very well presented. Very much enjoy our time here, and really hope we can return later in the year. Thank you to Karolina, all the arrangements you put in place went according to plan. Thank you kusum, lovely welcome when we got to our meeting room. Thank you to Pradeep, Mackenzie and the young lady who served us in 14 Twelve. Great chefs. Producing tasty food, hot and beautiful presented. Huge Thank you to Chloe, this young lady went above and beyond, just very attentive, and looked after us extremely well.

We had a stopover in Swindon so that we could travel to Stonehenge for my wife’s birthday. I asked the hotel in advance to do something to mark the occasion, which they did very well. When we checked in, the room had balloons and happy birthday messages all around the room. Another thing that impressed me was the breakfast. I have just been to a Premier Inn hotel in London on business at the time of writing this review. While Premier Inn offers slightly more variety in their breakfast foods, the quality of food in this Holiday Inn Express is exceptional, light years ahead of Premier Inn. Well done, Holiday Inn Express Swindon West!

On arrival there was a delay with checking in as my booking could not be found. I arrived 3 minutes before an online work commitment and was told it's up to me to call my agent because they did not have the booking, despite me being able to show a confirmation. Informed that I could not afford to spend 20 minutes on the phone with them. After a while they then realised another staff member already checked me in. I would imagine that staff is trained to first check all possible scenarios (arrival list, in house list, cancelled booking, no show, etc) before inconveniencing and worrying the guest. Stayed in room 229, large pink stain on the carpet, carpet is up for replacement. Bathroom was ok, but shower dial is loose. When changing temperature it takes 20 seconds for the change to pull through the shower head so for a first time guest was playing around with it and found it challenging to get the temperature I wanted. Showers in mens changing room in the pool need work. Silicone around shower entirely moulded. 80% of the lockers are out of action. Jacuzzi was not working. Bedside light bulb not working. Maid walked into my room a little after 9am. She has no right to enter print to my check out time. breakfast was so so. Asked for poached eggs. A plate with two watered down poached eggs arrived which tasted far too strongly like vinegar which was clearly used in the water to prepare them. No croissants, pain au chocolate or bread available for at least 5-10 minutes and despite 3 staff they only replenished when they were informed by guests and did not notice themselves.