Hotel berhampiran Keen Gardener, Redditch

The Abbey is a very lovely hotel, set in beautiful surroundings. It’s clean and inviting. The bedrooms are spacious and I have to say the bed is the most comfortable that I’ve slept in at a hotel and believe me I’ve stayed at numerous hotels across the world. The staff are welcoming, polite and professional. They’re very accommodating. I would definitely stay there again.

This wasn’t up to Holiday Inn Express standards. The main problem was the total lack of organisation and poor service at breakfast. We arrived at 08.00, and had to wait the best part of 10 minutes for any bread, and then the scrambled eggs ran out (as did the sausages – though we weren’t having any in any case), and another wait, probably of around 20 minutes, followed before they were replenished. The result was that we were at least half an hour late getting on the road for our onward journey. Sort of negates the ‘Express’ bit of one’s stay, doesn’t it? There were other breakfast issues, too, including, though not limited to, chilled fruit which was still frozen. There were only seven diners, so crowds of people can’t be used as an excuse for sub-standard service. Cleaning of the tables was cursory, with crumbs wiped onto the floor rather than removed. We immediately flagged all of this up with the receptionist on duty, who was duly apologetic, promising to investigate. We had dinner the previous evening. It was just about ok, but over-priced for what we had. Just under £30 for two salads and Pepsi? Someone’s having a laugh. Oh – and the dining room wasn’t clean; one of the chairs at our table was full of crumbs. In terms of facilities, sleep quality, cleanliness, parking, and value, the hotel delivered as is usual for Holiday Inn Express. But even so, some aspects of housekeeping were lacking. The hospitality tray hadn’t been replenished (though Reception rectified this immediately), there were three bath towels, but only one hand towel, and no spare loo roll. Come on, Redditch Holiday Inn Express. You can do better than this.

Great value with friendly service Shame Wi-Fi was not working

Stayed at this hotel for three days with work and was blown away. I was in the Garden suite.. which is basically one wing of the hotel! Three rooms in one, walk in to a hallway with a large dressing room to the right, through to a huge room with settes, coffee table and a fantastic luxurious four poster bed, then to the back of the room you enter a huge, traditionally styled bathroom with a huge free standing bath and separate large waterfall shower cubicle set in the wall. The food is outstanding, evey meal I had I was fine dining standard. As for the Staff, they have really made my stay memorable. Mia the duty manager was friendly, helpful, informative, fun to chat to and nothing was a problem, Nick the evening waiter was courteous, polite and again, nice to talk to. 'Lady' Catherine who served breakfasts was a breath of fresh air first thing on a morning and very pleasant. Even the room cleaners went out of their way to make sure you had everything you needed. The hotel is old, quirky but very well kept to keep the olde world feel and amplify it's history. Would highly recommend. Thanyou to ALL the staff for a memorable stay. Richie.

Super friendly staff, especially the guy on the front desk who was very helpful when we arrived at 1am (24hr desk). The lobby has a useful vending machine and microwave, and the room had good tea and coffee. We brought our dog, and they gave us a welcome pack for him which included snacks, poobags and a ball. The room was comfortable and clean, and the breakfast was nice. Check out at 11am (which is an added bonus!). Would recommend.

We had a lovely stay here, the facilities are really good. We enjoyed the pool and gym areas, there’s outdoor games to play and the grounds are beautiful. However, the service leaves a lot to be desired. A lot of the staff are very young and whilst friendly the method of service is very reactive (we noticed this in a few other reviews). Lots of glasses and plates being left around, dirty tables not being cleaned whilst groups of staff are stood in the corner chatting. I wouldn’t mind this as much if it wasn’t a 4/5 star hotel. Often staff would forget what you’d ask for and you’d be waiting ten minutes for a spoon or milk with your tea. Whilst the food is lovely it is fairly overpriced - this didn’t bother us as much as we had dinner credit included but I wouldn’t have eaten there without credit. Having said that, we had a great meal in the restaurant and the staff provided a pudding as a surprise for my birthday which was a lovely treat! Overall, we would return to stay again - but don’t expect 5* service.

Very clean and comfortable. All staff friendly and helpful. Good location (but satnav struggled to find it). Great breakfast.

Staff were very friendly and welcoming. Hotel and facilities were very clean and mostly well kept. The bed was really noisy and creaky but not a major issue. Was slightly annoying to find you had to pay for parking as I didn't see this when booking the hotel but was fairly priced. Would stop again in the future.