Holiday Inn Basingstoke

The hotel could benefit from a refurbishment, area of the hotel and room we were staying looked dated. Corridor definitely had a weird smell, like damp or previously from smokers, maybe the room also. Breakfast was ok, nothing special, would have loved to have seen some extra options, like pancakes and waffles. One friend ended up waiting about 8 minutes for a fried egg. Bar was ok, first time ended up waiting nearly 10 minutes for someone to actually start servicing customers, no staff working behind there at the time. Overall ok, location ok, walkable into town.

The receptionists were welcoming and helpful when our keys were sensitive to being near items in my handbag. Appreciated the free car parking, moderately-spacious clean room and location of the hotel, ~15min walk to the centre if preferred. The carpet was a bit worn.

Great hotel with local amenities near by shops, cinema, bowling etc