Travelodge Ipswich Stowmarket Hotel
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If you’re looking for a family-friendly hotel in Stowmarket, look no further than Travelodge Ipswich Stowmarket Hotel.
Guest rooms offer amenities such as a flat screen TV, and guests can go online with internet access offered by the hotel.
The property also features breakfast to make your visit even more pleasant. Guests arriving by vehicle have access to free parking.
If you like pubs, Suffolk Travel Lodge is conveniently located near Maypole Inn, Walnut Tree, and The Willow Tree.
During your visit, be sure to check out a popular art museum like Mid Suffolk Light Railway Museum, which is a short distance from the hotel.
The staff at Travelodge Ipswich Stowmarket Hotel looks forward to serving you during your upcoming visit.
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There is no food available on or within walking distance so I opted to go to the local supermarket for my evening food and a few beers but there are some nice pubs around if you want something more catered. The 24-hour wifi is really cheap at £3 and worked well enough for me to watch Netflix.
I have disclosed some health issues which have been received with kindness and understanding and I would say they have gone above and beyond to ensure that I enjoy my stay here and I can’t thank them enough! What a lovely environment to be in! I hope they get the acknowledgement they deserve as so often this sort of thing goes down as “customer service” and actually for me it has been much much more than that. As someone who often feels vulnerable in new environments, I have not felt that way here and that is a testament to the wonderful, kind and genuine staff members! Thank you so much for making life a little bit easier! 💕
1. The motel is right next to the motorway, so can hear traffic of course.
2. The Little Chief that is still road signed, is long gone, building empty some time.
3. The motel is next door (lane in between) to a lorry/van/heavy goods vehicle maintenance garage, so full of buses, trucks, vans, etc, etc. Even they are using the motel and former Little Chiefs car park for their work!
The place looks terrible, I would NOT recommend this location for accommodation to anybody and Travelodge management should be totally a shamed with themselves for being based here and charging people good money!
The motel once inside is just like any other Travelodge to be fair, staff were friendly enough, but again this Travelodge lacks a good regular clean in rooms and bathrooms, if you stay look in areas, you will understand what i mean, not just a quick 5 minutes clean and move onto another room, which is clearly what's happening here! We were face masks due to the risk of Covid-19, but many other quests did not and staff did not challenge them!
It's one of those classic Travelodge buildings, so a basic layout but nice sized rooms. Lots of original features(!) such as the plasticky blue door handles, old fashioned key etc, but also looked like the important things had at least been relatively recently redecorated/carpeted so everything seemed clean.
My room only had a bed and had a comically large double-bed-sized space where the sofa bed used to be. The space was so large you could probably do a yoga class there.
Service at the 24 hour reception was good and my room was at the back and overlooked some fields. Had a good night sleep which was the main thing, but I did feel at £85 the room was extremely overpriced considering the bleak location and the basic facilities. Just about gets a 3/5 for fulfilling its basic function of being a decent bed to sleep.
People have commented on the décor being outdated, but I think that though a little old, it is not shabby and wears the years well, plus the light refurbishments on the rooms coupled to the price make you not really feel it.
The staff for their part were also very good. A big shout out to Wendy who was extremely friendly and receptive.
Location-wise, it was a perfect base to go out into Suffolk from.
We paid for breakfast and WiFi for the 2 nights we stayed. We were told after booking that the breakfast is a box of cold items and not a hot cooked one. The WiFi has a devuce limit of 2 so we had to buy extra data to tether on my phone.
Good staff but obvious poor investment and customer journey design by Travelodge.
The hotel is an old Travelodge so does not have a restaurant or bar. Overall it is a good old hotel but could do with a refresh
For this visit the staff went above and beyond. My fault entirely that I'd booked for myself and my daughter and forgot to request a family room with a separate bed.
Complete teenage melt down averted by Dave as he so very kindly and without hesitation swapped us to said family room. Thank you so much.
Please be aware that when you stay here, since the A14 has literally been moved half a mile to the left, the travel lodge no longer sits right on it.
However it's still really easy to get to from the Stowmarket junction and by being away from the A14, it's really peaceful.
There are no restaurant facilities here or the little chef which once stood proudly next to the building!! However, Stowmarket is literally a hop skip and a jump if you turn right and then Bury is only 15 mins up the A14. We always bring our own milk and cereals to tide the tribe over until we can get to a macdonald's (there is one off the next junction down heading towards Ipswich!) There are tea and coffee making facilities which are topped up regularly.
But it really is the front of house and domestic staff who make this place!!
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