Travelodge Leeds Central Vicar Lane

“Absolutely brilliant stay as always!”

Absolutely love coming here every year with my mam & sister. Peter and the staff that have been in this week have all been amazing and so incredibly friendly! The hotel itself is nice and our rooms were lovely and clean. We tried out the breakfasts too and that was also really nice. Can’t believe i… more

Absolutely love coming here every year with my mam & sister. Peter and the staff that have been in this week have all been amazing and so incredibly friendly! The hotel itself is nice and our rooms were lovely and clean. We tried out the breakfasts too and that was also really nice. Can’t believe it’s home time already but we will see you all again next December ☺️. Thank you so so much

less

“Overnight stay”

Very close to the event at grand theatre which we were attending. Only bad point was car parking that’s recommended is further away than other car parks

“One of the better Travelodge hotels”

Review Travelodge Leeds Leeds Central Travelodge is very close to the railway station and if you're really lucky and have the good fortune to ask when the overpaid rail employees get you there where is Swine Gate, provided fortune follows you you will exit from the station via the doors only loca… more

Review Travelodge Leeds Leeds Central Travelodge is very close to the railway station and if you're really lucky and have the good fortune to ask when the overpaid rail employees get you there where is Swine Gate, provided fortune follows you you will exit from the station via the doors only locals know, not the main entrance. Having reached what passes as a main route, turn right and start looking left. Only then is it a few minutes away otherwise like Moses you could be wandering the wilderness of civic history that is Leeds for years Recently refurbished it has all the pleasing elements of heavy investment designed to make the less well off visitor to the metropolis comfortable. I found behind the reception desk a very helpful young swain who is clearly destined for greater things in the white hot heat of hospitality, having gotten the message that looking after the customer is paramount over pettyfogging details. (Having spent years in the civil service and the NHS I know a thing or two about pointless pettyfogging individuals). Here on business courtesy of some people I work for, who kindly listened to what I said when I mentioned that as a cripple I needed a bath not a shower. The hotel duly obliged and here I sit in said watery receptacle admiring the quality of the grouting, the handles, taps and the frightening quality of the highly polished mirror. (Have Travelodge got shares in Windowlene, I wonder?). It is here I notice my mistake. Also on business I sometimes have to travel to London where I was last billeted in a rival hotel equipped also with a bath. That bath was no less capacious as this but there was one major difference and from it I have learned an important lesson. "What lesson, Jeremy, tell all?", I hear you say, but wait, it will come. The joy of a bath is it refreshes the bather, it brings revival to sorry pores, it aids sleep and restores the weary traveller. It has never, not once, crossed my mind to ask when asking for a room with a bath to insist on a bath with hot water. But from now it is a criteria I shall include. The bath here would be lovely had the aqua gushing forth like an aorta at the hands of the principle resident of 10 Rillington Place, been hot. As it is, it is barely warmer than blood heat. A doting mother may confidently bathe her neonate in this bath without fear it will be deliterious to the infant dermis. Which is all well and good for small vulnerable children, but disappointing for adults. On the plus side, the heater is very efficient in the room and easily adjusted (Press "advance" and use up and down arrows to find the temperature you want). One of the better features of this sanctuary is the ability to open the window. All too often hotels regard visitors as processed cheese, to be kept hermetically sealed from the contaminants circulating in the atmosphere so when reaching the exit we have to heave vast lungfulls of fresh air to regain equilibrium, but here the window opens. Not far I admit, there's a reputational risk if people start throwing themselves into oblivion, but far enough to aid sleep. That is until in the early hours a recently arrived native of foreign parts decides to hold a loud conversation with a compatriot and disturbs the arms of Somnus. There's never an AK47 handy when you need one, is there,? Readers will be amused to learn of a new complication of using the lift. It used to be the case that a condition of using the lift one's room card had to be adjacent to the lift button. Technology has moved on. Now, once you are in the lift you have to enter a four digit code every time a floor button is reached. So if the lift is full and you stop at every floor, you have to key 5 times before you can hope to reach the next floor. Progress is a thing of bewildering wonder. The hotel breakfast is as reliable as nocturnal enuresis in a 5 year old who has been unwisely exposed to a clown. Full English, tea, coffee, cereal, fruit, toast, juices. Disappointingly, despite being in the north, no black pudding. A recent stay in London offered black pudding, admittedly it was floppy, but it was there, so when one comes to the north it's a natural expectation. I'd not object if on a future occasion I was billeted here. People know what they're getting with hotel chains. It needs reviews such as this to drive and maintain standards. Over familiarity blinds people to gaps in service provision. I wish the staff and guests here well.

less