Reviews and comments about Prime Lodge
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Posted 27th Oct 2011 [ like] [report] [quote] | ||||||||||||||||
| Mr P Lomax | Review of Prime Lodge Overall rating:  As someone needing a cheap place to lay our heads as we were in Birmingham for a night due to a concert at the 02 academy the Prime Lodge was fine, the car park was fenced and gated, 24hr reception, the owners were friendly and helpful and most importantly it was close to the city/02. Ok so it dont look much but if you were not to spend much time in the room, just to sleep, i cant recommend it enough, defo one for the young who are out in town alot [Like us :-)] | |||||||||||||||
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| Posted 23rd Nov 2010 [ like] [report] [quote] | ||||||||||||||||
| Min | Review of Prime Lodge Overall rating:  The hotel was not really a hotel more like some conversion that had gone badly wrong. It is situated in a rough area, but the security gates for car parking are quite reasonable. (But dont take anything expensive that you drive). The room was very small with a portable TV that did not work set up high on top of a tiny wardrobe. The bathroom was terrible although functional, the toilet would not stop flushing and the shower door did not close, so water went everywhere. They provided us with one towel that was so rough it could exfoliate the skin off your back. To my husbands horror, the light bulb directly above the bed exploded dislodging the lamp shade (which was stuck on with sellotape) and showering my husband who was on the bed semi naked with bits of hot glass. The staff moved us to another room which was not much better but with an added attraction of live wires hanging from the ceiling from where the smoke detector should have been. If it was not so late we would have just left there and then. For a cheap nights sleep, local to the city its what you might expect for the price but, you sell your soul to the devil for saving on booking a decent establishment. Would we go again no would we spend more for a better night stay yes. Be Warned | |||||||||||||||
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The hotel is situated in a very scummy and scary looking area and is surrounded by security fencing with bars on the hotel windows which gave us a bad feeling about the place we were in instantly (not to mention the fact that the carpark was plastered in signs saying 'vechicles left at owners risk :-/').
The bedroom was ok for somewhere to crash after a druken night as you probably wouldnt notice the uncomfiness of the beds and the general uncleanliness. However, as I am currently pregnant this could not be my fortune & I had to endure it all, with no working t.v to distract me together with the foul smell of ****e that came with & never left the room, even after buying and spraying a bottle of air freshner.
We were in Birmingham for a concert so luckily the hotel was only a place to sleep, however if the concert had not finished so late I would have driven home.
The guy that was on reception when we returned from the concert was very rude to my partner when he went down to the car look for my phone, implying that we were being disruptive by 'going in & out, in & out'. We arrived back from the concert around 12 and apart from returning to the car to look for my phone we never left the hotel room. If we were smokers, which neither of us are, we would have been much more disruptive as we would have been going in and out of the building. At the end of the day if you are paying to sleep somewhere, especially in such a scabby place, you do not expect to be told in a rude manner that you are being disruptive when you are not. It would have been different if we were drunk, shouting and genuinly being disruptive.
I would not reccommend a stay to anyone apart from a very drunk or drugged up person who has very very very low standards.