Overview

Close to the action in the lovely Brindley Place, which has a pleasant setting around the canal district of town, ideal for those who like comfortable settings and cleanliness. It is very close to Birminghams Symphony, Legoland and the National Sea Life centre, and around here are many night clubs. The now famous Canal Street area has many very good restaurants, very atmospheric in the evenings, and surrounded by quiet a few good hotels. Hilton Garden has its own restaurant, and a fitness centre, and you will find it to be a decent homely type of hotel. There is car parking available next to hotel, but expensive, with just a short slightly uphill climb to enter the hotel (photo 1) with an automatic double door making it easy to get in. It is very pleasant inside with modern facilities, airy and comfortable looking (photo 2) with seating areas by reception (photo 3) which allows easy access into the bar area (photo 4) with lots of space to move around, and places to put your wheelchair (photo 5). Reception desk is plain and simple but easy to book in (photo 6) and the hotel is well maintained and spotlessly clean, with pleasant easy going deco and furniture. You will find cosy spots to sit and sup, coffee was very nice too (photo 7) Outdoor seating is handy, cold in November though (photo 8) but warm and spacious inside, plainly decorated but very pleasant looking (photo 9) and stands next to the bar area (photo 10). The main reception area is well lit, open and spacious and inviting (photo 11) and toilets are situated here (photo 12) but these are plain ladies and gents (photo 13) no pull cords or bars to help you, with a double door that needs to be pulled and pushed. Had to leave wheelchair just outside. There are many and good wide wheelchair friendly lifts (photo 14) needed if you enter corridors (photo 15) with clean tidy deep piled carpets leading to the gym facilities (photo 16) which has modern equipment, but limited. There a few disabled rooms, not to far from lifts (photo 17) which has a warm modern decorated corridors, wide enough for all types of chairs, while the disabled rooms are spacious with light polished furniture (photo 18) with enough electrical points and a desk for working away at. The walk in shower room is clean and tidy (photo 19) but nothing to write home about, but at least the room has pull cords and grab handles, while the bedroom itself was quite pleasant with lots of room to use wheelchair in (photo 20) and all in all a comfortable bedroom. This is a nice easy going no fuss hotel, reasonably handy for Canal Street and it’s life, but rather out of the way, restaurants and cafe area a few yards away, which would be a nuisance if raining, and the buses and Metro tram are a few yards walk away as well, so bear this in mind.

Transport & Parking

Like all cities, parking is hard to find at reasonable costs, and that’s how it is here, there is a car park available next to the hotel, but £20 is over the top, but at least you can then leave it for hours on end, while you enjoy what Birmingham can offer in this area of town. You can of course get it cheaper by the hour, but you only use this hotel if you are thinking of shopping, clubbing, site seeing, so you need more hours to do so, thus more parking costs.

Access

Moving around the area close to the hotel is ok, at least it’s reasonably level, you can find a way around the cobbled parts, and approach to hotel is easy enough, just a slight uphill push from the car park area for this hotel, and others as it’s a general car park. There’s a wide doorway to get you into the hotel, with the aid of your carer, and everything you need to see and do in the hotel is on the level.

Toilets

Did not find any public disabled toilets, just general ladies and gents, which were very clean and tidy, but needed to get out of wheelchair to get into the toilet.

Staff

Pleasant enough, willing, and helpful

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