Overview

We find this to be a very attractive, inviting, countryside hotel, close to the M5 motorway, and ideal for a comfortable short visit for coffee or afternoon drinks, and to relax before moving on. The Holiday Inn Bromsgrove was built in 2000, and renovated in 2010, with the intention to revive the breakfast bar and restaurant area, and is now a modern luxury hotel, with 110 refurbished bedrooms, which includes just one Disabled room, on the ground floor. We have found a brilliant web page with the most complete details for the disabled facilities in this hotel, and if you are not sure about booking an overnight stay here, then do please read this websites details, https://www.hi-birminghambromsgrove.co.uk Open this up, under Accessible Rooms, click green box, “view our access guide” Amazing, yet they only have one disabled room. With an investment of 3.5 million pounds, it also included a purpose built fitness centre, the Revive Health club and Spa, with latest Technogym equipment, an 11 metre heated pool, steam room, sauna, and beauty rooms. During 2013, the owners of the hotel, Peterson ltd, went into administration on 9th Ocotober 2013, and specialists Licensed Solutions were appointed to overseer the hotel. It was then acquired by Kew Green Hotel, who paid around 3.95 million pounds. For a number of months during the COVID 19 scare, it closed, and became a Red List quarantine hotel for travellers arriving into the UK, At a cost of £2285 a night. It reopened its doors as a hotel again on 1st November 2021, and we arrived on 3rd November to gladly offer you our review on one of our favourite coffee haunts. There is a pleasant inviting entrance into the grounds of the hotel (photo 1) which is an appealing looking hotel, as it gives the feeling of being in the Mediterranean (photo 2), There are three disabled bays, close to the entrance, (photo 3) with just a very small step, a carer could easily get you over this into the hotel, with automatic doors. (photo 4). You will be given a warm welcome as you enter (photo 5). The reception desk is opposite the lovely fire place, in a large spacious area, very pleasing to the eye, with minimalistic feel (photo 6). Along a short passage you arrive at the bar, where coffee or aperitifs are served (photo 7). A lovely comfortable lounge to sit and enjoy your drink, again with that homily feel of a fire (photo 8). If you wish to find the toilets they are just alongside the main restaurant in a small hallway (photo 9) opposite to the bar, and to the right is the men’s toilet, and over to the left are the ladies, there is not a disabled toilet available. Inside the men’s toilet there is room for the wheelchair ((photo 10) but to go into the cubicle you would have to walk in. You would not get a chair into the ladies. The entrance into the restaurant, The Cow on the hill, named as it’s a steak grill. (photo 11) then an attractive restaurant with a barn like feel to it, nicely furnished and inviting (photo 12). The garden terrace is a very nice area, with shrubbery, and pleasant to sit outside on a warm day (photo 13). A doorway from there takes you into the breakfast lounge and all the bedrooms (photo 14). It’s a very attractive area to sit and enjoy breakfast, and during the day to work, or have a coffee (photo 15). Alongside this breakfast room is the Revive leisure centre, a delightful heated swimming pool, (photo 16) and the fitness centre (closed now until reopening again in January 2022). A small hallway leads to the lift and bedrooms (photo 17) then the smallish lift, which will take the wheelchair and two people (photo 18) or enter the lightly decorated spacious corridor to go to the disabled room (photo 19). Our final thoughts We use this hotel often as a base for either our coffee breaks, or a glass of wine, as there is no parking charges. Our reviews for all the hotels you can read about, are to encourage you to go and try these comfortable hotels for just a coffee or drinks break, without having to stay there overnight, so much better than the crowded noisy high street brands that offer no better a coffee than hotels. ( If you enjoy reading our reviews, would you be kind enough to tick the (I like) button, as it will help other people to read the review as well. We really like this hotel and would highly recommend it, as it’s wheelchair friendly.

Transport & Parking

The hotel is near enough to the M5 to be used as a break or overnight stop, and easy to get to, well signed near to the approach, the delightful appearance warns you you are there. Pull into the right hand turn inside the grounds to reach 3 disabled bays, by the main entrance into hotel.

Access

The entrance into hotel is level, with a very small step, which carer can easily manage, then it’s all level for you, with plenty of room to move around. You will not need to use the available lift, as the one and only disabled room is on the ground floor, which does have pull handled doors to get through.

Toilets

There are no disabled toilets, just normal public toilets, and these may be difficult for you to use the cubicles, but they are always clean and well looked after.

Staff

All capable and willing, but not always as open as could be, but no problems with this.

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