Holiday Inn London Wembley is one of the many Holiday Inn hotels, this one is located in Wembley,…read morejust a few minutes walk away from Wembley Stadium, coming out of the stadium if you pass the ibis and turn right, it will basically be right there.
The entrance to the hotel is awful and more aimed towards cars, it involves walking between barriers for cars which is frustrating and then going towards the entrance.
The hotel lobby is okay, the staff seemed nice enough and even offered me a KitKat when I checked in, as well as water flavoured with various things including cucumber.
I did have an issue on check-in, I was told you must present the original booking card you paid on, when you check in which wasn't made clear on the website, hence this was frustrating for me. Normally staying at Hilton hotels, I wasn't used to this but with the Hilton fully booked I had no choice but to stay at the Holiday Inn.
My hotel room was quite small, it did have decent facilities such as a safe and TV with Freeview, the bedroom, however, was so small you could barely move in it, and it isn't a place you'd want to spend a long period of time in, luckily I was only staying for a night after watching Manchester City defeat Spurs 3-1 at Wembley, to go one win away from lifting the Premier League title.
I can not comment on the hotel breakfast as I did not try it, but the whole scheme was confusing meaning you had to go to the reception desk to get a voucher to get it cheaper than going to the restaurant its-self, which is just hilarious, it makes no sense and just adds more time and inconvenience for the guest. The main reason I decided not to have breakfast here was that I prefer the Hilton nearby anyway, but the previous dining experience the day before had a huge influence where they served food at high-end prices which tasted cheap and the quality was so bad, I wouldn't even feed it to a dog!
I also didn't like the lifts to the hotel, they were really small to the point you could barely fit a person with a suitcase in, or even a wheelchair, then to get on each corridor there was a large door which I didn't like either.
My room also lacked a fridge, which was annoying as I didn't have a place to put things such as milk, the room was mostly quiet away from exterior noises such as an ice machine and lift, which have troubled me at other hotels but corridor noise late into the night still did trouble me, and slight noises from outside too however luckily these noises weren't as bad as I experienced back in December at Hampton by Hilton Newcastle, where I couldn't get any sleep at all.
This is an awful hotel in a good location by Wembley, if you put this hotel in any other location I'd even go as far as to say it wouldn't survive and it is surviving on the basis of location alone, and it certainly isn't somewhere I'd stay again, due to the huge uncomfortability throughout various aspects of the hotel, even going down to the size of the room and uncomfortable bed, hence Holiday Inn London Wembley deserves a single one-star rating.