ABode Canterbury

The location was just few minutes walk from most of the tourist attractions, train stations and bus stop in Canterbury. The room was clean. Bed was comfortable. Staff was nice.

The free breakfast was decent bread, cereals and porridge. But if you want to have cooked breakfast you need to pay extra.

The hotel was chosen for its location - central for everything.

Breakfast was included in the price paid. It was simple - fruit juice, granola & fruit yoghurt and tea/coffee. Ok for me but some might find it disappointing. No onsite parking - had to pay to park nearby. The room was described as a superior double room. It wasn't special or obviously superior. It was a cold day, the room was chilly and the aircon only blew out cold air.

I have stayed at this hotel on a number of occasions, both leisure and business. This visit was 1 night business, room 210 for my stay, it felt like I had gone into a different hotel, what a dump, wardrobe door hanging off, curtains hanging from rail, badly fitted carpets, nasty hand marks on doors, dusty skirting boards and lamps, lamp shade hanging off, not nice. I have always stayed here as the hotel of my choice, I would need some convincing to stay against.

The situation in relationship to the town.

Despite booking a superior room it was very small with hardly any drawers and shelves. The shower was part of the bath and difficult to enter or leave. The bed was comfortable however. The breakfast was diabolical with very little choice, inedible toast with very little butter and only jam which was very runny. There was little choice of cereal. It was possibly the worst breakfast we have ever experienced at any hotel. Last week we stayed at The Holiday Inn in Bournemouth which was excellent in every way and much could be learned by Abode from them. The Holiday Inn was also much cheaper.

Location is very near the cathedral. Our room overlooked street with thousands of noisy tourist during the day and gangs of noisy drunks at night and music from local clubs late into the night. Not our idea of good location. The bedroom was comfortable and spacious. The bathroom was clean but weird layout. I Read reviews of no hot water and assumed they were isolated issues. Very cold shower. Could not get the tv to work. Service was of no help and rude..1when we asked to be moved for another room it was explained that all the rooms were noisy ,it’s an old hotel,

Friendly staff, location + Breakfast

Smelly carpet, broken shower, Black stuff coming out of the air con