This hotel is brilliant for a stay close to GLA. It is clean and comfortable, and the breakast is excellent.
The biggest problem for us was finding it, quite the accomplishment for a large building that’s a three minutes walk away from the arrivals exit.
When I spoke to the manager about this, he was completely unsympathetic, and he might just as well have come right out and said that he thought I was a very stupid old woman. He’s right about “old” but this old girl was travelling independently around Europe in 1970, armed only with paper maps.
The next day, i was at the exit from arrivals, and there was a obviously frazzled gentleman with google maps open on his phone, looking totally lost. “Holiday Inn Express?” I asked. Yes indeed. He had looked, but same as me, he had seen no signage. So I gave him the directions:
1. Cross the traffic lanes at the purple bus.
2. Head into the parking garage, and follow the path of zebra stripes,which go off to your left. No way will you see the unlit sign in the garage which is mounted high and parallel to your direction of travel.
3. Go behind the glass fence-like structure. That’s a covered walkway, and you’ll be there in about two minutes.
Maybe HIEx could share these instructions with expected guests. It took me almost an hour of walking back and forth looking for signs,and in circles (with my crutch and mobility issues) to get there the first time. I think HIEx owes me a drink.