Premier Inn Basildon (East Mayne)

Clean, friendly .great place .Great price . Highly recommend. Will return

The hotel is cheap, so what you see is what you get. Staff were really friendly. Rooms are tiny compared to other Premier Inns. The hotel is tatty and in need of a refurb! There was damp around the windows and the bathroom skirting boards. The carpets had gum stains and burn marks, could do with a good scrub! It was clean-ish, shower was hot. Chose not to have breakfast as Beefeater was also tatty. If Premier Inn put this on their refurb list it would be great.

Spent two nights at this hotel visiting family in Essex. We only encountered one member of staff who did not seem annoyed at our mere presence. This was the guy at breakfast after our first night. We booked and paid for an early check in room at a cost of £15. This was supposed to be available from 11.00. We arrived at 12.00 and were told that the room was not ready as previous guests had only just checked out. When we complained an upstairs room was offered to us and rejected by us due to mobility issues and no lift. Another lady intervened and a ground floor room was found but this was not ready until 12.30. Again we complained about early booking fee and first receptionist said “but I found you a room”. As if she had done us a favour. We asked for housekeeping for next day as staying for two nights. When we returned to the room, it was exactly as we had left it. We complained again and were given clean towels for the morning. The beefeater next door was just as bad. There were no clean glasses at the bar and we were told to bring our glasses back each time to be used again. We waited over two hours for a table in the restaurant and once seated could not see any reason for the delay as there were only two other tables being occupied. My medium rare steak looked like it had been cooked a week earlier and could have been used to resolve a shoe. Unable to complain as waitress never returned to us after bringing food to ask how it was. Staff heard saying “I do not get paid enough for this” and children running round restaurant waiting for their parents to finish work. Unsure if this was waiting staff or kitchen staff. Finally breakfast last day was awful. I asked for bacon and poached eggs which at a cost of £10.99 each, I would have expected to be able to eat it. The bacon was swimming in grease and I do not know what sort of eggs I got as they certainly were not poached as also swimming in grease. They very much looked as the”poaching process” had taken place in a frying pan. Would never stay there again.