This hotel is excellent. The family rooms were perfect and very well equipped and spacious. Spotlessly clean, with everything you need and more. The food was delicious and the breakfast buffet fabulous. I have to say all of the staff we encountered, from our arrival at the reception, restaurant on the evening, cleaner we met on the lift and breakfast staff made us feel so valued and welcomed. We arrived at 6pm and headed off to look for cheaper food options. The area was not the nicest. Lots of teenagers, drunken people shouting, swearing and throwing glass bottles at cars passing and the two places we went to eat in didn't except children on an evening, even the Weather spoons. So, we headed back to the hotel and had a gorgeous meal if not a little overpriced but at least we felt safe. Overall, would 100% recommend the hotel as long as you don't leave it after the shops shut up l. Daytime the area was fine around the Friars shopping centre and the carpark at the centre was ideal and good value for money to park overnight. Thankyou to all the staff for making this hotel such a perfect place.