Hotels Near Earley in Reading

Overall we enjoyed our stay and will return in the future. Throughout our 2-night stay the team within reception, spa and restaurant were helpful, friendly and attentive. The overall hotel decor is modern including the bedrooms, restaurant, bar and spa areas. All were kept tidy and clean. However the areas I feel need improving is within the restaurant and spa areas. At dinner, we found the service to be quite slow and found ourselves waiting for a long time for our orders to be taken. At breakfast we felt the team could have been better coordinated when seating guests as we were either given a table that had already been given to another guest (that we didn't realise as the guests had gone to the buffet and the table looked empty), and then again when we went to the buffet we came back to our table being seated by other guests so we just had to find another empty table ourselves. Maybe it might help to have signals so other waiters know when a table is taken. Also, when being seated, we found out that the hotel offer a breakfast menu that you can have made to order foods, as well as buffet. We only found this out through a passing comment another table made and towards the end of our stay so we only got to make use of the ”made to order” breakfast food on our last day. In the spa, the treatment we had was great and relaxing. The two therapists we had were friendly and made us feel comfortable. The pool area was busy most of the time which meant we couldn't always swim properly or make full use of the sauna and steam rooms. Also it meant that the ladies changing area was always busy and given that the changing area is small, I found myself hanging about to wait until it was free-ish to change comfortably. An area to improve the female changing areas is to have changing cubicles for those who might not feel comfortable in changing in the main changing area.

In March 2021 I made a reservation at this hotel for February 2022. At the end of November 2021 I received a cancellation notice. There was no explanation why, so I waited 2 days to see if one came. It didn't, so I contacted Hilton customer services to tell them I hadn't cancelled it and I required it to be reinstated. Hilton replied saying they had forwarded my message to the hotel and I should expect to receive a response within 3 days. No response was forthcoming so I had to contact Hilton customer services again. The hotel did eventually respond, more than 4 weeks after I was told they would. The response was not satisfactory. They said they had cancelled my booking because they had accepted other bookings instead, presumably more profitable for them than mine. They offered compensation of 1 free night at an unspecified date in the future. This was clearly not sufficient to cover the immediate extra cost of rebooking the entire stay elsewhere, so I rejected it and told them I required them to pay the full extra cost of alternative accommodation and some modest compensation for the inconvenience they'd caused. The hotel said they would make alternative arrangements for me, but then failed to respond to subsequent e-mails on the subject, despite me getting read receipts confirming they had received them. I had to contact Hilton customer services yet again to get the matter resolved.

The good part: Staff are very friendly although check-in seems to take a little longer than Premier Inn, the reception area and seating to relax looks fantastic and the pizzas that the staff make 24/7 are absolutely delicious. The drink & pizza prices are reasonable. Location wise is spot on, just a two minute walk from the train station and central to everything. They provide more variety of tea & coffee in rooms, such as fruit & herbal teas, and decaff coffee, this totally beats any other budget hotel. Bad points: This is a cashless hotel & this is something i'm firmly against for a variety of reasons they lost £200 in sales due to this from myself & friends. The pillows are rock hard and kept waking up with a sore neck, the beds are also uncomfortable and feels like your sleeping on the floor. The noise from housekeeping is absolutely atrocious all you hear from several floors above and below, are the staff dragging large heavy trollies around and this goes on from 11am to 4pm if you need to sleep during the day forget it. The toilets smell of sewage & urine so sometimes you return back to your room and it stinks. There is also construction work ongoing Monday-Friday until Nov 2022 yet the prices are still very high. The cooling systems seem to work fine for an hour or so but then quickly the room becomes stuffy and warm, due to the location having the window open is very noisy especially at weekends.

the second i checked in got a very warm welcome from Safia and Prachi which made me feel very happy and is clear that the staff care about their jobs, even though the staff where polite the food was undercooked on multiple occasions during my stay which had also made vomit, i personally think the managers should be more on top of food quality.

Clean and well lighted room. Great facilities with fitness room and multitude gaming setups. Even have a bar in the lobby. Serving great foods. All and all really enjoy the stay. Well recommended!

Really nice stay for reasonable rate and really helpful staff. Thank you so much. It was a good experience. Will recommend my family and friends if they need a stay in Reading.

I have stayed There 3 times and every time I have stayed in a internal room as that is all they say they have left . Each time I have stayed I get a burning and scratching feeling and then wen I shower it goes but wen I leave the hotel as staff are excellent and don’t want any one in trouble but to get to the horrible point as I travel a lot I got a rash on all 3 occasions over the last 5 years and My Gp has said look on Google and I am knot the only one . I have a chemical reaction from who they sublet there bed lining to of as they say could be Bed Mites / My hole face and cheek of face both sides and Neck have been bitten / so the chemical hasn’t been ruled out but bed Mites are 100% true the chemicals of the Blotches all over My face and poker dots are mites the burning sensation is the strong chemical is to hide it . Watch this Space I’m Knot one to complain as trip adviser know I’m honest in what I say . If any one has had any symptoms like mine please speak out . Pjt

UK team meeting hosted at the hotel for 3 days. Excellent service, and a terrific location. Our visitors from abroad loved the views of the river. Facilities were top notch, and particularly noted that we had none of the usual connectivity issues when speaking to team members worldwide. A number of the team stayed at the hotel and I’ve had very favour feedback.Special thanks to Isabel, Federica and general manager Anne for looking after us for the week.

Exceptional service from booking to checkout. True definition of going the extra mile to ensure every aspect of our stay was as expected. Exceptional customer service from senior management to customer facing staff at reception. Vivek, Catia and Riko… your energy and passion ooze through every interaction and is contagious! Every staff member at every interaction is approachable, a special mention to Nicola and Fariha at reception; very helpful and friendly while well presented and professional. Your cleanliness and attention to detail and person centred approach has blown us away. We are well travelled, but see ourselves returning to you no matter what event or occasion we are celebrating. From birthdays, relaxing adult only weekends, family breaks, team building weekends… There is nothing we would not trust the hotel staff to manage. Thank you for making us feel part of the Voco Reading family, best #IHG hotel in this part of England, and we are definitely coming back. Excellent value for money for the service you provide!