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( , Wed 29 Nov 2006, 16:33)
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Consider the merits of staying in the Travelodge in Brentwood on the A127 in Essex and commuting the distance to wherever you need to go.
Being out of town and not near a late night club and mainly stayed in by hard working contractors and salespeople who actually have to get up in the morning you won't be woken up and kept awake by people banging about and arguing and drunkenly having conversations on cellphones in the corridor outside your room and family rooms full of kids unaccompanied with the TV on loudly and screaming at each other as the parents go out on the piss and the sound comes bleeding through the walls and you wish you had a shotgun to go round and ask serenely for silence while waving it about threateningly (not that you ever would use it but it's a way of getting their attention and drawing it to the seriousness of your complaint) and even if the sound of a couple knobbing away and shagging above/below/next door etc is a glorious affirmation of life it's keeping you awake at 4am especially when they find the best part about making up is the argument they have afterwards and the lift machinery and firedoors that constantly go on through out the night and the bathroom fan that turns on for no reason and the people who have been out in town that come back at 5am despite the fact they've got a 5am flight to Faliraki and outside there's the night bus service rumbling by or the dustbin men or the Chinooks whopping over from Wooton Basset...
None of these things. It may be a little worn and threadbare and slightly 90s-ish in decor and inside the much-maligned Essex borders (although very farm-y and countryside-y at this position) but it's LOVELY AND QUIET. I recommend it. To anyone. Oh, and check out is at 12 which was an unexpected bonus. I commend it to you all.
( , Fri 27 May 2011, 2:02, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I think the Mrs might get a bit suspicious if I start going there for the odd night.
However, I may be able to swing it as a "cheap holiday". Beats Braintree that she's talked me into going to for a week...
( , Fri 27 May 2011, 7:49, Reply)

and posting frequently, being quite entertaining when doing so, for 6 years seems a very strange way to advertise your business, especially when it is already a well established company.
Still, I'd rather sleep with you than Lenny Henry.
( , Fri 27 May 2011, 9:38, Reply)

I work for car companies, not hospitality :-).... it's just so rare to stay in a hotel where it is INCREDIBLY QUIET. The antithesis of this place is the Peterborough Travelodge opposite a nightclub where most of the clubbers apparently stay after a good night out on the piss and fighting and screaming crying girls slumped in doorways because of someone called Daz...
( , Fri 27 May 2011, 10:13, Reply)
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