Hotels near Southend airport

Pros: Warm & efficient welcome Very comfortable room Good breakfast Convenient location

Cons: No guest's lounge

Pros: It is a very well run hotel with friendly helpfull staff and when I did have a slight problem in the early hours it was resolved without any fuss. keep up the good work.

Pros: Lovely hotel and great food

Cons: My room was a shoebox, but I guess you get what you pay for. Also, I was told at reception that breakfast was not served until 8.30 on weekends. I needed to leave for my work by 8.30. I discovered that breakfast started at 8.00 when I went a few minute early to see if I could grab something. I trust this will be corrected as I passed the info onto the hotel.

Pros: Great location, right on the seafront, lovely views from the restaurant area out across the bay. Comfortable, modern, clean, friendly, good parking facilities. Breakfast was first class.

Cons: Bathroom was very cold even with the towel radiator on. I stayed in one of the junior suites on the top floor, with no central heating. Heating was via the air conditioning unit, central heating would have been much preferable.

Pros: pleasent and friendly staff good food

Pros: The staff was very welcoming. The hotel is very clean and the food was excellent.Very pleased with everything.

Pros: Staff very friendly and helpful. Excellent food and very good choice. General cleanliness throughout.

Cons: Our only complaint was that whereas we were booked in for 5 nights,Monday to Saturday - we were very disturbed to have our bill pushed under the door early on Friday morning which informed us that we were expected to check out that day. The young lady on the Reception Desk was extremely helpful and did get it sorted out, but we feel that it was something that should not have occurred.

Pros: Lovely atmosphere in restaurant & terrace

Cons: Room very hot. No hot water for shower/wash. Light over mirror in bathroom flashing on & off all night.

Pros: The position is excellent. It was a short walk from Thorpe Bay station. Every one was very friendly. The sun shone!

Cons: The hotel is quite shabby in places. Could do with a lift

Pros: Staff were extremely helpful and made the stay...

Cons: None

Pros: Enjoyed every moment we were there.

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Pros: Nothing

Cons: The central heating didn't work. I was welcomed by a confused say 15 year old boy. there was a birthday party of the 13 year old daughter in the residents lounge. I didn;t get the seaview room I boooked. they didn;t eeven have my on line booking. In fact there was not on redeeming facot.

Cons: I did not like the size of the room it was far to small is my knees were touching the shower when sat on the loo. The drains needed sorted as this caused my room to smell and it was far to cold.

Pros: friendly staff. was made welcome.

Cons: nothing

Pros: The historic significance and the hotel's representation of all that is good and traditional about English "superior guest-house" hospitality.

Cons: I seriously cannot think of any.

Pros: friendly helpful, clean and tidy value for money

Pros: Very friendly

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Pros: Polite staff and good breakfast.

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Pros: The room was comfy, spacious and lovely decor, view of sea was lovely to wake up to

Cons: Nothing at all

Pros: slept as i was working localy

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Pros: The room was a sea view room and very large, bedroom and bathroom very clean, very very close to southend pier and amusements and to the town centre itself

Cons: bed was hard but that is a personal prefernce and not one that should be held accountable towards the hotel, the noise from the floorboards from the room above was rather loud both in the night and in the morning so not one for the light sleeper

Pros: The view from the suite window.

Cons: Cook, turned up for breakfast after we did when we were there waiting at 8am. The waitress was also distraught waiting for him to turn up as she could not get into the hotel. We wanted an early start for a 6 hour drive to Cornwall but had to wait for breakfast as we had already decided to have breakfast before we left, but had to wait for a young cook (not chef) to turn up for work because he was probably pissed from the night before and didn't care about any of the guests. Not very professional and I would certainly dismiss him on this occasion. Gives young people who really want to work a bad name. He doesn't deserve a job.

Pros: Hotel is maintained to a high standard, staff very friendly

Cons: rooms are small

Pros: We had a most comfortable stay and enjoyed dinner on the night we arrived. The staff were excellent and helpful. We had trouble finding the hotel mainly because of the road works in town and it was dark when we arrived but it would have hleped had the hotel's name been more prominently displayed. Parking was not a problem.

Cons: There was nothing we did not like. As stated, we had a very comfortable stay.

Pros: Peace and quite

Pros: The staff were pleasant and the breakfast good. The room was good too and the bed comfortable.

Cons: We were located opposite the hotel in the annexe across a small alley leading to the car park, which we didn't know about beforehand. Very open, but on a rainy windy night, not pleasant getting to the other side. No faults otherwise except for lack of hairdrier in room maybe?

Pros: The room was fantastic, it was a suite. the views were beautiful in the daylight and at night. The food was really good, and reasonably priced as was the bar. I liked the separate apartments block with their own entrance. The breakfast was very good and fresh.

Pros: The room was smart and clean. The bathroom was particulary new and fresh.

Cons: No TV remote control in the room. Feint smell of cigarette smoke. Breakfast ok but serve yourself.

Pros: Very nice hotel. 1 mile from the pier so encouraged walking. Large carpark at the back which was great.

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Pros: location

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Pros: It's location was ideal for my purposes

Cons: My wife is not good on stairs

Pros: Staff helpful and welcoming

Cons: Parking arrangements a disappointment, low shower pressure, slightly shabby decor, noise of heating system from early hours. This would be ok as a 2 star but is a poor 4 star and I cant see how this is comparable to other 3 star hotels in the area.

Pros: The nice proprietors

Pros: The hotel is in a quiet location, close to the beach with parking, staff were polite and the room was clean and comfortable

Cons: I expected a greater variety of food but what was available was good

Pros: The friendly and helpful staff

Pros: Awesome, fantastic, welcoming staff. This extended through from reception to managers who were hard working and extremely helpful. I may well need to stay in Southend again, and would return to this hotel without hesitation. My wife booked this hotel based on feedback from previous guests, and I was not disappointed.

Cons: It's probably a bit pricey - but in view of the value, I would be prepared to ignore that in the future. You always get what you pay for, and this place is seriously good.

Pros: The breakfast was really good (a lot of choise), and staff was nice and friendly and the location is very good.

Cons: was noisy. In front of the hotel were few tables and chairs. Other guests were noisy, and we couldnt sleep.

Pros: Comfortable room and substantial breakfast

Cons: Bedroom furniture a little dated

Pros: The staff attitudes towards visitor

Cons: Yes our pravcy was invaded twice by the domestic and this really upset me.

Pros: The staff were very friendly and helpful.

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Pros: The hotel was clean, warm and the staff friendly. The breakfast was outstanding. The location was ideal and we really enjoyed our stay 100%

Cons: No not at all

Pros: The function attended on Sat 27th November was well organised

Cons: Our room was too cold and reception staff/mangement were not very helpful or understanding of the situation. It was a very cold period and no account of this was taken into account - almost an attitude that nothing could be done!!

Pros: The hotel overall was really good and I thought the housekeeping team did a wonderful job. The room was a good size, as was the bathroom. I particularly loved the open fires in the lounge areas.

Cons: ~There was not really enough wardrobe space.

Pros: Room, easy wi-fi, good food, good location

Pros: comfortable bed, good location

Cons: poor quality TV

Pros: I am always extremely fair when writing reviews as I realise these can strongly affect a business. I have to say that the approach to the Hotel and the building itself is lovely and the room was very clean. The grounds are well kept and on first impression we were delighted with the Hotel.

Cons: There were 7 of us (4 rooms) staying at the Hotel as we were attending a function in the evening locally. We arranged to meet up in the afternoon in the bar for a snack although we were only allowed to sit in a small unnatractive private lounge with no character, more like a waiting room, as there was a Wedding Reception about to arrive. We came back down to the bar before we went out for the evening although again were not allowed in the bar. We had a loveley evening and returned to the Hotel about 11.45pm, there were no other guests to be seen. We had to find the 1 member of staff on duty to get a drink and sit in a corridor. Breakfast was awful and staff did not seem particularly interested in us at all.

Pros: Clean, comfortable, staff helpful.

Cons: Intermittent loud noise (? fridge; aircon? )about hourly which woke us up.

Pros: Perfect place, facilities are fantastic, staff is helpful, and allow you to use the swimming pool even out of the planned hours, good experience

Cons: Gym was a bit small and always full, however, fantastic place for jogging around the hotel!

Pros: Nice setting, quite

Cons: Restaurant quite formal, fussy menu

Pros: Comfort and quality was very good

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Pros: The use of a private room for the 70th birthday dinner we attended. Excellent facilities at the indoor pool, and the offer from reception staff to open at 7 am. Pleasant friendly atmosphere from staff. We had an executive room with sitting room at £135 - good value, bu would have been content with a bedroom only at a lesser cost had we been able to book earlier - our problem. Hope to return Oct.

Cons: It would have been nicer at breakfast to have had pineapple juice as one of the juices, also more choice of fresh/tinned fruit, individual bowls rather than one mixed bowl. Nevertheless I enjoyed my Continental breakfast

Pros: Ideal location for airport

Cons: Restaurant menu did not have any healthy options so went elsewhere

Pros: Location and modern feel

Cons: Air condition noisy and too cold. Staff not very friendly more matter of fact so didn’t make us feel special

Pros: The peace, the surprise cooked breakfast and it being just across the road to the beer festival..

Cons: No soft door closers

Pros: The hotel was in a lovely location. The staff were very friendly and the rooms were spacious and very comfortable. The cooked breakfast the following morning was a welcome surprise as we thought we were only having continental! I would definitely recommend this hotel.

Pros: Staff very helpful. Some of the moans in the reviews have been rectified. Very good value for money. The widest bed I have ever slept in, in an hotel.

Cons: Being alongside a main road, the room suffered from from the passing traffic.

Pros: Very nice room, large double bed and the food

Cons: the fitness centre was very small only three pieces of equipment to use.

Pros: The room - very nicely styled, lovely sized & comfortable bed

Cons: The wait in the restaurant - very slow to serve food (waited 20minutes for apple pie!) and there was only five other diners, so being too busy was not an excuse

Pros: The bedding was in two parts and so soft....i was travelling with my female (just friend) sharing the costs so the two part bedding was superb!

Cons: Spider in the bath, the paint work by the headboard could be touched up....the window latches were a bit loose.

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Cons: the road next to our room was noisy .

Pros: We had a executive room, The bed was very comfortable

Cons: No air con in bedroom night temp was about 26 degrees, Extractor fan in bathroom not working, No tea/coffee facilities in room these were in the corridor so if you wanted a drink you had to get dressed to get it. Restaurant not open on saturday night,

Pros: Efficiency, and free wireless connection

Cons: No

Pros: Ambience

Cons: Shower not powerful enough

Pros: Warm welcome, friendly atmosphere made me feel very at ease.

Pros: The room was clean and well stocked with tea and coffee, the staff were friendly.

Pros: Very friendly owner and freshly decorated.

Pros: Very friendly owners

Pros: Location. Breakfast. Owners.

Cons: Almost booked a nearby place at half the price, but was swung by the prospect of an 'Executive Room'. The Waverley has some really lovely rooms... but not all of them it seems, & unfortunately the room we got was a disappointing one - duvet had cigarette burn; carpet was most stained I've ever seen; room was cramped; had to stand on the bed to operate tv from the top (no remote). It's a shame as some rooms looked great, but that just makes it even more disappointing when you pay the same money for one of the poorer ones. We asked if there was another room - but they were all reserved, which shows that people in the know, do return. For a lovely stay ask for one of the more recently refurbished rooms, otherwise you might be disappointed

Pros: Lovely styled room, nice suprise. loved the sofa. loads of tea, sugar and milk always an asset

Cons: Heating didnt work. toilet was heavily stained and smelt, holes in the sheets blinds didnt close at the bottom, had to stand on sofa to draw the curtain. fire alarm sounds 'fire in zone 1. there wasnt any members of staff on site so I dealt with it, muting the alarm and calling a number. My guess is a smoker but if it hadnt been we could have been in trouble

Pros: Good clean family run hotel. Pleasant staff, good facilities and close to attractions. a great bar/bistro with a seaside outlook was situated on the beach a few yards away.

Cons: None

Pros: Rooms good size Beds Comfortable. Staff pleasant and helpful.Food very good ( and particularly for young children) near Adventure Island and the beachfront restaurants.

Pros: Giving carpark discount for over night stay was helpfull. Good choice of breakfast buffet and very helpfull staff

Cons: The coldness of the room on arrival other that that the room was clean and comfortable with a seaview

Pros: We like the location of the hotel, on both our stays we had sea view rooms and our next stay will also be in a sea view room to make the most of the location. We think that Southend had been improved by the redevelopment of the Hotel.

Cons: Our first stay was one night and the second two nights, our only complaint is the cost of parking and leaving our car in the car park opposite. The first stay cost us approximately £15.00 and the second £24.00. I completely understand that the car park is not the hotels juresdiction but the discount the hotel gets for its guests is a paltry one.

Pros: Extremely clean room, lovely flat screen on well, very comfy bed. This hotel has a lovely residents bar and is right at the end of the high street.You could not get a better location.

Cons: Nothing we got to check in v. early, got our room slightly upgraded, staff were lovely, tea & coffee in our room - no negatives.

Pros: the hotel staff, the location and the food were abolutely fantastic.you cannot get any better than dat. well done

Cons: everything was absolutely perfect for me

Pros: Good size room, not too hot

Cons: The desk clerk on my arrival was slow and unfriendly (All the rest o fteh staff were lovely)

Pros: Clean spacious hotel. Comfy room, nice bathrom and good size bath towels! Love the art work everywhere.

Cons: Hairdrier a bit hard to use and a bit weak but worked .

Pros: Good location, nice room, nice bar, 12pm checkout

Cons: £20 premium for sea view is a bit high. No hotel car park

Pros: Central situation!

Cons: Your clerical provisions need improvment! The opening line of this enquiry has opened with 'Dear Ferris' Perhaps a prefix of 'Mr.' would have been wise!! Soft drinks were ridiculously expensive!

Pros: Good Security with swipe cards. Very clean and well appointed rooms. Hotel very tidy all round and in good location.

Cons: N/A

Pros: We were upgraded to a beautiful sea-view room on the fifth floor. The room was spacious, clean and the air conditioning ensured a comfortable sleep

Cons: No bad points

Pros: The staff seemed nice

Cons: Although it is not far from the airport, it is not possible to walk to the airport. I travelled on the train and had to get a taxi from the train and then in the morning back to the airport (c. £7.50 each way) . Consider this when compared to the other airport hotels. - The two big problems with the hotel were- 1. The carpet in my room was physically soaked by the door to the bathroom. I did not realise to just before I was going to sleep as I had my shoes on before. I left very early in the morning and there was nobody at reception to tell them in the morning. I had read a number of reviews saying that the place smelled like there had been a flood. It would seem to me that the issue is more fundamental, whether it's a plumbing or a ground water issue, there are some serious issues. 2. More annoying probably, the WiFi didn't work. I needed to do some work and had to tether to my phone to get any internet.

Pros: The location was ok and the hotel was good value for the money

Cons: The shower in the room did not work. The hotel did not serve food except for breakfast despite the review. However there was a pub across the road which served food

Pros: Reasonably quiet on a Sunday. Not woken up.

Cons: Hotel is in a shopping precinct with no adjacent parking.

Pros: Easy, relaxed,good parking, reasonable cost

Cons: worn out bed

Pros: Good cooked breakfast and attentive staff

Cons: Room was stuffy

Pros: Friendly & excellent value for money

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Good breakfast,room very clean and comfortable.

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Pros: Reception Staff very friendly and helpful

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Pros: Friendly atmosphere Helpful staff. Food good clean room Although there is a night club we were allocated a room in the quiet part of the hotel and were not disturbed by any noise. Would certainly visit again if we were in the area

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Pros: friendly

Cons: to noisey after closing time

Pros: None

Cons: No reception area and bar maid not aware of booking in procedures, stayed in room 1 noise of traffic and public bar, heard every hand drier in bar toilets operate. Room 5 was occupied by resident manager so we were awake 5am each morning. The water and drainage pipes from room 5 run directly above the bed in room 1. Floor boards creeking and heard his telephone conversations. Cleanliness of bathroom poor, no replacement toilet roll so had to obtain one from the bar toilets. Had a meal in the first evening in the bar food not hot and price of beer is expensive.

Pros: Nice clean room at back of hotel ideally located near shopping and Frankie and bennys next door.

Cons: Breakfast was terrible. Went down at 8.30- no croissants or pastries, bread was just thin bought bread dried up. Fruit salad was nearly empty and didn’t look very good. Only spread no butter. No one to ask as receptionist busy doing other things. I paid £5.95 for a coffee and a slice of dry toadt(don’t eat spreads). For an extra £2 I could have gone next door for a full cooked plus pastries. Dreadful