Northampton West (Harpole) hotel

Worst premier inn (possibly hotel in general!) I have ever been to. Checked in online and arrived at 11.15pm, sole traveller with my young son after a long journey, door was locked, fair enough. Ring the buzzer it said, I rang it, and rang it and rang it. Rang the landline, hammered and banged on the door. At one point genuinely considered setting off the fire alarm just to get someone to come let us in! Eventually my banging rang up a poor guest who let me into the hotel where I then proceeded to spend the next few minutes pressing the internal buzzer until finally someone arrived. "Have you been waiting long" she asked?? Well yes, I have... approximately 25 minutes, my son at this stage had gone back to the car in tears to lay down. Staff were very dismissive of the issue... telling me that the landline hadn't worked for ages, well that's not good is it?? I explained that I had pressed the buzzer continuously and repeatedly and clearly it didn't work. She refunded our breakfast charge at this stage and we left to go to our room (nearing midnight, with a 9 yr old). The whole hotel looked tired and grubby but it was too late for an alternative. I put my son to bed and went back to move my car, reception deserted again. Upon going back to the room and using the toilet, I noticed it stank of stale urine- like a public toilet at the beach kind of smell. Really strong. The Lino looked old and I imagine was the cause of the smell. My son was asleep so mentioned it as soon as we got up, the receptionist said she'd get it cleaned whilst we were at breakfast and we returned to a room that stank of bleach. Not to worry, within half an hour/45 minutes, the urine smell had returned. Room 31 needs more than a daily clean, that floor needs replacing, it was horrific and even my son (who regularly uses school toilets!) mentioned how bad it was. There was no butter at breakfast and again, who lets this happen... so an order maybe wasn't delivered but wouldn't you send someone to a local shop to get a couple of blocks to portion up??? I've since read a few reviews of similar feedback and honestly, this hotel ruins the premier inn brand, myself and my son love premier inns and have stayed at about 6/7 in the last few months and have never experienced anything like this. The whole hotel needs to be shut down and sorted out, room 31 wasn't suitable for use. At check out, I enquired about a partial/full refund and was informed it wasn't possible as "I had been let in eventually and the buzzer was working fine during the day". Surely the door wasn't locked during the day so how would they know this and when she actually tested it, must have pressed it about 15/20x before her pager beeped- with her standing right next to it. Anyhow, avoid it at all costs- go to Northampton City Centre which is gorgeous!

Not the best looking hotel but a good standard and the restaurant next door was really good for food. Staff very friendly and in restaurant very helpful

Fantastic hotel. Staff couldn’t help more no ask was to big! Very friendly housekeeping staff that were always happy to give us what we asked for.

From the moment we pulled into the car park to leaving it was dreadful. The outside of the hotel has rubbish and cigarette ends everywhere. The reception staff were outside smoking when we arrived not a good look at all. Went to our room the corridors smelt really fusty and horrible and the corridor carpets were filthy didn’t look like they had been hovered for a while. The room was like a sauna with no air conditioning it had a fan in it that was neither use nor ornament,the pillows were rock hard and the bathroom was full of black mould. We visited family that evening and returned at 10.30 went to get a drink in the bar but their card machine wasn’t working so we went to the room to get cash when we returned they had shut the doors so no drink. We booked early breakfast at 7 as we needed to get my grand daughter to a football tournament early but they didn’t open the doors until 7.15. Breakfast was shocking. The place was filthy crumbs everywhere,the toasters were both filthy and didn’t work properly,there were hardly any clean cups,the bacon was rock hard and the beans were cold. The fresh fruit salad was awful very bitter and dry obviously not done freshly and the bananas were brown. There was one person on duty who looked very disheveled and stressed so I didn’t complain to him at the time. I phoned the premier inn today to complain and was offered £38 compensation because I didn’t complain at the time. There were a lot of us that stayed there and they all felt the same too so I would avoid this place like the plague. We stay in premier inns quite often but never have I seen a place like this it needs condemning 😡😡😡

"Decent value, but unbearable in summer" This hotel offers good value overall, but the lack of air conditioning is a major issue. It was impossible to sleep — the room was far too hot and uncomfortable, even with a very noisy desk fan. I would not stay here again during the summer months.