Britannia Avis 

Positives about my stay at the Britannia:
Clean toilet, bedding and 2 towels provided. 10 minute walk to Haymarket Station.

Negatives about my stay at the Britannia:
This is the worst hotel room I've ever stayed in. I paid £137 per night to sleep on an uncomfortable, noisy mattress and had to have 2 cold showers due to no hot water. The hotel is run down, dirty and loud. It used to be a travel lodge but doesn't seem like it has been updated since the change of ownership/name.

The teaspoons were used/dirty. The bathroom had a dirty and rusty mirror, broken fixtures and a shower curtain that sticks to your skin when you have your cold shower.

I chose a room without a window because it was the most affordable option at £137 per night. I knew it would be dark but the decor did not compensate for the lack of light. There were bare walls with cracks and chips of paint falling off. The skirting boards had mould and hair on them in some places.

The mattress springs dig into your skin. When I rolled over, the bed springs made quite a lot of noise. I could hear other bed springs from other rooms through the walls! Including general chit chat from the room across the hall.

The bathroom fan was loud at night and the safety fire exit sign lit up the room in bright green so you could not have a dark quiet room to sleep in. The air con was not adjustable.

The kettle was too big to fit into the sink and the cups provided were plastic. Only 1 toilet roll was provided and the body wash dispenser was filled with water and NOT soap.

There was no service during the day to replenish the tea bags and milk. The security in the building was low as no key card was needed to get to the rooms. A key card was only needed to enter the room.

WiFi was not provided and costed £14 for 2 days!! WiFi is essential for safely planning travel in a foreign city. Check out 10 am, so I needed to use the bag storage service which had a cost too.

When I asked the receptionist for a blanket or spare duvet to soften the bedsprings, she brought me a bundle and said 'I found this, I don't know what it is, but you can use it'. The staff were friendly but had a clear, distinct lack of professionalism.

If you can, avoid this hotel! I am generally quite easy to please, but this hotel fell short of all expectations. There was a vibrant hostel in a renovated church across the road which seemed much better (Belford Hostel) which could save you a bad night sleep and some cash.

Sell stock they don't have and poor communication three weeks I'm still no order arrived

straight forward to deal with
answer the phones fast and politely
and even offered a cuppa ,but no biscuits! .. ahh well, but seriously no nasty shocks or surprise fees as with other auction sites
recommended ,,thank you

We broke down on Thursday 7/8/24 at about 3pm we were told as its the clutch it can't be fixed at the roadside with out even looking at it. We where told to arrange a garage and they would take it.. They arranged to pick it up between 9am and 11am.then we just kept getting told lies, it would be between 1pm to 1.30 at the latest then they are nearly there. Then it changed to between 2pm to 2.30 because they had to collect another car, then changed to 2.45pm. They finally turned up at 3.45pm. I am disabled and if it wasn't for the people living where the car broke down I would have been sitting in the car all day. These people are going on holiday tonight and had to stop in all day when they had lots to do, we can't thank them enough or condemn this so called rescue service enough. They just told lies all day and left us feeling embarrassed telling these people they will be here soon

Always been brilliant, even worked for them 30 years ago when they belonged to c.s.m.a.
I can honestly say they have been the best company ever untill my recent call out ,!
My car wouldn't start at home, call out was there quickly as per usual, then disaster. Had a young lad obviously not very qualified who couldn't find what the problem was
he spent about 2 hour trying to resolve the problem he asked me if I had a car manual, so I got the manual out for him, then he was on the phone talking to someone on the phone for advise,?
Eventually I got told I would need a garage to investigate, he never even tried to jump start the car, anyway off he goes no car working, ?? Next day my daughter came tried to jump start it and it still wouldn't start ! then I thought get manual out read it,! and it said could be fuel pump, so I looked at fuse box took the fuse out and replaced it with another one nothing to loose and , wow runs perfect again, why didn't mechanic try that, Im a 74 year old women, who solved a silly easy problem that mechanic couldn't,!
Thank god I wasn't broken down away from home,
Obviously L.V are not using reputable companies anymore, very very disappointed used company Hobbs recovery

Date of experience: 07 August 2024

Great pub, great atmosphere

Great atmosphere and bar tender smashed it for us.

Food definitely fantastic

Great English restaurant/pub in Spain

Terrible service. Did not realise I did not have home recovery. But Britannia (LV, Allianz) said pay £100 and someone will come out and have a look. If they can’t fix it they will recover it to local garage. Thinking they will try and fix it I agree. Guy turns up and says I have no tools and only here to recover it. He said looks like it’s the belt.

I know thats a simple job and a decent roadside firm would have fixed it! Not blaming the recovery driver but Britannia should be sending out people equipped with tools!!! Cancelling the membership which I have been renewing each year!

Not bad for the price we paid

Fantastic experience called them up due to my flat battery.
Spoke to a pleasent guy and a driver was sent out within a hour and quickly got me going again.
A brilliant service from LV a definate 10/10 thanks again LV......

it is a joke not sure what happened, they use to have a good customer service now it is a disaster on different days off peak , waited 60 minutes wait and no answer. they keep telling you are moving in the queue but but do not mention your position and them off. on the 4th time managed to get an answer and agent was saying could not hear you and hang up so back to square one

Inefficient, unhelpful and rude. A total disaster calling itself a building society.

What an absolute bunch of clowns.

Waited a month for a Customer Service representative to respond to a letter and when it arrives they omit the very thing I wrote about in the first place.

Telephoning customer services is a nightmare.

AVOID!

Variable service which has resulted in costs, stress and delay for me. I am supposed to be able to access my money online but have to communicate with them by post. The website is poor and has very obvious bugs in it, as well as a lack of basic information about how to use the site. In some phone calls it is possible to get help, depending on who you speak to.

Super staff and service across the country. They are always very helpful and full of advice. The products they offer are wide and varied to suit all investors – the membership rewards used to be excellent, not so good these days since they merged with the Coop. Still a great place to put your money though.

I have been with Brittania since the age of 5 when my mother opened me an account. Why? The staff regardless where you are in the country are lovely. On the phone my local branch in particular are the sweetest people every. They are just great people.
The products they sell are also good, lots to choose from, the financial advice they give is sound and accurate. We shall have to see how the COOP merger effects the service. But so far all is good.