Posts Tagged ‘motorway’
July 12th, 2008
Travelling back from Ross today, I stopped at the Moto motorway service station on the M1 at Trowell. The place has clearly seen a little overhaul the last few years but unfortunately the experience itself was just as bad.
I am not actually complaining about the food either. It was very good and with my 20% AA membership discount was reasonable value as well. What made the experience bad was the sheer amount of background noise in the place. The wooden floors ensured every crying baby, shouting kid, stomping foot, ringing till and pinging microwave echoed around the place. To add to this form of hell, an alarm had been triggered, which continually beeeeeped away without any member of staff seeming to take any notice.
If the purpose of a motorway service station is to allow you to relax for a little over perhaps a drink and a little food, then this place has lost the plot. If however you want to experience dirty tables and excessive noise, then give it a go.
Score: 1 Star (they had a toilet and I was desperate).
UPDATE. I stopped here on the 27th December for a coffee to find they didn’t have any decaffinated. Not happy that they ran out of something so basic. The toilets though were absolutely spotless and the guy cleaning them did himself proud.
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July 6th, 2008
I drove around 200 miles today across old blighty’s motorways and having done this journey many times it was definitely noticeable today, just how fewer cars were travelling and those that were, were driving more slowly than usual. I wondered as I myself stuck to the speed limit and watched the on board computer telling me my own fuel consumption, just how much of an impact the current (and likely as not continuing) high petrol prices will have in the long term.
Maybe this is the first real thing that has happened to actually have an effect on car useage in this country and while I hate parting with cash, there is at least one positive side effect helping the environment.