Newspaper Article

Hotel check

Rogers, Dylan

2012

Overview

The hotel has eight floors, comprising e rooms, made up of 140 double-bedded rooms and 95 twin-bedded rooms. 110 of the rooms have inter-leading access. As it says on the tin, it's all about clean, simple accommodation, and that's what my room was like, with a comfortable bed (twin), enough space to work in and move around, and a bathroom that ticked an important box for me, in terms of a power shower. The bathroom also had two basins, but no bath, which may not be some guests' liking, but I didn't mind. My balcony had a lovely view of the sea and enough space to be comfortable, while the work space was well-designed, with a comfortable chair, enough plug points, and flat-screen TV (with selected satellite channels - movies, CNN, SuperSport etc) located just above. The hanging space was quite unique - not a cupboard, but rather an open hanging space with hangers, next to the mirror. Thereafter, some standard hotel room features, in the form of centralised lighting, tea/coffee making facilities, air-conditioning, in-room telephone, hairdryer and laptop-size safe. Most importantly, Holiday Inn Express offers free high-speed Wi-Fi internet access in their rooms.

• Publisher: Independent Online (South Africa)