FLYING OUT OF LONDON STANSTED

RAMADA LONDON STANSTED

With its close proximity to London Stansted Airport, a mere 3 miles, the Ramada London Stansted is an ideal pre or post flight hotel. Located just off junction 8 of the M11, within the Welcome Break service area, the hotel and surrounding area has all the facilities that the discerning traveller would need for a comfortable stay.

The Ramada London Stansted is part of the Wyndham group of hotels. Having been built as recently as 2009, it is one of many new hotels and passenger services to be built in the Stansted Airport vicinity over recent years. This recent increase in traveller facilities in the area has greatly improved the experience, both for visitors to the airport and to travellers on the M11 and A120 routes.

Among the many on-site facilities, hotel guests are able to enjoy free wi fi, free parking (during your hotel stay only), baby facilities, ATM, laundry, dry cleaning, currency exchange, bar and restaurant (serving hot and cold food and drinks), and a Starbucks. There is also parking available for caravans, coaches and lorries. For an additional charge, guests can leave their vehicles at the hotel during their time away, collecting the vehicle upon their return. However, guests leaving their vehicles here will have to rely on public transport or taxi to get to and from the airport. Unfortunately, there are no shuttle buses serving this location.

Adjacent to the hotel is a food court, shopping area and a petrol station. The hotel also boasts a business center and 24 hour reception. There is a choice of rooms ranging from Executive Rooms to Interconnecting Family Rooms. Family rooms can sleep up to four people. All rooms feature walk in wet room, tea/coffee making facilities, and digital freeview flatscreen TV. Free newspapers are available on request, as is an early morning wake up call.

 

 



Check in time is from 2pm and check out time is by 11am. Breakfast is served from 6.30am to 9.30am Monday to Friday, and 7am to 10am Saturday and Sunday (a continental breakfast can be arranged for earlier departures). Dinner is served from 6pm to 9.30pm Monday to Saturday, and 6pm to 9pm on Sundays.

Apart from being ideally situated for the airport, the Ramada London Stansted is also an ideal base for exploring Essex and Hertfordshire. Bishop's Stortford town center is only a few minutes drive away, Cambridge just 14 miles, London Docklands only a 25 minute drive, and Hatfield forest is virtually on the doorstep.

I had booked a standard double room for the night, for my wife and myself. We were flying out of Stansted to Bucharest in Romania on an early morning flight. To eliminate any pre-flight stress due to hold ups on the road, we thought this would make for a much more leisurely and restful start to our holiday. We would have a 5 minute drive to the airport as opposed to over an hour, and an extra hour in bed at that time of the morning is most welcome!

We arrived at the hotel late afternoon and check-in was very quick. Antoniya and her team were very welcoming, polite and helpful, and extremely efficient. We took our small overnight bag to our room then went off to explore the hotel and surrounding facilities. The site is what you would expect from a service area, most travellers needs are catered for but it is not an environment that one would wish to spend too much time in. There are of course numerous places of interest in the local area, and further afield, but my wife and I would not be visiting these on this occasion. Back at the hotel, we found our room to be most comfortable and more than adequate for our needs.

 

The next morning, having had a comfortable nights sleep, we were awoken by the prearranged early morning call. It was 5am and it was our intention to leave the hotel at 6am. As it was too early for us to have the full cooked breakfast, service starts at 6.30am, we made do with just a cup of tea and coffee in our room. We intended to have breakfast at the airport once we had checked in for our flight. As I had already pre-booked the 'Meet & Greet' car park through the Stansted Airport website, I would not be leaving my car at the hotel. We left at 6am as intended and had a quick and easy 3 mile drive to the airport car park. It was then a simple matter of dropping off the vehicle keys at the car park office, and then a short walk to the terminal and on to check-in

I am a big advocate of pre and post flight hotel stays, I truly believe that we should make our holidays as stress free as possible, so why leave driving to the airport to just a few hours before your flight? This way, my wife and I arrived at the airport in good time, feeling much more rested and relaxed than had we driven all the way from home that morning. The Ramada London Stansted is an ideal pre or post flight hotel, easily accessed from the M11 and A120. It would also make a good short stay hotel for visiting the surrounding area. My wife and I were both very happy with out short stay, and we will most certainly consider the Ramada London Stansted next time we fly out of London Stansted Airport.

 

For more information visit: www.welcomebreak.co.uk/hotels

The post code for Sat Navs is: CM23 5QZ.