Express By Holiday Inn

All the usual fare from a Holiday Inn Express. Clean, efficient rooms, acceptable continental breakfast with hot sausages, eggs and beans. Sausages may have spent more time with a baker than a butcher.
Good wifi throughout the hotel.
Good size car park, and very close to M6 at junction 13.
Decent pan-​Asian restaurant on site. (Mandarin Oriental).
Perfect for an overnight stay.

Despite quite blatantly being a motorway-​side hotel built several decades ago, I was very positively impressed with the amount of care that has been put into room detailing. The room had a special acoustic double glazed window to exclude the roar of the motorway. The bathroom had a high quality liquid soap that didnt visibly erode hands as inevitably happens in most hotels, and a separate soap dispenser in the shower cubicle with a creamy brand shower gel, that was conveniently attached to the wall. A massive and powerful showerhead made for one of the most pleasant morning showers ever, and a mixer tap in the sink finally allowed me to wash my face without any burns or frostbite.
Service was fairly pleasant and breakfast had a fair amount of choice.