Birchanger Green Motorway Services Welcome Break Group

A generic review of disinterested staff, a limited choice of bland, overpriced food, nearly undrinkable coffee and extorionate fuel could be applied to most motorway service stations in the UK with the addition of a short piece on a more unusual feature particular to that station.
At Birchanger Green the feature is the building. It’s modern, clean, reasonably bright and airy in the atrium area and has one of the better laid out car parks I’ve seen in front of it.
The gents toilets, however, expose a particular quirk of architecture, having quite a low wooden false ceiling with GU10 downlighters. This means that while the floor is quite well lit, there is quite a dark atmosphere in there. In the cubicles, the light is placed directly over the seat, making it moderately dark at the door while you sit in the spotlight, rather like on a theatre stage, something people are probably only comfortable with if they’ve appeared in Hair. Fear of arrest prevented me finding out if the same thing is true in the ladies so I’d be grateful if a co-​operative lady Qyper could add a reply to complete the review.

Bland motorway services with 1 shop (WH Smith) and a few basic options for food. I’d wait until the next services if you can, or until you get to the airport if thats where you’re headed. The Days Inn here is nice though, so worth it for an overnight stay.

The best thing about this services is the Days Inn hotel which is a great place to stay if you have an early flight from Stansted Airport. The Days inn has clean goodsized rooms and teh receptionsit is happy to arrange taxi transportation to the airport which is a matter of minurtes away.
Theres not a lot you can say about teh services itself, It si clean and offers places to eat and drink. It is a BT openzone so great if you need to access the internet.

Its clean. but just another rubbish UK service station. A healthy meal here is about as likely as Spurs winning the league. Why don’t these places at least put a salad bar as an option.

Owned by Welcome Break, this is one of the new generation of service stations which is essentially a collection of other branded food and retail outlets. This is half way up the M11 to Cambridge, and very close to Stansted Airport.
The station itself is reasonably well laid out and there is plenty of parking (free for 2 hours, then charges apply).
Eateries include Primo Coffee Lounge, Burger King, Eat-​In Restaurant and KFC. Nothing gourmet, then, but at least you know what to expect. There’s a Gamezone and a large branch of W H Smiths (who also sell a wide range of sandwiches, snacks and drinks if you’d rather eat in the sunshine outside). As well as toilets and baby-​changing facilities, there is a cashpoint and BT Openzone wi-​fi.
A Days Inn provides accommodation (usefully close to Stansted for early morning flights) and a new 77-​bed hotel is currently being added.