Holiday Inn LINCOLN by IHG

Fabulous hotel, our favourite in Lincoln for the location, parking, lovely rooms and comfy beds. Breakfast selection is excellent and a lovely dining room with helpful pleasant staff We will be returning soon :)

A lovely hotel, competitively priced with very clean, very spacious and well maintained rooms judging by my own. The hotel is located next to a very clean and pretty marina, and is just a short walk from restaurants, the main shopping area and the (very steep!) hill up to the cathedral and castle. Breakfast is a very well stocked buffet, offering cereals, fruit and pastries as well as the traditional fayre. All staff I came across were pleasant and very polite. The on site car park is fairly large, although I stayed in May and did get the impression that in the summer peak months you would need to arrive early to have a good chance of getting a space. I doubt there would be enough spaces for all guests arriving by car. You register your car at Reception on arrival and so I would think that if you left it during your stay you should get a space on return because the hotel would know how many cars are registered at any given time.

We enjoyed our stay very much. The hotel was very convenient for walking into Lincoln and shopping, with many and varied pubs, bars and restaurants within a short distance, but driving was a different matter. Luckily we managed to find a space in the Hotel car park every night - it seemed to fill up quite early - and didn't need to pay the extra to use the NCP down the street, so that was good! On the other hand, and this is no reflection on the Hotel, we seemed to find ourselves stuck in traffic, stuck in one-way systems, stuck on the opposite side of the city every time we tried to leave or return to our base. Lincoln isn't for driving in!