Mill on the Soar by Greene King Inns

Stayed with my husband for one night on route to our destination. A great find! Clean, comfortable, roomy and excellent value. We had a room on the ground floor with its own front door next to the hotel car park. The bed was very comfortable, nice linen and towels. The room had a bath and shower and lots of hot water. There was a good large TV and tea and coffee making facilities. We were really pleased with it. We ate at the pub in the evening which was nice food and really great value. Likewise the breakfast (included in our room rate) was also good. All staff we met were super helpful, friendly and accommodating. In terms of opportunities to improve I would say the heater in the room (we didn’t use it) was rusty and the window frames, behind the nets were very grubby. The one thing that downgraded the stay for us was the abundance of cigarette butts outside. There were loads of butt and rubbish bins everywhere yet people were flinging half smoked cigarettes off the balcony! I’m not talking one or two, there were dozens and dozens of them. I can see by the amount of bins the hotel have supplied that this is a guest behaviour issue as opposed to the hotels. Perhaps a ‘warning’ notice may help- if they did this in the street they would get fined.