The Episode Hotel - Royal Leamington Spa

The Hotel Myself and Sam
Stayed at for our anniversary adventure.

The hotel is on the edge of the main town in Leamington. I paid £54 for a double room for 1 night which included a breakfast. I looked on the board when we arrived and it said for what we had would cost £80 so I was extremely happy.

We got into Leamington at roughly 11am, Check in wasn't until 2pm so I went in and just asked if we could leave the car in their car park, which we could. Me and Sam walked roughly 30 minutes exploring the lower part of the town until going to the tourist centre and getting a map and asking for information about things to see. We walked around the shops just getting our barrings then headed back to the hotel.

It was 13.15pm so I thought I would ask if we could check in but the man explained they were fully booked the night before so we would have to wait. Rather than walking around we just sat in my car talking and laughing until 14.01pm then we checked in. We had room number 24, I was kind of dreading seeing our room after being able to see how small the rooms down stairs by the car park were. 

I was totally shocked to see our room was huge and modern and clean, the bed was massive and so comfy. We didn't stay in our room long on that day because we spent the afternoon and early evening in Hellion Lakes Hotel, Golf and Spa which is in a separate blog which should have been uploaded a week before this one. 

We got back at roughly 19.30pm and were starving. We headed down to the hotel bar after having a little chill in our room. 

We had a fruit cider drink and ordered a antipasti sharing platter which has chorizo, parma ham, bruschetta, sun dried tomatoes and cheese stuffed peppers. For our mains we both ordered a free range chicken burger with fries. It was yummy the burger bun was rock hard but that is my only complaint.

By 21.30pm and we were in bed chilling on Facebook and watching a little bit of T.V. Eventually I fell asleep and kept waking up to check the time for some unknown reason. We had set an alarm for 8.30am to wake up for breakfast. We woke up and packed a little bit, got dressed and stumbled down for breakfast. I wasn't feeling to well, I had a massive headache.

We went downs stairs and were greeted by a lovely waitress, I sat down and Sam got me some Apple juice. I ordered a full breakfast and Sam had eggs benedict. We both had a cup of tea and went back upstairs to finish packing. We left the hotel at roughly 10.30am. We were going to be exploring the town so I asked about a local car park, the lady at the reception told us we could leave the car there, which I thought was amazing.

I really enjoyed my stay here and I will always recommend it to family and friends. 
Have you ever had this kind of hotel experience?

Becky xx

Hellion Lakes Hotel, Golf and Spa - Daventry.

Day 1 of my and Sam's 

Fifth anniversary celebrations.

I used Groupon to have a look at deals for me and Sam to do while we were in Royal Leamington Spa. They had an offer for £25 which caught my eye the deal included use of the gym, jacuzzi, steam room and 1 hours ten pin bowling. If available we could have 20% off a spa treatment but there was no space when I phoned to book and we werent really that bothered.

The hotel was in the countryside. I have never drove down actual country lanes so it was.....erm...... lets just say different haha, I don't think Sam enjoyed it as much as I did. We drove past it at first but we pulled into a side lane and turned around, we pulled up to the hotel and honestly the photo's online do it no justice, it took my breathe away. 

We walked in the this posh hotel sticking out like sore thumbs in our gym clothes. We spoke to a lovely lady at the main reception who pointed us in the right direction to the leisure reception. We arrived and there was nobody around but a sign said to call a number using the phone for assistance. Shortly after calling the number a very chirpy man can strolling along ready to help, He made us feel extremely comfortable.

We signed in and he showed us the changing room, gave us some slippers then showed us around the gym. Me and Sam spent time on the bikes, cross trainer, rowing machines and different weights which was a first for me. My arms ached so much but I kind of liked it. We then got changed into our swimming costumes and headed to the swimming pool which was fun, Sam is not a fan of swimming pools but he came in and we dunked our heads under the water trying to look at each other and we swam a little. We then hopped into the jacuzzi which was roasting hot but that didn't stop us staying in there for roughly 30 - 40 minutes.

It took me almost an hour to get dressed I had a mini melt down in the changing rooms because it was so hot in there, my shower cubicle flooded and I had to do my make up twice. Sam was waiting outside the changing room for 25 minutes...ooooppppps. Once I emerged from my hot hell haha we went to the bar to redeem out free cups of tea and a danish pastry. They were both yummy.

It was now roughly 6.30pm and our bowling was booked for 7pm but I thought we should ask if we could bowl instead of sitting around for half an hour. The man at the leisure reception let us go straight down. The room had four little lanes and uv lights like Tenpin's cosmic bowling. Sam chose to have the barriers down for the first game and I only scored 37, the next two games I had the barriers up and I got 96 and 84. Sam won all 3 games unfortunately and I got a little bit moody haha.

It was the end of our evening at Hellion Lake Hotel and it was amazing. I had so much fun and I would totally                                                         go back.

Have you ever been?

Becky xx