Primelodge Doncaster (former Restover Lodge) — Hotel in Doncaster

So we booked here for a Saturday night in Doncaster. Having parked up in the car park we checked in. This was the first "hotel" I've ever been to with a bouncer. I have to say that did concern me somewhat. We got our key and to my surprise it was a key card not a mortice key with a piece of lead pipe as a keyring. We made our way to the room which was, let's say basic. It had a double bed and a single. The double had a plastic mattress protector on it. That doesn't bode well given the searing temperatures outside. You know the feeling when you open the oven door and the heat hits your face. That was the room. Needless to say but there was no aircon. I shut the curtain to block the rays of the sun but you could've spat through the material so that did nothing to reduce the inferno. We then tried to nap but the heat and plastic sheet just made us turn into raisins. Having not napped we went down for a preprandial before going out for dinner. The drinks selection in the bar was minimal and no draught beers. It was, by comparison to many places, very cheap though. That did appeal to my Scottish sensibilities. On return from dinner we retired to try and sleep having been informed that this "hotel" is actually a halfway house for people leaving prison. Should you want to share a bar with ex-cons or if you're looking for something specific then you might be best booking here. Showering was an art form as your timing had to be impeccable to avoid the shower basin overflowing. The toothbrush holder was a veritable petri dish of bacteria and the toilet and cistern had a unique moving feature which really worked the core while trying to steady oneself for a morning evacuation. The hairdryer supplied by reception was possibly booby trapped as it did try it's best to ignite anything flammable in the vicinity so it was deemed safest to keep the hair mildly moist after this. Checkout was painless and possibly a relief. There are many actual hotels in the area and some may warrant the word prime. This however was crimelodge more...

Awful experience. Shower came apart when turned on in first room causing me to slip in a very slippery shower pan and hurt myself.|Room was infested with flies, when I sat on the bed they all took off, manager thought it might be the mattress but laughed and said "I'll evict them. They haven't paid" they changed our room as they knew that room (115) has a problem with flies. Manager couldn't understand why we were given the room. We are both disabled but were moved upstairs to room 223. In this room there was black mould in shower cubicle and hair clogging the plug hole so water took forever to drain away. A screw sticking out of floor which I assume was being used as a door stop but would make quite a mess of a foot were it to be accidentally kicked. The light fixtures above the bed were thick with dust and looked like they had never been cleaned and only one light worked but if you pushed the bulb up a bit it came on and as soon as i took my hand away it went off again. Sour smell in rooms the manager said she thought it was the drains as they had a problem. The heat in the rooms is unbearable and with the smell and flies it was like something out of a horror movie. Most of the place appears to be occupied by people of less unfortunate circumstances. And because of that there is a 24/7 security guard. The breakfast is reasonably priced at £3.50 but the apple juice was so bad and came out in jelly chunks. The corridors were filthy and were in dire need of a good vacuuming. I'm sad to say that in all my days, and I'm 61, I have never stayed in such a sewage dump as the Primelodge...

I've stayed in some dumps but have never felt the need to warn people to stay away from a hotel until now. The room was absolutely FREEZING, I had to use a hair dryer and keep boiling the kettle to get some heat in the place, it was still freezing I kept all the lights on because I needed as many heat sources as possible. There was an old wall heater but it kept burning out after about 15 minutes and took about 45 minutes to come back to life.

The bed was basically a mattress on the floor.

The door's beep when open so they are going off all night when people are coming and going or going out for a smoke, OK that's not a bad idea so you know you have closed the door behind you, but it sounds like a Guinea Pig having an asthma attack and it's really annoying.

The bathroom window wouldn't close completely, and had a sticker on the glass so people couldn't see in, but half of the sticker had been peeled off. Anybody walking past while I'm in the shower would be able to see my man bits, well they would normally but they had disappeared into my stomach IT WAS THAT COLD.

The toilet wouldn't flush properly. I feel sorry for the cleaners, I mean, I'm a regular guy, who likes spicy food, I go twice in a morning.

The digital TV had such a poor picture quality it reminded me of when I saw a pirate vhs copy of A Clockwork Orange back in the 80's.

It doesn't deserve the one star but thats the lowest it lets you score. So the 1 star goes to the girl on reception she was stunningly beautiful, (...