Red Lion Truck Stop Reviews Summary

Facilities

Pros:

• "Showers are clean straight after use so no standing in mucky puddles to get changed."
• "Extremely popular amongst truckers and the addition of new night time toilet facilities a very welcome addition."
• "Laundry room ideal for long haul and shop contains anything you need."
• "Shower room clean with a private sink, mirror, dry seating area."
• "Clean shower with attentive staff nice music play all the time in a restaurant."
• "They have a laundry, a shop, merchandise outlet and a traditional country pub style bar."
• "Toilets and Showers are nice, big, comfortable."

Cons:

• "Dinner was stuck to tinfoil and spent more time peeling bits of it out my dinner."
• "There are also no facilities for drying hair for those of us that still have it."
• "Parking itself is a let down because of the surface."
• "The showers are locked up on a night."
• "The yard is like the surface of the moon, outside areas are full of mud, outside toilets are disgusting."
• "The washing machines are often dirty and there is not enough wash powder to get the clothes clean."
• "Inside the main part it stinks toilets were dirty."

Food

Pros:

• "Food is very good and a great curry."
• "The food and the facilities are are brilliant and good quality."
• "Brilliant place for TruckStop excellent food with lots of varieties elaborate service warm welcoming staff."
• "Big breakfast you get everything you want on it."
• "Good English breakfast for a fair price."
• "Food is great, plenty of it and always well seasoned."
• "The food quality, I thought was fantastic and well worth it for the small price."

Cons:

• "WENT THERE AGAIN 3 WEEK LATER AND HAD A HOT CURRY THEY FORGOT TO PUT ANY SPICES IN IT TASTED LIKE STEW WONT EAT THERE AGAIN."
• "Standard of food gone down."
• "Food tonight poor Luke warm had the sausage in a Yorkie...... Never again poor quality tasteless Luke warm shire."
• "Terrible food same old stuff cooked with zero care."
• "Breakfast is pre-cooked and the bacon a bit leathery."
• "VERY BIG MEALS BUT UNFORTUNATELY NOT VERY HOT SENT BACK."
• "The food is excellent and they don't skimp on the portions."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "The staff do make the place. Very pleasant and polite n happy to help in any way that they can."
• "Friendly staff and a nice parking area!"
• "Staff are very friendly."
• "Staff were really nice and helpful."
• "All the staff are really helpful and friendly."
• "Staff always friendly and helpful."
• "Staff so friendly. Recommended 100%."

Cons:

• "Everyone looks depressed nobody smiles."
• "Most of the staff looked like they were ready to walk off, very rude and lazy."
• "Staff are unhelpful and very rude the bloke on the till looks like he on drugs."
• "Waste of time mentioning it to the staff, apart from 1 bar woman they are ignorant."
• "The staff serving food and drink inside are miserable too."
• "The guys bringing out the food were a bit awkward and non communicative."
• "Staff not interested when approached."

Parking

Pros:

• "Reasonably priced HGV parking, and they take Snap account."
• "Very good setup, and improving, including new truck wash, large fenced parking area."
• "One of the best in the UK, new parking area just been renovated and new fuel station as well."
• "Lots of parking with an attendant."
• "Secure parking, excellent conditions for drivers."
• "Now the lorry park has been concreted its improved the parking 10 fold."
• "PLENTY OF PARKING SPACE."

Cons:

• "It gets very full very early."
• "Arrive after 1830 and you will struggle to find a place to park."
• "Only downside thing is after 18.00 is very difficult to get parking space there."
• "Parking lot with mud."
• "Fills quickly and on weekends full of foreign drivers on SNAP which limits spaces."
• "Parking is well organised even if tight."
• "Parking is a bit of a faff if you're put in the wrong place as you're packed in like sardines."