"Love Hopwood services... many electric points, more opening, too many coffee joints."
"Plenty of space, good selection of eateries."
"A freshly renovated services with plenty of food outlets to choose from!"
"One of the nice set out motorway service stations. Good range of food and other shops."
"Service at Burger King was spot on. Very impressed with the young lad who was working our front on his own."
"Definitely one of the cleaner service centres, with a WHSmith, Waitrose, 2x Starbucks inside, Subway, Burger King."
Cons:
"Prices are a little outrageous in some places."
"The KFC in this one was empty and the service was poor... the food was cold."
"Noodle bar was good. Costa. Have prices shot up or is it me?"
"The service is much of a muchness... The burger was cold and the bun was not that fresh."
"Never before have I ever tasted such awful coffee & toasties!!"
"The actual services were clean... But the service at subway was disgraceful they were totally incapable."
"Very modern service station, looked more like a hotel lobby. The toilets were very clean, even though it was very busy."
"Stopped off on the way home for breakfast. Pleasantly surprised at the reasonable prices for food. Petrol prices are a massive let down."
Cleanliness
Pros:
"Toilets were clean and seemed to be looked after well."
"Very nice here. Very clean too. Electric car charging - make toilets very clean."
"Love Hopwood services, clean, toilets are regularly cleaned."
"We found the toilet facilities and eating areas clean and tidy."
"Very well kept service station, clean and tidy."
"Clean floors, tables, toilets, and whole area, with Staff constantly working."
"Friendly and helpful staff. Big services with everything you could need. Big pond there with seating around."
"Lovely, clean, and modern services. Choose from Burger King, KFC, Subway, Starbucks, and more."
Cons:
"I noted vegetation obscuring signage, broken glass in a bay... litter everywhere."
"Once I queued to use disabled loo, I went in and 1st thing I noticed was 2 big bins overflowing with dirty nappies."
"When one of the reasons for stopping is a call of nature, no loo roll or no seat that's after you've worked out how to get to the porta loos that are easily seen but appear fenced off."
"The Ladies toilets are being refitted. According to my wife the temporary ones outside were hideous."
"The services are obviously understaffed, much like everywhere else at the moment (Sept 2022)."
"The toilets are badly signposted so there are a huge percentage of people trying to find them."
"Toilets (ladies) were really clean when we visited. Also shopped at WHSmith for sandwiches, etc."
"It's the halfway point for our frequent journey to visit our daughter. A quick coffee and maybe free grinds for the garden from Costa."
Service and Staff
Pros:
"The shops were fine, and staff were courteous and were responsive when asked questions."
"Costa Coffee staff helpful and friendly. All in all a very pleasant service station."
"The service station as a whole was very clean. There was a chap wearing Yeezy slides cleaning the tables & he was doing an excellent job."
"Service is good, the toilets were clean and ride without big queues."
"Two charging points with four connections (for non-Tesla electric vehicles). Shot up from about 29% to 80% in 30 minutes."
"Good disabled parking and access, the vehicular route in and out of the services seems unnecessarily complex."
"A nice clean modern service station with tons of electric charging stations, everything you need in terms of food, clean and friendly."
"Lovely place to stop, the toilets were top notch and the whole place was well maintained and very clean."
Cons:
"Shame on despicable, lazy management who, by their inaction, show that they don't care."
"Ladies' toilets are horror movie standard! Squalid filthy."
"It's a service station. Fancied a KFC. 4 machines (to order) were out of order. Not great service."
"The service is much of a muchness. Sterile and corporate."
"Very busy as you would expect, staff helpful but seemed disengaged."
"Services generally seem ok, but my comment is mainly on Subway... I just had the SLOWEST Subway service ever."
"RIP off just like every other service station. Not sure why they think they can charge so much."
"As service stations go this is not too bad. It has a large food hall with five high street restaurants favourites."