Extra - Leeds Skelton Lake Services Reviews Summary

Design and Aesthetics

Pros:

• "One of the better services you can visit, modern, clean, layout works well."
• "Loved the design of this place with the living roof."
• "Very pleasant services and amazingly clean and no litter unlike majority of service stations."
• "Very new and modern services with some good food choices."
• "Leeds Skelton Lake combines world-class design with an exciting new range of popular food and drink, retail and leisure brands."
• "The high quality, innovative building design features sweeping and exposed long-span timber beams with an undulating ‘Living Green Roof’."
• "A pleasant service station that doesn't look like a boring old service station, it looks quite nice with a good atmosphere."
• "Motorway Services off M1 junction 45. An impressive building outside with sweeping curves and turf covered roof."

Cons:

• "Looks as though one or two food outlets have already closed down and there are empty units which have yet to be occupied."
• "Horrible construction of stone and concrete and very dog unfriendly, not even a small area to exercise."
• "Dreadful design. What possessed them to put the toilet facilities so far from the entrance/car park."

Food and Dining Options

Pros:

• "With so many popular eateries, it's easy to choose something delicious."
• "British breakfast of a bacon and sausage bap plus cappuccino was excellent nourishment and break."
• "Plenty of food options, good dog exercise areas if you're traveling with a furry friend."
• "Great services with good range of food outlets, great landscaping with lovely area to walk and picnic tables."
• "Good choice of eateries, plenty parking places and outdoor seating."
• "A fantastic services offering outlets you don't expect to see! Pizza Express, Nandos, KFC, Burger King, Starbucks, Leon alongside a few others."
• "Good services and an interesting building with access to a beautiful walk round the lake, canal and riverside walks or cycle rides."
• "The best Motorway Services in the UK. At least for our needs which have been a) fast EV charging point b) grass for the dog c) good quality food outlets."

Cons:

• "Sadly despite looking incredible with a vast array of outlets everything closes at 10pm there is nothing open. No shop, no eateries even the forecourt shop is closed."
• "Burger King charging £6.90 for a ridiculous excuse for a single burger and KFC had no drinks other than sparkling water."
• "The only thing going right here is choice but seriously, travel 5 minutes from the motorway and find some decent food at reasonable prices."
• "To quote Jeeves: 'I couldn't advise it.'"
• "pizza express you need to sort your staffing out when we are paying good money for food and you only have one member of staff on having to do everything on their own."
• "Don't be fooled by the motorway or car park signs. This service area is not fully open."
• "We called twice recently, whilst en route to and returning from holiday. On the second occasion, we were enticed by the promise of a 'Good Breakfast'. It isn't."
• "when I come to a service station after a long tiring journey and spend £10.78 on a breakfast I expect it to come on a proper plate, I expect to have a coffee out of a proper cup and I expect to have proper cutlery to eat it with."

Cleanliness and Maintenance

Pros:

• "Also good to see the toilets clean and plenty of urinals for men."
• "The toilets are five star."
• "Fast becoming our favourite motorhome services in the area. Parking is plentiful and easy to negotiate even in a larger vehicle."
• "Very modern service station that actually feels welcoming. The facilities are clean and well maintained."
• "A really lovely clean services. Obviously new as a lot of the shops haven't been occupied yet."
• "The toilets are always clean and the food court is modern and clean."
• "Great services. This should be the template for motorway services. Facilities are exceptionally clean."
• "Large, airy, clean services with modern facilities and super clean loos and great choice of food outlets."

Cons:

• "The only thing that let the area down was the seating areas to eat your food. As others have said, the tables were somewhat filthy and needed someone to wash and wipe down."
• "I love the extra services, good variety of food etc. Unfortunately the eating area is so dirty! I have been sitting there about for 1 hour and no one bothered to clean the tables."
• "As a hgv driver working away I called in to use the shower. Now as a new build 'state of the art building' my expectations were high. Only 2 showers dirty at that and considering there was a cleaner on site this was not a good start."
• "Re-edited my review of this site as Extra replied saying there isn’t a problem with nightly crime taking place at this MSA. Fuel theft rife and curtains being cut regularly, security is obviously a joke as is the cctv. . toilets and showers filthy."

Accessibility and Facilities

Pros:

• "The access is top notch throughout."
• "Ideal outdoor terrace to relax."
• "An up to date service station - 2023. You can find here plenty food stores with ample seating, a large petrol station, with a large shop, very large car parks (cars, lorries, coaches)."
• "Disabled toilets were fantastic! Clean, spacious, hoist, adult changing table *and* height adjustable sink."
• "The local area surrounding Leeds Skelton Lake is rich in wildlife, with woodland, lakes and open pasture all on our doorstep."
• "The Motorway Service Area will provide an additional much desired stop off point on the journey from Roundhay Park to Temple Newsam House, with ample easily accessible cycle parking facilities available on-site."
• "Great space to take a break, quality shops and restaurants. Would drop in here more next time."
• "In a much needed place... hope there is lots of parking especially for hgv's."

Cons:

• "Yet another services ripping hgv's off. £33 to park for 15hrs is disgusting and you don't even get a meal voucher like other motorway services."
• "Terrible pay to park a hgv overnight don't even give a meal voucher!!"
• "Needs a separate area for fridge trucks. The last thing you need as a truck driver when you’ve been driving all day and have to sleep in your cab, is a fridge truck banging away all night keeping you awake."
• "Newly built services, loads of LGV parking but only 2 showers for all users, takes snap but doesn’t offer a voucher purchase service unlike others. Expensive food options. Will be avoiding and choosing better value places in future."
• "Only about 50 truck parking spaces, parking area is as far as you can get from the service building,,, and toilets are right the other side with only 2 very poor looking showers."
• "Parking daylight robbery you get three hour free parking, if you go to the machine and you want to pay for extra time you have a couple of options one is 4 hours, this is not an extra 4 hours but an extra 1 hour so you're paying for the first 3 hours of FREE PARKING and for this pleasure your charged £9 for 1 hour."
• "The postcode on the website for services brings you a different direction. Showers and snap parking."
• "Typical services where hgv parking is as far away as possible from the main building and.. Why do they insist on 'push button taps' on the showers.. could you have a shower in 10 seconds???"