Introduction: The Holiday Express Royal Docks - Docklands
hotel is a one minute walk from Canning Town Underground Station, and located by
the A13 dual carriageway which gives access out to the M25 motorway. The A13 is
also the main road into the
City of London and its square mile, the financial centre of London. Canning
Town Underground Station gives access to the Jubilee line, giving direct routes
to the centre of London which cane be travelled in around 30 minutes. Convenient
for the City Airport which is under 2 miles, and a very easy journey by road, to
the East. The hotel is ideally located for the new
Excel Exhibition Centre, 5 minutes
from the hotel at under 1 mile, and
Canary Wharf is just 5
minutes by tube. The
Olympic
stadium for the 2012 Olympics is 2 mile to the North. Other nearby
attractions include the
O2
Millennium Dome (1 mile), Museum of the Docklands (1.4 miles), Green Street
Market (1.6 miles),
Cutty Sark Ship (2.3 miles), National Maritime museum (2.3 miles) and the
Greenwich Observatory (2.5 miles).
Hotel:
A contemporary and modern hotel the Holiday Inn Express Royal Docks
Docklands Hotel offers guests a comfortable, warm and friendly stay. In 2005 the
hotel added an extension to give additional capacity of 48 bedrooms.
Bedroom facilities include en-suite facilities with power shower, satellite TV
with pay movies and Electronic message display and bill viewing, Express
check-in and check-out facility, work desk and lamp, individually controlled
air-conditioning, telephones, hairdryer, electronic locks, tea and coffee maker,
modem connection, hanging closest and WIFI internet access (charge).
The rooms are cleaned on a daily basis. Eight rooms are adapted for
accessibility. Additional amenities in these rooms are extra space on both sides
of the bed, Low-level desk unit, rails in the bathroom for bath and toilet,
vibrating pillow deaf alert system available for the hard of hearing and
Emergency alert system.
Configuration options include singles, doubles, twins. All rooms are no smoking.
The hotel restaurant is the Great Room on the ground floor where breakfast and
light evening meals are served. (evenings 18.00 till 22.00, Monday till
Thursday). Breakfast choice offers fruit juice, cereals, yoghurts, freshly baked
rolls, croissants and unlimited tea and coffee.
There are restaurants within ten minutes of the hotel in the surrounding area.
An area with vending machines is provided. You can also enjoy a relaxing drink
in the fully licensed bar and the lounge area. The bar area features a plasma
screen with sky sports shown.
Among the services provided at the hotel are dry cleaning and laundry (weekdays
only) and currency exchange. The 24 hour hotel reception can offer you safety
deposit box facilities. For your comfort the public areas are all
air-conditioned and have WIFI internet connectivity (charges apply).
There is an area which is dedicated to business services which include computer
hire, Copying, E-mail, Internet and fax (fee's apply).
Three comfortable 'meet-smart' meeting rooms can accommodate up to 120 guests
theatre style and make use of natural daylight. Equipment includes overhead
projector, modem connection, PA system, TV-VCR, erasable marker board, flip
charts and markers, wet bars, modem connection, dimmer switches and more.
Parking: available onsite, 40 spaces (charges apply),
includes blue badge spaces
Room Numbers: 136 / 4 Floors
Check-in: 14.00 (2 pm)
Check-out: 11.00 am
Note: in 2006 the tag 'Docklands' was added to the end of
the official hotel name
