As ever, the general standard is good - helpful staff, clean rooms and comfortable beds. The location is some way from the true centre of Exeter, but very convenient for St David's station. What was a shock is how inferior the "new style" rooms are. Very drab, unappealing decor - grey, grey, grey everywhere, years after this stopped being a fashionable look. The plasticky grey wall panels look institutionally grim, particularly in the evenings when lit by the weirdly sickly-coloured lighting. More importantly, they've stripped back the content of the room to save money and made it a lot less practical. No drawers and hardly any shelf space, so apart from what you can fit on six coat hangers, you have to live out of a suitcase on the floor. There's also no desk and a general lack of places to put anything down - just one small round table and some very mean, narrow ledges by the bedside and the TV. It's a pain as you quickly run out of space for handbags, toiletries, drinks, mobiles, snacks and other incidentals. It'd be a right pain if you actually wanted to try and do any work on a laptop too.
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