Being a frequent business traveller to and from Spain in needed a hotel within the local vicinity at very short notice. I decided on staying at The Beauchief as it was only 20 minutes from East Midlands Airport and was excellent value for money at £30.00 per night when all other local hotels were excess of £70.00 plus. Car parking facilities were great at the rear of the hotel and there are some great local restaurants and bars all within a few minutes’ walk from the hotel.
Staff were great – really friendly and helpful. Further requests such as extra pillows & duvet were in my room within 5 minutes.
I have just re-booked another stay for when I fly back in February.

I stayed at the Beauchief with my daughter as we were going to the same function as Cheshire Rose. Our experience was a the same mixed bag - the staff were lovely but the hotel is really tired and the general housekeeping and food organisation need some serious attention.

My daughter was charged £10 more than the quoted rate (I booked by phone), our room was really cold (breath condensing in the room and no heating at any time), one of the beds in our twin room was in the process of collapsing - my daughter had a broken spring in her mattress, the room wasn't particularly clean, we had no sound at all on the television and we had a broken furniture and a window taped together. Breakfast, having been moved from 7am to 9am to 8am - 10am, was problematic by the time we got down just after 9am (having had a phone call to tell me to hurry up from a friend!).

With 12 of us booked in, they'd run out of cooked food. In fairness, they did give us masses of toast and tea, but surely, even if it is more people than they expected, they could have got some more supplies in - possibly even have emergency stocks in a freezer. The bizarre thing is that, as a group, we regularly organise rallies and cook for in excess of 30 people in a narrowboat kitchen without difficulty. I do realise that only eight people pre-ordered breakfast but surely when someone asks if they can have breakfast then it's usual to consider whether you have enough food or can get some before saying yes?

Overall it was cheap and convenient but I don't think I'll be going back anytime soon.

We stayed between Christmas and New year during 2011. We were meeting up with a large group of friends elsewhere in Loughborough and it was suggested this hotel was central and reasonably priced which it was. We arrived around 12:40pm (check in is from 12 noon) and found another friend already waiting in reception. She had been there 25 minutes and no one was around. We tried knocking on a couple of doors marked "staff only" and tried telephoning the hotel to get some attention but we just heard a phone ringing behind a closed door. Another couple arrived, presumably to see someone who usually works there and seemed surprised no one was around. Thankfully they had a private phone number for someone in charge and called them. within 10 minutes someone arrived and started checking in the ever growing group of people now forming in the reception area.
The twin room we had was very basic but acceptable apart from the fact that only one bed had a quilt on it. We asked for a second quilt and it was provided. the room was a bit tired with a broken lamp shade, grubby carpet very soft mattresses (one with a rather uncomfortable "button" which was no longer sitting in it's dimple in the mattress and was sticking in me instead!) and leaking tap. The truth is that the hotel served it's purpose for what we required and was cheap enough to allow us to have a good drink with friends in the knowledge no one had to drive anywhere afterwards. The staff were most accomodating when one of our friends asked if they could extend the breakfast service a little later - I think it was mostly our friends that were booked in on that occasion and so In the morning 10 of us (the ones that were not too hung over to be up in time for breakfast) all sat around one long table and shared a very good breakfast with copious amounts of tea, coffee and toast served by very freindly and helpful staff.. There is talk of our group of friends repeating this social event again next year. if they do I do not think I would hesitate to book this hotel again as it suited our needs even though some aspects could have been a good deal better

Myself and a friend stayed at the Beauchief in Loughborough 23/25 September. We were in town due to a local Exhibition once we had found the way into the car park we were booked in very efficiently - Our rooms were just off the car park on the ground floor near the bar area - It would have been nice if we had been pre-warned that there was party due on the Friday evening - The music eventually went off at about 1.00 am and the revellers disappeared to bed around 2.00am ...They were camped right outside our bedrooms and as result we did not get much sleep. on the first evening The breakfast though was really very good. We crawled off to the Exhibition and complained to the Check in desk on our return in the evening to be told that they had another party due in that night.We demanded that they moved us - fortunately they had had a couple of no shows so they were able to oblige.However the reason for us also be slightly unhappy was the state of the shower rooms on the ground-floor -the fan did not work in mine and the carpet ouside both rooms in the hall way was wet. We felt that there was definitely an issue with the plumbing....