Stayed here for one night while travelling the length of Britain, overall it's not a bad Travelodge at all, certainly not as bad as some reviews make out.
On the downside, (as mentioned frequently here) there's no food option of an evening save for a petrol station. Rooms on the M6 side are within hearing distance of the motorway, so take earplugs if you're easily disturbed. (I'm not, I wasn't affected).
On the upside the staff were excellent, professional and courteous. They gave me plenty of options of places to eat nearby in Carlisle (10 mins drive away, so the "no food" thing isn't really that bad at all, since you have to have a car to reach this lodge). The room was clean, a lot more modern and warm than other TL's on the M6, and everything worked as it should.
For £22, I couldn't have asked for much more, so I was pretty happy overall. If you plan ahead to dine elsewehere, and as long as you're paying a lowish rate, it's not a bad option at all.

Only food is from a costa coffe until 8pm. Rooms are shoddy. Bathroom fittings all loose.doors with security tape. Windows with security cables to prevent them been opened too wide. Sewarage smells as walked to petrol station shop to get shower gel, vending machine was out of shower gels. Travelodge never again.

I stayed here back 2007, and was pleasantly suprised from the experience, despite being on a undeveloped overgrown site, the manager and his staff made up for it, with excellent clean rooms, and such cheery staff, from what I can remeber it was a family
affair of staff from management down to cleaners, and it showed thet took pride in there
lodge and customer.

On that basis I asked my emploet to book me in therw when I was given the Scottish borders stores region in the company, well where do I start arrived and though OMG what has happened here, bins overflowing, no net curtains for privacy, on check in i was greeted with a YES, i daren't ask where the manager was or some the staff, entered my room and well dirty dog hairs all over floor, bedding that had not been changed, i returned to reception and was told well there no more rooms, i asked for a refund was refused, told to get in touch with customer services - appaled, i got my bags and left.

So mad to drive I went into Costa next door, where the lovley girl on duty rang the premier inn for me and got me a room, she told me the staff I once knew all left when the manger was removed, and the place has never recovered.

Booked a single night here last week on our way to Scotland,it was a 'no cancellation' deal.After a trouble free 300 mile drive we arrived early at Todhills Travel Lodge at 12 30, the dour chap on reception promptly informed us that it would cost a futher £5 per hour if we wished to check in early,this despite the fact the room was ready.We declined his kind offer and decided we would spend the extra £12 50 on lunch at the site cafe,we then discovered that this is no longer a Little Chef, but now a Costa Coffee cafe which offered a small selection of cake,pastries and filled rolls,that was it! We could have headed South to the next junction and found somewhere to eat in Carlisle,then driven back up to the next junction and returned South again to Todhills,an overall distance of some 12 miles. Faced with this,or a diet of cake for the next 17hours,we decided to cut our losses and head on over the Border, upon informing the reception of this he took considerable pleasure in informing us that we would'nt recieve a refund,we had not even asked! My advice to any weary traveller contemplating a stop over at this dire location would be to keep going ( unless they are on a diet ) And as a point of interest,when we departed at 1300hrs there were just two vehicles in the entire car park which probable says it all!