I paid on average £18 per night. This was a staging post to visit local area. I think its more suitable for urgent short stays or airport transit. I would not recommend it for a holiday. The hotel is very dated and been left behind in terms of standards. I was suprised to see the hotel uses keys. I was even more suprised to note an old slam door lift still in use. I thought it was for display!! Clearly in its heyday the hotel would have been amazing. Its been very neglected over the years. I stayed in room 71 its inadvisable to stay there or opposite in 72. Both rooms are located by a set of doors leading to other part of hotel. I was woken up countless times from the doors slamming. Particularly on friday when ppl have had some beers. In addition there is a staff store cupboard where they tend to congregate. Basically you wont get much peace and quiet in those room. The view out of 71 is overgrown and awful. You will also have to specify explicitly if you need anything clean. Sad to say its not a given for housekeeping. Overall if ur patient and need something basic its ok, not hotely at all! Good chips.

This hotel gets a lot of bad press, not least from any of the Stockport locals we mentioned it to. However, we thought it was exactly what we would expect considering the price we paid (£39 for 2 nights!). It is clean, warm and a place to lay your head at night. The rooms are pretty shabby, the furniture is very dated and the shower was quite poorly attached to the wall but no big issues. We found the staff very helpful as they both provided us with an iron and board and came very quickly to sort out an issue where we had locked ourselves out. My only real issue with the hotel is that the walls are very thin and we were unlucky enough to have some very noisy neighbours chatting and laughing loudly at 1am so bring your earplugs. Because of that we slept badly one of the nights.
We did speak to others staying at the hotel and one friend's room smelled of damp and another friend found that there had been a leak onto the bed so would suggest you get there and inspect your room and ask to move if it doesn't look good. Our room was fine (226) so maybe ask for that.
Basically this is not a great hotel but neither is it completely awful. If you need to save cash and don't mind roughing it a bit then this could be the place for you.

I booked this through holiday extras. There was a mistake in the booking as we had puchased it to include parking but the hotel knew nothing about our parking. When we arrived the staff had no idea where the "secure car park" was (despite our instructions saying the hotel would give us directions and a voucher for the car park). Instead of apologising and trying to help they started becoming confronational (despite me saying "this must be a mistake from holiday extras what should be do?" calmly and politely) shouting at us and saying we were stupid for booking it like that. How were we supposed to know?!
Mr Kelleher and his team (night of 20th Jan room 279) were unhelpful from the moment we arrrived and made us feel very unwelcome. They didn't direct us to the rooms, meaning we had to carry cases up stair cases and the long way around. The room itself was disgusting and noisy (we were glad we were only staying for 4 hours before our flight). People were smoking in the corridors (without the smoke alarm going off). The hotel car park looked a bit shady and the conversations I overheard in the bar (behind bars for security) included "my claim to fame was I knew the bloke that stabbed him". Enough said. Don't stay there.

A double room costs £59 and to be fair for that you don't expect luxuries.
Positives - staff polite
bed comfy
shower warm and powerful
nice big car park
Negatives - bar shuts in the afternoon???
you have to pay £4 extra per person to use leisure facilities (this was not mentioned when we booked)
room not very clean
needs general cleaning eg front doors and windows filthy
in need of general maintenance eg broken towel rail
room smelt of cigarettes on arrival (non smoking room)

in summary OK for one night if going somewhere but really wouldn't want to stay longer.