Holiday Inn Express is a place you feel at home if you use these hotels regularly, as we do. Standard is good enough, and the staff is always very polite and friendly and extremely service minded. The traditional English breakfast is nothing for the fainthearted (like me). I would have welcomed different sorts of bread, including coarse bread, cheeses, ham, and other spreads, salads, etc. If I stay for several days, I usually buy a lighter breakfast a different place to survive. But I will always use HIExpress for sure. Usually very good prices too.