Holiday Inn Hotel London-Heathrow Ariel

I mean, it’s a Holiday Inn. It’s an airport hotel. I paid about £45 for the room. I get it. It’s not going to be luxury.
But it would have been nice if the room was a bit larger — just large enough to have space for me to walk between the bed and the desk instead of having to half-​crawl on the bed to walk around it. And if the shower — powerful as the shower head was — didn’t leave me with a massive puddle on the bathroom floor (Dear cleaners: I am SO sorry. I tried to mop it up, but…).
The bed was also VERY firm, and the lack of give caused my lower back to hurt.
That said, if I needed to stay in the area again (Heathrow Airport), I’d probably come back. The £45 room was about half the price of anything else I could find, so for one night it’s something I can deal with.
By the way, I have NO idea where I would have put luggage if I had anything more than a backpack…

I booked this hotel because of the cheaper price when bundled with my flight from LAX. I had not realized that the location was quite far from central London but there are regular busses that take you to the terminals of the Heathrow underground on the Picadilly Line. The food I ordered through room service was decent but somewhat pricey. I had a minor issue adjusting the shower settings and I could see that the matress foundation (bed spring) looked old and worn. The staff were very friendly apart from a couple of guests that were unusually rude during check-​in, not a reflection of the hotel of course. Overall, the location was not so bad and the rooms were clean and decent.

as hotels go, nothing amazing to write home about. it’s a bit expensive for what they offer. It’s clean. The housekeeping did a good job. its near the airport. It’s near the Heathrow underground and railway station. Accessible by the bus. (you can travel to the airport free of charge on the bus) The room service is pricey. its not that good. (had a chicken sandwich-​it was so DRY! could not eat it all.)
it was convenient for me to travel into central London and to get to the airport. it was ok.

I have stayed at many Holiday Inns and I cannot believe that this is rated so low! The property is older, but nicely refreshed and well maintained. The restaurant is pretty good and reasonable priced. I’m a platinum rewards member, so I received the standard wifi free. It was strong enough to VoIP home and surf which is all I care about. Steaming and uploading aren’t recommended, unless you pay for the higher speed. The bed was very comfortable. My room was a very nice executive suite. The room was nice, clean, surprisingly quiet! Very reasonably priced and conveniently located.

Tiny room. Old bathroom. shower didnt work. Over priced food. Old and worn out. Not my choice to stay here but next time I’ll make sure I don’t.

This hotel was very disappointing. The keys to the room were constantly not working, we had to constantly have them rekeyed. The room was okay, beds were comfortable. The staff was a little rude. I was waiting for a package to arrive and they acted like I was putting them out. We stayed here during the Olympics and I picked this hotel because of it being a Holiday Inn, near the airport for our early morning flight home and the price as most everything else was very expensive.
Now I wish I had selected something closer to the center of the city and then moved to this one for the last night. It was a good hour on the underground to get to the Olympics and we felt we spent more time traveling to/​from the hotel then anywhere else. I emailed the hotel before we left and asked how we got to the hotel. I was not told there was more than one Holiday Inn on the bus route. We got off the bus at the first hotel only to be told we were at the wrong location.
When booking I did not see there was a bed and breakfast rate and had to spend extra each day to get the breakfast buffet which the food was good and fresh.
In the future I will stay closer to the center of the city and I would never recommend this hotel except if you have an early morning flight. This is the second time I’ve been to London so I know where I want to stay for the future.
WI-​FI is very expensive.

Let me preface this with I am a Priority Club Platinum member and stay at a lot of properties in the Intercontinental family, Holiday Inn’s included. This property was very disappointing.
I got a tiny room on the inside of the round hotel, which is ok, I have had smaller, just worth mentioning that the inside rooms while quieter, and small and pie shaped and get descendingly narrower as you go in. An upgrade to a larger room was not available. You will hear jets powering up for take off from the rooms.
After check in, I went to my room and the room key didn’t work. Back to the lobby and they got me a new one which worked. Once I was in the room there were no towels in room. I called down and asked where they would be, and was rudely asked if I looked around. Of course I did, and the towel rack behind the door was empty, and there are not a lot of other places to hide towels in the tiny room. They brought me towels. The service in the bar was good, but I watched several orders from the dining room being sent back with confused wait staff. This didn’t happen just one night and just one guest — it is pretty normal practice to mess up dinner orders it seemed. I only ate one meal at the hotel, and I ate in the bar. I had a Caesar salad that was fine.
At £59/​night (about $ 95 USD), its OK, but Wi Fi is £16/​day. The bus to the airport makes 3 – 4 stops at other hotels on the way to Heathrow, and costs £4.00 if you pre pay for the ticket at the desk (£4.50 if you pay the driver cash). Make sure you get on the right bus as there are two routes, and make sure you pay attention once the bus gets to the airport — they don’t announce their stops.
The Premier Inn just down the road on Bath street for almost the same money is a far better choice. We dropped off a colleague and the hotel was significantly better. There are multiple Holiday Inn’s and Premiers at Heathrow so you have to pay attention to which one you book.

This hotel is worn down (though the lobby, and restaurant areas are fine.) The first room they gave me was small and had a strange odor. After some discussion, they moved me to another room, which was still small, but at least had no odors.
I ate in the restaurant (using the coupon they gave me at checkin) and it was decent.
It is Heathrow, so it is expensive, but for what you get, this is really just hard to take.

This place is a run down dump considering how much they charge for rooms. The rooms are old, small, lots of noise from the airport (hard to sleep) and everything is insanely expensive and again, not even nice to justify the cost. Food is terrible. Service is absolutely horrid. Front desk staff has a bad attitude and talks down to you. They also call overpriced taxis for you with a 10 pound minimum instead of the normal ones with a 5 pound minimum. I had a non-​smoking room and smelled terrible and of course there were no rooms left to move too. Room, internet (15 pounds/​day and DIALUP SLOW), food, parking was atrotiously expensive, they will also try and tack on extra fees on checkout.
This place just plain sucks in every aspect. Save yourself a LOT of money, aggravation, and a lot of bad attitudes by the staff and go down the street to the Premier Inn. I got courteous and helpful staff, nice, new larger rooms, nicer restaurant, people, everthying was better and cheaper (170 pounds @ Holiday Inn, 70 pounds at the Premier Inn down the street with nicer rooms). I’m not someone is trying to promote Premier Inn, I’ve just had 2 very positive experiences with Premier Inn and this TERRIBLE experience with the Holiday Inn London-​Heathrow Ariel.
Also, if there is a guy named Jose at the front desk, get ready for a bad attitude, snide remarks and general bad service with a frown.

Good for early heathrow flights. 7 – 10 mins away from the airport. About an hour away from the city.
If you want to go to the city, the closest Underground terminal is back at the airport. I took the free bus from Holiday Inn back to the airport, then took the train. The bus stop was across the street from the hotel. I don’t recommend to take the free bus on the day of your flight since there are many stops.
Ways to get to the hotel from Heathrow airport:
— Cab, it will be pricey
— Shuttle (Hotel Hoppa), £4 per person
Ways to get to Heathrow airport to hotel:
— Cab
— Shuttle (Hotel Hoppa), £4 per person. Buses pick up from the main entrance of each hotel on the route.

Holiday Inn Heathrow
Die Ortsangabe stimmt nicht. Das Hotelgebäude ist Bath Rd /​Sipson Way.
Gutes Hotel, aber ziemlich teuer. Zimmer sind groß und sauber. Zum Frühstück kann man sich im Zimmer einen Tee kochen.
Staff ist jung und freundlich, manchmal hinterlassen sie einen unerfahrenen Eindruck.
Das Essen in dem Restaurant kann ich nicht beurteilen, ich habe in der Bar gegessen. Das war ok. Das Hotel ist fünf Minuten vom Terminal 2 weg, man zahlt 12 Pfund für die Taxe, oder 8 für den Bustransfer.
Dicht bei, an der Northern Perimeter Road sind die großen Autoverleiher. Einer der Gründe, weswegen ich mir das Hotel auch ausgesucht hatte.

This is a great hotel and although it can be a little pricey it is well worth it. The staff are friendly and always there to help.
It does great room service and the breakfast is delicious.
The room was clean and spacious, and the bathroom was fine although not being able to move the shower head is annoying.
It is located near to Heathrow and is thus a very large hotel which can get a little overwhelming at times as it is easy to get lost.
Only bad point about this hotel would be the fact you have to pay for parking which I think is a total scam, but apart from this it is a very good hotel.