Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Barrie

This is the second stop of our Canadian trip and the first stop of our The Thank You Canada Tour (#TTYCT skating) shows starring the Canadian Olympic gold medal winning skating team. Hotel location and amenities were perfect for our needs and would recommend to anyone going to a show at the Barrie Molson Centre who are from outside the local area.

The hotel and my room was fine. All the staff - especially the lady running the breakfast room - were very professional, helpful and friendly. The only reason for the slight down vote on cleanliness arises because the bathroom is very tired with a chipped bath, some mildew on the caulking and a hanging out of the wall shower head. Other than that the whole experience was fine with one glaring exception and that concerns the obsession with plastic cutlery - you cannot eat bacon with a plastic knife and fork - and paper cups, plates bowls etc. This obsession prevented me looking forward to breakfast in any way. Why does the hotel management think this is a good idea? Steel cutlery and china crockery isn't expensive to buy and could be washed up and dried in less than an hour. So it isn't a cost thing surely? Whatever the reason, whoever decides these things at Holiday Inn has simply got it wrong and needs to re-think. I would happily pay a couple of dollars extra a night for a decent breakfast experience. Plastic knives and fork and paper plates, cups and so on are horrible.

All was good!

Hotel was fine, clean and safe. breakfast was included but tasted like it was cooked 5 days before being served