take a packed lunch?

if you can afford the £5.50 toll you won’t sniff at £2.90 for a cortado apparently!

I’m clearly riffraff, as I had to google ‘cortado’.

Carry on. 🙂

FACT,

*Costa Coffee machines in the shop, large white Americano fits perfectly in a regular cup, as long as you let the initial hot water run for about 5 seconds.

*apprarently

simmy – Member

I can never work out why the M6T services have been busy when I’ve been when the idea of a Toll Road is to get there quicker.

The entire point of the M6T is the drag race

I just get off the motorway and head for a reasonable town

Bugger-all use at 1am on the way back from a gig in London.
The Reading services used to have loads of low-growing shrubs on the dividers separating the parking areas, and at that time of the morning they’d be alive with rats scurrying all over the place.
They took all the shrubs away several years ago; don’t see rats any more. Used to stop for a plate of chips or something, with a coffee, but that usually meant getting in at around 2.30-ish, and about a tenner worse off, so now it’s stop for a wee, grab a packet of crisps and a Snickers, scoff in the car, then bugger-off again.

I refuse point blank to do anything other than have a piss at service stations. Awful awful places full of misery and drudgery

My thoughts entirely. Motorway services are useful for one thing only AFAIC, emptying one’s bladder. Although the car parks are handy for eating our sarnies in. I’ve been ripped off a few times in my life & I refuse to be ripped off anymore!

Awful awful places full of misery and drudgery

Not for me. I love a bit of coffee and cake in a journey, and I am generally going somewhere which always makes me happy. I love to watch all the groups coming and going. They are all going somewhere too, each one a story, a little adventure 🙂

Some of the Truck stops cater for cars…….

The secret world of Truckers, cheap food, interesting shop, the one on the A5 near cannock had a staggering collection of porn and overnight accomodation that was rougher than a police cell.

Some are worth a vist and family safe 🙂 and do a 24hr breakfast, Carnforth used to be good and had car fuel pumps.

I know a few proper truckers & know for sure that Truck Stops aren’t M/way services, they’re miles better.

I took my lady on holiday to a motorway services.
It was TBay tho, and the hotel was just fine.
Biking from the car park and pies, so many pies when we got back.

I took my lady on holiday to a motorway services.
It was Pontefract though and the Travelodge looked like it hadn’t been upgraded since it was opened in the early 90’s.
Nice curry in town, shite view of Eggburgh and Drax.

I checked Cougar’s link and to be honest it’s pretty rubbish – none of the good off motorway stops I know about are listed. Just in case they’re useful to anybody else, one I use regularly is Asda petrol at M5 J2 (also supermarket if you want that, but I don’t think there’s a cafe), one local to me is Worcester Woods Country Park with a great cafe and somewhere for kids to play if you need that between J6 an J7 M5.

Worcester Woods is an awesome stop off.

Wee in a bottle? Then you never have to get out of your car until your at you’re destination. All sales people do this, don’t they? Or is it just me? …. Awkward crab…. 😳

I was never that fussed about motorway services, that is until Greggs started setting up shop. Now I seem to stop at every 2nd one up and down the M6.

eww @ greggs

continental motorway services are ace, with edible food