SURVEY: I need your opinions on motorway service stations!

[ozvaldo]

Hi all,

 

I'm working with a chain of motorway service stations to elevate and hopefully improve their awareness and desirability.

 

If you are a driver and go on motorways - please would you kindly answer the q's in this survey?  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RQR5MZ7

 

Many thanks,

Ozvaldo.
 

[Zear0]

Make them all like Gloucester services on the M5

[StanSP]

40 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

Make them all like Gloucester services on the M5

Membury on the M4. 

[StanSP]

Done the survey! 

 

I like how 'cheap fuel' was an option for one of the questions

 

[Torquay Gunner]

1 hour ago, Zear0 said:

Make them all like Gloucester services on the M5

Do you like the north or the south better? 😂

[boots60]

Stop at motorway service stations to go to the loo. Nothing else. Complete rip off of the highest order.

[Blueman1967]

When l am on a coach, food and toilet

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

1 hour ago, Zear0 said:

Make them all like Gloucester services on the M5

 

Ever done Tebay? A similar number, a beauty 

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, Zear0 said:

Make them all like Gloucester services on the M5

Or Tebay.

 

Beaten to it by the post before mine 

Edited 16 October 2025 by Parafox

[Zear0]

Here's a proper discussion 

[Parafox]

Motorway services are mostly shite as we all know. The toilets are usually gross. 

 

I usually only ever stop if I need the bog. If I'm travelling a distance I take sarnies and a flask but I will use the car park to take that snack break.

[AyewJoking]

27 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Motorway services are mostly shite as we all know. The toilets are usually gross. 

 

I usually only ever stop if I need the bog. If I'm travelling a distance I take sarnies and a flask but I will use the car park to take that toilet break.

 

[ajthefox]

TEBAY! TEBAY! TEBAY!

[Vacamion]

 

Survey completed.

 

Let's face it, the fuel is always astronomical, the crappers are often Maze Prison Dirty Protest level and it's £2.30 for a bag of crisps.

 

No one goes to these places unless they absolutely have to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Saxondale]

 I visit loads of services because of my job. 
 

Welcome Break have massively upped their game over the past few years but they still have older sites requiring investment.

Moto and Roadchef sites are usually all frigged.

Extras are pretty good.

Gloucester and Tebay are next level.

 

Toddington needs flattening. As well as being like Hiroshima in ‘46, it’s full of thieving gypsies.

 

I am big believer in layout, setting and general vibes. For example, i have a soft spot for places like Clacket Lane Clockwise and Hartshead Moor, neither of which have the best facilities.

 

 

Edited 17 October 2025 by Saxondale

[stripeyfox]

Tebay and Gloucester are good, but a bit pricey.

 

Pretty much every motorway services in the UK in inferior to offerings in Germany, France, Norway (and probably elsewhere)

 

 

[Basingstoke Fox]

Ease of access is another key factor for me. Stopping at Chester Services would add another 5-10 mins to the journey during heavy traffic after negotiating roundabouts, etc. to get on & off the M56, compared to somewhere like Warwick services which is straight in and out on the motorway slip roads.

 

If I do have the time, I'd prefer to stop at a decent pub/restaurant/cafe for a bite to eat a few mins from the motorway which breaks up a journey nicely.

[Brizzle Fox]

Gloucester or Tebay or get out of here.

[kenny]

4 hours ago, stripeyfox said:

Tebay and Gloucester are good, but a bit pricey.

 

Pretty much every motorway services in the UK in inferior to offerings in Germany, France, Norway (and probably elsewhere)

 

 

Hard disagree. They are shite as well.

 

The ones in south Germany were beyond grim.

[The Blur]

Gordano is horrific.   Mad that it is just couple of stops down from Gloucester and Michaelwood which both are decent enough.  

 

This thread reminds me of a scene from Gavin and Stacey where all arrivals at family reunion had a discussion which service they stopped at. 

Edited 17 October 2025 by The Blur

[Samilktray]

Spent £23.99 on a single sausage roll at Gloucester services once, was nice 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Anyone ever seen Lancaster services and that weird tower that used to be a fine dining restaurant, very 1960s

[Zear0]

8 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Anyone ever seen Lancaster services and that weird tower that used to be a fine dining restaurant, very 1960s

The Greggs in the Pennine tower is nailed on to be a UNESCO heritage site. 

[CornwallFox]

Stop creating service stations that include either burger king or McDonald's, Waitrose or m&s, Greggs, Costa or Starbucks etc. 

Sick of visiting them and they're all generic branded nonsense. 

They don't need to be like Gloucester which is pretty expensive for many people, but just have good, normal wholesome food cooked on site and sold at a decent price. 

TBF I feel much the same about the towns and cities of the UK which mostly could all be each other with all the same shops etc. Let's have places that feel different from each other.

[LCFCJohn]

19 hours ago, The Blur said:

Gordano is horrific.   Mad that it is just couple of stops down from Gloucester and Michaelwood which both are decent enough.  

 

This thread reminds me of a scene from Gavin and Stacey where all arrivals at family reunion had a discussion which service they stopped at. 

Stopped at Gordona on the way to Cornwall last year. I was sitting with my feet out the drivers door and my daughter (18 months at the time) was standing showing me something, gust of wind blew the car door and wiped her out. Early hours the next morning she was being sick so off to Truro A&E we went at 4am….

 

After all morning there, nothing wrong with her head (our concern) and she had a sickness bug which proceeded to go round the family during the next few days.

 

I dislike Gordano also…..

 

As for your second paragraph, I never have been to Chieveley!