Holyhead to Portsmouth

Yakuza

Hi folks,
In a few weeks I'll be driving from Holyhead to Portsmouth. I will be leaving the port about 1am and have to be in Portsmouth for 4 pm that afternoon (i.e 15 hours later) to catch a boat to Spain. I'm looking for suggestions as to any hotels to break up the journey (probably around the Birmingham area).

Has anyone here done this before? Any tips / recommendations as to a particular place? I see there's a few Premier Inn's dotted around the M6, I will probably end up using one, but if anyone here had some recommendations as to any places to stay or avoid, I'd appreciate it.

I've driven the reverse route before but that was arriving at 5pm in the evening, so I wasn't getting off the boat when my body says I should be sleeping . I went out via Plymouth last year, but I had company in the car so I was less afraid of nodding off at the wheel and we made it to Bristol before pulling into a service station for a few hours' kip. This time I'm on my own and wouldn't mind a bed to sleep in for a few hours and break the journey up.

Thanks

Fratton Fred

What route are you going? M6-M42-A34?

There is a premier inn or travelodge at the services by the toll on the M6 toll road. That should be about half way.

There are a few travelodge type places on the A55 as well in north Wales.

Edit: actually it is a Days Inn at Norton Canes the M6toll service station.

ScouseMouse

Cannot recommend them as never stayed there, buy travelodge sale started today. Rooms from a tenner. Maybe worth a look for you ?

Yakuza

Yep, that's more or less the route. (well, A55, M56, M6, M40, A34).
Thanks for those tips, folks. I'll check them out.

Fratton Fred

I guess it comes down to how far you want to go before stopping.

There is a travel lodge type place at Newbury services where the A34 crosses the M4 and I think one near the end of M275 in Portsmouth. If not the Premier Inn in Northarbour (or Port Solent it might be called) is only a ten minute drive from the ferry terminal.

Yakuza

I'd say I'd only want to go about half-way (bearing in mind that it will be about 3-4am by the time I'd look to pull up), so Birmingham seems to be roughly where I'd be looking to stop.