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The next morning, I shuffled down to the free breakfast with all the enthusiasm of a zombie who heard a moan. But the Holiday Inn Express breakfast area is a beautiful, chaotic democracy. There were pancakes from a machine that looked like a UFO, but you push a button and out comes a perfectly round, golden disc. It’s funny—you’d never eat a pancake from a machine at home, but here, it feels like a gourmet triumph. I paired it with a packet of yogurt and a suspiciously shiny sausage link, and I felt like a king. A king in loose pajama pants, but a king nonetheless.

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And the coffee! Thank the heavens, it was not that burnt, bitter sludge that tastes like regret. It was actual, drinkable coffee. I poured it into a paper cup with a “World’s Best Dad” slogan (I am not a dad), and it made the entire morning feel like a sitcom. You could see other guests, bleary-eyed from the NEC event floor, silently nodding at each other over their scrambled eggs. It was a silent pact: We are all surviving this together, and this free breakfast is our unifying anthem.

The Location: You Can Hear the Planes (and That’s Okay)

Now, a funny thing: the hotel is right next to the National Exhibition Centre and the airport. You will hear the occasional plane. But it’s not a loud, screeching roar—it’s more like a gentle, “whoosh,” like the sound of a commuter saying, “I’ll be home soon.” It actually adds to the vibe. It reminds you that you’re in a place where things happen: people are flying in for business, walking across the glass bridge to the NEC, or just passing through. My room had a view of the car park, which sounds dull, but we watched a man successfully parallel park a Renault in one shot. We cheered. It was theater.

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The best part is the proximity to everything. You can literally walk to the NEC train station in five minutes. No cab, no awkward Uber negotiation. You just shuffle out in your comfortable shoes, and bam, you’re on a train to Birmingham City Centre. It’s like the hotel is a strategic military base for the tired business traveler. You wake up, creep to the NEC for your 9 a.m. conference, and collapse back into your fluffy pillow fortress by 5 p.m. The efficiency of it all makes you feel like a productivity genius.