The Marriott was chosen as the venue for my son's wedding and to be quite honest, no faults at all. The only one was that the hotel could have saved some money by turning down the heating slightly, but in fairness, we had just come out of a very cold snap that had seen overnight outside temperatures suddenly swing from -5C degrees to +7C. Everywhere in the hotel was clean and well-maintained, the only niggle being the gents' loo into the later part of the evening, but in fairness, I would not expect someone on hand to clear up hand-drying paper towels at 10.30 in the evening. There is a certain responsibility on guests themselves to not only "point correctly" but place the paper towels in the bin! Staff were wonderful, friendly and helpful. Only a couple of them on reception at peak times (it is quite a big hotel) but nevertheless very efficient. A little bit of fiffing and faffing to get an early check-in for the "father of the groom" (me) but in fairness, with the 12pm check out, were I not there for the wedding, I find that a very agreeable check-out time under normal circumstances. They did manage to get me installed in a room for 1.15pm, which was very helpful, and I thank the hotel. The room was very comfortable and extremely clean. It is generally hard to sleep during a one-night stay in a...The Marriott was chosen as the venue for my son's wedding and to be quite honest, no faults at all. The only one was that the hotel could have saved some money by turning down the heating slightly, but in fairness, we had just come out of a very cold snap that had seen overnight outside temperatures suddenly swing from -5C degrees to +7C.

Everywhere in the hotel was clean and well-maintained, the only niggle being the gents' loo into the later part of the evening, but in fairness, I would not expect someone on hand to clear up hand-drying paper towels at 10.30 in the evening. There is a certain responsibility on guests themselves to not only "point correctly" but place the paper towels in the bin!

Staff were wonderful, friendly and helpful. Only a couple of them on reception at peak times (it is quite a big hotel) but nevertheless very efficient. A little bit of fiffing and faffing to get an early check-in for the "father of the groom" (me) but in fairness, with the 12pm check out, were I not there for the wedding, I find that a very agreeable check-out time under normal circumstances. They did manage to get me installed in a room for 1.15pm, which was very helpful, and I thank the hotel.

The room was very comfortable and extremely clean. It is generally hard to sleep during a one-night stay in a strange bed, but it was very comfortable indeed, so a good night's sleep was obtained. And I have to add, very quiet in the hotel corridors!

Breakfast was exceptional! All the hot food was cooked to perfection, somewhat doing great restorative work in the faith of the hotel breakfast. All piping not, nil grease and incredible, if not the best-poached breakfast eggs ever, beaten only by the Traders Hotel in Kuala Lumpar some 7 years ago! I also noted that the scrambled eggs weren't runny and tired, the toaster made perfect toast (not one of those rotary affairs where you have to put the slice of bread through at least 20 times before it even warms up). I'm not a coffee drinker myself, but my rather epicurean sister-in law, well acquainted with Michelin Star food, claimed it was the best in years! My own second-helping was a return to the food bar for of all things, some fruit salad. Exceptional.

A little confused with the third-party booking sites - there are so many of them all offering the same deal, determined to earn money out of the public. I had booked a two-night stay with one of the plethora of hotel booking sites, but had to change it to one night. There was no way of doing this with the third-party site, because you simply cannot get hold of a human being, and the hotel itself couldn't override the booking. So, I cancelled the original booking only to find they had no rooms available.

However, then checking with the hotel, I was surprised to find that their own price was £27 more expensive than the other booking site is used, as it had rooms showing as available. And that doesn't take into account the commission the Marriott pays the booking site! I found this all rather bizarre.

I have to confess I do have an issue with hotels.com, trivago, ebookers and Expedia all offering rooms at an identical price, as these brands are all owned by Expedia, which means Expedia is actually in competition with itself, which is totally unnecessary and somewhat, in my opinion, very dishonest. However, this is nothing to do with Marriott.

However, well done Marriott. You should be proud.

And when the boys (aged 12 to 27) from our party saw the Sheffield United team players checking in (as we checked out) for their match with Wigan Athletic later that evening, they were chuffed with grabbing autographs - me, I know absolutely nothing about football, so this went all over my head.

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