Best baby facilities at service stations

[thebullettrain]

This is a good one to ask you guys about - do you know of a half decent service station with good baby facilities? I am interested in anything really between the start of the M1 (London) right up to the M6 near Manchester.

Ideally the best placed would be around Birmingham as that is when baby Bullettrain usually needs his pit stop.

I have tried Welcome Break Corley (between junction 3 and 4 on the M6) which has a Starbucks (northbound) but the baby changing facilities are really bad - dirty and rank.

We have also tried Norton Canes on the toll road and that, so far, is the best. However, once again the disabled toilets and the baby change facilities are placed together.

The only one with dedicated baby facilities are Moto. Which isn't bad but they are in pretty poor condition. However, the Motos are beyond Birmingham which doesn't put them in the best of locations.

Have you guys any experience of any decent ones? Failing that, ones that I should avoid?

[AlexKP]

Just ask a manager to get them cleaned - they will, pronto.

[mybrainhurts]

Aaargh, bugger...I keep noticing them, but can't remember where

[Nolar Dog]

Norton Canes will be the best bet as not many people use it.

[BiggusLaddus]

The services on the toll road are a lot shinier and new than most others I've been to. Pass on baby changing bit though, and it's for you to decide if it's worth paying £4.70 for.

[littlegreenfairy]

I'm quite a fan of Donnington Services.

They are always really clean and smell nice (and have flowers in the ladies).

I expect the baby facilities are quite good too.

On a nice day you can sit outside and its quite quiet and green.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Can't help with specifics, but you could try going up the M40 instead - Oxford, Banbury & Warwick Services.

[Famous Graham]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Can't help with specifics, but you could try going up the M40 instead - Oxford, Banbury & Warwick Services.

And Oxford is pretty new, so might be worth a look.

[Puggit]

Not where you're looking, but has anyone seen the services at Alencon on the A28 in France?

Separate baby change room, with 2 change mats, roll of paper, a small persons toilet etc.

In the canteen they have baby meal deals (pot of baby food, yoghurt etc. How it should be done

[Puggit]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Can't help with specifics, but you could try going up the M40 instead - Oxford, Banbury & Warwick Services.

Banbury services?!

[NiceCupOfTea]

Puggit said:

NiceCupOfTea said:

Can't help with specifics, but you could try going up the M40 instead - Oxford, Banbury & Warwick Services.

Banbury services?!

Cherwell Valley, sorry - but it's around Banbury.

[joewilliams]

Famous Graham said:

NiceCupOfTea said:

Can't help with specifics, but you could try going up the M40 instead - Oxford, Banbury & Warwick Services.

And Oxford is pretty new, so might be worth a look.

Nope, they're pretty rank. There's one that's shared with the disabled toilet, which is small and smelly. Barely room to get the pushchair in.

There's another one inside the female toilets, but I don't know what that's like

I have to stop there as the OH's parents live in Kent, and they're the last services before Clacket Lane on the other side of London.

[NiceCupOfTea]

joewilliams said:

I have to stop there as the OH's parents live in Kent, and they're the last services before Clacket Lane on the other side of London.

Crap isn't it? A good 80 miles in between services, and likelihood of being caught in a jam on western stretch of M25 is high. Piss stop often required!