| Gordano | |
| Welcome Break | |
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| Road: | M5 at J19 (also accessible to traffic on the A369) |
| Address: | Welcome Break Gordano Motorway Services Area M5 Portbury Bristol Somerset BS20 7XG |
| Telephone number: | 01275 373624 |
| Signposted from the road? | as Starbucks/KFC/Waitrose |
| Opened: | 1973 |
| Previous operators: | Trusthouse Forte |
| Grid reference: | ST509756 |
| Services type: | Single site located at a junction. |
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Popular services located off a busy junction. A few years ago Gordano's toilets were claimed to be the most modern on the motorway network, and they still take pride in them.
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Facilities
General: Picnic Area, BT WiFi, Welcome Break Gaming, Children's Play Area, Meeting Room, Traffic Information, Showers, Footpath
Restaurants: Starbucks, Burger King, Eat In, KFC, Papa John's Pizza
Shops: WHSmith (with Costa Express Krispy Kreme), Waitrose, Fone Bitz
Fuel: Shell (with: Costa Express Autogas LPG)
Motel: Days Inn[book rooms]
Parking Prices
First two hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £10. Further information is not available, please update this if you know.
Prices can be paid in the shop and restaurant, with instructions in each car park. They are strictly enforced by ParkingEye.
Trivia
The toilets at Gordano costed Welcome Break £1,000,000 to install. No wonder other services' can be so bad!
It was the second services to be built at a junction, as the government conceded that there was not enough space in the area.
On 3rd July 2012, Welcome Break opened a second Starbucks outlet here. A Fone Bitz store also opened here on 9th November 2012.
A new-look Burger King opened here in April 2013.
There have been plans to use the former police station by the petrol station as a Starbucks drive thru.
Survey Results
In May 2012 and August 2011, Visit England rated the services as 4 stars.
In 2008 the services won a five star loo award.
The services won a five-star loo award in 2006 (the petrol station was rated four-star). These results were repeated again in 2007.
The site got top marks in Holiday Which? Magazine's survey in 2006, it was said to have "stylish toilets" and the food was "as good as a local curry house". It didn't come first though, Tebay on the M6 did.
Alternatives
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| Michaelwood (18 miles) Magor (M4 west, 14 miles) Leigh Delamere (M4 east, 31 miles) | Services on the M5 | Sedgemoor (20 miles) |
| Michaelwood (18 miles) Sarn Park (M4 west, 49 miles) Membury (M4 east, 58 miles)) | Welcome Break services | Sedgemoor (North) (M5 northbound, 20 miles) |