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Hopwood Park
From Motorway Services Online
| Hopwood Park | |
| Welcome Break | |
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| Road: | M42 at J2 (also accessible to traffic on the A441) |
| Address: | Welcome Break Service Area Junction 2 M42 Redditch Road Alvechurch Birmingham Worcestershire B48 7AU |
| Telephone number: | 01214 474000 |
| Signposted from the road? | Yes |
| Opened: | 1999 |
| Grid reference: | SP037739 |
| Services type: | Single site located at a junction. |
| Visit Hopwood Park/Welcome Break's official website Facebook Page | |
Hopwood Park is a modern service area. As well as a children's play area, it has a small field, picnic benches, and a small path round a fountain for walking dogs. The toilets are at the back, you need to use the escalators to get there. The petrol station itself offers a wide variety of services, including a retail store and toilets.
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Facilities
General: Picnic Area, BT Openzone, Gamezone, Children's Play Area, Traffic Information, Nature Reserve, Showers
Restaurants: Coffee Primo, Burger King, Eat In, KFC
Shops: WH Smith, Fonebitz, Waitrose
Fuel: Shell (pump types unknown)
Motel: none
Parking Prices
First two hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £8 and caravans, coaches and HGVs £22.50. These prices include a £2/£8 food voucher respectively.
Prices can be paid from the pay & display machines in each car park, or from the shop within the services, and are strictly enforced by Parking Eye.
Trivia
Hopwood Park was the first service area to get live traffic information, as part of a joint trial between the Highways Agency and Welcome Break.
It was opened on the 23rd August 1999 by TV chef James Martin, and it cost £25million to build. Its design is very similar to that of Oxford, which was opened at roughly the same time, and South Mimms which was rebuilt at this time following a large fire.
See Are We Nearly There Yet? for information regarding Hopwood Park's location and the problems with where it is.
A Waitrose outlet opened here in February, replacing the Petroleum Menswear store. Hopwood was one of few services to have an individual outlet operating within it.
Survey Results
In 2008 the services won a five star loo award.
In 2006 and again in 2007, the services and the adjacent petrol station both won a five-star loo award.
In 2006, Holiday Which? rated the services as 5/5. They said it had helpful staff and a good variety of food in a smart café, but it didn't win, Tebay on the M6 did. Hopwood's traffic reports also received thumbs up.
In 2005, Hopwood Park won Best Provision of Group Facilities, the first time a motorway service area has ever won such an award. The Coffee Primo unit was also been nominated for 'Best Beverage Experience'.
Alternatives
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| none on M42 Frankley (M5 north, 10 miles) Strensham (M5 south, 31 miles) | Services on the M42 |
Tamworth (27 miles) Warwick (M40, 22 miles) Corley (M6 east, 25 miles) |
| none on M42 Keele (M6 north, 54 miles) Telford (M54, 42 miles) | Welcome Break services |
none on M42 Warwick (M40, 22 miles) Corley (M6 east, 25 miles) |
Comments and Reviews
Just used these services the facilities were fine but the KFC outlet was 'crap' waited for 20 minutes and only two people were serviced although there was plenty of food cooked and waiting to be sold!!!!!!!!
