Reading

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Reading
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Road:	M4 between J11 and J12
Address:	Reading Motorway Service Area Burghfield Reading Berkshire RG30 3UQ
Telephone number:	01189 566966
Signposted from the road?	As Burger King/M&S
Opened:	1995
Previous operators:	Granada
Grid reference:	SU671699
Services type:	Two sites located between junctions, with no public connection between them.
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The eastbound services are slightly larger and they have the last of a few of the shops. Each site comes with a fair amount of open space behind the hotel, but they have been slated because of the tight corners on the exit sliproads and the poor car park layout.

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Facilities

Westbound

General: Local Information, Showers, Wi-Fi
Restaurants: Eat & Drink Co., Burger King, Costa Coffee, Upper Crust, Krispy Kreme
Shops: WH Smith, Marks and Spencer Simply Food
Fuel: BP with pumps for Unleaded, Ultimate Unleaded, Diesel, Ultimate Diesel and LPG
Motel: Travelodge^{[book rooms]}

Eastbound

General: Children's Play Area, Local Information, Business Centre, Showers, Wi-Fi
Restaurants: Eat & Drink Co., Burger King, Costa Coffee, Krispy Kreme
Shops: WH Smith, Marks and Spencer Simply Food
Fuel: BP with pumps for Unleaded, Ultimate Unleaded, Diesel, Ultimate Diesel, LPG and AdBlue
Motel: Travelodge^{[book rooms]}

Parking Prices

First two hours free for all vehicles, after which cars must pay £8 and HGVs £17, or £19 to include a £7.50 food voucher.

Prices can be paid through the phone, with instructions in each car park. They are strictly enforced by CP Plus.

Trivia

Reading is located not too far from Chieveley, so much so that when it opened the signs for Chieveley were removed in order to reduce the stress on it. Chieveley's junction has since been improved and the signs have gone back up.

It is thought that the services are built on an old landfill site(!)

In circa 2001 a 'drive-thru' Burger King was added to the petrol station, like at Stafford (North). Could Granada have been looking to add one to all their services?

A Fonebitz store will open here soon.

Survey Results

In 2009 the services were deemed the most expensive by Which? Motoring, with five popular snacks costing over £10.

In 2006 the services won a four star loo award.

Also in 2006, the services were rated at 3/5 by Holiday Which?

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Comments and Reviews

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Author: Message: John Haynes For a totally "retro" experience that will take you back to the 1970s of inedible over priced food at all Motorway stops, try the so called "English Breakfast" at EDC - totally disgusting and served up by uninterested East European staff likely on the minimum wage. Where did Little Chefs and their Olympic Breakfast go ? The portions are tiny and totally the reverse of the cost, don't expect you egg to be whole, broken and snotty more like. Cost: Breakfast £9.18 and even the pot of tea is awful plus if you like it milky -tough, portion control here is so tight, milk comes in a thimble. This place should be avoided at all costs, cold food from M&S is the answer if you hit one of these awful sites, if no M&S, don't bother, buy a Mars bar and just keep driving. Posted: 10 Mar 2010, 08:23 Lesley Glover Coombe Valley Transport Limited As a Haulage Company having no option but to park in the Services we paid £17.00 thinking that the Vehicle would be safe. Two Vehicles had the Curtains slashed last night 30/11/09. When Emma Mogford was questioned about the Security/Security Guard she said that there is no Security Guard and the Cameras are only there on the entry/exit point so that your registration number can be logged to ensure you pay. Every Company is being ripped off at the Services across the UK. Posted: 01 Dec 2009, 08:04 Anonymous Do not go to the loo here unless you are happy for cross sex observation and indecent exposure. Cleaners are subcontracted so regular staff have no control over their practices which include male operatives wandering in and out of what is supposed to be the ladies toilets without any warning and female cleaners walking in while men are using urinals! Cleaners did not understand or speak english either so cannot ask them to go out even though there is no legal entitlement for them to be in opposite sex areas when in use and this is an infringement of human rights. Fine if you are into that sort of thing but very embarrassing and uncomfortable if you are not. The Law allows the employment of appropriate sex cleaners in situations where people are using toilet and washing facilities (positive discrimination) for obvious reasons so why are they exploiting foreign workers and subjecting both the cleaners and the users of their busy facilities to undignified and potentially compromising situations? Imagine being a woman or a minor finding herself alone with a strange man when exiting a cubicle in what is supposed to be the Ladies toilet enclosure. This is just penny pinching madness which shows a lack of respect for their staff and their clients! Posted: 01 Apr 2009, 16:39 Mikael Don't bother eating here. Go to the Marks and Sparks concession and buy some sandwiches/snacks there instead. It's slightly more expensive than a high street M&S, but you'll get much more for your money than in the service's 'restaurants' and, more importantly, it will be edible! Posted: 16 Nov 2008, 19:48 Admin Post your comments and reviews for Reading here, or you can return to reading. Posted: 08 Jan 2006, 11:18
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