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We are traveling down the M5 in a few weeks and I have been looking for a place to stop. I am not keen on motorway services's as the prices are high and food is rubbish. I have been looking on Little Chef's web site and there is one just off the M5 J5 on the A38.

I have had a look on Google Earth to see if the car park is big enough for a caravan but I am not sure which it is.Has anyone used it or been past it ?. To me it looks like it is across the road from where Little Chef and Google show it.

Thanks Kev

I went to as little chef about 6 months ago whilst travelling.

Overcooked, poor quality extremly expensive. Breakfast for 3 of us cost about £24!!! (bearing in mind their breakfast prices do not include coffee/tea).

Resturant was dirty, and if I had of seen the toilets before I ate, I would have shot out that door so damn fast you wouldn't have seen us! Disgusting.

woody

We went to the Little Chef May Bank hols near Exeter Racecourse.  After 20 mins of sitting there, with 2 under 18 year olds running the joint, about 5 tables waiting to be served ahead of us we walked out.  Drove to the other side of the road to the Haldon Diner and the food was a million times better and cheaper.  We were eating within 10 minutes of walking in.

No contest.  They seem to increasingly think they can run Little Chefs with people that haven't a clue about how to do it nor how to cook and it is ruining their reputation.

Ali

We just make sandwiches and pull in at the services.

We went into a little Chef 2 years ago and it was really good. They cooked it when we were there. Sounds like they have gone down in quality a bit then.

pete1946.: I found it on Google earth. Thanks

ukwoody: We only paid about £30 for 5 full breakfast's with tea coffee and soft drinks. That was 2 years ago so there prices have gone up a lot then.

snowy747: Is the Haldon Diner the one circled on the map?

Thanks everyone Might resort to sandwiches and flasks.

Noooo, Haldon is down beyond Exeter on the Exeter to Plymouth stretch of the A38.  Great little place for brekky and 5 mins from our caravan.

Ali

Can't understand why, when you have your own facilities behind you, people resort to such rubbish! Much cheaper, healthier and cleaner to use our own dining facilities! It also means you don't leave your unit and therefore making it less likely to have it stolen by some lowlife!

oooooh, hope thats not too strong, but i hate 'Little Chef's. Not used one for sooooooooo many years. Sounds like they have got worse.