The Holiday Inn Cambridge is the centre for seeing one of the great British universities at its very best.

On top of that there are a host of different local attractions see and absorb.

Only thirty five miles from Stansted Airport the Holiday Inn Cambridge can be reached in a little over half an hour by taxi at a cost of around forty five pounds.

It is money well spent.

Holiday Inn Cambridge - THE FACILITIES

Holiday Inn Cambridge is set in a spacious welcoming setting on the banks of a lake.

It’s in a quiet village location near the A14 and on the doorstep of East Anglia.

To add to its over one hundred and sixty rooms (107 double and 1 non-smoking) Holiday Inn Cambridge boasts a three star restaurant, indoor pool, sauna, whirlpool and a health/fitness centre.

Personal services include cash machines, a beauty salon, dry cleaning and laundry and safe deposit boxes.

Holiday Inn Cambridge - THE UNIVERSITY

Take a few days to wander round the university colleges and drink in the atmosphere.

You will have heard the Christmas Carols from Kings College but a whole new experience unfolds when you enter the impressive portals if the building itself.

Quiet Queens is another hidden treasure where, incidentally, a cousin of mine spent glorious years as a maintenance servant to the college. Humble - but satisfied.

Emmanuel, Downing College, St Catherine’s (where Sir Ian Mckellen was an undergraduate), St John’s - the names are many and illustrious.

And, of course, you cannot fail to hire a punt and travel up the cam - where yearly the ‘Bumps’ races take place between colleges. If you have never punted it’s a treat in store.

Holiday Inn Cambridge - FARTHER AFIELD

Ten miles away Duxford Imperial War Museum merit’s a visit - as does Newmarket - the home of British horse racing.

Ely Cathedral, the Fitzwilliam Museum and Thetford Forest all offer different attractions.

Cambridge is not just a city with a university - but the centre of a fascinating and stimulating world around.

Holiday Inn Cambridge is an excellent stopping point to take a rest and absorb British culture at its best.