With free parking, a café bar and large rooms, this modern Holiday Inn Express Star City is just off the M6. There is easy road access to Birmingham city centre, 2.5 miles away. This Holiday Inn Express is next to the Star City entertainment complex. There are restaurants, a 30-screen cinema, tenpin bowling, a casino and a family climbing centre. Aston Villa FC is 1.5 miles away. The hotel is less than a mile from Aston Rail Station. Trains take 7 minutes to reach Birmingham New Street Rail Station in the city centre. The good-value rooms have flat-screen TVs, work desks, telephones, large showers and tea/coffee.