Jury's Inn is on Wellesley Road, Croydon, CRO 9XY [map].
It lies directly opposite the famous Whitgift Centre, which is the landmark to ask for if you happen to be lost.
The Whitgift Centre offers excellent shopping and eating-out facilities (see next picture) which could be handy if you are travelling with someone who doesn't want the weekend to be a non-stop 100% Procol experience …
Car-parking: the nearest car-park to the hotel lies a couple of blocks north of the Whitgift Centre.
Park your car and get a ticket, for which you pay on leaving. Ignore the frightening hourly tariff : Jury's residents can hand this ticket in at reception and get cheap replacement … and that's all you pay, however long you park for.
There's a pedestrian subway from the Whitgift Centre directly to Jury's pavement. Don't risk trying to cross the road any other way!
Two views of the Jury's exterior. It's a new hotel yet the apostrophes seem to have fallen off already J
The view from higher floors of Jury's extends beyond the cityscape to some little patches of the Surrey countryside.
Jury's dining-room looks out on to the main road and has plenty of natural light, so no-one will be able to remain unaware of that swirly purple carpet.
Breakfast and newspapers are available in this region adjoining the dining room on the ground floor.
There's a choice of continental breakfast or cooked English breakfast, with generous helpings. There's an 8.50 breakfast thrown in with each room, as a concession.
As well as the above eating-places the ground floor has two other regions that will no doubt become suitably infested with Procol Harum fans … here we see two such specimens, loafing on one of the sofas in the immediate reception area, with the 'Pub' behind them.
The next two pictures show the inside of the 'Pub' area, which has been subdivided into various crooks and nannies.
It's eccentrically furnished with artefacts of yore including a copper kettle and (aptly for Procoholics) a typewriter of suitably tormented aspect.
This is probably the area to head for once you've checked in, if you want to make immediate contact with other Palers.
Procol fans seem for some reason always to gravitate towards the bar.
