If you are ever in Yorkshire try Elvington. I was in there this week. Limited facilities, but cheap fuel, (I thought I had mis-heard the price) and a really nice welcome from a true enthusiast for his job.
What grips me are the hotels who charge a £100 landing fee. You arrive with the customers who are about to spend a shed load of cash and then hit them for a fee for landing. My response to this now is "for that kind of fee I expect a licensed concrete pad with no obstructions, full fire cover, fuel and uniformed dollies to handle the pax and mop my overworked brow. Not the hotel lawn surrounded by trees and measured by an optimist with several knots in his tape measure."
One hotel manager recently presented me with a bill for landing 6 guests on his lawn. The bill was £2 more than a landing at Battersea. The guests were staying there for a week and their final bill was thousands. It seems that certain hotel owners have decided that this is a neat way to pay for the illegals washing the dishes
VH