Nice hotel! My room (724) was quite big, pretty comfortable - and quiet: I slept very well. The hotel felt (and smelled) very clean - you notice it as soon as you enter the spacious reception area. Encouraging.
I had a meal in the bar area on Saturday evening. The food was fine though perhaps not wildly exciting. What impressed me was the charming young bar staff, who worked really hard. For instance, when there was a lull between customers, the young bar man got straight down to re-sanitising the bar area: one can imagine other young staff might regard a lull purely as time for a bit of down time, a chat ... These young people were impressive, I thought. Polite and helpful too.
Breakfast, though commendably varied in its offerings (beetroot and spelt bread, anyone?) wasn't quite so impressive: industrial scrambled eggs which had been overcooked (almost bouncy in texture!) and fried eggs which had simply been too long under the keep-warm lights, growing that tell-tale unappealing crust over the yolks.
The hotel is a little way from the station but once you get there, convenient for the pleasant "Cathedral Quarter".
So, yes, I liked this hotel and shall be very happy to choose it again next time I visit Derby.