Booked this hotel because it looked beautiful on the web site of chateauselect.com and it was a birthday treat for myself. On arrival at lunchtime on 25th June we found the place absolutely deserted. After searching the grounds we eventually found someone who did work there. She gave us our bedroom key and also the front door key. The bedroom was tacky, cluttered, dangerous and extremely dusty. It looked it hadn't had a good clean for years. We unpacked and then went out for the rest of the day. On our return around 9 pm the place was still deserted and there were no lights anywhere. One thing I can't fault was the breakfast the following morning. We went out for the day and returned at midnight to find complete darkness, no-one around and it was really spooky. On top of this our bedroom hadn't been cleaned - bed not made etc. The dirty towels were still as we had left them. We had no choice but to make the best of it.

We'd had enough by this time as it wasn't a... more