My wife and I stayed at the Lincoln Hotel in December (26th-27th) of 2007 and choose a double room with terrace and Cathedral views.

The hotel itself is perfectly situated for sightseeing in the old city
although we were there on a family visit. Parking is more than adequate with a large car park in the front and another at the rear.

As a three star hotel it’s quite hard to pinpoint this hotel into its correct category as it has a confused style! Our room on the third floor was light and airy and clean and fresh. Style-wise it was very confused as it looked like it was styled on a bad day at Ikea with a twist of Disney Land!

The room had a flat screen TV but was plonked on top of a low sideboard and difficult to see in bed without sitting bolt upright! The old TV bracket was still screwed into the wall. My wife and I never did work out what the sloping mirror unit was with little cubby holes set in the middle of the room!

Please, please, please, when will British hotels install Queen or King-size beds! Whilst the bed was comfy I am six feet tall and needed another bed for my feet! The bathroom whilst clean was bordering on needing re-grouting and various bulbs were missing and one hanging out of its socket! Opportunity here for improvement please!

We particularly choose the Cathedral view but it’s not for the fainthearted as the bells chime on the quarter and the hour. (7am-11pm). Make sure your fillings are all securely fixed in! I rather enjoyed the bells as it was a distraction from having to crick my neck
to watch TV!

We paid £129 per night which included breakfast. I warn you now do not
drink the coffee! Disgusting! The breakfast was adequate but was accompanied by dreadful music and I would steer clear of the cooked black pudding which looked decidedly burnt! With three waiters on duty
at the time we were there they need to get their act together! Butter missing, tea missing, hot water missing and no chance of HP sauce or ketchup I suppose! Very hot and stuffy in the breakfast room also. Vast opportunity for improvement here!

Overall it’s very hard to seriously knock this hotel as it will always
win hands down for position. It would certainly benefit from some updating and more attention paid to its customers. Further attention to detail would make a vast improvement to this centrally situated hotel.

For those of you easily offended be aware of a peculiarity this hotel has on arrival as it is the first time I have ever come across this! After doing the normal credit card check in we were presented with a sheet of paper we were asked to sign!

This was a disclaimer form that in the event of our time staying at the hotel we should foul any of the bedding, sheets, towels or in fact
if we should foul anything we would be held responsible for the cost of replacing or the cleaning! Now, call me old fashioned but I’ve never stayed in a hotel that makes you sign one of these before!

Be aware that they do cater for large groups at the hotel and you may be the brunt of a wedding reception/disco under you room!

Stayed for one Saturday night following a Christmas Do. 3rd floor room with a small balcony and a nice view of the Cathedral. Not sure what type of room in terms of Standard as it was booked for me. Room was not large but quite adequate and with sufficient space for a coffee table and chair. Contemporary styling with nice furniture but we found the bed a little uncomfortable. Bathroom again not large but clean and relatively recently re-furnished, even if you would not want to go in there after too many drinks, (the tiles were a little busy)!!! Good strong shower with plenty of hot water (always a guide to a hotel in my opinion). The public areas were nicely decorated but you can tell that this is a privately owned hotel, not one of a multi-national chain.
Breakfast was buffet style with a good selection. I chose a "full-english" which was excellent, good quality products obviously being used. I have only ever used one other hotel in this area and that was some time ago so I cannot compare with others available locally but we had no complaints here.
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Easy parking, excellent location for the old town, fabulous views of the cathedral-best in Europe. Room well furnished with great bathroom and easy climate control. We were unlucky to be there with a wedding reception going on ,which meant a disco till midnight which was annoying as we had been located right above the dance floor. Also we were told when I asked, that the bar was closed due to the wedding, when in fact we learnt later hat there was a bar available to residents-just poor staff communication I guess. Apart from that everything was fine-the breakfast was very good and in a lovely room.

We got a free upgrade to a large refurbished room with very comfortable bed, cathedral view and tiny balcony. View was great, especially when the catbedral was floodlit at night, though I wouldn’t have paid extra for the balcony. Flat-screen television with lots of channels.

Two drawbacks: the room was very hot even with the window open, especially with duvet rather than sheets and blankets; wifi didn’t work, though they said it would work in the hotel lobby.

Spacious car park; nice breakfast, friendly staff. Newspapers and taxis arrived when ordered (surprising how often this goes wrong in many hotels).

Lincoln is stunning, especially the medieval quarter. There’s a good dolls’ house shop and a shop that sells fudge and chocolates (both on “Steep Hill”). Lots of other interesting shops in the Bailgate area, it’s obviously a very prosperous town – I’ve never seen so many jewellers’ shops and tea rooms in such a small area.

Would recommend “Fourteen” and “Gino’s” restaurants.