From the moment we walked in the staff could not do enough for us! The hotel itself was beautiful, clean and friendly. Set in beautiful surroundings. I would highly recommend this hotel.

I just stayed here on business; I was worried it would be a bad place to stay as the reviews were not so good. However, I arrived and was pleasantly surprised, the building is amazing and even though the interior is a little dated it is part of its charm.
The rooms were not bad, very clean and comfortable - good shower, bath robe and a good selection of tea coffee cookies ect.
Anyway, I ventured down for a swim, although small, I thought perfect for what I wanted which was sauna, pool and hot-tub.
On the 2nd night I ate in the bar, I hear the head chef has a very good review so the restaurant was full and no surprise to find the food amazing and price not bad too.
All in all, I would stay here again, on business or for pleasure, pref pleasure so I have time to walk the grounds in daylight.

I had booked two twin rooms for one night to do some sight-seeing in Lincoln with some friends. The hotel is located a bit off, but this was no problem as we had hired a car for our stay, as well.

The hotel is located in a vast park and in a great building. The staff is very friendly though sometimes incapable of dealing with simple requests (the waiter returned twice to ask for my room number). Food in the bar is average, but reasonably priced.

My room (201) was a miniature sized shoe box and I feeled a bit cramped. But it was perfectly clean. The bed was comfy enough to have a good night´s sleep. In the other room (106), however, the window sill was full of mildew and the window itself had some spiderwebs on it. The view of my room was great - over the park at the rear of the building (see pictures). My mates in 106 proved not o be that lucky.

The "spa-facilities" include a jucuzzi, an 8m swimmingpool and a sauna. There is also a gym which I didn´t check out. The area was clean, as well, however, you have to get a key from the reception and have to sign that your health is all right and your stay in the pool will therefore do you no harm - a bit odd to say the least.

The breakfast consists of the regular cooked section (beans, mushrooms, scrambled eggs (fried egg on order), tomatoes, sausages and ham) and a cold section with some cereals, a small selection of fruits and juices. Toast is available, as well.

All over the stay was OK but not as memorable I had hoped it to be because of the nice setting of the hotel. I had expected more for the price!

My husband and I really looked forward to our stay at this hotel because of the great reviews on Tripadvisor and also because of the lovely hotel's website. But we were very unpleasantly surprised. Probably I should have been warned what to expect, when after giving my credit card details to guarantee the booking, I had to chase the hotel three times for a confirmation of the reservation. Our two night stay at the hotel was just one dissappointment after another:
- room was very small, with no character, with a very narrow (we are both slim and standar height, not sure how bigger people manage) and uncomfortable bed. There were spider webs on the inside on the window. The tap in the bathroom didn't mix hot and cold water at all and two separate streams of cold and extremely hot water poured out of it (quite dangerous and you had to be careful not to burn yourself).
- swimming pool was out of order and nothing was done about it during our stay.
- gym on the website is described as 'recently refurbished', but it is a dark and small room in the basement level with ancient machines. Really pathetic.
- the 3-course meal in the Lakeside restaurant is advertised at £21.50 pp, but we were unpleasantly surprised when we were presented with a menu @ £24.00 pp. Also most meals like fish and beef have an extra supplement, so you are forced to pay much more. My fish was nice, but my husband's pork was a small portion and our potatoes were overcooked.
- they almost refused to let my husband in the restaurant because he was wearing jeans. Yet the next day during breakfast another guest was walking around the restaurant and the whole hotel with only his rather short dressing gown on and with bare feet. No one from the staff seemed to care.
- our last morning, Monday bank holiday, we arrived for breakfast at 9.45 and found all food cleared off the tables and staff refused to serve us anything. This was despite the fact that breakfast is meant to be served until 10.00 am on Bank Holidays. I had to go to our room, take a framed information with breakfast times off the wall and take it downstairs to the restaurant to show them that they should serve breakfast until 10.00. Only then we received some food. ... after this we couldn't wait to leave the hotel, but the Branston Hall had another surprise for us waiting....
- on the checkout the charge for our dinner seemed too high to me, so I asked for a breakdown of the total figure and found out that they charged us twice for only one starter.
...after all this we wouldn't recommend this hotel to anyone. It is a nice historical building in a quiet setting, but that's all that is nice about it.