Just returned from a 3 night stay at this hotel. Here is my diary of events.
Day 1. Check in ok, room ok and on the ground floor facing gardens. Bathroom was in poor condition.
Went for drink before evening meal, everything ok so far.
10 guests in dining room and 4 staff. Ordered meal and 2 glasses of water. 10 minutes before water and soup arrives, the soup container was 4 or 5 yards from our table but everything was done in slow motion. Main meal arrives some time later.
Meal was ok. Went to bed about 10.30pm as we had had a long journey, but unfortunately the noise from the room above was driving us mad, no it wasn`t a party just guests doing normal things like walking, showering ,opening drawers etc. We could here everything they were doing the floors and ceilings were so thin. After about an hour they settled down to sleep and so did we.
Day 2. Awoken at 6am by the guests above doing their ablutions.
Breakfast ok but slow.
In the evening went for a drink in the bar before dinner, ordered one brandy and dry ginger and a bottle of cider. The brandy was put in a large tumbler so I asked if they could put it in a brandy glass as they had done on the previous night, was told they only had one brandy glass and it was out already, they had run out of dry ginger and cider but would see if they had some in the other bar. Horray! we got our drinks. Now to the dining room for our evening meal, tonight there are 18 guests and 5 staff. We ordered 2 glasses of water and two soups to start, one meal from the menu of the day and one meal from the a la carte. We were told there would be a 30 minute delay for the a la carte menu. That seemed ok. We waited and waited but didn`t recieve either the water or the soup, finally after 20 minutes we asked if there was a problem with water and soup this was brought about 5 minutes later. and a further wait for our main meal. Meal was ok.
Then off to bed later whilst we listened to the evening entertainment from above for an hour.
Day 3. Awoken again by the guests from above at 6am.
Breakfast ok but slow.
Went to the bar and gave the same order as on the previous nights` horray! theyve got the brandy glass back, but have no dry ginger or cider. Lemonade all round for us.
Went in to dinner, only 6 in the dining room and 2 staff, we are out to cause confusion tonight when we both order from the a la carte menu. water arrives in a few minutes and soup about 6 minutes, this is great. After 45 minutes a waitress came over to say our main meal would be about 5-7 minutes, but left the dirty soup bowls on the table. A few minutes later another waitress came to say the meal would be another 5 minutes and cleared the soup bowls. Finally the meal arrives, had we ordered something exotic, no just steak and chips.
Off to bed for the hour with our upstairs neighbours before going to sleep.
Our last morning and revellie is 5.45am from upstairs today, thank god we are leaving, we can`t keep this pace up much longer.
To sum up our visit, food ok but don`t expect fast food here.
rooms ok, but don`t stay on the ground floor. If you drink brandy take your own glass, on second thoughts take your drinks as well.
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Would I recommend this hotel to my best friend?
Probably not
I do not recommend this hotel for:
Young Singles, An Amazing Honeymoon, A romantic getaway, Girlfriend getaway, Older Travellers, Families with Small Children, Families with Teenagers, tourists
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