Positive: centrally located with car parking at the hotel and an overflow close by, this is not always the case with city centre hotels so I was quite impressed by this. Greeted with a warm and friendly welcome at reception, rooms very clean and spacious. Excellent bar and restaurant facility on the ground floor. Obviously a lot of money has been spent on this venue recently.

We have just returned from a weekend from the Danum Hotel in Doncaster. We stayed here for 2 nights and I have to say I was quite disapointed with the hotel. We had a number of rooms booked as we have family living in Doncaster and we needed somewhere to stay. We had a family room which was very disapointing indeed. Basically was a double room with the bed pushed into a corner and a sofa bed right beside it. The bed was made up for the kids but they said was very uncomfortable and they could feel the floor under the matress as it was so thin. The hotel had been advertised as recently renovated and I image the downstairs area (reception and the restaurant and bar) were, but the bedrooms have not been touched. The bathroom was adequate but that was about all.

When we went for breakfast on the first morning the staff seemed to be very unsure of what to do. I asked for coffee and toast and was told that the butter was "over there". The coffee pot that was brought over to me was obviously used before and had coffe stains all down the front of it. When I went to get the butter for the toast there was none there so they said they would have to find some. After 4 more attempts of asking for the butter it was eventually given to us (by which stage the toast was stone cold).

The bar remained closed durning day and you constantly had to go out to reception to ask them to send someone in to serve us a drink. Overall, I am sorry to say I would not stay here again.

I stayed at the danum this March, i was visiting friends and family.
If i would have gone on the trip advisor before staying at the hotel i wouldnt have stayed. I am glad i never went on the site because i would have missed out on what i can say was one of the best hotels i have stayed in.
It was a Saturday night and there were people stood on the steps but they happily moved to the side so i could get into the hotel. Check in was fast and very professional. 10/10 for the receptionist. Entering the room wasnt how people have described in their reviews, it looked clean tidy and very presentable. Yes you could hear people walking on the corridor and shutting there doors but what else can you expect in total silence, it happens at home so why not in a 100 year old building!!
There was alot of noise outside the hotel but it was Saturday night in a town center hotel!! not the hotels fault is it!!
Unfotunatley i didnt get time to experience the bar and restuarant but from what i could see it was a calm and lovely atmosphere.
I will defiently be going back to the hotel and i will recommend it to any1!!

i knew things weren't going to be great when we had to fight our way through five men smoking on the hotel steps just to get in the place. The receptionist was quite friendly, just the right side of slightly disinterested to get away with it. A "hope it's a nice room" comment from my husband was met with an almost Stepford wife reply of "I like it" from her before she'd even input our details into the PC. As we traipsed up several flights of stairs on the threadbare carpet and onto a corridor, the formica hotel doors and the bits of wallpaper missing from the walls confirmed my suspicions before we'd even put the key in the door.
And there it was...hell.
Possible the thinnest mattress I'd ever seen but as I found out between 12 and 4 in the morning not as thin as the walls appeared to be.
The bathroom was big and ever so 1970's..though not retro 1970's...just the real deal. An old bath, a manky shower curtain, old worn but clean bath towels and a cheap as chips plastic toilet seat. The bright orange ??? pine furniture adorning the room had that marvellous feature where each time you open a drawer only one side deigns to come out at a time, resulting in the whole thing rocking backwards and forwards like a weeble. The curtains had added appeal in that when you tried to shut them they slid along to the middle leaving the opposite ends of the window exposed, the securing curtain hooks long since broken/stolen/never bothered to be fastened on(delete as you see fit) in the first place.
The acoustics in the hotel however were second to none. As I lay in my bed at midnight, I took a trip down memory lane as I recalled with fondness all those old wedding hits that DJ's seem to feel are mandatory to play.."Karma Chameloen", "Love Is All Around Us", "Oops Upside Your Head" and "I Just Called To Say I Love You". I even felt a little emotional as the DJ toasted the bride and groom (Sharon and Kyle or Leanne and Mike or some such) one last time before they retired to their honeymoon love nest for the night. The fact that I was two floors up away from where the wedding was held seemed impressive to even a lay person like me who knows nothing about how sound travels. So, I'll end on a positive, thank you Danum for providing me with a great evening's entertainment and even though I obviously missed out on the buffet (sausage rolls, pork pies and egg mayo sarnies I'm thinking) I'll raise a toast one more time to the lucky bride and groom and wish them well.