I stay in hotels throughout the UK every week of the year on business. I have never been to Doncaster so I used an agent to find me a hotel. I was allocated the Regent Hotel. What a disaster! This place is the worst hotel I have stayed in ever. It is located in a pleasant part of the town centre but that's it! It is accessed by an outward opening fire-door painted pillar box red. There was a distinctly unpleaseant smell in the foyer (stale beer?) and another unpleasant smell on passing the communal toilets. I was given room 4, a shoe-box situated on the ground floor and situated between 2 fire doors. I was constantly disturbed throughout the night by revellers returning to their room / trying my door by mistake! etc. The carpet in the room was so dirty I was afraid to take off my socks. In fact, I kept them on in bed just in case. The en-suite, which is painted an interesting cololur of green, was tired and dingy. However, all this pales into insignificance when compared to the food. Do not - whatever you do - eat in this place. I ordered room service - which my better judgement told me was going to be a mistake but I was starving - I was right. I had to phone and ask them to remove the 2 disgusting courses I had ordered untouched by me. They both looked as if someone else had ordered them about 5 hours earlier and they had microwaved the plate to re-heat it!! It was disgusting. Breakfast was not much better. I ordered the Yorkshire grill. It was put on the table in front of me and I thought - re-heated again! Although in fairness, I think the thick slice of greasy white fried bread might have been fresh. I walked out. But it's not all bad. The toast was well - toasted.

Well, as far as I've understood this should be one of the best hotels in Doncaster.

Let me start with the good things:

-Staff is great: they really try to help. Example: They helped me carrying my heavy suitcase to the room, they put my stuff in their fridge
- Breakfast is nice and included in the room price. There's a menu where you can choose from various dishes (including fish and coldcuts) and there's a variety of cereals and juices
- Free Wireless Internet (you lose the connection sometimes, but hey, it's free)

The bad things:

- No elevator and my room was on the third floor
- No Air Conditioning (it seems there are no hotel swith airco in Doncaster or in the rest of England????). Fan was received upon request.
- Rooms are not too clean (i know i am picky, but i don't think it's normal to find long hairs in the bathtub on the day I arrived - i shave my head so they can't be mine!)
- Very very low water pressure coming out of the showerhead
- Bad Mattress - it kills your back
- Very small single rooms for 85 pounds a night (price quality is bad for this hotel)
- no Fridge in room, no Minibar in room
- one little bottle of soap and shampoo which are not being replenished daily (what do they think. that this is enough???)
- no tissues or Kleenex in room/bathroom
- cheap recycled toilet paper
- 5 basic English Channels on the TV (no international, no BBC WORLD, no CNN, no nothing)
- no fresh fruit for breakfast
- Laundry service : comes back only the next day

Decide yourself. I've been to worse hotels (Ibis for example), but not for 85 pounds a night! The problem is that I don't think there's anything better in Doncaster.

Average type of hotel. Bedrooms reasonable size with unusual but attractive colour schemes. Some only showers. TV poor choice. Main problems heat and noise. External rooms get a lot of road noise early in the morning and internal ones have constant noise from air-conditioning plant outside. Unfortunately the bedrooms are not air-conditioned and mine was uncomfortably hot.

Breakfast Ok and evening meal was better than average - gammon was excellent. Service friendly but was slow at breakfast.

I would not be rushing to go back but it is OK for an overnight stop.

Stayed here whilst travelling on business on a Thursday night, I was given a double room with en suite. Unfortunately it seemed a nearby bar (was part of hotel) had a live acoustic band on evening I arrived - now they did sound good and did a great Stevie Wonder - Superstition, but when you've been up since 4am and are trying to sleep at 12midnight its not great. Following the noisy evening I thought it would be ok as I could lie in in the morning as I had an afternoon meeting - or so I thought! My room was beside a spring loaded door which led to the rest of the hotel, throughout the morning I was yet again annoyed as other guests came and went by the banging door!!!

Room - Good sized room, however IMO the decor was a bit strange/dated.
En suite - Good sized bathroom, good powerful shower, however again the strange decor - the choice of paint was rather strange, sort of mint/turquoise coloured walls - major contrast from the bedroom decor.
Bed - large queen/king however the sheets weren't thick enough for my liking, was a bit cold. When the sheets were pulled back the bed had no valence
Staff - all very friendly
Location - good, in centre of Doncaster, v short taxi ride to Doncaster train station
VFM - at 90quid for the night, I'm sure there are better hotels in Doncaster for the money - indeed I've stayed at much much better hotels for less than this in other cities/towns

All in all I can't say I'd recommend the hotel for anyone travelling on business - particularly due to the hotels proximity to the live band bar.