Stayed here for 4 nights recently, having done some research on Trip Advisor for hotels in the area. We choose The Towers as it was great value and had good reviews. On arrival we were not disappointed - the room was excellent - it had a sea view, was spacious and well maintained, plus the breakfast was great and staff very helpful. There is ample (free) parking in the grounds and we found the location convenient for exploring Ilfracombe and the surrounding area.
Highly recommended.

North Devon has lots of activities to do in the surrounding area including surfing, hiking, cycling, horse-riding, scuba diving, wildlife-watching, fishing, and exploring.

My wife and I have just enjoyed a stay at the Towers Hotel in Ilfracombe, which is an ideal location for visiting north Devon. The hotel is a spectacular Victorian-style building with the slightly-over-the-top architecture which could only work in a building of this era.

The interior is kept in-style with the overall building, but is exceptionally clean and tidy. Even the Victorian features such as the high ceilings, covings and high skirting boards were in clean, good condition which must take a lot of work by the owners.

The centre of Ilfracombe is only 15 minutes walk away and offers a number of good places to eat (particularly "Smugglers" sea-food restaurant), as well as a theatre and a dramatically located chapel which is now a small (free to enter) museum.

Our room faced out across the Bristol Channel (on a clear day we could see across to South Wales) overlooking Ilfracombe harbour. As the Hotel was on the side of a hill above Ilfracombe, the view across the harbour was great (especially when it was all lit up at night).

The owners of the hotel were extremely friendly and helpful, from taking our bags to our room, to looking after our surfing equipment in their own part of the hotel, to making breakfast early for us before our day trip to Lundy - we couldn't have asked for better hosts.

Breakfasts were good and included a variety of cerals, freshly made fruit salad, and full english breakfasts which were all of a high quality.

The only downside (and it is the only one) was the low water pressure in the en-suite shower. There again this is probably down more to the location rather than anything that the owners could actually fix.

Overall, a very very good hotel with great views and even better hosts. We will definitely be returning to the Towers in the future!

We have just returned from a weekend in Ilfracombe, staying at the Towers Hotel. We were greeted by David who was very chearful and helped to our room at the top of the hotel which was absolutely spectacular.

The hotel is lovely and clean and the breakfasts are real English breakfasts with real sausages and bacon (not the plastic things offered by some places)

We would thoughly recommend the hotel and we will return there again in the next few months

The initial impression was a warm welcome from David. The walk to Ilfracombe really is under 10 minutes and the uphill back isn't hard. We had a great room with a view (not ensuite but didn't have to share the bathroom luckily as the other room wasn't booked)

The breakfast was good but has to be between 8.15 and 9am. We'd have preferred it much later on holiday. Cereals and tinned fruit were followed by a non-greasy fry up. My husband doesn't like mushrooms and asked for baked beans - we were told that was only for veggies and children and as he was neither, he couldn't have them.

Once breakfast is done they clean. If you're in your room from 9.30-10.45 when they're cleaning, then your room doesn't get serviced. We weren't told until we were short of tea/coffee sachets.

The showers are limp but no different to any B&B without power showers.

Overall clean, friendly, quiet and very pleasant. Best for early risers who are out of the hotel by 9.30! I'd prefer people to bend over backwards to accommodate a lie-in and an odd food request to open a tin of beans, after all, I'm paying!