Everything about this hotel was perfect apart from the size of our room. All the rooms are named and ours was called Baize. Both the bedroom and the en suite were unacceptably small. We would not return to this hotel if we had to stay in the same room again.

My mother and I went for afternoon tea at the hotel with my two children. From the minute we entered the hotel we were uncomfortable. There was a wedding reception in progress and we had to pick our way through the guests to get to the room where afternoon tea was being served and even had to walk through the bridal party having photo's taken which was unpleasant for everyone. I would not have been happy if on my wedding day people were tramping through my photo's! We were shown to our table which was right next to an open fire. The atmosphere in the room was very awkward, I think partly from the fact that we were all crammed into a very small room and partly because the other guests frowned upon the fact that there were two small children in attendance! I had asked wether children were welcome at the time of booking, I was reassured that they were and a highchair would be provided for my youngest (which it wasn't) Children are very obviously not welcomed as the other guests looked down their noses at my very well behaved children. Also I was concerned at the proximity of the open fire. Despite the afternoon tea having been booked and paid for we felt so uncomfortable that we decided to leave after five minutes.

We held our civil partnership here in January, the whole day went without a hitch, very well organisd , thanks to Jessica and Marco, accomadated and fed 50 day guests and 70 evening guests with no hitches. Food was excellent, rooms were excellent , quite a few guests stayed over.

Would totally recommend.

the bar area and the restaurant were very pleasant an nicely decorated ,. We thought the menu was rather limited , but what we had was very good quality and well presented , all the staff were friendly and pleasant . Lots of tables outside which would be very nicewhen weather improves we will certainly return