I only spent one night but I fell in love with the place; and with the sweet old pair who run it, who reminded me of retired theatre actors from a bygone age. The man of the house serves breakfast like a dear old family butler, and the rooms in this fine Georgian Bristol town house are full of character. The garden at the back is restful and charming. At £29 for B and B I will certainly visit again. They keep a strict no smoking policy. Good luck to them.

i stayed here while my daughter was having her baby at st. michaels, it was convenient, only a ' stones throw' away from the hospital which was ideal,, found my way around for conveniences e.g the precinct, shops, tescos ect,, the lodge itself was great, it wasn't 5 star but it was everythin that i needed, a lovely size room twin beds, hand basin, easy chairs and tv,, there was a kettle with cups and saucers and tea bags and coffee which were topped up daily,, it was lovely to come in any time in the night and be able to make a nice cup of tea,,towels were changed daily, breakfast was lovely a cooked breakfast, cereal, toast etc, a nice start to the day,, i didn't have an ensuite i had a shared bathroom which was only shared with one other person, which was fine and caused no problems,, my grandson will need further treatments up in bristol and i will definately be staying at toad lodge,

My girlfriend and I stayed for roughly a month in the Toad Lodge while looking for a flat in Bristol. Although I had booked an ensuite room, we were given one without its own bathroom. We did not know then how long we were going to stay there at first (that depended on how lucky we were on the flat hunting) but, anyway, we were asked to pay in advance (luckily enough, we could pay by groups of five days at a time).

The room was of a reasonable size, with a basin, two beds, some old chairs and some hangers in a wardrobe. The beds were really old, with old mattresses and bed linen. Pillow covers were so old that the colour was faded at their centre due to years of rubbing heads. The towels were changed daily and the bed linen once a week. The toad decorated duvets were not particularly clean. My girlfriend even got bitten by bugs at that room.

The bathroom (shared with only one other room) was not clean enough with stains on the walls, on the bath tube and in the toilet pan that lasted for our whole stay. It was never cleaned properly, and was disgusting to use. Soap, shampoo or shower gel were not provided. One night the toilet got blocked and Madam Toad kept insinuating that my girlfriend was disposing of her toiletries down the loo. I needed to, explicitly, say "Madam, my girlfriend is not in those days at the moment" to stop her from accusing us.

The whole house looks as if it were an old folks house in the past. Everything is quite old, and there is a persistent smell of stale urine (and, sometimes, even faeces) throughout the building. Every corner is decorated with toads: eccentric and funny at first, but even scary after some time.

We dealt mainly with two people from the staff. Madam Toad was eccentric and not nice at all. On the contrary, the person serving the breakfast was very nice and picturesque. He, together with the breakfast itself, are the only things that can be saved from that place. Breakfast was good (full english+ a range of cereals) although for a long term stay it was not varied enough.

I would not recommend it for a stay longer than a few days, and for someone who is not in a tight budget. The lodge needs a complete cleansing and a renovation.

My daughter was in hospital so had to find somewhere to stay, this was the only place with a room. whole place run down stinks of cats, wee and cigarette smoke had to pay before seeing the room walked in and instantly felt dirty and smelt sooo strongly of smoke. decided actually i would rather sleep on a chair at the hospital so did not stay overnight, i just couldn't face it. I am not a fussy person i would have slept anywhere but this was just too bad.