old style hotel, bad smell in the room. the food is terrible like the service. No free wifi

For someone who travel a lot this is just a nightmare !!

Olivier Mann
Geneva - Switzerland

Our office had a function there yesterday (09/02/12). I could not have wished for anything better. There were 44 of our staff altogether and we had a 3 course meal. The food was excellent and good portion sizes. There was not one plate that had food left on it on all 3 courses. The staff were very attentive without being intrusive and nothing was too much trouble and they were very very well organised. I cannot praise them enough. I can highly recommend this hotel to you all.

unfortunately my experience was bad.. as 4 stars hotel I expected much more.. I would like to skip over things that are fine and absolutely normal from an hotel of this level and would like only to list things that I didn'y appreciated.
1) assuming that the hotel is not cheap, you have to add at your arrival: breakfast 15£, room internet connection (free in the lobby) and vallet parking.
2) rooms at 4th floor have a (nice) curved ceiling with the bad result that the curtains cannot in any case block all the light coming from outside.. if you like to sleep in total darkness it is a problem
3) air conditioning. VERY VERY VERY NOISY. You have to sleep with TV on or switch it off.. but that way in winter you'll freeze.. mine was even broken but they partially fixed it quickly.
4) breakfast.. as above.. for 15£..I want more..

Service is Kind, furniture is old but in good shape, clean and center located.

in a few words.. with lot of potential but I'll not come back.

Stayed here on a number of occasions and while note cheap in comparison to other hotels in the area it's a nice hotel and easily accessible to all parts of Cambridge which is such a beautiful city. The rooms in the hotel are clean and certainly spacious. The bar is nice but perhaps a little open, just to the side of the Reception so the area in my mind is a meeting point but not a place to sit and have a few drinks really however if sitting having a coffee (they brew Starbucks) you can sit overlooking the exterior which is a nice feature. Would I return ?, most definately.