This hotel is an absolute shambles me and my girlfriend tried to have a romantic valintines weekend away, but it was ruined by this hotel and it's staff. While checking in we were not given any proper details on dinner or breakfast times or checking out times. We wernt even told are room number. Once arriving in are room we found a number of faults, the t.v didn't work, the kettle was faulty and cause my girlfriend quite a severe burn to her hand. Not to mention the bed, the mattress was so full of lumps and mounds that you could lay in no position without feeling like you were falling into the middle or off the side completely, needless to say my girlfriend and I had no sleep that night. No wait my friends it gets worse......... In the morning I phoned reception to find out breakfast times, I was told it finished at 9.30, and they wanted £10 each for the privilege!! After the less than adequate experience we both had I decided to take up my complaints with a member or staff on reception, she was far from helpful and asked me to return at 12 to speak to the manager, an hour after the check out time...... My girlfriend returned to the hotel at 3pm expecting to be able to have our issues resolved by the manager, only to be told that in fact there was no manager at the hotel as it was the weekend (which you would expect is there busiest time of the week and the most important time for a manager to be present), not only was there no manager but no member of staff available to deal with the complaint, she was told that if we wanted to speak to the manager she would have to call in the week, at least 3 days after we had left the hotel. I would advise anyone who is planning on staying in Bournemouth beware russel court hotel is a no go.
