The hotel (though advertised as a B&B) is small, homely, comfortable, warm and clean. It is all of 5 minutes walk from University of Leicester and De Montfort University, 7 minutes walk from the Midland Mainline train station (though it feels a little longer because of the small hill) and has the feel of being out-of-town while a stones throw from the centre!

Staff are friendly and helpful and although the stories about the decor of the small restaurant are true (Plasma screen TVs..) food and drink are good quality and service is excellent.

To round the entire review off there is a spa next door (Lime Spa) and opposite is the prestigious (but down-to-earth) Leicester Squash Club as well as Leicester's Victoria Park making for the biggest back yard of any hotel! Several family friendly english country pubs are also in the immediate vicinity giving it the out-of-town feel.....

The hotel appears to be in the process of upgrading its facilities and owned as part of the Montessori education group.
Our double en-suite was clean, well furnished, comfortable and quiet and together with our breakfast was good value for money.
We were attending a wedding based around the nearby university and just needed a comfortable convenient bed for the night at a reasonable price.

After having booked we noticed all the bad reviews and though we would have to find somewhere else!!

I cant vouch for other rooms but we had number 18 (Curved bay window on 1st floor with en-suite shower and toilet). The room was spotless, we had fresh towels laid out with thought on our bed each day. (I will try and upload a photo) The staff were very friendly and courteous.

We thought we must have come to the wrong place, but we then saw the plasma TV in the breakfast room. Ok it was on but not loud, so you could easily talk over it. The breakfast was perfectly fine and more than adequate for our needs.

We were staying there as a base for the De Montfort hall and that was close by. Very pleasant stay and would readily come back again next year. Lots of parking and lovely building!!! Some people just love to moan I presume.
... Oh and the shower worked well too.

We booked a luxury double room for three nights to attend the Summer Sundae Festival, the hotel was advertsied in the Go Leicester web site. To call this a bed and breakfast is a double misnomer; neither the bed nor the breakfast is up to standard of normal human beings.

The 'luxury' room was a joke. Filthy cigarette burnt carpets, a television with poor picture and no remote and the 'surround sound' still had wires showing where the bathroom speakers (ex car Pioneer stereo) were connected.

The bed had springs but we think only two - one each.

The shower was a complete joke - the best that could be achieved was a miserable dribble, to increase the flow meant scalding yourself.

So perhaps breakfast would be the redeeming feature, alas no! Sausages that had been re-cooked so many times they were like pieces of dowel rod. The hash browns were just soggy mush lumps on the plate.

I have contacted trading standards to report this hotel. please do not make the mistake we did; stay somewhere else.