wanted cheap place to stay for group of lads on the bash.
managed to get this but did not check trip advisor before we went.
Wasnt expecting the ritz, but wasnt expecting this dump.

Manager very odd character, booked two twins on phone, if you speak to him you will know what I mean. I phoned the day before to check if the rooms were OK, he asked me to go in a room for four, which was OK, however not what I had booked in the first instance. Wondered when it was he was going to tell me this, probably waiting till we turned up.

On arrival the hotel is a row of terraced housing. If you go into hotel from car park, the back is a tip on arrival I wondered if I had the right place. Walking into hotel from the back you walk into the office and kitchen area. A very weird looking character sitting in the kicthen, dont know who he was but hoped he was not the chef.

In the office, it is a mess. Dirty, messy, chaotic and stinks. Stinks like something or someone had died. Appreciate I was not sleeping in the office, but wasnt a good start.

Taken to the room by the manager. The house he took us to is what I can only descibe as a squat. It looks like the the sort of place that down and outs and people recently released from prison go. In all the bedding seemed to be clean. The towels were nackered, frayed all around the edges and ripped.

Bathroom had broken tiles, which some genius decided to just grout in place. Taps were broken.

Breakfast, decided the place looked too dirty and wondered if the kitchen dweller from the previous day would be cooking. Food would have to go through the office so we all decided to keep a wide birth.

Highlight of the hotel was laying in bed after a heavy night laughing at all the bad reviews and realising we had just stayed in probably the worst hotel in the UK.

At the weekend, my friends and i made our way to OXford, our friend had booked the nanford in advance for us, on the way there we decided to read the reviews for it, most of the reviews decribed it as a urine soaked heck hole with a slightly odd physco as the manager... The dissapointing thing is it wasnt to bad, we laughed so much on the way down creating this awsome horror story it made our journey fun, when we got there we did have trouble finding parking and the entrance hummed but that was it. The manager was helpfull showed us to our room, it was relitivley clean, i had a suspicious stain on my pillow but i swapped it w ith my boyfriends and that was that sorted.i proberly wouldnt have breakfast there thats the only thing. It made a interesting stay.

i stayed at Nanford Guest House for 4 nights with my boyfriend in November 2011. I booked the hotel before reading the comments on here and I have to admit I was seriously scared. When we eventually got there... it was absolutely fine ! The rooms were clean, yes a bit small and shower a bit dodgy, but what else do you expect for 50 pounds in the centre of Oxford? Good value for money! Maybe we were lucky and got the nicest rooms, but I can honestly say it was much better than just bearable, the bed was comfy and we had absolutely no problems during our stay (except maybe the paper thin walls.. but I guess this was more of a problem for our neighbours!) No, seriously, decent hotel, convenient location and perfect for budget-conscious backpackers !

Really wasn't as bad as made out on here- rooms are shabby and we didnt go for breakfast as it looked dodgy but the rooms are clean and beds quite comfortable! Only thing that annoyed me was that if you wanted to park in their "car park" (drive) you had to leave your car keys with them so that they could move your car if they needed to! Why would anyone in their right mind leave their keys for someone to drive their car! They could do anything to it! This was because people needed to leave at 7am...I didn't want to get up to move my car at that time and I wasn't going to let someone drive my car and do anything to it so we parked on the side streets nearby! For £50 a night in the centre of Oxford it's not bad! Esp just for one night!