Myself and my partner stayed at Barnksome Place for one night on Saturday 21/1/12. I had stayed at DeVere Venues before so knew what to expect but was slightly worried once I read a few reviews and saw the rather grim photos on this website.
We paid an excellent offer price of just £29 for the room for one night. Yes the strange ships stairways added onto the back of the old building are a bit odd but I didnt find it offputting.
The girl on reception was very helpful. Pointed out all the facilities and offered to get someone to help with my luggage. The car park is not right outside reception but its less that one minutes walk up a path.
We stayed on the first floor in "cabin" 120. This has a lovely view out the front of the house with a nice big window. The room was lovely and warm. Clean and with everything you could want (tea and coffee, flat screen TV, free wifi,room service menu,ironing board and hairdryer). I have added photos on here of our room as the only pictures showing up to now are the rather grotty ones that had made me a bit worried about booking this hotel!
For those not familiar with De Vere venues they are used as conference venues and corporate team building places during the week. This venue is also used for weddings.
We didnt eat in the restaurant as we went out but we did drink in the bar and I didnt find it overly expensive for a hotel (£7 for two pints of Becks lager).
The only negative is that the rooms are not very sound proofed as when we were going to sleep the people in the next room were having a few drinks and chatting and it felt like they were in the room with me! Also some of the doors could do with some WD40 as they creaked like mad!
All in all for £29 I thought it was superb and would definitely visit again. This is the 3rd DeVere venue I've stayed at and they are all different but quality of rooms always very good. Complimentary toiletries and fluffy white towels.

I recently stayed here on the night of my sisters wedding, which took place here and went very smoothly and was very well organised by the staff at the hotel. That side of things was excellently done. The hotel is almost surreal. The drive to the hotel up the lovely wooded road (areas of which need resurfacing), past various styles of older property then revealed is the wonderful old building set in lovely grounds when the trees open up. Then you see the reception, which indeed has a nautical feel which is at odds with the front and the rear of the building is best not talked about, it is almost like the embarrassing relative you try to keep out of everyone's view, but of you read the history of the hotel you will understand why it is here. Our room was fine, tastefully decorated and quite modern. Not massive, but adequate and we had our 4 YO son on a camp bed on the floor. We were above the old main entrance which the photographer likes to use for that "looking down at the wedding guests photo". Bathroom was dated but serviceable. Foodwise, wedding food was very good, breakfast was a buffet which again was very good, hot and regularly stocked up. We didn't have a main meal here but other people in the wedding party did and were very happy. Overall, the staff are attentive and polite and food we had was good. If we didn't less that a mile up the road I would have no problems staying here again

We stayed for one night here. The hotel is made to look like a ship.The interior is quite outdated but ok. The reception staff is friendly and helpful. We didnt eat in the restaurant but had food in the room. The menu was like a bar menu and we didn't get what we wanted from the menu and the quality was not that impressive and not that cheap either. Overall it was ok.

The hotel has an interesting interior featuring a naval theme. It can seem quite obscure when it is unexplained. The lobby area is a maze of staircases and sail cloth and can seem a little bizarre in comparison to the exterior. The staff explained that the village of Haselmere has strong connections in naval history; hence the decor throughout, which put into context, makes the stay feel charming!

The rooms (cabins), however, are modern, clean and warm. We stayed in the older part of the hotel overlooking the front of the hotel - very pretty view of the green. Newer parts of the hotels do not have the same charm.

There is a great lounge with a large open fire and sofas to relax in on an evening. As we were staying in December, there are lots of festive decorations and a large Christmas tree. Drinks can be ordered via tray service and can be charged to the room.

The staff were consistently helpful and friendly and informative.

The price of the room varied on different websites so it is worth shopping around. There was a large party of us staying at the hotel each with the same room (incl. breakfast) - the price that we each paid varied by 50% which is frustrating when we all had the same service.