This was the worst hotel I've stayed in for several years - and I spend around 40 nights a year in hotels. It was a last minute booking and I only booked this as there was nowhere else with available rooms and it had such dreadful reviews. I stayed in a room at the front on the second floor - the musty stench hit me on the first floor and got worse till I got to my room. In my room they had tried to cover up the stench with air freshener with the result that the room had that horrible sickly smell you get in some taxis. The room itself looked like it had not been decorated since the king died, quite literally. The paint had peeled off and there were black soot rings on the paper around the lights - the one redeeming feature was a modern flat screen TV.

After paying almost £8 for a double gin and tonic I went to bed and spent an hour listening to my neighbours' conversation through walls thinner than a wafer-thin mint, finally getting to sleep around 1 only to be woken early by the heavy main road traffic. Frustrated, I tried to go out for a cigarette to find every door locked and had to find the night porter even to get out of the place.

It was last minute and I wasn't expecting much because of the other reviews but it was more dire than I could possibly have imagined considering the room was not far off £100. The only two things I can say something positive about are the freshly cooked breakfast which was a very pleasant change from the usual lukewarm tureen of cremated bacon and the staff who are pleasant in an embarrassed way.

stayed here briefly. A little bit shabby but I guess a little "charming". Somewhat noisy and we were driving and parking was not well marked. I had a mid-afternoon meeting with a colleague at the hotel and the staff seemed quite pained to get us a pot of tea. We ordered a second pot (for three of us) and the charge was about 20 pounds, which seemed exorbitant for such unwilling service. One bright spot- the main street is a quick walk, with charming shops.

stayed here for 2 days from 13th to 15th December 2011, the room i stayed in was comfortable but somewhat dated, my room overlooked the main road and you could hear the traffic noise at all times of the day and night, there was little or no hot water running in the bathroom during the morning and the shower ran to a trickle, however i will say the room was comfortable the breakfast excellent and the location central to everything. As the stay was with friends i think this helped with some of the hotels shortcomings but overall a nice stay.

I stayed here in November 2011 since it was close to a work event. The hotel rooms had a 1970 look and smell to it and the windows/walls had paint scraped off. The rooms were that bad I was suprised to find the TV remote was cordless (BONUS!).

We had to do an adventure trail to find the room, up a spiral stair case and Indiana Jones it across numerous walkways.

The parking is one of the highlights, since you turn intoi a private cark park and the staff are actually really nice. The night reception guy also pulls the pints and reminded me of the old guy who protected the wall in the movie 'Stardust'.