The Hamptons is a great place to stay. All the bedrooms and public rooms are furnished to a very high quality and the interior design flair of the owners Janine and Paul shows all the way through. We stayed there as my daughter was getting married at the Tunnels Beaches. Janine and Paul were very kind and understanding with the last minute panics of any wedding arrangements. My family had taken over all the rooms for the weekend and we were all thoroughly delighted with the rooms and the service. We all hope to go back again.

stayed for 5 nights on a first trip to the lovely north devon coast, we were made to feel very welcome by the owners, treated to lovely breakfasts with plenty of choice and stayed in a lovely modern styled room without it being too much. would stay again without hesitation, keep up the good work!

I got married in Ilfracombe in May and my husband and I stayed in this hotel for our wedding night. The hotel was absolutely gorgeous and the room we stayed in was beautifully decorated, clean and had all the ameneties we were looking for. The breakfast was wonderful and the service was really quick. We couldn't have picked a better hotel for our first night as a married couple. I can't recommend this highly enough.

We had booked Roccoco room for 2 nights in June. From the website we had already seen the room layout, so we knew it was one of the smaller rooms of this hotel. It was a good size actually, and contained a very comfortable, king-sized bed with different cushions, we liked that very much and slept very well. The en-suite was rather small and contained shower, washbasin and toilet, but was absolutely adequate, and everything was really clean. I am always worried about showers when I am in England - they tend to be often cold when somebody else uses water in the house, or the water pressure is so low you can't really call it pressure anyway, but the shower here was actually a really really good power shower and constantly hot. Also loved the toiletries, very nice.

There were also tea/coffee-making facilities with two delicious biscuits as a welcome, we liked those very much. The view was onto the backyard - but there were lovely plants, so not too bad at all, and we had known that before. On the downside, they had plugged in some kind of electric room fragrance diffusers (sorry, don't know the correct english term) everywhere - in the rooms, in the hallway - surely it was meant as a nice touch but it was just way too much and overbearing. We plugged out the one in our room and opened the window, so it was fine after that.

The lounge and breakfast room was really nice and very large, I prefered to sit there and watch TV or read rather than in our room, it had two sofas and a really comfortable easy chair, a nicer view and also a better TV (the one in our room had a rather poor reception and took ages every time you switched a channel - I understand this is often the case with digital TV, but it is a bit annoying when you want to quickly go through the channels...).

Also the honesty bar is a nice touch, and we liked that we could use the breakfast tables for boardgames (it was raining most of the time so we stayed in...). There is even a cloakroom downstairs so when you sit in the lounge you don't have to go upstairs to your room everytime you need to go to the bathroom - very well thought through.

The website says there is also a pantry for guests' use, but I didn't see it (to be fair I didn't ask for it since we had no use for it during our stay).

The breakfast was good, I liked the continental buffet with the selection of cereals. Cooked breakfast was also good, we really liked the organic sausages, they were really delicious. It was a good breakfast, but although I couldn't point out anything that was faulty, we stayed in 5 B&Bs during our holiday and the other breakfasts were all in their own way amazing or even the best we've ever had, so although it was really good, it just couldn't keep up with the others we had elsewhere.

Paul & Janie were very nice and welcoming, and the rooms, hallway and lounge were in pristine condition.

I'm afraid I couldn't say the same for Ilfracombe. I guess with the sun shining every seaside resort looks much better than in rain, but I thought it was a rather run-down town and apart from the amazing beaches nearby (Woolacombe sands is just fantastic) there is not much to see, shop or eat in Ilfracombe itself. If you would like to stay in Ilfracombe though, I would recommend this hotel.