We should have checked the reviews and gone elsewhere. Stayed here saturday night. Room was tiny, at the back of the bar - next to the mens toilet. Something was growing in the shower and the bathroom smelled of wee. The front door of the hotel is open all night so anyone can walk in. The radiator clanged all night (after the disco stopped) and I got no sleep from 11.30pm. Decided against even trying the breakfast as if the room was supposed to be clean then no idea what the food would be like. Did not even dare go in the shower due to the stuff growing in there and the rough hand towel would not have been adequate even if I had. Please please do not stop here.

we arrived and the rooms werent ready. the foyer was dirty, it smelled awful. the girl on the front desk was rude and did not even smile and she was supposed to be the manager.
the food that eveing was late, cold and tastless and none of the staff could understand us.
our room had a hole in the ceiling so the carpet got wet and stank our room wasnt clean at all during our stay.
it was horrible and we complained to the coach company wbho told us they would never go again to the lynton but for us it was to late, we are pensioners and can't afford another holiday this year so it has ruined it for us.

Well what can i say its the worst ever b & b ive stayed in. on arrival was given keys to our room the place smelt of damp the carpets were worn out.the room was like a hostel very basic the bed was broken and taped together with masting tape the windows were full of condensastion. The bedding consisted of a dirty blanket inside a duevt cover and the mattress was lumpy. the photos given for this place are incorrect .There was no bar or entertaint. There were no smoke decectors in any of the rooms.wouldnt recommend it. The place needs to be shut down or get the hotel inspectors in there

Me and a friend stayed here for a weekend break to visit family nearby, thank goodness we were only using it for sleeping! We didn't have high expectations as we've both worked in enough coaching/seaside hotels to know the general standard but this place stunned both of us.

We checked in at the bar, via the "night door" as requested by the hotel's website (whose ever heard of reception in a seaside hotel in the middle of August closing at 5pm?!). We were given the keys by the nice enough girl behind the bar who said "don't ask me where the rooms are but there are signs everywhere. My friend's room was on the ground floor, as requested, along a corridor which stank of damp and public toilets. When we went in his room the heating was on full blast (in the middle of August!). My room on the other side of the hotel was actually ok, albeit a bit grubby. The light in the bathroom didn't work. I went back to the bar to ask for the heating to be turned off and a lightbulb for my room, they couldn't do either and instead gave us two more rooms. This took a full half-hour.

Both of the second rooms had lovely high ceilings and were a good size, however, my friend's room had mould growing on the carpet and my carpet - well, it was cream once but is now covered in damp and scuff marks. It didn't look like it had been vacuumed either.


In all due respect the bedlinen was clean and crisp but there was damp everywhere throughout the hotel, the woodchip wallpaper was peeling off and I didn't see a door or skirting board that wasn't yellowed with age and scuffed/chipped. The hotel have obviously spent some money on nice pine furniture for the rooms but I think their money would have been better spent on some paint and new carpets.

The cups and glasses in both rooms had to be cleaned before use and neither room was serviced the next day. This is maybe a small issue but it is why you choose a hotel over self-catering, that you don't have to make your own bed, wash-up, etc.

Breakfast on the first morning was OK, pretty much as expected, although the 3 different types of crockery on our table gave us a chuckle. In the dining room they had spent money on nice curtains and light fittings but again they would have been far better painting over the peeling cracked institutional green paint on the walls. No unnecessary expense here like breakfast menus, it was full breakfast or nothing!

On the 2nd morning, breakfast was served after a 1/2 hour wait as the waitress told us the chef hadn't turned up and he forgot to order the bacon too!

We paid £180 for this stay but it was no way near value for money. In short we'd never stay here again and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.