We stayed at the Deanwater Hotel whilst in the area for a friend's wedding. I guess they are able to keep busy as they host a lot of weddings (well, three that I know of over Friday/Saturday this weekend - and I'm sure that's not unusual!) and are reasonably close to Manchester Airport, but the room rates are a little high considering what's on offer.

The motel-style room was comfortable enough, if a little basic, and the décor very dated, but there is no way to dim the lights (only to choose which of several wall mounted lights to have on), it's not possible to deadlock the front door, water "glasses" in the room are plastic, and it's not really of the standard I'd expect for a £95-130 a night hotel. Added to that, the checkout time of 10.30 is a little early and the tone of the notices reminding you of this do not give the impression that it's worth asking for a late checkout...

Next time, I'll pay a little more and stay with one of the larger chains...

Stayed here while attending a friends wedding; the wedding itself was very well organised and efficiently run, making it an enjoyable day for all. The room was comfortable, well appointed with a huge bathroom, spotlessly clean and well maintained.

Stayed at the Deanwater over the weekend whilst attending a friends wedding, the older part of the hotel as seen from the road and predominently advertised on their website contains the reception area, function rooms, restaurant and bar. The accommodation part of the hotel is motel style located around the back of the original building at the end of the car park.

Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate so we were unable to use the beautiful hotel grounds for the wedding photos, the country location makes the hotel a quite place to stay. The terraces behind the function rooms are well maintained and a lovely place to wander and sit outside and enjoy some fresh air during an event.

Our bedroom overlooked a small overflow car park and mature trees, beyond which lay the river and farm land. The motel style accommodation may not be old fashioned and in keeping with the traditional style of the main part of the hotel but has been designed well and to my opinion works well. Upon entering the bedroom you have a small entrance way, one door leads to the bedroom and the other to the bathroom. This space means that you are not immediately attached to the corridor to the other rooms and when late night revelers return to their rooms, their noise is muffled and helps with the peaceful atmosphere of the bedrooms.

The bathroom contained an electric shower over bath, toilet, sink and fluffy towels and neutragena toiletries. The water pressure wasn't great but the temperature stayed constant.

Our bedroom contained a long desk with two stools/chairs, a mirror, hairdryer, draw units, double bed, trouser press, tea tray, tub chair & large wardrobe. The long desk ensured plenty of space to get ready and there was still plenty of room to move around. We had a good nights sleep and enjoyed our breakfast in the main restaurant the next day.

We would recommend this hotel for anybody looking for a quite hotel with friendly staff, whilst there isn't much immediately surrounding the hotel the road connections mean it is easy to get to lots of nearby attractions quickly and there is a folder in the hotel bedrooms recommending places to visit.

Thank you to all the staff who helped make our friends wedding a lovely event with lots of happy memories.

Attended a family wedding here and overall it was ok. Grounds lend themselves to photos. nice sunny terrace and food better than average. However it was frustrating to find a quirk that meant they were unable to take cards at the bar. Bit like a Torguay guest house, they would accept drinks being charged to a guest room and then (presumably) accept credit card payment on check out - so they have the facilities but have not joined the dots. The stinging bar prices meant that the 60 quid I had in cash soon disapeared and we were left drinkless for a good part of the evening.

Customer facing staff were generally very young and polite - but no help with the above apart from directions to a cash machine about a mile away.

I can't reccomend the hotel as I did not stay there - but the motel style room block looked ok from the outside.