I am amazed reading all these reviews as couldn't have stayed in a more friendly more cosy B and B right in the center of Ryde if I tried!!!!!
My room was cozy with clean everything :mugs/teaspoons/towels/basin etc and I had a really comfy clean bed with hangers in the wardrobe and a very quiet room: No 2 at the back of the house.
Breakfast was great - Either toast and cereal or full English- I had both and both was lovely and because my hours were tricky that week I asked about different times for breakfast every day and I was always accomodated.
Diana and Dave took care of me and made me feel at home. They also took interest in my stay and helped where they could with car parking advice and info on places to visit. Neither were gruff!!! and very much reminded me of my own mum and dad so I totally relaxed and would have no quarms about staying again. I had not one bad night sleep.
The shower and toilet facilities were fine for a b and b what you'd expect with both being walkable from the room and I the toilets were never unclean/smelly/without loo roll.
Therefore I am amazed SO many guests have had an unpleasant stay and I would definitely reccomend this b and b to anyone. Thanks Dave and Diana and Hope to see you next year
:-) Emma

Our room was the 1st door on the left of the ground floor. It smelt and felt damp,the whole place could do with a refurbishment and clean. it was dirty even though the chamber maid had been in our room!! My husband and I slept in our clothes as it wasn't clean. The breakfast wasn't grilled it was fried and tasted awful, the plastic flowers on the table had cobwebs and dust that looked like it had been there for months!! Unfortunately we had no choice but to stay here as the island was fully booked due to the IOW festival. Would rather of spent the weekend in a tent!!! I don't like to write a bad review but feel it's not fair on other paying customers as I always go by tripadvisor, on this occasion I felt the reviews I read on seaward were very misleading!!!

I can honestly say that this is one of the worst guest houses i have ever stayed in ,and i have been stuck in Kuala Lumpur during a volcano erruption two years ago ,and was forced to stay in a few flea pits along the way. After arriving and being informed that breakfast was served between 8.30 untill 9 .00,which is laughable considering we are supposed to be on holiday !!,We climbed the stairs to the top with no offer of help with our suitcases ( myself and my 10 year old daughter ,are strong for girlies ).When opening the door to our room ,my heart sank,oh my goodness ,where do i start ? filthy carpets,filthy curtains,lampshade which you couldnt tell what colour its even meant to be it was so dirty.The bed was so old it had a mattress (the brown and orange kind from the 70s) that had more spings than Zebadee.The bathroom was a discace, the toilet gurgled and ommited unthinkable smells,the vanity unit with basin was chipped and, wish i didnt do it,but i opened the cupboard underneath OMG !!! ,The shelf above, fell off the wall when you put your toothbrush on it ,and belive me this is just the tip of the iceburg.... One morning we dared to go down for breakfast for 8.28 and were scolded like children,by the lady owner ,who i have to say is a very gruff lady ,which leads me to the reason why nobody speaks up to the problems they are encounting at the time.......YOU ARE UNAPPROACHABLE !!.Also since returning i have realised the these are not new faults to the rooms ,reading past reviews ,the problems and filth have not been rectified ,even in the quiet months when there is no excuse. In short i am supprised Seaward is still open ,in this day and age ,so please save your money and stay elswhere !!!!

First of all, this review is from September 2009- a long time ago. I only recently discovered trip adviser but when I stayed here I made notes as I wasn't impressed with the place. When we first checked in I noticed that many of the posters advertising attractions in the hallway were out of date from previous years. Our room (family) on the top floor had dusty mugs for tea and coffee that we had to wash first and the bedding, whilst clean, was old and stained. The room was also by a noisy main road with traffic all the time and the mat by the washbasin was also stained and was one of those £1 offcuts from a carpet shop.. The washbasin also gurgled repeatedly throughout the night. The door to the room also didn't fit and had to be yanked very strongly. The outer guesthouse door was also very very difficult to open.

On our 5th day the public toilet on the 1st floor didn't have any toilet tissue although there were tiny flakes of toilet tissue on the carpet-not nice. There was also no hot running water in the basin this day. The lightswitch in here also had dirty fingerprints on it.

The twin shower cubicles had dirty fingerprints inside both and the mats in the shower room were gunged up with some white sticky substance. The mats were changed 6 days later! On our 7th and last day the left hand shower cubicle only had cold water.

It could be that it's a nice place to stay now and it is very cheap so is it right to complain?

However, we've been back to Ryde twice since and stayed at Trentholme which is just as cheap but clean, spotless and I would definitely recommend this establishment instead.