Cheesey311
2024年5月12日
Several things to take account of - the hotel is undergoing renovations and some parts were closed, other parts temporarily appointed - the bar and restaurant was in the Orangery and the bar barely had enough glasses to serve our group of 7 - especially not matching glasses. The pool was nice, a little small, but not unusually so. Staff seemed very pleasant, and tried to offer a level of service that we expected. The hotel is set in lovely grounds, although the building work takes the shine off - that work is due to be complete by 17 May - fingers crossed for that. The tennis court saw better days about 20 years ago, and the air-con or cooling fans running constantly onto the terrace made conversation nigh impossible in the largest part of the terrance. The breakfast was good and they offered great flexibility to our group. Not the widest choice for the buffet / continental, but adequate. We had dinner which was of great quality and served efficiently; it turned out to be the most expensive meal of our trip by some margin (+20%) once drinks were factored in - almost £600 for 7 meals with three of the cheapest bottles of wine and some drinks. Add on top of that the 10% service charge and it starts to feel very much like there are some pretentious views of their own quality. The rooms we had were at best ‘adequate’. Not much bigger than a standard Premier Inn room, with a tired bathroom needing update and new lighting, and perhaps a mirror at a level that guests of shorter stature have a chance to see themselves and a sink that isn’t at chest height might be nice. The bed creaked like mad, waking me several times a night as i turned over. The creaking floor above also not particularly welcome when the guests upstairs were waking and moving around much earlier than us. Somewhat worrying therefore that other comments and responses indicate that the ‘normal’ rate is much higher, lowered only because of the building works at the moment. Absolutely would not consider paying more than the average £250 per night we paid, and even that feels very much at the high end of acceptable. Would I stay again? Perhaps - a lot might depend on the room rate once the refurb is done, and some confidence that the refurb actually has addressed the issues with the rooms. Finally, something that is really annoying me in several hotels I’ve stayed in in the past year - the introduction of a 10% ‘discretionary’ service charge added to the whole bill - including accommodation. I understand that the charge is distributed as ‘tips’ to all staff, I understand that it is discretionary and I accept that it was clear in the post-booking email from the hotel that explains that such a charge will be levied. We asked for it to be removed and it was, without any question or issue. I would like to understand why hotel management think it is ok to load prices like this - a sort of guilt-trip stealth tax that changes the stay price well after the choice has been made afte
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