We had gathered for a family meal together in the restaurant, we entered at 7.30pm. Sadly the service was terribly slow - it was ages befoer our starters arrived and I think it was not until 9.15pm that main courses arrived, apart from the 2 salads! One of the staff checked in if everything was okay - but obviuously not as 2 of us were without any food! Then, when it arrived it was on a hot plate(!), some of the salad was very old and had gone clear and had seen better days, and then the chicken was too tough to cut! Then there was a further delay to get our desserts which did not include any cooked items! There were lots of staff around but they did not see, to want to be seen or to help with simple things like getting more water.
In the morning we came back for breakfast - there were no plates, there was food on the floor which people were just walking on around the hotel there were used glasses and plates of food that looked like they had been there for a good couple of hours. Needless to say I won't be rushing back here! Very disappointing for a De Vere hotel, I expected better.