Unfortunately, this wasn’t a good experience.
The hotel is a lovely old Victorian building that is really showing its age. The downstairs areas are fine, but everything else from the lift, to the rooms, to the corridors are rather tatty and dated.
The trip started with me walking into a near riot with angry former staff that needed the police to be called.
The route to my first room smelled of cigarette smoke.
First room I rejected as it was hugely noisy, tatty, peeling paint, broken window catches and the bathroom smelled like a blocked drain.
I was promised a refund but have not received anything so far.
Second room on third floor was quieter and better maintained but still dated.
Here I had to complain 4 times that there was no hot water. It took 3 nights to partially rectify. Not good at all. There was also a tatty old housekeeping trolley left in the way at the top of the stairs.
Oh yes, and the room wasn’t made up on one occasion resulting in a late evening trip to wait in the lobby while it was done.
The hotel seemed permanently short staffed with used breakfast dishes littering the tables well after breakfast had finished.
To be fair all round, the room, although dated, was clean and spacious, bed was comfortable and the duty manager Marlo(w) was very friendly and tried hard to sort things out.
Sadly, this hotel need a huge amount of investment and renovations to bring it up to modern standards.