Ship & Trades

Lovely hotel overlooking harbour. Friendly staff. Food very good.

Really love this place, the rooms are comfortable, staff super helpful and friendly. Lovely location, great food offering too.

Second visit, great service, excellent food in the evening and choice of breakfast, had a room with a view this time, was more spacious and overlooked the marina, thanks for another great stay, lovely evening walks by the river or a nice pint outside. Handy for the Dockyard next day

Lovely hotel, good restaurant and great location for visiting the historical dock yard and call the midwife film location. The only bad thing was, i couldn't turn the tap off in the shower and there was a funny smell in the bathroom ( constantly) i would stay here again.

A good spot for an impromptu overnight trip.

Really lovely and fab breakfast

Excellent

Nice place and great location. A little tired in decor Staff very good and friendly Great breakfast

Lovely location, very helpful staff, great service, comfortable room.

A busy modern pub with separate restaurant and a small hotel. Room well appointed and clean, we had a waterfront room with large patio. Breakfast a little disappointing, very small buffet with limited options but a reasonable cooked breakfast menu.

My second visit, was great as always

Lovely, historic pub walking distance from the Chatham Dockyards. Nice rooms, nice staff, great setting. Breakfast was excellent each day. Dinner was even better. Chatham Dockyards are definitely worth a visit and the pub is just a short walk away. Also, Rochester Cathedral and Rochester Castle are a short drive away and touring them made for a lovely day. The area around the pub is very walkable and there is an outlet mall just across the road.

We stayed recently on the 23rd May 2025. The staff were incredibly well mannered - especially receptionist Becky. The stay was very clean, safe and comfortable. Next time we come back to the area we will be staying for sure. Would reccomend.

Very good hotel and room excellent (could be better with in room fridge). Breakfast service though was very poor, disinterested staff and not a good attitude towards allergens - despite the venue saying GF options available (placing an iPad on the table and saying look at that - with just bacon and egg to choose from wasn’t great).

Check in unwelcoming, guy at the desk was chatting to drunk people while I was waiting to check in, he then walked off. Leaving me at the desk alone. Nobody ever came back so had to go to the bar & ask to check in. Sheet of paper left on the desk with everyone’s names checking in, which isn’t great. Guy seemed a bit frantic, but I have since learnt it’s his first week, so it’s understandable if it was busy that maybe his service wasn’t 10/10, but he was still polite. Corridor didn’t have a nice smell, I had to turn the plug in air fresheners on, which helped slightly come check out, it smelt better. Walls peeling in the bathroom, chips taken out of the bath. Very dusty walls and dusty smell in the room. Beer garden was noisy until 11pm, I then had neighbours having a domestic so went downstairs because nobody was answering the number for reception. They told me they would move me and ask the guests to stop arguing. Whilst waiting a drunk guest in the bar snatched my hat from my head and asked “can I have this?”. A very unpleasant experience. Staff then came and said they told the neighbouring guests to be quiet and that I wouldn’t be being moved now & that staff were all going home in 10 mins. So basically if they start again, nobody will be here to help change rooms. Breakfast was pretty good, spinach very salty though. Lovely views! Upon check out the housekeeper was friendly and so was the lady checking me out. Listened to my complaint & apologised greatly.

It is a good setting and the transport to Chatham easy

Great stay. Food is always amazing and the breakfast a service is outstanding. The only things that i would recommend is just a little Renovation to the standard rooms would make it five star all rounds.

Nicely situated pub / hotel for the nearby historic dockyard and Rochester town (and Fort Amhurst) Easy check in. Nice room with waterside view (standard room) Comfy bed and compact bathroom with lots of toiletries. Bar and restaurant both excellent with a good range of local beers and food. Nice covered area on the quay for boat and people watching and lots of outside seating for when the weather is more clement. Great value for money if you're in the Chatham area. £10 trip into town on the Uber or an hour walk (not the prettiest!)

i appreciate the cost of the stay was not great however there were a few things i was not impressed with

Unfortunately our stay was badly affected by the restaurant being closed on arrival. We turned up at 8.03pm after a 3hr drive and was told the kitchen shut at 8pm. Felt this was very poor and they could have shown us a little more empathy. I would be more understanding had the restaurant times be detailed on any of our booking correspondence or on the hotel advert (the breakfast times are detailed). If that had been the case, we would have know and stopped to eat on the way. It's a shame as it's usually a good restaurant. This could have been very easily avoided and ruined our stay.