Dartington Hall Hotel

Absolutely lovely place. Rooms were great.Beautiful surroundings.Only down side was that we arrived at 1pm, check in was 3pm.Had planned to go to The White Hart Inn, for lunch and drinks,only to arrive there and be told, due to winter staffing, they were not opening until 5pm. I suggested that maybe having a sign on the road advertising that they were open from 8am, should be removed/ amended.

Such a beautiful place to stay! On the Dartington Estate. So peaceful and quiet. It had the feel of an old college - how I imagine an Oxford Uni college house to be. My room was huge with a queen size bed, tea and coffee making facilities, toiletries, lovely towels and robes. It wasn’t en suite - too old for that! But I had my own lovely bathroom (shower only) directly across the little corridor. Great pub and restaurant at the White Hart across the little quadrangle through beautiful gardens. Great breakfast and friendly staff. Definitely staying here again! Did I mention incredible value for money?

The estate is very pretty and has lovely grounds to walk around. The accommodation is lovely. There are a couple of places for food available. The only downside to our stay was that it was Burns night and it was a very limited menu,given only 3 options. Ideally when booking in we could have been advised. The food was very nice but due to the options I personally did struggle.

A fantastic relaxing stay in a beautiful location, staff were excellent and the food in the white hart was amazing, would highly recommend

The estate is beautiful. The breakfast was very good. We enjoyed our stay but the the hotel could do with some maintenance. You could not turn off or turn down the heating so it was too hot in the bedroom on the first night. The TV is very small and the screen was slightly damaged, and the toilet roll holder was falling off the wall. 10am checkout is too early!

I had to ask for coffee capsules, milk, shampoo and bathmat as forgotten to leave any in room. Only one glass given for water in a double room. Furniture quite battered looking and in need of some TLC. Long mirror on wall, but in the darkest corner of the room where there was no light. Coffee machine's water holder had no lid and a broken base and does not work very well so could do with a replacement. Sink fills up with water with no plug in when washing hands. All in all a lovely spacious room which could just do with some attention and tweaking to make it really special. White Hart was lovely and staff very helpful and friendly. Breakfast was tasty and plentiful. Food in restaurant good. Hotel users discount card needs updating as apparently unable to use in bar restaurant anymore. It was pointed out to us when we showed it that the symbol of the white hart had been blacked out but the word bar was still in the wording. Not clear at all! Gardens and great Hall were lovely though and overall we enjoyed our visit.

This place is in need of Alex Polizzi. Could be fabulous but needs a lot of improvements that wouldn’t cost much but would make all the difference.

Room was comfortable and warm. Lovely grounds to walk around and enjoy. Breakfast was excellent and all the staff friendly and helpful.

The room was small and looked and felt like a student college room rather than a hotel room. It was basic but clean and comfortable. The breakfasts at the White Hart were good but the quality of the food, wine and service in the evening were very variable. The same dish (chicken) was excellent the first time but the second time around was much less so. The buildings and gardens are what make Dartington Hall special and it would be well worth tolerating the deficiencies just to see them.

Very serene environment and great value

We stayed in a suite. It was excellent. Room was well laid out with living area and big open fire place and ample of seating then the bedroom had everything needed to make the stay comfortable with hairdryer and iron in wardrobe. It had a mini fridge, coffee machine and additional coffee and tea and a big bathroom with both bath and shower. Very clean. Eating out at the White Hart was within walking distance. Excellent food. Breakfast was fantastic, cereal, yoghurt and compote, full English breakfast and toast and croissants. Thoroughly enjoyed our stay

We were very disappointed with the stay. None of the radiator’s were warm the towel rail only the bottom half was warm. The tv in the lounge the buttons on the remote were so worn that you couldn’t get them to work properly so couldn’t watch tv. We were so cold we decided to go to bed early and watch the tv in the bedroom the tv was stuck on 4 if you pressed another channel it just did 4444. The net curtain in lounge was ripped. Internet was intermittent had to go outside to use phone. Towel hanger on bathroom door one of them was hanging off. In the tea tray there was a dead spider I have enclosed a photo. We were really looking forward to our stay but it was very disappointing.

My room was quaint, clean, and the bed was very comfortable. The temperature of the room was just right. Blowdryer in the room. The gardens were absolutely beautiful. The shower room was spacious and clean. Absolutely will return!

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I bashed my head a couple of times as the room was an attic conversion, but the room was almost spotless, small stain on carpet by bed, and it was very cosy. the restaurant was very good value and lovely food, but not enough Vegan options. The staff were very friendly and helpful, very professional. Lovely stay, want to come back and stay perhaps for longer next time.

Wonderful room, beautiful building. Really poor service in the restaurant, waited for 50 minutes without any food. I sat there for 20 minutes & had to ask someone if they wanted to take my drinks order ! I gave up after a further 30 minutes.

A quite beautiful and special place, with simple comfortable rooms, excellent breakfast, friendly staff.

Very enjoyable stay with so much to do onsite. Lovely old room, lots of character. Everything clean. Separate bathroom an advantage in some ways as reduces noise and is close by and allocated solely to room. White Hart does really good food and we loved being able to go to the cinema so easily.

All the staff went out of their way to assist me. Staff where friendly and I had plenty of laughs with them

The estate is highly interesting and the history associated with the site fascinating. The courtyard and buildings have the feel of an Oxbridge college. The room I had was well equipped and clean, just very noisy. I moved to another single which was a bit quieter than the first but even here most sounds carried from surrounding rooms, noisy plumbing etc. It seems to be due to the construction of the building rather than particularly noisy guests If you are not troubled by this, or have decent earplugs ,it is manageable and otherwise it is a lovely place to stay. Breakfast was very good, the listed gardens can be visited and there is a good cinema on site.