Beautiful location and setting. Run by good local people, but staff communication and availability were non-existent. We had a rough time getting back indoors, found no soap in the bathroom, couldn't reach the staff on phone, once returned at 9:30pm and found the pub completely desolate with no way to reach anyone. Had to even help two incoming guests enter the building. Presumably encountering the same issues. It's still a beautiful inn, location and setting, and the staff were very polite, the few minutes we interacted with them. So in the end, all good, except these inconveniences

Stayed here before and would stay again. Great country pub, in a lovely village and location for visiting Sussex. Friendly and helpful staff. Only drawback was the room was quite warm on a hot day.

The room was small. Only small semi-circular shelves either side of the bed. Not bedside tables. We only had one bath towel and one bath sheet between us. There were no complimentary toiletries. Tea, coffee and milk and fresh mugs not replaced during our 3 night stay. There were no curtains and a blind that did not keep out the light. We understood that meals could be booked in the evening as well as breakfast. Neither option was available. We were directed to other providers within the village. The tv was very tiny and the reception was very poor. Only a handful of channels available. There was no light outside the bedroom door, which was a drawback.

Great little budget option in a beautiful little village. We walked into Brighton for a festival and whilst not hugely far (about 12k to Preston), there was a beast of a hill on the route - fun in itself but it was very hot! The pub looked great and the cafe had excellent pastries and cakes which we fortified ourselves with before our walk. We had our own bathroom which was a surprise (even though it was a tiny walk away) and everything was clean and tidy. Point to note - whilst there's not amazing public transport options from Ditchling itself, neighbouring Hassocks has loads (including very late train services) so worth looking into.

Room was not very well maintained and clean.

Did not realise we had a room without an en-suite or that there was no breakfast at the hotel.

Small, I mean really small box room NR 3. Two single beds and literally no space for stuff or walk. No table or cupboard. Tablet size TV. This room should be single bed only with essential stuff inside not twin room for profit aimed management.

A bit tired and grubby wobbly toilet, loose taps in the bath. No shower gel.

If you are looking for a basic room in a pub then this is good. Noise from bar below can be late at weekends. Food was good in bar. Having been there during a heatwave it would have been nicer to have some water in the room and blinds that were blackout rather than just plain cotton.

property was poor shower needed cleaning

There was a slight admin error when I arrived which was quickly sorted by the staff. Then, I was shown to the room which they had sorted for me. It was small (which I had booked and no problem) but the emergency light had an annoying green L.E.D which did not turn off and made sleeping much harder. In addition, the bathrooms were elsewhere in the building which is fine but they did not have room numbers on meaning that when I came to use my bathroom the following morning, I could not as someone was in it already. I used another one which was unoccupied but could easily be remedied.

Clean room, easy checkin and checkout.

Terrible I couldn’t stay there, could not move in the room it was so small and dingy. Tv the size of a place mat which didn’t work. There were stains on all paintwork. Wardrobe was like a bathroom cabinet fastened to the wall. Absoultly terrible.

Great location and good for one nights stay. Lovely hosts.

Of the 13 nights we stayed on our recent trip to England, The White Hart was the poorest. Not that the room was tiny (the bed took over half the floor space), but there was no room for anything else. The door to the room was against the bed when opened. And opened it had to be, since the room was stuffy with no fans provided. The open window would give you the aroma of food being cooked downstairs in the kitchen. Re: the staff. Young kids running the place. Eager, but not really helpful. We did eat dinner there; the food was fine, and the outside seating did help us enjoy the meal. We were walkers; so an early breakfast would have been nice, but the place was still shut/closed when we took an UBER over to Lewes, in order to eat and continue our journey. We also worried that there was no one to hand our luggage over for the luggage transfer company when we left. If staying in Ditchling, try the nearby BULL instead.

We couldn’t check, picked up the key around 7pm then came back around midnight and we could not check in as we had the wrong key

Tired accommodation, needs an upgrade, sheets were thin and one had a hole in. The bar is quirky but overall not a brilliant experience :(

There actually was not a breakfast. However, the hotel includes a charming pub where we enjoyed an excellent pub lunch. As a whole we very much enjoyed the White Horse Inn. Our room seemed a little small and we shared a bathroom. We did find a restaurant within a short walking distance where we enjoyed breakfast.

Really small room, friendly check in.

Room well fitted. Warm but hardly in bathroom