We went to this hotel for a birthday party evening, which went really well. Excellent buffet bar in the party room, however it did not have draught beer only bottled. The real ale was kept in the fridge, a big No No. The bartender did agree to take out some bottles to allow them to acclimatise to room temperature. Outside our bedroom window was the exhaust from the kitchen extractor fan, when we first walked into the room, we thought it was the air con running. There is no air con. The fan was really noisy, but thankfully it was turned off overnight, but on again at about 7.20 am. Despite the notice in the bathroom explaining that the property is very old and it can take 10 minutes of running the bath tap and shower before the hot water comes through, after 20 minutes, there was no hot water, it had clearly run out. What a waste of water. We weren't the only room like this. Despite knowing how many people were booked in overnight and potentially for breakfast, the dining room is not big enough for everyone, ten of us in our group were set up in the bar area, as were a couple of other families. The flow of hot food for breakfast was spasmodic. In the evening, I reported that the light at the top of the stairs, a most important light, was not working, it was not fixed by the next morning. Wouldn't stay there again, ever.
