Excellent food and drink. Friendly staff. Great atmosphere. Very popular place so book early!read more

Just terrific. Located in an almost 300 year old building, rooms have been lovingly restored with…read moregreat care. Staff was very friendly and helpful. The restaurant was wonderful--clearly the chef takes pride in his work!

The Winchester Hotel is arguably one of the nicer hotels in the former capital village. It's just a…read moreshort walk from the Winchester train station and about a 10 min walk to Jewry Street which has plenty of restaurants and bars. There is free parking if you elect to drive, though the massive parking lot in front of the hotel does not make for the most dramatic of entrances. While it's an older property, the lobby looks recently renovated and surprisingly modern. Room was clean and bath/bed would as you expect from a 3* property. The complex has a nice indoor pool and sauna which I did not expect to find in Winchester. Free fast wifi was a great perk. Overall this was good value and should be on your short list for a clean safe and recently renovated hotel.

I went to this hotel before it's refurb a few years ago, and was cheap and cheerful. So on…read morereturning, it has raised itself to 4 stars. It certainly looks much sleeker. Very clean room, really nice. The main meals were good but it was really let down by the cooked breakfast items. Watery pale scrambled egg, and the usual sausages, bacon, mushrooms, baked beans. Had a bit of everything first morning, felt a bit horrible. Next day had toast beans and hash browns only, the best bits. Also a small continental type breakfast (meats and cheeses) which were nice. But just one type of egg and poorly done wasn't what I expected from a four star. Food has to follow in the upgrade! Ooh almost forgot, did have a room service burger, that was very very nice.

I have been here twice as a pit stop for recharging my car on the way through the country which…read morespeaks favourably about the situation of the hotel. This Review is in regards to the restaurant aspect of Norton Park Hotel; I would like to begin by acknowledging the Corporate undertones given off by this hotel and must state that while it explains meal prices to the extent they are no longer shocking. It does little to explain bad food. The staff although not unfriendly by any stretch are trained poorly in dealing with people. The only saving grace is the location and outwards appearance of the hotel which ignoring the broken sign is everything the hotel aims for: Elegant, understated and overall very satisfying to arrive at, no matter the time of day.

Norton Park Hotel was converted from a former corporate facility, and when we visited this still…read moreshowed. The old house, though, is beautiful, so if you are going to stay pay the extra for one of those rooms. This is a great base from which to explore Winchester, which is one of this part of England's best kept secrets.

I've stayed in a few hotel du vin hotels before and due to staying at this hotel as a stop off…read morebefore going to the ferry port at Poole for jersey I booked a standard double room. We had arrived very late at night after driving for 5 hours nonstop and we found off street parking as we knew we would be leaving early in the morning for the ferry. The staff was very friendly and directed us to our room with helpful information about what restaurants close by that was still open that they could recommend . The standard double room has a queen size bed , a flat screen tv with a ensuite bathroom. The bathroom has a bath with a monsoon shower head inside. It is very high end price for a standard room but location was key for us! I would stay here again if travelling to Poole ferry port.

Food was typically French top drawer provincial. Yum. Wine list very impressive and included…read moreexcellent new world wines. We had a half bottle of their champagne plus a NZ Pinot noir. Not all the waiters were at the same level of professionalism. One lad thumped plates on the table with a distinct lack of care. It has a lovely dining room with an enchanting looking garden outside. Only downside - two lots of overcharging on the bill which took two goes to sort out. Recommended.

I regularly stay here as it is much better than the staid Hol Inn at Basingstoke which is really…read morepoor. This is a new build with great comfortable rooms and brilliant beds. It has good food and plenty of car parking. The only short-coming is not within the control of the hotel - it does not have brilliant mobile signal as it is built in the side of a chalk cliff!! Vodafone is the worst although i have sucess with THREE

Premier Inn is a pretty basic hotel chain. Don't expect five star service here, but as far as three…read morestar hotels go, this place is ok. The location of the hotel is pretty convenient- in the Leisure Park area of town. Abundant free parking, and a shuttle bus to the railway station just behind the hotel (with a day pas only £2.30). Pretty close to the M3 and fairly easy to get to. As far as accommodations, the rooms are newly renovated with wall mount flat screen televisions, neutral colors, and several USB plugs per room. The bathroom was a bit on the tiny side, and the shower didn't drain properly even after we had alerted maintenance. Despite the fact that this hotel chain seems to pride themselves on comfortable beds, the twin bed in my room was anything but- I could almost feel the springs coming through the sheets, it was a fairly rough night. The full size bed in the room seemed to be better however- though neither had really good pillows. There is a Beefeater pub right next door that serves typical fare- as well as breakfast for hotel guests. Prepare for the hotel staff to try to sell you a meal package upon checkin- for me it wasn't worth it as I don't eat breakfast.

The Swan Inn is a traditional coaching inn at the central crossroads in Arlesford, a picturesque…read morehistoric Hampshire town. It is all the nicer for being at one end of the Watercress Line, a steam railway that meanders through the countryside from Alton, than which there is no finer way to arrive. The Swan is a classical 18th century front (I guess) which inside is part coaching inn and part modern bar/diner. There is a stylish main bar with quite a large patio out back. Good local ales plus all the usual other beers etc are available. Off to the side is a restaurant with more of a panelled coaching inn feel to it. My wife and I dined there one fine summer's evening for our wedding anniversary. I had a lovely parsnip soup followed by very tasty lamb, and my wife had mozzarella and tomato starter followed by sea bass. Apart from the tomato starter (which used ordinary tasteless english salad tomatoes instead of proper Italian plum ones) the food was very tasty and we followed it with a 'Can't decide' - 5 mini portions of different deserts. All home made and all fantastic. So a great place for an intimate meal for two, would also be lovely for a family or a group,and what a beautiful town!

So first point is that this is not a Thistle Hotel since 2007 when I started using it as it is part…read moreof the Hand Picked Hotel chain of country hotels. The rooms vary in size and layout as you might expect from an old building, but all are well appointed and kept well serviced, at least from what I have stayed in, although that is now only 1 week every two years for the Farnborough Airshow. The setting and decor is amazing and sitting outside on the patio overlooking the gardens on a warm Summer night is idyllic. The food is adequate but does not scale any culinary heights, but it is rare that hotel food is well executed. Breakfasts are nice, at least the Full English version I had was good and served me until dinner. I do think the staff are friendly but there are some with less customer centric attitudes than others. I do warn against weekends when weddings are on as it can turn the Hotel into a cross between a Bacchanalian feast and the OK Coral. A Gypsy wedding had just finished as I arrived on the Sunday morning with some hungover people and no beer left in the hotel. However normal service was soon resumed. This is not a fully business orientated hotel but serves the purpose well with good wifi.

It cannot be argued that the hotel itself was gorgeous! Unfortunately the experience was by far the…read moreworst I had in all of southern England. The staff was incredibly rude and spiteful. I know it seems incredible to consider but it's true that many Europeans just don't like Americans, especially in rural areas. It does not occur to them that we are not all the same, that most of our states are bigger than their little country and we boast incredible diversity of ethnicity, culture, morality, character and personal behaviors. For us it's absolutely impossible to avoid because as soon as we open up our mouths, our accents betray our origins. I have to allow that Londoners are better about this, being an international city. So if you would like the staff to argue relentlessly with you over something mundane, try and correct your pronunciation of foreign words (the English are famous for mispronouncing non-English words), take hours to serve you terrible/overcooked food, which when you say something they insist is perfect, sleep in highly uncomfortable beds and treat you as if you are a lower form of life then this is definitely the place for you!

A great pub - Andy is the perfect landlord. Food, drink, football, pool, events. We are spoiled.read more

A nice clean pub which has a young, fun atmosphere weekend nights, although there is always the…read more'top bar' if you fancy something a little more sophisticated and quiet. Good variety of pub food offered in both bars and a nice restaurant with an extensive, well thought out menu. Prices are average for the area. Generally has some events each month, featuring local bands and has a ticket-only event on New Years Eve.