This place is teetering on the border of a 3 & a 4...
We were here for a wedding & thoroughly enjoyed our day. Staff at reception were lovely & the que that formed as wedding guests arrived was seen to very quickly.The hotel rooms were spacious and clean, allthough there was a bit of a stale cigarrett-ey kind of smell in our room. That being said we didn't spend much time there. The food at the drinks reception part of the wedding was lovely, but just not enough of it AT ALL! They kept coming out with platters of around 10 items on each plate & there was a long wait between platters, particularly for the savoury food! The area for the drinks reception was great, although there was a "cigar bar" advertised & none of the staff seemed to know (or care) very much about it, which was unfortunate.
After the cocktail hour we were ushered into the venue space for dinner, service was prompt, food was hot but I'm afraid just not very good at all... & not even just wedding standard. I had 3 of the 4 courses on offer & honestly only enjoyed one of them. The toast drink was very slow too, it didn't arrive until after all the speaches were finished which sort of defeated the purpose really.
The hotel staff on the night were lovely, very helpful, but not in any way intrusive. They almost went unnoticed for the night.
The next day we had breakfast and this really impressed me. As someone who is intolerant to lost of different foods the options for breakfast really impressed me. There was a good sized fruit salad bar with mixed nuts, seeds & dried banana for toppings as well as the usual yogurt & compot. There were a number of different juices, brown & white bread & a full hot breakfast buffet too along with cereals & pastries. I will say however that the staff were very slow and a little bit abrupt at breakfast. I had to go and approach one of them after 15 minutes of waiting to ask if we could order tea & coffee as they weren't coming up to our side of the room at all.
We did also stay for soup in the afternoon, having had soup at the wedding I should have known better, not good & a flavour that stayed with us for the day. All in all a great experience and so close to a 4! Just couldn't give it for the flaws we saw! read more