The room itself was not cleaned to a very good standard, false eyelashes on one of the chairs, also pretty dusty. The real issue was the smell particularly in the bathroom, strong cats urine smell, not sure where it was coming from, maybe the mouldy blinds. The room was very dark but that was just the style, not our taste but some people will love it. Robes and slippers provided, coffee, tea and hot chocolate provided with a couple of biscuits and bottled water, all nice touches. Room had a hot-tub out the back but we didn’t use it. It was surprisingly quiet during the night, one room was playing music earlier in the evening but this ceased around 10pm. Breakfast is available at The Joiners Arms which is about 200 yards away, no problem for us but weather was fine, some people may have issue with this particularly if it’s raining. Breakfast had a decent selection of pastries, yoghurts, granola etc with serve yourself tea, coffee and juice. We opted for full English, one with scrambled egg without beans and black pudding, the other with poached eggs and well done sausages. Both came with everything, scrambled eggs were runny, sausages not well done and poached eggs also very undercooked, not very impressed.
All in all, I would say this it definitely not luxury or 5 star and would not stay here again, very expensive for 1 night in a ‘Deluxe’ detached garden room. We did mention the room smell when checking out and the receptionist said we should have let them know.
