Oyster Fleet Hotel

Excellent staff very friendly and helpful, great food

Sadly, I’ve had to stay at this hotel more than five times as there’s literally no alternative in Canvey Island. Despite having stayed five times and sometimes even in the same month, we were still asked for our photo ID ! The rooms are clean and that’s about the best I can say . If you pay an extra £10 you get a bath otherwise the budget rooms at £75 just have a shower. The food in the restaurant is expensive and really not very nice at all. We had mushroom pie and a mushroom risotto and the contents of the pie and the risotto were exactly the same thing - watery and salty. If you are staying on a Sunday, you get hassled if you don’t arrive by 8 o’clock as the reception team want to go home - despite the receptionist being lovely it just feels very much like they want you through and out as quickly as possible.

Rooms need a serious update Plenty of parking spaces and check in was ok but the bedroom and bathroom were in need of a desperate update or at least a repair. Dirty marks on the carpet, windows that didn’t lock shut properly causing a security issue, bathroom floor that had perished due to water ingress, very poor lighting and the tiniest tv up the corner of the room. All in all very poor value. All the staff were very pleasant but wouldn’t stay again unless everything was brought up to date.