The Old Schoolhouse Inn

The breakfast is exceptional. Home made Guinness and wheaten bread, homemade scones, homemade jam. Ulster Fry, cooked as it is supposed to be....Proper butcher sausage/bacon and free range egg. Potato Bread, Soda Bread. White pudding, and a really flavoursome tomato/mushroom.....who knew you could get such flavour from a tomato or mushroom. Granola, rhubarb, yoghurt. Delicious. Overall price for a stay including breakfast was excellent value for money. Especially when you factor in that the equivilent breakfast would easily be £15/£20 per head in any cafe/brunch spot. Double Room was really comfortable. Sadly it was a double bed and as we are used to Superking at home, it was a bit snug. But sure it was only for one night. Homemade shortbread at the tea/coffee making tray in the bedroom was a welcome touch. Excellent water pressure in the shower. Plus really liked the handle. As I'm always terrified of falling using a shower over the bath tub. The decor is a bit tired, but everything was clean. And the price point was fair. I did note that I thought the online bedroom pics of our bedroom (The Jackson Bedroom) probably didn't do it any justice. If we were staying longer, the TV remote would have annoyed me. Maybe the batteries are on the way out. But only could get the volume and typing channel numbers to work. Programme up and down weren't operational. I should have left a note for housekeeping, but forgot. Plus the freeview channels are probably due an update as quite a lot of channel numbers are different from home. But we were only staying 1 night, so no biggie. If you bring a firestick, it would be really easy to plug into back of telly. Averil and Terry were an absolute delight. A lifetime spent in hospitality has stood them in good stead. It has also armed them with enough stories to fill a small library.....and I do love a good story. They run a welcoming and restful B&B. Our stay was not planned much in advance. In fact I only booked it on the morning of our stay. I have now decided that this place will be my first port of call for Belfast trips when we have time to spend over a leisurely breakfast. We will definitely be back.

This is a VERY RUN DOWN BNB. The rooms are DIRTY and they have NEVER been cleaned properly. This is more like a nursing home. The owners were very nasty to me and didn't even explain that the rooms needed CLEANED. Please consider before U stay here. It is ******* with many evil spirits in here.

A spacious room, great service and a wonderful breakfast

Schoolhouse wins ! It was extremely comfortable and we were made very welcome by our hosts. Rooms were clean and attractive. We can recommend without hesitation.

Everything was first class and friendly

Comfy overnight stop Very welcoming hosts and a clean spacious room. Avril showed us round on arrival. The breakfast was delicious and plentiful. Great location for exploring County Down and Strangford Lough.