The Royal Hotel

Ate here again and enjoyed it as usual. Good food, well cooked and served with a smile. All good. However, the dessert menu, to me, is disappointing. There are seven choices, but five of them contain nuts of some description. It's a bit of a shame for anyone who can't eat nuts like me.

Arrived here Friday 25th October. Lovely looking interior of Large Restaurant and bar. So we booked a table for 8pm. Lovely guy pointed us in the direction of our room and that’s where the luxury ended. A truly awful room which was dark and dowdy, with only a tiny window that was cracked, so we didn’t dare try and open it for air as we didn’t want to crack it further. Someone had been smoking in the room as a) there was a slight tobacco smell b) Filters were left on the Windowsill. There were no doors on the Wardrobe and it seemed that every surface was chipped and covered in splashes of paint! The small Bathroom was modern and clean but the shower cubicle itself was tiny. Flushing the toilet was a nightmare as the noise was horrific which we reported as soon as we went downstairs but nothing was done so we used the toilets in the bar area in the hope that we wouldn’t need to use during the night!! Unfortunately that didn’t work so think the toilet would have woken up the whole hotel. The Restaurant itself was lovely as was the food in fact it was excellent the whole experience was ruined by the state of this room and so on this ocassion we wouldn’t recommend to anyone. When we saw the cleaners in the morning we warned them about the soaking wet floor in the bathroom as the shower doors didn’t fit properly, they were very apologetic and lovely. I’m glad we were only booked in for the 1 night. It’s not worth the £81 (excluding breakfast) we could have stayed somewhere more light and airy for that and eaten out.

I see mixed reviews on here but we couldn’t fault our meals. A family of 5. Beautifully presented, hot and plenty of it. Roasted sweet potato, spinach & goats cheese wellington Sunday lunch was amazing. Finished with the lemon and stem ginger, sticky treacle toffee tart and ice cream. Probably the best Sunday lunch I’ve eaten out. Our waitress was kind and polite. It isn’t cheap to eat out these days but it was well worth it.

Great service. Lovely hotel.

Satisfactory hotel ,Close to attractions .