Cbh the Alfriston

Just everything about Deans Place is outstanding, the hotel, the staff, the location and the breakfast is just off the chart fantastic, highly recommend a stay and a walk around this beautiful village.

Have visited before and the refurbishments are ok . Staff are mostly good but some clearly not trained . Food is good but expensive . The main thing when I last visited was the beautiful main lawn ! It’s now non existent . Would revisit but hopefully improvements made .

This recently refurbished hotel's publicity material leads to high expectations, not yet justified in our experience. On the plus side, the staff were invariably welcoming, friendly and responsive, and the evening food was beautifully prepared and presented but a few obvious aspects require improvement to justify a 5* (or even 4*) hotel rating (and price!). These include the breakfast arrangements, that currently basically amount to buffet/self-service that required balancing heavy dish lids to access food (and shoulder to shoulder with other guests), only one coffee machine and running out of, in our case, 'essential' berries. Not the peaceful, relaxed introduction to the day that we had hoped for. In this latter context, the daytime peacefulness was not helped by the incessant throb of a large generator in the car park area close to our room – hopefully this is not a permanent feature. And thirdly - first impressions - perhaps understandably, the main garden area has been long neglected but there are many aspects of it that even a modest input of TLC would rapidly improve. Finally – a safety aspect – some signage warning passing motorists of the hotel exit might help alleviate nervous moments when leaving the hotel. That said, it's early days for the new 'crew' and these comments are intended to help them achieve their reputational aspirations sooner rather than later.