The Crown Stoke By Nayland

Fantastic place, beautiful rooms, gorgeous food, what more could you want. Thank you!

Excellent staff some of the best in the Chestnut Group, lovely pub and gardens , excellent bedroom very clean , everything you need in a room, we took our little dog so had a ground floor room, he was well catered for as well, this group are so dog friendly. Would def go again and would have no hesitation in recommending to to anyone.

The steak was neither seared, thick enough to be tender and was 30% optimistically meat the rest being gristle and fat. No wonder they provide a Bowie knife to cut it. service was snaillike, we were told we had to vacate the table by 8 o’clock..

We have been visiting this pub over the years when in the area on Sundays for dinner. It remains hugely popular with its attractive village location, very friendly staff and always good food and service. However, it was noticed that the standards of cleanliness were not up to standard. We had a sticky table that had not been cleaned thoroughly particularly around the edges and the disposable paper bin in the ladies was overflowing just as examples.

We stay here whenever we can on our way to East Anglia. It's a few minutes off the A12. Wonderful rooms in the modern purpose-built annexe. Very quiet. Very comfortable. Great food, friendly staff, excellent beer. There's a shaded terrace for al fresco dining and plenty of room in both the pub and dining room. Great breakfast. Good dinner, bed and breakfast deals, especially on a Sunday night.

Booked a room for much needed tranquility, peace and views of beatiful Dedham Vale. Was given room with view of building site complete with builders in hard hats and sound of banging, drilling, clanking and a huge iron fence with industrial green and orange netting on what was supposed to be the terrace. This is certainly not what was shown on the website. We weren't told about this on booking. We were given a less luxurious room, with no discount. Very disappointed. Just be honest if you've got the builders in.

Beautifully decorated building with very friendly staff. We met with family for Sunday lunch and had to wait 1hr 45 minutes for our food to arrive, TOTALLY unacceptable. If the kitchen can't cope with a full restaurant then they should not book out all their tables. Heaven only knows what happens in summer when they add the garden tables ! If we hadn't been staying the night we would have walked out. Frustratingly we were offered no apology or recompense even paying £4 per portion of bread to stave off our hunger ! We were upgraded our room because their building works had encroached onto it, however we were still woken at 8am by the noise if the builders, not what anyone wants when retreating to the country overnight, not were we forewarned that building was being carried out upon booking. Disappointing stay. Naturally nobody asked if we had a nice stay when we left. What a shame all round as the venue is lovely.

Lovely place with great food! All the staff are very helpful.

Beautiful hotel, staff are lovely and friendly, breakfast was delicious, 10 out of 10 will definitely be back

We have now been to the Crown for my birthday for the 4th year on the run . This year before we booked we took the advice from Rob Abbey ass manager and booked the room that offered a mattress topper which was great advice because the wife likes a soft bed and this was perfect as was the room . The evening meal was fantastic with very helpful waiting staff. The highlight for me of our stay for the previous 3 years has been the fantastic breakfast but unfortunately this year we were let down by the cooked breakfast. I asked for easy over eggs but the yoke were not runny and the bacon was burnt on one side and cooked on a grill pan that left a taste off BBQ Burger . I think the chef knew what he had done with the bacon because he or she put the burnt side face down to the plate with the sausage on top of the bacon and eggs on top off the sausage . Everything was wonderful for our night star Staff, evening meal , room but unfortunately the cooked breakfast was a let down.