The Spread Eagle Hotel

If you like threadbare carpets and mould then this hotel has it all. Everything was tatty,

Quite rundown. Good location in centre of town

Bryan and the staff were very friendly, and while the quality of the room was to be expected from a historic building, the place is in need of a deep clean throughout the building, and 2 out of 3 of our curtains were broken along with the fan in the bathroom that didn’t work, but I’ve read they’re slowly renovating so look forward to that as the place has a lot of potential. Breakfast was nice each day (we stayed for 4 nights over Christmas) but PLEASE change the coffee at breakfast. It was incredibly stale and awful each morning, I do think the bravilator bonamat coffee machine from 70’s used for breakfast could use a deep clean (or replacing) is the reason for this. Shame when there’s a full barista style coffee machine on the bar not being used. We weren’t alone on this as many tables around us each morning also complained about the coffee. We were told house keeping wouldn’t be available over Christmas Day (fair) but then our room wasn’t attended too any other day. The tap for the basin has definitely not been cleaned in some time. The girl on the desk was happy to give us fresh towel and toilet roll though. Otherwise a pleasant enough stay.

Our room 30 was as expected in an listed hotel, wonky floors and ceiling which not a problem.. The furniture was scratched and chipped as was the paintwork on the window. In all the room was tired. The bathroom was quite large but the wash basin was only suitable for a loo and not really suitable for a bathroom. The biggest surprise was that NO room service was to be provided during a 3 night stay. Due to COVID restrictions which did not appear to be in place anywhere else in the hotel. This seemed odd to us as in other hotels we have stayed in since the pandemic room servicing was done , even during periods of social distancing, dining pods and mask wearing. Breakfast was not bad, but at times service was slow.. If you travel by car make sure that you pay for car parking at the hotel otherwise a fine is payable.

The suite we stayed in was clean and tidy. Staff were polite and friendly. Breakfast was lovely

It was ok. Rooms smelt musty and were generally run down lots of damage to rooms which is a shame as well situated. Staff were helpful and breakfast was lovely

Breakfast was great Beer was poor Room was ok

The staff at the Spread Eagle were so helpful and really accommodating to our needs. The room was lovely and the best part was the double doors that opened into the shared green space.

Definitely an old world charm! Hundreds of years of history.

I know on my own room very small and bathroom was a shoe box. Shower so small can’t get in the door, you need to be a snake.