Hotel du Vin & Bistro Poole

Lovely hotel, great room & service. Room was large & great bath & shower. Comfy big bed.

The room we had (standard double) was large enough and of good quality with complimentary water. We stayed for 2 days and opted out of daily clean in place of £15 worth of drink vouchers for the bar. Staff were lovely, though there was no one around at all when we arrived at 1pm - so a poor first impression. Food was excellent. Drink prices seemed excessive tbh. Main issue was parking - they claim to have 10 spaces but realistically can get 7 cars in - no room left to open your car door to get out! Needs remarking allowing for size of modern cars. Overall a good experience in hotel, though local area looks run down and not very pleasant.

I run a hospitality business, so I thought long and hard before leaving even the slightest negative feedback for this hotel. It still deserved a 4, but could so easily have been a 5. The location is superb, can’t fault that. Period building, really well presented, superb artwork, great décor, very French in character. There were however two points that really did take the shine off a £300 plus night stay. The first was the parking signage. The signs stated “Resident parking only”, the sort of sign you see at a block of flats, no mention of the hotel, so we ended up parking off site. Which left me worrying about my Land Rover all weekend. The second was the room itself. Pretty nice, TV worked, usual amenities plus a free standing bath and king size plus bed, en-suite shower room, wardrobes, tea, coffee, etc. The only real problem here is the shower did not work and the shower tray was blocked. So even if I had managed to get some heat out of it, I was in for a short shower or flood the reception below. We reported it, on our way out to dinner reservations. They promised to look into it, and to their credit offered us another room (while we were on our way out). We declined, and said “no problem but you need to sort that” On check out I again mentioned the shower. Nothing on the system, nothing logged, zip, nada, nowt. The staff were kinda dismissive of the whole situation. I’m sorry, a deluxe room for £300 plus per night and the shower doesn’t work? Really? So you get a 4*

Quite disappointing. The hotel is really old and needs some refurbishment. The reception is on the second floor and our room was 2 floors above that with no lifts. I am 79 and had to carry 2 heavy suitcases up three flights of stairs. Room was ok clean and well stocked and breakfast quite good. Location was poor with no decent views or sights.

The hotel was very clean & the staff were excellent the breakfast was first rate. The dinning room I would put a quest mark on as the meal I had really upset me & my wife. So I’m not sure if I would like to return

Lovely large room with comfortable bed and sheets. Staff friendly and extremely helpful.

Shame the car park was so small. Had to park about 10 mins away and reception staff didn’t have info on the car park (ie when we needed to pay). Other than that, all good.

Disappointing experience. Hotel looking very shabby. Lunch was awful, food served before we even had drinks delivered. Food was cold. Room was uninspiring. Back to back TV’s are a bad idea! Staff seemed distracted and everything felt as though it was a huge effort for them. I didn’t expect to feel unsafe walking around the Main Street at 7.30pm. All in all a lacklustre experience.

The Hotel is in a great location but felt the rooms need updating and also really hard to get to the room as very narrow corridors. My room was really cold as the room itself was lovely so it was a shame as spoilt the experience.

We loved our stay. The hotel, the staff, the room and the ambiance were excellent.