Bay Horse Inn - B&B

Having booked accommodation at a country inn, we were more than disappointed to lie wide awake in bed until 1am listening to a very loud jukebox and many rowdy drunks from directly underneath the bedroom. My phone decibel meter registered 98decibels average over tge final hour, completely unsatisfactory. This inn needs to decide if it wants to offer comfortable accommodation, OR a rowdy late night pub.

Room was very disappointing, standard doubles have a bathroom pod which is a tiny plastic room as you may get in a caravan. There is nothing in the property info or pictures on line that informs of this and was an unpleasant surprise, as was the general standard of the room and the noise of music from the bar. I am not against music in a bar but there is no sound barrier and it seemed as loud in the room as in the bar. Room was cramped and dated and generally unpleasant and not somewhere to relax so i checked out the same afternoon and went to a travelodge in Hexham even though i had paid for the evening in advance. I did not make feelings known at the time as you have to discuss over the bar and did not feel comfortable doing so.

Not a particularly good welcome. There were lots of cobwebs in all corners of the room and on the light fittings. The main window would not open and there was lots of mould around the frame. The bathroom light was a fitting consisting of 4 bulbs, only 1 was working. This room was advertised as a superior room. We went for a meal in the bar area and we were told there could be a wait as there were a couple of large parties still waiting to be served. We ordered our meals , one of which was as not available and waited. We waited 90 minutes!!!! We retired to our room and we were greeted with loud music from downstairs at 11 pm. This continued until 1 am and only stopped when my wife went down to the bar to complain. The day after we mentioned this to the owner and she said it’s usually quiet during the week, this being Thursday, she did tell us that Friday and Saturday were late opening nights and there could be loud music once more. We decided to cut our losses and leave on the Friday, 1 day early !!!!

great overnight stopover

Very friendly welcome, room very clean. The food was very nice and the breakfast set us up for the day. Plenty of parking and walks for us and the dog from the door.

This appears the archetypal Englishpub - low, stone built, sash windows, etc. David, the barmen, came out from his bar to show my daughter and me to our rooms. These were small but comfortable and there was nothing more we would have wanted in them. Part of each room had been blocked off to install the smallest shower pod I have ever seen. At over 6ft tall with a similar arm span I got into it with some trepidation but it was fine - a bit like the Tardis! We had a super meal with my portion too big for me to finish. There was plenty of car parking and a grassed area to exercise our dogs. This is a trip we make every year and we certainly try to book for next year although we'll book earlier because I suspect they will get a lot of repeat bookings. Overall, a gem which we're delighted to have discovered

Food is amazing especially the sunday roast & dessert

Very clean and friendly place, a friendly pub where lots of locals visit, had a good laugh with some of them as they seemed friendly. The food was very nice and good sized portions too. A very nice stay all in all and close enough for us to pop to different locations we had planned to visit

Very good welcome

Welcomed with open arms. Thank you