Talbooth House & Spa

Very comfortable room, delightful and helpful staff, peaceful rural location

There is no dining room on site and while there is a plan to deal with this - charmingly carried out by the staff - we’d like to be able to walk into a restaurant. We were transported in a comfortable car five minutes down the road. Breakfast was delivered from the same restaurant, ordered the night before

Felt like I've been part of an extended family

Nothing

Mostly a great experience. Stayed on a Sunday, had a fab lunch at the restaurant by the river. However, on checkout at 10.30am I was told I would have to pay extra if I wanted to have a swim up to midday. Shame. Won’t be going back. Cannot tolerate owners who put money above treating their guests with decency and who are money grabbing weasels and don’t have any reasonableness within them. Can’t blame the staff, who were lovely and who I presume are told to implement this policy. To put it in context, this was our third of three nights away. The prior two didn’t care what time we stayed to or left. As they are decent human beings.

The bed

Absolutely loved our stay. Beautiful room, beautiful bathroom, beautiful outdoor pool. We had breakfast at the property which was really lovely. Staff were all lovely.

We were offered balloons for my wife’s 60th birthday but they got forgotten until reminded and offered a turn down service but it didn’t happen. These were minor points though and we loved our stay and will definitely be back.

Facilities and location

Buffet Breakfast was not hot snd could be improved

We had a lovely stay at the Talbooth Hotel. Exceptionally clean, very luxurious and very friendly staff who couldn’t do enough for us. We had a free upgrade as it was midweek and very quiet and our room was fabulous. I had a Elemis facial at the spa which was wonderful and a nice swim and jacuzzi afterwards. Wonderful experience, I would recommend this hotel especially for a birthday treat which mine was.

Everything was great.