The Old Bakery

Great breakfast. Beautiful location with fantastic walks through the abbey ruins. Plethora of excellent pubs and food walking distance.

We were only here for two nights!

Comfortable clean rooms

Water pressure

All good

Shelf space would be useful in the bathroom of room 2

Good location, friendly staff, good selection of real ale

Sound insulation of hotel room could be better. Slightly unusual that the hotel does not open until 3pm each day.

Restaurant was nice

Rooms dated. Mattress was cheap and uncomfortable. Breakfast not until 8, not ideal for business stays

Great place, clean, good location and very friendly and helpful staff

Shower was a bit small

Cosy pub with good service. Staff friendly and helpful, helping on arrival and departure with heavy suitcase on stairs. We particularly enjoyed the breakfast experience: great food, well cooked (eggs especially, thanks chef) and all the trimmings of a full English Breakfast, and very good service. Generally, the hotel is larger than expected from the front view and goes back directly behind the pub on 2 levels with 14 bedrooms, which are rather small but big enough for one night's stay.

We arrived late Friday afternoon from overseas with lots of luggage - the start of a long holiday weekend and the pub at the front was busy. Parking near the hotel was impossible, even to unload the car so we parked about 300 yards away and went to investigate. Reception is the doorway into the bar serving counter - we were checked in quickly and informed that we could access the rear of the hotel by car for unloading. There were no parking spaces in the tiny carpark but we were told we could park on a nearby quiet road, and this is what we did without problems, about 5 mins walk from the rear access to the hotel. The biggest discomfort was not the hotel's fault - the temperature that day was close to 30C and our upstairs room was under the eaves. The room was extrememly hot, the window did not open and there was no fan (tired, I didn't feel like battling the crowd in the bar to try to find a fan).

Excellent breakfast. Great location for our trip to Stoneleigh

The shower a bit cleaner and thicker towels

Comfortable bed, friendly staff, quiet room, well cooked breakfast

On the breakfast menu It advertised "vegetarian options available- please ask staff for details ", we asked if they had veggie sausages and they said the only choices were what was on the menu. We enjoyed a late drink at the bar on one evening, some other people came in at 10.15 and asked for a drink and were told "we are closed" even though they said they were residents. Half an hour later at 10.45 we saw someone being sold a pint of beer and thought this was inconsistent. Whilst the bed was comfy I found the room probably needed some TLC.

Location was excellent. Clean and well presented.

The bed was rather small. Parking limited and had to find a parking space away from the hotel.