Ye Olde Bell Hotel & Spa

Lunch with friends in St Leger bistro - a very friendly, characterful hotel and restaurant with a varied lunch menu. We chose from the Festive menu and were all very pleased with our food. The service was attentive, but we weren't rushed and there was plenty of time between courses.

Stayed three nights on business. My room on the second floor was spacious with two queen beds and plenty of storage. The wooden floor was extremely creaky as was the corridor so I could hear other guests walking around. The bathroom was a reasonable size, but the sink was tiny and the lighting quite dim which wasn’t conducive to shaving. The restaurants were busy each night and while I didn’t have dinner there, breakfast was excellent. It was table service with helpful and cheerful staff. The fruit was really fresh and I had porridge two days which was nice. On the other morning I had the Eggs Royale which was really filling. There is free parking for guests. I’d happily return for a leisure trip.

We stayed here for Valentine’s Day and had booked the twilight spa package which was £280 and included a nights stay in the hotel with breakfast included as well as a 3 hour spa session with supper at the spa The spa session and the food at the spa were amazing, it was clean and well looked after and the staff there were all helpful, we will definitely be coming back to the spa again! Unfortunately the hotel itself was abit of a let down, we stayed in room 65 which rather then being ‘antique’ and ‘luxury’ was more dated and tired, the room was actually quite clean but the carpet had multiple dirty marks on which it appeared no effort had been made to try and remove them and the room itself could just do with a freshen up, if we hadn’t booked the twilight package and had paid the £205 for the room alone I would’ve been very disappointed. We also had the breakfast included in our package which was equally as disappointing, the toast which was meant to accompany our breakfast arrived at the table around 10 minutes before the actual breakfast appeared meaning it was stone cold by the time the food had arrived, the eggs were undercooked and snotty and the breakfast itself was just very underwhelming for the price of £19.50, I would save your money and go for breakfast elsewhere. We will definitely attend the spa again but we won’t be staying at the hotel next time! :)