Impressive drive up to a lovely hotel. Period!
Impressive drive up to hotel,in beautiful countryside, but no receptionist on arrival. Mannager, who we never saw again, came soon after, and took us to nice clean room. Went to put bedside light on and found light switch on supply cable missing, and a live wire poking out of the cable!
We asked to report it to manager, 3 times to staff, but he was never available over 3 days stay. We felt a potential serious threat to life was not taken seriously at all, although lamp repaired following day. We found room service overall lacking in attention to detail, with bathroom not cleaned during our stay. Buffet Breakfast each day was a disaster with one waiter only trying to serve about 20 tables. Only over cooked scrambled egg available from heated turreen, i.e no fried,poached or boiled egg available, and breakfast supplies table kept running out of basic items. With 2 or 3 other couples we cristened the event "Faulty Towers" ! It was that bad.
Evening meal was fine, but none of the usual little 'extras' with meal and coffee one expects in a hotel of this class. When we aked for some cakes for our afternoon tea on day 2, we were told we had to give 24 hr notice!
The hotel was clearly very under staffed in every area, and left us with the distinct impression of major cost cutting there to boost profits. Sadly we'd never attend one of the group hotels in future.







