We were given Room 1 (that was after the landlady eventually found our name pencilled in her nearly empty diary)
It turned out to be a small, possibly single sized, room with a badly self assembled double four poster bed diagonally across it. There was just enough room between the end of the bed and the corner of the en suite washing facility for us to get thru sideways on. The ensuite was obviously an after thought added probably because they had to. The shower was small and grubby, the toilet was much the same and the wash basin was half size with a huge crack anad odd taps. I never did manage to get hot water out of the taps and we both resorted to brushing our teeth over the showeer tray (we couldn't use the basin as there was a shelf above it and my husband nearly knocked himself out when he bent over the basin)
The room was so cold, no heating had been put on for us despite the wet weather, that the bedding felt damp. There was nowhere to put our cases apart from under the bed, no fire safety instructions and no information book about the area. The television was small and the only chair was behind the wardrobe so the only feasible place to watch the TV from was the bed. This has to be the only hotel I have stayed in where the window was cracked from top to bottom. Our view, if we stood on tiptoe, was the backyard with the washing line and a near derelict garage. Even the plastic flower arrangement was dusty.
We couldn't eat in the "restaurant" as there were no seats left so we had our first meal in the bar. It turned out to be a mediocre pie and mash with carrots and broccolli. Breakfast wasn't any better, cheap cereals and thin white toast, take it or leave it, no offer of brown/wholemeal toast or even a top up of the tea or coffee.
Even the outside was unkempt, the mower had seemingly broken down halfway thru mowing the lawn and was just left there, all the plants in the pots were dead and replaced by an equally unhealthy crop of weeds.
The first floor corridors smelt damp and fousty, the stairs creaked badly and all the doors banged incessantly, even the front door had to be tied open with a bit of string attached to the hall radiator.
All in all a dark, dreary and depressing hotel that could be so much better, The Hotel Inspector would have a field day here but mine hosts would not appreciate it.
Room Tip: If there is a good room in this place I would like to know where it is.
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