Rockvale House

Excellence on a Budget

Friendly, conscientious owners; Impeccably clean throughout; Warm and comfortable rooms; First-rate complimentary breakfast, with fresh fruit, quality cereals, butcher-sourced bacon, sausages, etc., fresh eggs from the hens in the garden, homemade breads, preserves and yoghurt. Don't miss the lemon curd!

English plumbing - I didn't deduct marks for this, as i know it to be a traditional english condition and not reasonably within the control of the hotel owners. - The usual problems: Very cramped shower; Water temperature highly erratic; No heating in bathroom. As George Mikes (pronounced Meekesh) reported to us in his hilarious memoire of an immigrant to Britain, "How To Be An Alien": "It is all right to have central heating in an English home, except in the bath room, because that is the only place where you are naked and wet at the same time, and you must give British germs a fair chance."