Gardens Hotel

Staff were friendly and helpful in all of my interactions with them, couldn't fault them at all. My room was very clean and there was plenty of tea and coffee left for my use. Breakfast was good (if served a little late for me)

The photos shown on the site were completely unrepresentative of the actual hotel. The carpets and paintwork reminded me of my grandmother's home when I was a child, which had not been properly redecorated since just after the end of the nineteenth century. The sign on the front of the building was so worn that I found it difficult to find the hotel to start with. Certain locations within the building inexplicably smelt of cooked sprouts and cabbage. The hotel wifi was slow - probably by design, as a higher-speed connection was monetised, which obviously provides no incentive to improve the service. A background application caused my connection to be blocked - but the network "forgot" this block rapidly, which begs the question as to why it's in place to start with. The walls seemed to be extremely thin; I lost sleep on various nights due to neighbours running the whole gamut from ordinary conversations all the way through to romantic relations, which sounded like there was nothing in the way.

Good location Good value breakfast Helpful ,friendly staff

Beds were very hard window didn't seem to shut to and was very draughty couldn't get the sink to drain away