Hopbine House

I appreciate that in life “you get what you pay for” and this hotel is on the lower end of price scale however the room was beyond dirty. The only thing that was clean was the bed linen, thankfully The floor didn’t look like it had been hoovered in weeks, the little dressing table and bedside table were sticky and covered in crumbs as was the stool. There were slug trails visible on the carpet and sure enough when I got back at 2230 there was one in the bathroom and one by the dressing table. Don’t put anything (and I mean anything) on the floor. Also breakfast is a to-go bag and to be honest based on what I’d seen I wasn’t unhappy that all the food was pre packed.

When I booked this the impression was of a much nicer place. It's very dated, old and grotty. They did leave a bagged breakfast in the room that was good and very nice of them. The wording in the booking was 'upmarket' which clearly is untrue. Even the map location is incorrect by some 100+ metres meaning I had to call the property. I would not stay again and sadly can't recommend it. It's not even especially cheap given the competition locally.

The hotel is in a good location in nice surroundings, although the road noise was significant overnight. The hotel in general is tired and the room had a musty mould smell which was overpowering. No one on reception so call a number to get the code to enter, then another code to get the key for your room. Breakfast was packed up and left outside the room door in the morning, but was sufficient and suited me as had to be away early. Would have appreciated better coffee.