Michael Pickles

Review of The Elvetham Hotel

Well let's start with the building! On this nice s...

Well let's start with the building! On this nice sunny day at 30c in late July.

It's a wonderful building, The gardens are beautiful and well looked after.

Check in went smooth at 4 pm

The room 187 is in what was the stable block...
The room is small.
The curtains would look great in a retirement home.
The mattress is old and has seen better days.
I have sunk quite deep into it.

Hair dryer does not work.
There is no air con in the building.
The pillows are feather which I'm not a fan of.

The bathroom
It's a shower bath combo.
The shower is electric and the shower head is black with mould.
The bath is clean but the silicone around it is coming away from the wall.

The restaurant well. What a unorganised show

No one to welcome you and take you to a table.
A blonde hair lady comes rushing though and says can you wait 5 minutes...

The waiter and waitresses are stumbling over each other. No one is talking to each other.

The group of 15 people seamed to be taking a lot of there time.
28 people total in the restaurant.

One lady keeps coming in with food and does not know where it goes. I have see her walk out with the food.

They could save so much time if someone was in charge / directing.

I was asked 2 times for ordering food

Time for for drink was good at 5 minutes

Starter with in 10 minutes.

The one gem is the lady with shirt blonde hair with a gray Apple watch. She is holding this restaurant together. And seems to be doing most of the work.
A worthy note to the lady with the orange finger nails was nice and polite, p.s. there is a hole in the back left leg part of your dress. ( God that sounds creepy) but dress code...

First dish was the coconut and carrot soup.
A medium body with a slight hit of spice, it was pleasant.

Turns out the waitress that like talking to the guest
Brought my steak out wile I had only just started my soup... No wonder she looked at me. The thoughts, it's your dish cross her face.

Main was a rump steak
I checked the food steak was cool to the touch
I was told it was a fresh order. The steak was tough but was ok.
Tender stem was perfect.
Chips ok
Pepper corn source good.

Desert
Was nice.

Start to Finnish 19.35 till 20.46

Breakfast is included...
Breakfast was simple nothing to right home about.

Would I stay again
I think so. But I need to book a better room.