Lainston House Hotel

The hotel was luxurious but unfortunately our room was next to the breakfast room, so after a late night at a wedding we were woken at half 6 by staff setting the room up, and then the guests began arriving at 8. This made for a poor sleep and a very tired drive home!

Staff were extremely welcoming, attentive and helpful. Could not thank them enough. Room was lovely and relaxing - good blend of old and new - and all creature comforts catered for. Bar and Lounge also very cosy and comfortable with unusual and tasteful decor. Afternoon tea was fine - a little disappointing - chilly sandwiches, rather dry/bland scones, dry stollen bread. Cannot comment on dinner as we had an engagement in Winchester and we did not have breakfast - this being the other disappointment in that for the price we paid for the room one would have expected at least a continental breakfast to be included. A charge of £15-£20 for breakfast seemed a little steep. However taking into account the service, setting, ambience and added unexpected birds of prey displays plus the closeness to Winchester, it was overall one of the best overnight stays my husband and I have experienced and we would definitely return.

A fantastic hotel, from the moment I drove up the 3/4 mile driveway and parked in the circular car park enclosing a small herb garden I was impressed! This hotel clearly takes quality seriously, with someone to greet us as soon as we walked through the door, smartly dressed staff taking bags to our room without pressing for a tip, interesting grounds to walk around and explore, and a large comfortable room. There are a number of small touches throughout that show this quality. We also ate in the 3 AA rosette Avenue restaurant...I was surprised at how small it was with only about 7 tables, and the atmosphere was somewhat stifled due to this. The food was superb quality and all locally sourced and painstakingly crafted on the plate. We had the 8 course tasting menu. Of course all of this comes at a price, and so my only complaint is that even after budgeting for the expensive room and very expensive meal, we had those incidentals that make the stay complete, like an afternoon drink in the garden, an after dinner drink in the bar, and breakfast the next morning, and boy do you pay for that! Very expensive prices all around so arrive prepared. But for a special occasion I really couldn't recommend it highly enough.

Breakfast finishes at 10am on Sunday, check out is 11am, no possibility of late check-out. Seriously? At a country house hotel with almost no bookings for the Sunday night?

A lovely hotel modernized with high quality fittings and materials, and with good taste

Great experience. Amazing room with separate walk in shower room. Beautiful view out over the park.

from he moment we arrived we were treated like V.I.P.S.The reception staff kindly upgraded us to the dragonfly suite at no extra cost as it was our wedding anniversary.As we got to our room we were greeted with 2 lovely cup cakes.The room itself was massive being 197 sq feet with a very comfortable 4 poster bed and luxurious bathroom + walk in shower.We ate at the avenue restaurant and was very pleased with the quality of food and service and finished the night off with cocktails in the cedar bar overlooking the lovely tree lined avenue.Would highly recommend this hotel.