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Reviews of Bankes Arms Hotel

3.5 out of 5
Bankes Arms Hotel
23 East Street, Corfe Castle, Wareham, England

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 244 out of 506 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 173 out of 506 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 56 out of 506 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 16 out of 506 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 17 out of 506 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

9.0/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Mark

Traveled with partner
Room overlook side & main road, lots of traffic noise.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

keith

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Ideal position for Corfe Castle visit and Kimmeridge fossil centre and Jurassic coast. Friendly and helpful staff and management. Food excellent.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Mario

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Exceptional rooms Staff all friendly and great breakfast service
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Lisa

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Nick

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice staff
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Theobald

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Everything went well. Enjoyed our stay . Lovely food,good service and loved the accommodation
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Richard

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A friendly well-situated pub, lovely building, good food and beer.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

Christine

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Mark

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rick

Traveled with group, Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Bankes Arms is a great Inn/Hotel. Clean, neat rustic rooms and excellent services and staff. And- a short walk to Corfe castle and the very cool steam train service.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Steven

Liked: Staff & service
The decor in the room and bathroom was very tired and could really do with redecorating. Given the condition it felt over priced.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

Alison

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Bankes Arms Experience☹️
Staff generay polite, service extremely slow. Facilities relating to room often didnt work or were missing completely. Coffee machine didnt work so when we went for dinner we spoke to a member of staff who said they would attend to it but didnt and we gad to ask another member of staff for a kettle in the end. Sink plug jammed do couldnt empty. Internet didnt work unless loaded in the bar. Shortly after returning to room connection was lost. We ordered our meal which took over an hour to appear. Similar situation with breakfast. Booked as requested, for 8.30am. Member of staff didnt appear until 9.00am and we waited in excess of 25 minutes for our pre ordered meal to appear.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

ann

Traveled with partner
Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Cleanliness
The hotel was fine. The service was poor, room was not at all clean and milk and kettle were missing( cups and tea were there!).
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Colin

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Property needs updating decoration in the bedrooms needs work and teplacement of dome of the furniture
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Gillian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
The staff were very helpful and welcoming and the food was well cooked and presented. Our room was clean, quiet and comfortable. The easy parking is a bonus in a very congested area of the village. The main door is on to an extremely busy road so pedestrians need to take care. Some of the decor looks a little tired. We failed to get a signal for the WiFi and the drinks machine defeated us. Altogether very good value.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fantastic location, friendly staff.
Staff very fiendly and helpful. Room nice, although a little noisy with traffic. Evening meal which was a Sunday Lunch was excellent. Breakfast not so good, basic and left under a hot plate, a little dry.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Philip

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly and helpful staff from the moment I arrived. Spacious room with a castle view. Good food and drink
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Kevin

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Amenities
Liked location, only 12 channels on tv. Complicated coffee maker with no instructions, ended up buying own kettle to make tea! Really difficult to find any hotel staff around.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Anthony

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

DUNCAN

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

P

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful Place and Service to Match
I have stayed at the Bankes Arms in Corfe several times over the years and each time the service is friendly and impeccable. I always feel like I am treated as a valued guest. Great food in their restaurant and nothing but praise for everyone at the Bankes Arms. Will continue to go there each time I visit the area.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

James

Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Banks arms hotel was disappointing
It was ok but the room faced the busy road noise was not good and shower room condition poor also 2nd day got seated in a cramped corner for breakfast next too noises from people previous evening waited an hour for evening meal
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

David

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Corfe Castle visit
We had a great time, good comfortable rooms, friendly service, great food and drink.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A most enjoyable two night stay
Fabulous views of the Castle and the Steam Railway. Staff very friendly. Great breakfasts. We ate twice at the Hotel and the food was very good. Lovely village and easy for visiting Swanage and surrounding area.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Amy

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Arnold

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Zane

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great place in a beautiful village. Warm local staff
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Micheal

Traveled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
It was a nice old pub, with nice helpful staff and clients.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Laura

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Christopher

Traveled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
It was within very easy reach of Corfe Castle and the station for the Swanage railway. The car park itself was packed when we arrived on Sunday afternoon, though there was a group on and, in all fairness, the manager offered to move his car for us to avoid us getting a ticket. The room was ok although the coffee machine was not clean and a kettle would have been a far better option. There could also have done with being more storage in the bathroom. We had a problem with our toilet which was really slow filling and when reported we were told this had been like this for a while, and we were given a key to use one of the other rooms facilities. The staff were friendly and helpful, especially the lady at breakfast in the morning, the food was decent enough. Overall it was reasonable but probably overpriced.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Jeff

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Steve

Liked: Room comfort
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kay

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Everything was perfect except I have asked the owners to change the Tassimo machines in the rooms to kettles as we couldn't work out how to use it.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

Ron

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Josephine

Traveled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Lovely place to stay, great choice for breakfast, good evening menu and great location for three other pubs in the village. Also two minute walk to Corfe Castle railway station which takes you into Swanage. Well done all the staff for making our stay so welcoming 👏👏👍
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Corfe Castle two day stay
Lovely walks with amazing views. The pub a great place to stay with friendly staff great food and a clean comfortable and spacious room to stay in.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Suzanne

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ryan

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
great location, some staff super friendly and nice. perfect for what we needed.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mary

Stayed 1 night in May 2023

8/10 Good

CLAIRE

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice pub facilities x
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

David

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Lyn

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very average and dated.Very expensive for what it is, but not mu ch competition around. Needs major refurbishment.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Chalice

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

Karen

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023

8/10 Good

Lyn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It was a nice room just looked a bit tired on first impressions
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Liam

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023