All the staff were excellent - very friendly and tried to be helpful.
However - this is a wedding venue - so if you are coming to try to “have a peaceful walk in the gardens” like the website suggests or a restful time in the lounge, you will find that all of the facilities that they boast about on the website - such as the cocktail bar or dungeon bar - or all of the restful rooms are out of bounds for a standard guest - if there is a wedding going on you will only be allowed in the restaurant …. No use of a bar - no comfortable chair to sit on…. No umbrella to shelter you from the rain - even though there will be a line of 5 or 6 young staff lined up outside with umbrellas for wedding guests…..
Do not book a “classic double”…. These rooms are completely worn out - the windows do not open and the air con is broken …. Everywhere smells damp and rather strange … the windows on the outside were filthy … your view will be derelict farm buildings … a yard with dead weeds, and sordid old items left looking like rubbish …..
They state on the website that the chef uses garden produce in the kitchen … there is even a film of them carrying a basket of glistening vegetables as if to take them to the kitchen …. Well the garden is not well cared for - there are brambles and ash trees growing out of the shaggy box hedging and bind weed is rife! There was one tiny bed with spring onions … but they definitely do not have produce in the garden to supply the kitchen.