The Kings Arms Hotel

A stunning looking hotel, Tudor in style and lovely oldie worldly inside as you’d imagine. We were satiating in Room 1, a suite with a mezzanine floor and a spare bed. Lovely room, clean and very comfortable until we looked out of the huge window where we found several cobwebs. On using the bathroom for the first time I went to wash my hands and the whole one piece tap unit moved in all directions and wasn’t secure. My partners children were in a different part of the hotel, more contemporary block but sadly the shower area was very mouldy.

A disappointing stay. Was in a junior suite that is on 2 levels with the bedroom upstairs. The room and bathroom are quite tired and the whole suite was very dusty, had multiple cobwebs on the walls, the carpet had bits all over it and the bed cover looked and felt quite grubby. The suite could be really nice but needs some investment for a modernisation. The lighting is an example. If you needed to use the bathroom in the night you have to put on both the very bright chandelier in the bedroom as well as the lights downstairs, which is not ideal to say the least (it is pitch black downstairs so you need some light). Furthermore one person has no access to the lights as the switch is just one side of the bed so bring a torch. The furniture is old fashioned and there is only a lamp and table one side of the bed. The security safe in the wardrobe was broken, the window blind would not raise up as the mechanism is broken and there are no hooks in the bathroom to hang clothes on. There is also no towel ring or rail by the sink for a hand towel. There were bottles of water, wine and snacks but no indication in the room whether they complimentary or charged for. Finally, we stayed 2 nights and the bed was not made. We had to make it ourselves when we got back in the evening for our 2nd night. The bathroom had had the towels refolded so a bit confused why the bed was not made (there was no impediment to it being made). The room isn't up to a 4 star hotel standard in my view.

Stayed in a junior suite, quirky but actually had less real space than a standard room. The seperate "work area" was actually a tiny desk covered in stuff, under the stairs with barely enough room for an I-pad. Fortunately I had a multi-way extension lead with me as it also only had one plug socket available. The idea of a separate work space is that one of you can sleep in the bedroom whilst the other works without disturbing them. the workspace was downstairs next door to the bathroom, that would have been fine but the light switch operated all the lights. All on or all off, plus only one bedside cabinet, one bedside light and the partner away from the bedside light and light switch (which was half behind the headboard) had to rouse the other to turn the lights on to navigate the wonky floor and uneven stairs to go to the bathroom. The bathroom had seen better days, mirror is failing, no space for toiletries, no way to open bathroom window unless you stand on the side of the bath, nowhere for a couple to sit and talk. So sad as the room could be awesome - it needs someone to rethink the lighting and layout, the hotel obviously has high standards, bottled water, complimentary half bottle of wine & nibbles (nice touch) but no spare pillows, inadequate toiletries and towels, no way for both of you to share a cuppa in bed, No way to close/open the blinds, contortionist to open window. Could be superb, so close, but so far.