The Villa Levens

We stayed for 2 nights. Needed a dog friendly hotel and this ticked all the boxes. The grounds are beautiful and extensive. Waking up to half a dozen deer on the lawn was lovely. The family room was fantastic, the bathroom was very clean and looked newly renovated. The food is as all the reviews state. We enjoyed every single meal. We are already looking at booking another stay.

Lovey family run hotel, relaxed atmosphere but efficient. Decent sized room and huge bath. Nice dinner and good range of drinks and served till kate

Very good location as a stop over from Scotland. The hotel is really very nice, lovely grounds, nice bar and public rooms. Great breakfast. Our family room on the top floor was a bit stuffy, it could do with a proper air-con unit and the shower was a little tricky to get out of as you clamber over the bath rim. Very nice dinner too, although the steak was a little over-cooked.

This was a great find. We had a family room that was great and dog friendly. The room was a good size with 2 proper single beds rather than a pull out sofa bed like most hotel family rooms. The only downside was that the room was very hot and the air conditioning unit wasn't very good and the bathroom needed a bit of TLC i.e re grouting around the bath etc Straight from the hotel we found some amazing walks for the dog. The staff were super nice and friendly and we can't wait to stay here again.

Greta location, lovely grounds and fantastic building. On arrival, greeted by the friendly reception staff and able to leave bags while we went out for the day. On return, given keys to room, unfortunately the room had the wrong number of beds set up, so was provided another room very quickly. The new room was on the top floor up very steep stairs (I had to carry my older Labrador as she was unable to make it up). On arrival to the room, there was a strong drainage smell (the room window was wide open, so assume this was a known issue). The room was also massively hot (with a stand-alone air conditioning unit in the corner). While we got used to the smell, the heat was an issue all night (the electric went off when we left the room, so the air conditioner didn’t work). So we had a restless night (especially the dogs). We didn’t mention this at the time as we’d had to carry bags, dogs and kids to the two rooms already, so didn’t want another move. Bathroom was big, but shower had a lot of mould and needed a silicon refurb) Breakfast was great, service excellent and very good value for money. Would stay again, but would request a different room (away from the top floor) up front.