The White Swan - Stratford on Avon

Tags: stratford on avon, white swan, rsc, hamlet, hotel

I had booked tickets for family members to see Hamlet at the RSC with Patrick Stewart and David Tennant. As part of the trip I booked 4 rooms for the weekend, I paid for the "Feature Room" with a four poster bed and period features and 3 standard rooms.

None of us were impressed, our feature room did feature a four poster and period features such as beams but it also boasted a period bathroom circa 1950's which was in poor and grubby condition. On the whole the room was a bit rundown and shabby with the period features trying to make up for it

There was some nice furniture in the period room but there was to be honest a pretty cheap and dire chest of draws, The bed was great, huge and comfortable but the beams in the room were thick with grimey dust and the cobwebs in the corners had been there so long that they were also caked in dust.

We had to wash the cups and saucers as they had obviously not been washed since the last tenants and an orange substance which had been spilt on the bathroom floor before we arrived was still there when we left.

The standard rooms whilst better fitted out and cosier also had cleaning issues, being dusty and the bathrooms not particularly well cleaned.

The valance in one of the rooms was coated around the bottom with a muddy greasy substance, so they obviously do not change them on a regular basis.

The other thing to watch out for with this hotel is the price doesn't include breakfast, just a cup of tea/coffee and a croissant. It is quite easy to get caught out and find a £9.50 charge per person on your room for what was in fact a poor and cold cooked breakfast.

They also charge you for parking your car in the hotel car park.

My advice...... is give it wide berth, you could stay in a cleaner nicer bed and breakfast with a hearty breakfast and parking included for half the price.

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