Best Western Lion Hotel

Bought a groupon offer to this lovely hotel and were pleasantly surprised. My room was stunning, huge with an amazing walk in shower and large bathtub en-suite. A bottle of chilled Prosecco was awaiting in the room. A terrific bed that’s super king size! The room has a fridge, so great for other things you may have. We were given fresh milk for our room on request. Nothing was too much trouble. My stay was relaxing and quiet. Having read the reviews prior I was pleased no weddings or parties were taking place, so it seems you should check your room side of the hotel and events prior to booking, as the disco side of the hotel can get noisy with events but wasn’t on this weekend. The staff were lovely and friendly, very efficient. Breakfast was great, everything you could want. They served a buffet style, eggs were scrambled unless you requested otherwise. Lovely fresh fruit, pastries, cereals, toast, juices, the only disappointment was the weak coffee, but again when I told the staff they quickly changed it for me. It’s a disabled friendly hotel, there are lifts to the rooms as well as the stairs. So I had no difficulty. There’s limited parking in the hotel car park, approx 20 places, but plenty in the rear public car park where it’s free after 4pm. So no issue there. Super value for money. Thank you staff. less

We stayed for 2 nights using a Groupon voucher including breakfast. We were put in room 309. It was a spacious room. I did find it a little strange that house keeping seem to have left the spiders in their webs in the room and I spent the first few minutes getting rid of them (there were 4). I would have expected them to be cleaned. It was clean otherwise! The room was quite noisy from the hum of some machinery next door. Probably not a room for light sleeps but it was fine for us. There was no wedding on the Friday, but we felt very fortunate to have this room on the Saturday when a wedding was on. Any closer to the function room would have been very noisy I imagine as the kids were still running the corridors into the late hours. The breakfast was pretty good, hot dishes, cereal, pastries, fruit etc. I'm caffeine intolerant and restaurant staff were happy to make me a decaff. My only comment was on both days dishes weren't particularly clean. It was a nice enough hotel and we would stop again if using a voucher. less

This is a very nice hotel. The room was well-appointed, clean and with good WiFi, but it was above the bar so a bit noisy. The breakfast in the morning was very good. The staff could not have been friendlier or more helpful. A very nice place to stay on business. less

I attended a wedding here on saturday and i can honestly say it was a spectacular day from start to finish. The staff were very helpful and polight and couldn't do enough for us. The food was among the best ive tasted, and i would go as far as saying that i am considering this venue for my wedding. less

Never have I written a bad review. I only write my personnel view. The Lion Hotel is NOT a place for your wedding. As soon as the evening starts you are NOT allowed to use the PUBLIC bar. We were attending an all day wedding and used the public bar, as soon as the evening disco started this seized. There were at times upto 4 staff stood doing nothing in the Public bar and at most of the time 1 member of staff serving in the function room (the other member of staff was either running to the other bar for change or collecting glasses). When we went to the other bar we were refused although it is a PUBLIC BAR. When I suggested they transfer some help from 1 bar to the other I was told "they have to stay in the bar they are deployed to". Sorry Lion Hotel on this occasion your rating from myself is 02/10 and that was for quality of your ale and the prices. less