Royal Maritime Hotel Reviews Summary

Staff

Pros:

• "Staff were friendly, helpful and attentive."
• "The staff helpful and friendly and the breakfast was very nice."
• "Staff helpful and efficient."
• "Staff are so helpful, food was plentiful, hot and tasty."
• "The staff were welcoming and helpful."
• "The staff was very friendly."
• "Staff are the friendliest."

Cons:

• "The receptionist was rude on the telephone."
• "The staff were unhelpful from start to finish- we had booked a room as were attending a wedding."
• "It happens too often that there in no one at the bar."
• "Service with a grimace."
• "The hotel is very good 😊 but I ask the wake up call for the morning at 8 am and the lady and the colleague who work receptionists in the night saffron and Sebastian didn’t program my wake up ☎️ call."

Location

Pros:

• "Close to dockyards and shopping center."
• "Ideal location for a visit to Portsmouth, as you can see the historic dockyards when you step out of the door."
• "Ideal location for Portsmouth Harbour, trains and ferries."
• "Perfectly located for the touristy bits of Portsmouth and close to the train station (5 mins walk)."
• "Location and venue are superb, with parking outside the door, just 5 mins walk from the docklands."
• "Great location, ideal for the Historic Dockyard and a short walk from Portsmouth Harbour station."
• "Located about an 8 minute walk from Portsmouth Harbour Station, Gun Wharf Quays, Gosport Ferry and the bus/coach station."

Cons:

• "Parking on site limited."
• "Very limited parking."
• "Parking is very limited."
• "Car park is tiny it only accommodates around 6 cars on the front of hotel."
• "Parking is difficult, very limited free spaces they do sell permits from the council, £5 for 24 hours."
• "Would of been better if my disabled reserve bay was kept empty even with the name there someone still parked."
• "I needed a disabled bay but was told I need to inform the RMC in advance and the only one was occupied by a non disabled driver."

Rooms

Pros:

• "Room was clean with good supplies of hot drinks."
• "I found my room to be one that has been fully refurbished with new shower cubicle, sink, toilet and towel dryer."
• "Fantastic, I can only review our room and stay, huge clean double room, with all mod cons."
• "I had a large ensuite room on the 2nd floor. It was clean, well maintained."
• "The rooms are ok and half of them have been recently updated."
• "The food was good and the room was clean, comfortable, light and airy."
• "The rooms we stay in was good and very clean and fresh looking."

Cons:

• "Compleatly over priced hotel room was disgraceful brown water stains on the walls and ceiling, peeling wallpaper, funny smell to the room incredibly dated bathroom."
• "The room we had was old & the bathroom had a terrible smell which made us gag."
• "The whole hotel needs a huge makeover, I don't see how they can justify their prices when the place is so grubby."
• "The rooms are dated and could do with a refresh."
• "The room was musty smelling and sheets not cotton."
• "The room we had was old & the bathroom had a terrible smell which made us gag."
• "Room was very shabby, tired. Toilet moved when sat on, shower was pathetic."

Facilities

Pros:

• "Has a small indoor swimming pool."
• "The hotel has a bar pool leisure centre pool table library and I think of games room too."
• "We were able to enjoy the swimming pool too which was fab!"
• "Super hotel with lots of history behind it."
• "Overall a good hotel, with games and a pool."
• "They've got a few facilities, swimming pool and ball room that I know off."
• "All the amenities are great bowling, snooker etc."

Cons:

• "The lift is like a Service lift can only fit in 4 small people with no luggage."
• "BUT there was nowhere to put anything in the bathroom."
• "I was disappointed that the pool didn't open until 1500, as I was hoping for a morning swim before breakfast the next day."
• "Water pressure in the shower is quite bad."
• "Only down side to this hotel was the restaurant food we had meal in there on our first evening stay and wow the food was very poor tasteless, colourless."
• "Rooms were too hot, no cold water (!?)."
• "The only thing that let me down was the state of the room. Threadbare carpet and patched in places, wallpaper peeling off, mould around the bath etc."

Food

Pros:

• "The 3 course meal was excellent. The food was tasty and hot!"
• "The food was delicious, with a wide variety of choices on the evening menu."
• "The restaurant food was very nice and breakfast was first class."
• "Breakfast beats many 4 star hotels."
• "The food in the restaurant was actually very nice."
• "Breakfast was amazing, the quality of ingredients was first class."
• "Breakfast was excellent and evening meals are available and very good."

Cons:

• "We were there for a 'do and the buffet was all deep fried things in batter."
• "Had an office Xmas Do here and the food was acceptable. However, the portions were small and, after three courses, I was still hungry."
• "The breakfast was horrid! No decent coffee, just huge urns of tepid coffee."
• "I also ordered a salad chicken when I received the salad they have put anchovies on top of it not even listed on the chicken Salad menu and I don't even eat fish."
• "Only down side to this hotel was the restaurant food we had meal in there on our first evening stay and wow the food was very poor tasteless, colourless."