The Bull Reviews Summary

Hotel Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The Bull Hotel is a lovely historic building which oozes character."
• "Lovely ancient building with a cozy and welcoming atmosphere."
• "Big and really old coaching Inn. Oak panels and beams everywhere tremendous history and atmosphere."
• "The Bull dates from 1450 and features a wealth of period features from low, wooden beamed ceilings to gorgeous inglenook fireplaces with hand carved heaths."
• "Such a charming building with a lot of history, lovely roaring fire it was a freezing cold night."
• "It's a beautiful old, higgledy-piggledy building with parking in front and in the courtyard, accessed from round the back."
• "Beautiful hotel.with loads of period features and character!"

Cons:

• "Inside is tired and the staff are far from helpful kept banging into my chair while I was eating leaning over to poor drinks and clear table for a claimed hotel I would of expected the staff to have a high level of table service."
• "The wooden floorboards throughout the hotel result in much noise."
• "It's an old building so it creaks a bit but that adds character."
• "However, inside it is clearly in need of some TLC with paint flaking off the walls and in the ladies toilets the taps on 1 side are loose."
• "Not very good. It seemed dirty. Dull. Lifeless. No atmosphere."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Very helpful and friendly staff who worked very hard all evening."
• "The staff were very friendly and very accommodating to all our needs, the meals were very good."
• "Staff at all levels are friendly and helpful."
• "Every single member of staff we came across were friendly, helpful, chatty and enjoyed a giggle with us!"
• "The staff where lovely particularly a lady called Ruth who was really friendly and very attentive when she served us our evening meal and drinks."
• "Always accommodating and friendly service."
• "Staff were polite especially at breakfast and happy to help with additional requests."

Cons:

• "Service was average."
• "Horrible mother's day experience. Totally understaffed, plates turned up with items missing, soup was overly salted."
• "Would have complained by the 2 waitresses were rushed off there feet."
• "The waitress had a brusque manner and was obviously overworked."
• "The service was incredibly slow."
• "Service was extremely slow."
• "The service was slow, with only one person on duty."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food was excellent and bed was comfy."
• "The food was excellent, not only was the choice expansive but quality was excellent."
• "The food looked and smelled top quality and such reasonable prices."
• "Food was out of this world, particularly halloumi fries!"
• "The food was very tasty, and the server knew the wines on offer."
• "The food was very good, nice size portions, gammon steak was fat free, lovely thick juicy and all edible lovely meat not had such a nice steak as this in a long time."
• "The food is delicious and nicely presented."

Cons:

• "The breakfast next, every morning (3) there something missing from the Full English."
• "The broccoli was undercooked. The champ was a disgusting blob of what tasted like microwaved poor quality frozen mash."
• "Food was a bit under what you would get at a Wetherpoons but twice the price as expected."
• "The food was awful. The pate starter was only thing that was edible."
• "My chicken, mushroom and leek pie was OK, nowhere near as good as a standard chip shop Pukka pie."
• "Food pretty poor. My starter of nachos had been left in a hot cupboard and was so dry and hard it was inedible."
• "The food was awful, half the food was forgotten, my jacket potato was cremated."