Short stay.

We located the hotel/pub for its proximity to Chester. We were very pleasantly delighted with the overall decor, the room, the location next to the River Dane 7, in particular, the staff. In the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger, "we'll be back".
Loved it ..... brilliant!

Mini-Break

A good place, in a nice setting, with excellent food!

Very comfortable

Nice room, lovely food, very helpful staff

50th Birthday Break

I came to the Vicarage for an overnight stay to celebrate my mums 50th with family. The stay was incredibly pleasant and set in the idyllic village of Holmes Chapel. The reception staff for the hotel were very polite and welcoming. The staff at the restaurant were also very attentive, it made for a really relaxing over night stay.

Great Value with the deal

Great staff, nice food, nice environment. Was very quiet as in Feb hence got a good deal.

The Vicarage - could do better, aka, not worth the money

Rude staff and not quite good enough sums up our stay at the Vicarage. The room was OK but the strange sliding door to the bathroom didn't allow any privacy.
We had our evening meal on the first night includied in our booking and whilst the food was really nice the service was really poor. We both ordered the same starter and main but they only brought one starter which we had to share and everything seemed an inconvenience. Then they tried to charge us for the full cost of the meal which took an age to sort out.
Breakfast was awful. There were no glasses for juice and we were given tea in mugs but with no milk. When the food came, it was inedible. On the first morning , I ordered smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. The salmon was mostly black and they did replace it when I pointed it out, but the eggs were little hard lumps on tough bread. My partner had the small breakfast and said the sausages were cheap and nasty and the egg and bacon tasted off. The next morning, we were first to breakfast and had proper pots of tea and juice but opted for bacon and sausage sandwiches, and these were inedible with tough bread and a nasty taste of the bacon and sausage.
The venue and location are lovely, but with the very poor service, it's just not worth the money

Harry Potter Stay

We stayed here as it was an ideal location to visit the Harry Potter Forbidden Forest Experience. On arrival we had to drive around the car park a few times as there were no spaces. Eventually we went to check in, the lady at reception was friendly and helpful (we didn t receive our welcome drinks so had to get these at the bar later on).

The room was clean but basic and small. The radiator didn t work and the shower needs addressing as it almost flooded the bathroom floor. The bed was ok for one night but pretty sure it wasn t a double bed, maybe a small double.

Dinner was lovely, took a while to arrive but nice and fresh ingredients. The cocktails were lovely too! It was nice having a live singer too - really enjoyable atmosphere.

Breakfast - they probably shouldn t offer this service. We waited at the table 20 minutes and eventually went up to ask if somebody could come and bring us a menu and take our order for hot drinks. Nobody came over so we did this at the bar. The continental area had no pastries left, the juice containers were empty, no yoghurts left in the fridge and the bread had dried out.
Eventually after a while, we received our drinks (with no milk, had to go up and ask for this again) and then another 20 minutes after this, received our breakfast. Small portions but nice enough. I will add - breakfast service wasn t particularly busy, the restaurant was large and there were probably only another 3 to 4 tables being used at the same time so unsure why service was so slow.

Parts of the stay were nice but I wouldn t class this as a luxury stay and there are other places around the area for the same cost which seem to have better reviews.