Hotel Review: Landsdowne Place Boutique & Spa

This review I wrote for TripAdvisor - it does refer to a stay twelve months ago now, so the hotel might have improved somewhat since

There were two factors which made this visit a bit of a pig beyond the hotel's control - it was ridiculously hot, and parking on the seafront was a nightmare.

However, the hotel didn't help. We'd been promised "a deluxe spacious queen size room." We got a fairly basic, tiny room which had been well-designed but finished to the sort of shoddy standards that would shame a 1970s Butlins cabin - the tap in the bathroom had clearly broken free from the basin more than once and was held in place by a hopeful splodge of mastic. The tiles could have been put in my hapless Uncle Ernie. The mirror was on the wall at an angle, and so on.

My requested morning paper didn't arrive.

The lift wasn't working, although we were led through the kitchens to use one at the back of the building - we noticed on the wall a memo dating back to the days when the hotel was part of Trust House Forte chain - a name which hasn't been used since the late 90s.

We had hoped this would have been a bit of a treat, because the hotel looks gorgeous in photos. It's a trick. The staff are very helpful, but they're working under difficult conditions and we quit the place almost as soon as we woke up.