Hotel du Vin

This is a review of the Hotel du Vin in Bristol. This is centrally located (5 minutes from the Hippodrome) in Bristol in a beautiful old warehouse that has been converted. Brilliant conversion keeping old exposed brickwork but marrying it up with loads of glass etc - really nicely done. The rooms are great - VERY comfortable beds, a great great shower and everything spotlessly clean. think crisp white linen and beautiful wooden bed frame. The food is fantastic. Breakfast outstanding - dinner menu brilliant (think sea bass on a bed of puy lentils, rare rib of roast beef in a red wine jus etc. etc.) - none of this is cheap but it is ...  Read the complete review

Hotel du Vin in Harrogate is the first 5 star hotel to be opened in the area, a surprising fact given that it is apparently the 3rd most desirable place to live in the country! Since opening it has become increasingly popular with locals, travellers and celebrities. The building was completely renovated and is now a very darkly lit but very atmospheric place to be. Harrogate is surrounded by protected land known as the Stray and as a result is one of the most picturesque places to visit, the hotel overlooks part of the Stray and their are fewer finer sights (especially when it's snowing). The hotel bar is relatively small but the restaurant seats well over 100. ...  Read the complete review

I stayed in the one in York. I can only sing praises to this place, although would avoid the bistro only because I always avoid the bistros at hotels normally due to over price. The hotel chain has a newsletter which alerts you to special promotions and it was through on of these that I secured a room for a night in summer for under one hundred pounds. The staff are polite and although I am very used to being looked down one (I am a young traveler who normally has to flash cash before anyone will even talk to me), the staff here treated me with as much respect at the next person. They also went out of there way to provide a special treat that I had arranged ...  Read the complete review

This is easily the best hotel in Bristol and has to be one of the best in Europe (seriously its that good!) The hotel is a series of converted warehouses from the 1700's which have been converted into "loft style" bedrooms. The rooms are fairly modern and minimalist with lots of exposed brick walls, wood and white cotton. Each room is named after and sponsored by a vineyard or winehouse and i stayed in one of the champagne suites (well worth the extra) called the Pol Roger. This was a duplex room with the bathroom on a split level 2nd floor terrace. The staff were really friendly and the restaurant was out of this world, with what must be one of the ...  Read the complete review

Although the food in all the hotels of this chain is of the same quality, the same cannot be said about the rooms in Poole or the location of the hotel. The bedding is always perfect but some of the bathrooms frankly do not live up to the hotel chain's reputation. Sometimes you get lucky and have a bathroom bigger than the bedroom and other times it's quite pokey and uninviting. The layout of the hotel is also quite higgldy piggldy and some of the rooms are actually on the ground floor directly on the street, which isn't particularly cosy and we had to ask to be relocated. It is also quite hard to find your room until you are used to it, the ...  Read the complete review