De Vere Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth

Bournemouth is one of my favourite destinations on the South coast. It takes me back to happy memories of summer holidays here as a child. In my younger days we would rent a house from a friend each year along with a beach chalet and we would make our way down to this seaside destination in the first two weeks of the summer holiday every year for the first thirteen years of my life. As I got a little older, I realised that in fact I had not visited this much loved child hood place for over a decade and decided that it was time to return. This time I had my own family with me and stayed in ... more

If it came down to location The Royal Bath Hotel in Bournemouth has the location to die for, part of the prestigious De Vere group the Royal Bath is situated on Bournemouth’s sea front, just a few yards from the beach, pier, park and Oceanarium. This grand looking hotel offers a fair bit of promise externally as it dominates a large portion of the sea front. Our arrival was different to say the least, as we stepped in the door we were greeted by a selection of guests who were incredibly overdressed leading me to believe initially I was far too common to be gracing the hotel with my rather ... more

Firstly i'll let you know that i never actually stayed in the room overnight in this hotel as i was transferred across the road to the Hilton because it was overbooked. However i did spend most of my stay in this hotel as it is where the company i work for was holding its function. I did see a number of the rooms and use many of the facilities. So upon arriving at this hotel on a beautiful February day I initially thought what a splendid location - overlooking Bournemouths main beach on the seafront. It did look a grand hotel worthy of its £200+ a night price tag. On entry i was no less ... more

Beware of this hotel at all costs. There customer service is quite frankly abysmal. We were booked into a suite and had checked into the hotel as were attending our School Ball and decided it would be nice to stay on after the Ball rather than get a taxi home. My husband had to come straight from work as the Ball started at 7pm and he couldn’t leave work until 6.30pm. We were in our room for half an hour, which was on the ground floor. Before leaving we left the light on and pulled the curtains with a small gap at the top so it would look like we were still in the room. There was NO SAFE ON ... more

We stayed at this hotel a few months ago and that was our 2nd visit, i cannot say a bad word about this hotel the service is amazing and the staff are very very friendly it is very clean . The food was fantastic too. I filled the questionaire in they provide in the room and i recieved a very lovely much appreciated letter from the manager thanking me for my comments! The facilities are really good and they have selected times for children in the pool which i think is great for people who have gone for a relax, i have my own child and i come for a break and there is nothing worse than going ... more