... The well kept gardens which surround this hotel also heightens your expectations.
*****The Hotel: Outside*****
The first thing which catches your eye is the beautiful oak panelling of the main lounge bar area, which is situated to the left of the main entrance and provides a relaxing ... Read review
Location. The Chace Hotel is located in Coventry, England, within two miles of Coventry ... more
Cathedral and the Guildhall of St Mary. The train station is 3.5 miles away. Hotel Features. Designed in a Victorian style with red brick and black and white wood, the Chace Hotel is surrounded by landscaped gardens. It offers guests a 24 hour front desk, an oak panelled lounge bar, and wireless Internet access in public areas. The London's Restaurant serves breakfast and dinner daily, and features views of the hotel gardens. An à la carte menu is available throughout the week, and on Sundays a family lunch is served. Guestrooms. The Chace Hotel offers 66 guestrooms with bathrooms. All include televisions, telephones, desks, direct dial phones, and coffee and tea making facilities. Expert Tip. Coventry Cathedral, one of the city's three cathedrals, was destroyed during the Second World War. A new one was built next to the ruins, featuring religious tapestries, sculptures, and stained glass windows.
Information: :Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Location. The Chace Hotel is located in Coventry, England, within two miles of Coventry ... more
Cathedral and the Guildhall of St Mary. The train station is 3.5 miles away. Hotel Features. Designed in a Victorian style with red brick and black and white wood, the Chace Hotel is surrounded by landscaped gardens. It offers guests a 24 hour front desk, an oak panelled lounge bar, and wireless Internet access in public areas. The London's Restaurant serves breakfast and dinner daily, and features views of the hotel gardens. An à la carte menu is available throughout the week, and on Sundays a family lunch is served. Guestrooms. The Chace Hotel offers 66 guestrooms with bathrooms. All include televisions, telephones, desks, direct dial phones, and coffee and tea making facilities. Expert Tip. Coventry Cathedral, one of the city's three cathedrals, was destroyed during the Second World War. A new one was built next to the ruins, featuring religious tapestries, sculptures, and stained glass windows.
Information: :Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
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Advantages: Impressive Victorian Architecture Disadvantages: Not up to Expectations
On first view of the outside of this hotel, you are met with a wonderous and impressive victorian architectural sight, which gives such a welcoming feel, unusual from other hotels around this area. The well kept gardens which surround this hotel also heightens your expectations.
*****The Hotel: Outside*****
The first thing which catches your eye is the beautiful oak panelling of the main lounge bar area, which ... ...small reception tucked away nearer the back, which is both good and bad. It is not easily seen at first sight which can both be annoying and uninviting, especially to business guests, yet I do feel that it is put there to keep with the atmosphere of the entrance hall, and it actually works!
The bar area itself is extremely pleasant and welcoming. The seating is so comfortable that you could literally fall asleep in them, especially ... more
On first view of the outside of this hotel, you are met with a wonderous and impressive victorian architectural sight, which gives such a welcoming feel, unusual from other hotels around this area. The well kept gardens which surround this hotel also heightens your expectations.
*****The Hotel: Outside*****
The first thing which catches your eye is the beautiful oak panelling of the main lounge bar area, which is situated to the left of the main entrance and provides a relaxing atmosphere whilst awaiting your room to be ready, (or simply for relaxing means).
*****Entrance and Lounge Bar*****
There is a small reception tucked away nearer the back, which is both good and bad. It is not easily seen at first sight which can both be annoying and uninviting, especially to business guests, yet I do feel that it is put there to keep with the atmosphere of the entrance hall, and it actually works!
The bar area itself is extremely pleasant and welcoming. The seating is so comfortable that you could literally fall asleep in them, especially if the large fireplace is lit up. It is quite offputting, though, that the huge staircase to the more selective rooms is positioned very close by, especially if you are not as lucky to be in them! Yet, this is a small price to pay for such a lovely lounge bar experience (except, there was a slightly weird smell to it, a mixture of cigarette odour and stale odour - quite offputting actually, though I got used to it)
With regards to price, I wouldn't say that they are overly expensive, yet they are not local pub cheap either. The range they had were brilliant and the service at the bar was not too bad, yet at busy periods it became less of a good service and more of a disaterous waiting period, which in that case, we simply left and went elsewhere.
*****The Resturant*****
The resturant area was quite pleasent and well set out with a welcoming feel to it. The menu was extremely ranged and most seemed quite nice, although obviously I can not comment on all the dishes as even I couldn't eat that many! The breakfasts, though, were not as fully ranged as what I expected. They do offer a range of meals, yet the meals themselves were slightly substantial. For example, the continental breakfast consisted of cartons of yoghurt; mini boxes of cereal; tinned fruit and tiny pastries, with juice and tea or coffee.
The service was nothing to complain about, yet it did take quite a while to actually be served your courses, which is a negative especially for those on a busy, timed day. As with the bar area, prices were neither overly expensive, yet they were not by any means cheap, and were perhaps a little pricey for what you actually ate.
*****Bedrooms*****
This hotel offers a large range of bedrooms, yet in my opinion, this area of the hotel was perhaps the most poor of the whole experience.
Upon entering the room, I was astounded by the size. It was huge! Yet, this was perhaps the only thing which really seemed a plus.
Within the ground floor room which we stayed, there was two beds, a double and a single (a family room, yet there are also many other single and double rooms alone, which I can not comment on). The beds were well made, yet the sheets did not appear very clean and had numerous pen ink stains over them.
One thing which really put me off is the unwashed cups and slightly unclean sides. Not a welcoming feel to it at all.
The room as a whole was anything but invoting. It had minimal natural light and felt extremely hot and stuffy, which meant a terrible night sleep as we could not work out how to change the heating to the room. Another aspect which did not help this case is that our window did not open properly, so we were not even able to have any fresh air. This soon became sickly and all I wanted to do was get out of the room as soon as I could.
The room was also extremely plain compared to the rest of the hotel, and I just had that feeling of being boxed in - not a pleasant feel at al, especially after the brilliant photos on their website before booking up - completely misleading!
Another important factor to note is the walls. I am not talking about the shabby paintwork (although this did not help with the terrible feel to it either), yet I am talking of the paper-thin width of the walls, allowing every little noise to emit through and keep you awake all night, especially if there is a rowdy crowd next door. You will not wake up feeling refreshed, I will tell you that now!
*****En Suite Bathroom*****
After seeing the room, I was not expecting anything special with the bathroom at all, and I was not surprised in the slightest.
Whilst it was clean enough, it did not have that luxury and relaxing feel which you might expect. The walls were once again shabby, leaving a dirty feel to it. The towels were nice and clean, though, yet were nothing special. One average aspect was that it did feature hot running water - a small mercy I guess!
*****Bedroom Service*****
Another aspect which, in my opinion, needs some practise. I don't usually order any food for the room, yet after an only half-decent meal in the resturant I decided to try room service, yet I soon found out that they did not serve the rooms until gone 8pm due to the resturant being busy! The service came with no smile and a rather bored tone and approximatly a hour after they said it would arrive, as I was thrust my dinner which cost over the top (for example a fruit salad was £4 and it was tiny). The meal tasted cold and unappertising and slightly like card board if I was to describe it right. I was also only given one set of cutlery consisting of a half-clean knife and a half-clean fork, which meant not only did I have to wash them before hand, I also had to wash them again before I could even attempt my desert!
*****Costs*****
Rooms start from £45 per night and can range over £100 per night. Personally, paying even the lowest possible is too much in my opinion. I would rather have gone somewhere else and paid slightly more to have enabled me a good night sleep.
*****Extra Information*****
Hotel Tel No: +44 (0)870 609 6130 66 bedrooms (Number Of Family Bedrooms: 23 rooms Number Of Non-smoking Bedrooms: 34 rooms) Family bedrooms are available at the hotel London's Restaurant and Bar Oak panelled lounge Lounge with BT Openzone Number of meeting rooms: 5 Meeting room capacity: 80 Parking Spaces: 100 Nearest Rail Link: Conventry 3.5m Nearest Airport: Coventry 1m
*****Overall*****
I am not a fussy person, and do not like to complain, (which is perhaps a downside sometimes) though I do feel that the whole bedroom aspect is enough to send anyone insane and especially enough to never return to the hotel.
Staff were generally welcoming, yet the room service certainly did not fit into this description one bit.
For what you pay for this hotel, I would have expected a much higher standard. It goes to disprove the saying 'you get what you pay for' completely untrue and I certainly did not get what I paid for!
Advantages: Looks good from the outside Disadvantages: The room!
...sampled one or two of the local hotels with mixed results. I had been putting off writing this review because I don’t really like running down a place on the basis of a one-off visit. However, in checking out the Corus chain's web for current prices etc, I find that I’m not the only one to be disappointed. Confirmation is out there, for those who may need it.
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Log on to the hotel’s own site and what you see is pretty special (for Coventry!). Half-timbered ... ...doesn’t show, the timber-panelled bar. Wander around this site though, and one thing should strike you. There are a very limited number of photographs. A hotel that is really something special should be capable of providing enough views for each page…it isn’t that extensive a site.
THE GOOD, & the NOT SO BAD
From the outside, The Chace is a picture. It looks the part. As you enter, the mood, the theme, is continued. The aforementioned bar is situated ...
hiker 26.11.2004
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Advantages: nice food, ambience Disadvantages: rooms could be better
I recently stayed here on the 6/12/2008 as I was going to the clothes show. I was with my sister and niece. I had a single room and they had a twin. The main body of the hotel is nice as well as the outside. What is not shown on the website is that the rooms aren't up to what is shown on the website. We had nice food and it's a warm hotel. The meals included were lovely and service too. If they would bring the rooms up to standard as shown on the ... ...prefab building at the back of the hotel too for extra rooms. I wondered if I was reading about the same hotel when looking at similar reviews but it is. when we arrived we had to go down a darkened stairway to the hotel in which someone could have fallen down on, only to find a pathway which was much easier with luggage the next morning. I asked for rooms near each other via a holiday company months ago and when we arrived we had rooms at opposite ...
shelbyc 10.12.2008
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Quick review of The Chace Hotel, Coventry
we were only here one night ..£35...room 6 a double ...spacious lovely high ceilings..comfy clean bed and fresh towels,kettle with 2 mugs and tea bags ,coffee etc..our room looked over the gardens.very warm room.we will be coming here again in january ,what a lovely place ..fabulous oak curved staircase..very pleasent staff..would recommend to anyone..we didnt have breakfast as we left early. ...
poshfrocks 11.11.2008 (10.11.2008)
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The Chace Hotel, Coventry Terrible This is with out a doubt the worste organised hotel I have ever stayed with and I stay in at least 4-5 a month with work, to put it another way I am so annoyed I set up this account and wrote this review some thing I never do!. I booked a group for work some via Lastminute.com and directly with the reception. The lastminute booking where payed for prior to arrival however we where charged on depature and had a nightmare ... ...phonetically checking them over the phone) names leading to a hour wait to check in and 45 to check out...
The bar in nice the rest of the hotel has been ruined with a horrible prefab annex and the main buildings rooms completly out of syle with the actual building not to mention the noise, cold, dirty room, terrrible food, bar staff who dont know how to pour a pint etc etc dont bother. ...
abcu34 07.10.2009
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