Price of wine. Glass was double the cost of equally good wine in pubs around. That is the ONLY gripe.

Service was excellent. Staff very amenable and helpful. Fab stay.

Stayed in May 2024

Difficult access to room. No assistance with baggage. Bar area disappointing, poor expensive beer and untrained staff. The reason it was empty and lacking in atmosphere.

Parking good. Location great. Breakfast fine.

Stayed in April 2024

Nothing

Location

Stayed in June 2024

Location was perfect. My daughter was taking part in the Blenheim tri and it was walking distance for us. The reception let us lock the bike up in the hotel courtyard and nothing was too much trouble.

Stayed in June 2024

Tuesday morning booked breakfast in our room very good, but when staff collected plates ect mistakenly the collected cups, so we asked reception to arrange new cups for following day for us but reception asked if we could go to the hotel bar and ask for replacement cups there, disappointed we had to arrange our replacement cups, only Minor but trading reception staff ?

Breakfast very good and location also very good

Stayed in May 2024

Good location. Comfortable room. Lots of character though access would be an issue for some.

Stayed in May 2024

excellent stay, will come again .

Stayed in May 2024

Some staff weren’t the happiest, breakfast very disappointing and for the price would of been nice to have some bottled water in the room

Liked the locality of it

Stayed in May 2024

Room wasnt available at 3pm check as bit short staffed with room service. However, as it was a lovely day we walked around the beautiful town for an hour until it was ready.

Great Breakfast. Amazing location. Clean spacious room.

Stayed in May 2024

Ability to get a late night drink or coffee - around 10pm.

Location. Car parking facility although we thought this was free we were charged £15

Stayed in May 2024

Breakfast waiting on staff not so impressive.

Lovely clean comfortable room. Delicious breakfast. Very friendly reception staff. Great location.

Stayed in May 2024

Clearly ‘tired’ and in need of modernisation

Very friendly staff. Fabulous location

Stayed in April 2024

The catering We had one meal and then went elsewhere

The building the location

Stayed in April 2024

BreaKFAST WAS A BIT OVERDONE AS WAS THE OAST - IDEALLY SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SERVED. i DON'T LIKE SENDING FOOD BACK SO i PERSERVERED!

everything except the breakfast

Stayed in April 2024

I couldn't fault this hotel - I really enjoyed my stay at this hotel

I loved everything about this hotel - it's oldy world, lovely location in heart of Woodstock, and very near Blenheim Palace. I loved staff - Receptionist who checked me in was very kind to me and gave me lots of local information. Room lovely and bed / linen very comfortable, bathroom spotless with lovely Elemis toiletries! Breakfast delicious and staff/service excellent

Stayed in May 2024

The room was up a steep flight of external steps at the end of the courtyard. The receptionist gave our key and told us we would find our room 'out through the door on the left' which given the actual location, was vague in the extreme. Had it been raining, the exterior steps to the room would have been less than ideal. We left an item behind and when we called, the same receptionist promised a call back but never did so.

Central location and comfortable room.

Stayed in March 2024

Excellent British style ancient hotel in nice village surrounding.

Stayed in May 2024

Had to wait over 45 mins to get breakfast in the restaurant. Several complained

Character old England

Stayed in May 2024

See above

Breakfast was good. Staff could have explained where buffet etc was. A pot or cafetière of coffee would be nicer, rather than just one small cup.

Stayed in April 2024

It needs money spending on it. It used to be an amazing place with great food but now it is characterful but tired. We were given a disability access room but as we booked on the day and had a dog, we couldn’t complain. The main heating wasn’t working but there was a portable radiator in the room which was on when we arrived and kept the room warm. Bathroom was cold though and my shower water was cold, although my husband showered afterwards and had hot water. Also, it’s not good to charge for parking at a so called 4* hotel. We did not try the restaurant as the menu was very basic and expensive. Went somewhere else instead.

We liked the history of The Bear and character of the main building. Also its location in Woodstock. We booked last minute and had our dog with us so booked a standard room off the courtyard and car parking. The room was comfortable with 2 armchairs and kettle and coffee machine. From the outside it looked tired but the room was quite comfortable and looked as if it had been painted in recent times. It was adequate for our needs with a dog.

Stayed in April 2024

Thought restaurant food was average for the price and they had run out of one or twvo accessories.

Room was fine,and very clean.

Stayed in April 2024

Dinner menu a little sparse on choice and quite expensive.

Super staff. Nothing too much trouble. Lovely area.

Stayed in April 2024

Bed was small standard double, used to bigger in hotels these days. Breakfast was mediocre, never did get the toast I asked for first day. Told room was on first floor, then had to climb another set to access room.

Location was good parking good and free. Food was ok small menue.

Stayed in April 2024

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The hotel was beautiful, clean and the bed very comfortable. The staff were amazing and went above and beyond, to make our stay more memorable.

Stayed in April 2024