The Great House Sonning Berkshire

Relaxing, stress free, and just...

Liked: Beautiful setting and gorgeous room

Exceptional

Very good

Liked: Ambience, peaceful nights, ok food and exceptional location.
Disliked: Nearly everything could have been a little better, staff were nice but not overly attentive though it was the last weekend of the regatta and they were probably extremely busy.

One of my favourite places...

Liked: Lovely staff, great location. Clean and comfortable. My 2 nd visit and didn’t disappoint.
Disliked: No complaints

Very disappointing for the price

Liked: The restaurant food was satisfactory There was a nice walk along the Thames
Disliked: The room was unbearably hot. I recorded a temperature of 34c in the room. The weather was exceptionally hot but there was no air con in this attic room and minimal ventilation. A very noisy fan was provided. The parking was terrible. The facility was a hotel, large restaurant and event venue with an inadequate car park. The reception staff advised us to drive round until a space was free!!

Don’t stay if the weather’s...

Liked: It’s clean and the staff are good.
Disliked: We booked a ‘cosy room’ and boy, was it cosy - it was nicely decorated but very small; you could just about get around the bed; my wife and I had to take turns to get dressed! The bathroom was nice, though. The big thing, though was that there’s no air conditioning - we stayed during a fairly warm period (not the heatwave) and we were warm; they recommend that, due to the proximity of the river and the resultant bugs, that the windows aren’t left open - my wife heard that and we were stuck in an airless box for the night. They did supply a fan but there was only two small bottles of water in the ‘fridge, despite them leaving a not claiming they’d supplied ‘loads of water’.Another thing which I found strange - the property is nice and is clearly well maintained but, where it fronts the river, just to the side are the large bins where the hotel puts the rubbish - it’s not right in the sight line, but you can see it from the garden; it just jars - perhaps they could build something to hide it.We eat in the restaraunt - it was ok; I had a steak which was cooked well but tasteless.

Very nice hotel.

Liked: Staff friendly & welcoming. Lovely room, stylish decor.
Disliked: Room was quite warm at night

Superb

Liked: good location near Themse

Apart from the heat in...

Liked: Beautiful location
Disliked: You let us know with a note on our bed upon arrival about the heat in the room but a bottle of water and a fan did not make any difference . It was a very uncomfortable night and indeed cooler outside the room than inside . It was an unusually hot day but going forward air con would be needed .