The Lion Hotel. Buckden, near Huntingdon
4-star/ The Lion Hotel, High Street, Buckden, PE19 5XA
Before I start, I will add that we did receive an apology from the owner of The Lion Hotel following our email of complaint, but we think it's still worth explaining its short-comings.
We booked in for 2 nights (18 and 19th March). Firstly I must say that the description of our room (we were in room 8) "Deluxe Double Room" is an affront to the term Deluxe. It's a long way off from being that. The room itself was barely 3-star, the bathroom and toilet we could barely categorise as 2-star. Shabby, is a good word, to be polite.
But the reason I am writing is to complain about the fact the heating in this room (probably on auto) stopped somewhere after 8.30pm. It was a cold night, and the room chilled quickly. A hot bath, then? Nope, no hot water either. Luke warm at this point by 9pm. We'd had dinner in the restaurant at 7pm, which was very nice, and after 8pm we decided to rest up for the evening, having driven from Devon.
Then, just to add to our annoyance, there came the sound of some machine coming from the bathroom direction. On investigating, I could only presume the noise originated from a neighbouring room. Fortunately that didn't last long.
Tired and cold, we decided to go to bed early. Come 5.30 am there was a disturbance from outside our bedroom. Not the fault of the hotel, I must add. It was a council bin vehicle maybe, backing into the drive-way telling the local neighbourhood it was reversing. There was a few other disturbances during the early hours but I was too tired to take a look. Again, no fault of the Hotel.
That's it. We decided to just leave after the first night. There was nobody at reception in the morning, nobody to complain to, so we dropped the keys off at the desk. We weren't expecting any compensation, and we didn't get any.
Nice hotel. No more to say. We give it 2 stars
March 18, 2025
Unprompted review