The Elstead Hotel
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Elstead Hotel is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Bournemouth, offering a quiet environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.
The rooms offer a flat screen TV, and getting online is possible, as free wifi is available, allowing you to rest and refresh with ease.
Elstead Hotel features 24 hour front desk, room service, and baggage storage. In addition, as a valued Elstead Hotel guest, you can enjoy a pool and free breakfast that are available on-site. Guests arriving by vehicle have access to free parking.
Nearby landmarks such as St. Peter's Church (0.8 mi) and Boscombe Pier (0.8 mi) make Elstead Hotel a great place to stay when visiting Bournemouth.
While you’re here, be sure to check out some of the Mediterranean restaurants, including El Murrino, Lolas Restaurant, and Agora Restaurant, all of which are a short distance from Elstead Hotel.
During your visit, be sure to check out Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum (0.7 mi), which is a popular attraction within walking distance of the hotel.
Enjoy your stay in Bournemouth!
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We stayed two nights on a DB&B and B&B deal, which was very reasonable, taking into account the quality of the food and the prosecco in the room on our arrival.
The staff were very friendly and helpful and the room was well equipped (including, unusually, a small fridge). The décor is perhaps a little dated for some, but everything worked and the room was comfortable.
We would recommend the hotel to anyone that likes a quiet comfortable stay.
All in all we had a good experience at the Elstead, a traditional seaside hotel in a quiter, residential area of Bournemouth. The price was very decent hence I don't want to complain too much about minor flaws like water stains at the ceiling or the low pressure in the shower. Our room & bathroom were more spacious than average hotel rooms with lots of light and big windows. Tea and coffee facilities are in the room and filled up daily by the cleaners. Breakfast is freshly cooked and generous, they offer the veggie option too.
I found the old wooden floors quite charming but they do creak, luckily our room was on the top floor so this wasn't much of an issue. The lift is definitely not for someone claustrophobic, it's very small and made strange noises. I preferred to take the stairs after using it once.
In terms of staff, I would like to give a special mention the cleaning and breakfast teams who were top, very attentive and helpful.
This being said, we paid a very reasonable price, so not marked down for this, as was a clean and serviceable room.
The pool and gym area was a good size and well attended. I noted regular cleaning and the hairdryers in the ladies changing area were much better than the room.
We only knocked off one point from the rating as although a weekend stay, there was no offer of food for the evening on the Saturday. We appreciate there were limited number of guests and the hotel advised we could order a takeaway in, but would have to eat this in our room, which wasn't ideal as only had the bed to sit on - to be offered one of the various rooms downstairs would have been a nicer option.
Overall nice hotel, the staff were very welcoming and overall very nice hotel experience.
Booked 2 rooms for a week, one is a twin and a very good size other is a double which is tiny to say the least. Thankfully for the twin room as that was only place to store suitcases as there wasn’t any space on floor besides where you walk in door and just enough space to walk around bed. This really should be called a small single room.
Arrived on Saturday before so called “freedom day” and hotel had all the standard covid restrictions in place.
Breakfast
Sunday and Monday was very good all served to you.
Tuesday they reverted to pre pandemic “free for all” which was a bit of a surprise as they were asking guests to wear masks around hotel which is fine but doesn’t make sense then allowing everyone up to the all you can eat buffet with everyone touching the same utensils over and over again (there were no sanitation gels etc available), also a bit disturbing that not until 9:50am just as breakfast was about to finish that they then decided to put on aircon as the previous 2 days there were doors and windows open but today everything shut up (well it was only 25 degrees) let’s hope for better tomorrow
Bar
Is ok with limited available, they need to check their bottle stock though as best before wary 2020 is over a year out of date
Staff
All very friendly and working hard from what I can see
Location
10-15 minutes from main restaurants and shops one way and same other way to beach (via zig zag down cliff side)
Hotel is very clean but extremely dated and in urgent need of some TLC
Not sure as is who they are looking to cater for as not set up for older guests as facilities are not here, and younger guests too dated so leaves families but then with rooms this small won’t get many returns?
On arrival we was told there was to be no bar snack only a set meal that was provided for the coach party, we booked this meal for our first night and at £25 each it was of poor value as we felt it was canteen quality food. Luckily we booked another restaurant at The Crab and it was excellent.
On a positive note the bar staff were brilliant and so were the house cleaning staff.
A response to our query would have been appreciated.
We would stay here again if in the area.
Awful breakfast. Spanish people should teach them how to prepare English breakfast. Very small portions. 1small sausage, half tomato, 1hash brown, 1 rash of bacon. On Friday they gave 1 fry egg, on Saturday it was 2 eggs. No desserts apart banana, apple, plums or peaches, yougurt.
Rooms very old style. Windows from outside hasn't been cleaned ages. 1 mile from the beach.
Headed up to room 124, again very tired, the mattress was as flat as a pancake and no support, into the bathroom for a shower, cobwebs everywhere and insects on the ceiling etc,
shower was either on or off, no control over the temp,
we spent the afternoon, having doors around us constantly banged, the walls were paper thin and could hear everything.
mentioned this at reception for the asst manager to be on our floor and only for it to be shrugged off, showed him the cobwebs etc and all he said was ill tell the cleaners, well 4 days later Mr asst manager they were still there so you failed in your job.
was woken at midnight one night to only work out that the meeting room was being set up for the next day, and on that subject we came back in the car one day to find we couldnt park because of the meeting rooms were being used
again woken at 5.50am both mornings by noise from staff in the back car park
drive down to the car park littered with a cushion and bread trays again there all 3 days we were there,
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