Room: If you're going to make a twin bed into a double by pushing them together, then at least have both singles be the same height and width! Such disparity can't be disguised with a duvet, either. The room was on the second floor of the accommodation block in the converted roof space, so the sloping roof on either side made it feel smaller. It's also obviously usually used as a family room - there were two single beds crammed in there too, with a free-standing metal clothes-rail-type of wardrobe thing and some chests of drawers, all of which made it feel a bit like a furniture graveyard.

There was a nice bathroom. It had nice fittings and good tile, but oddly jarring were the cheap wooden loo roll holder and soap dish things and the slight scarcity of loo roll – and they had that cheap pink stuff, too.

As for the whole sleep thing, well, mine was firm enough and his was lumpy and saggy. It was too hot, whereas it had been cold earlier. The window made for noisy rain and was on the main road side, with heavy traffic from time to time, even at 3am, so all in all, it was not a restful night. Finally, having then slept, morning came, which led to discovering that the shower in the bathroom was nigh on useless, with no flow at all. If you moved the handle down too far, it cut out completely. I settled for washing my hair just about and gave up.

Breakfast: After the glass of OJ that was already on the table, I chose the vegetarian option, to skip on the bacon and sausage. My egg choice wasn't asked for, and too late, there it was, fried, not scrambled. I handed it over to hubby. The meat bits (hubby had 'em - overcooked) were replaced by a few mushrooms, and as for the mutual bits, the baked beans were cold, there was one tomato, and that was it - distinctly meager. The toast, white, at least was warm, but the only options were jam and marmalade, no honey or marmite, butter, or margarine. The best bit of my breakfast was the mini-box of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes! Not exactly impressive. Even the coffee was average, not the cafetiere promised.

So, we packed up and off we went. It was £116 for 1 night and all of the above, which was fairly reasonable, I suppose. And the staff was nice. It's just that, for every good thing, there was always a BUT to go with it. It left you feeling vaguely dissatisfied really. It’s a good thing that wasn't the last note we left the weekend on.