Melbourne-Ardenlea Hotel  

1St impressions! Numerous cigarette butts on ground outside entrance- no cig butt box in evidence, entrance hall bleak, cheap poor quality, old furniture- like entering a 1950;s drinking den. Room 32 - cheap poor quality furniture and linen, windows filthy, outlook dreadful onto sloping old felt roof and into space between surrounding buildings which made room airless even with windows open. Bathroom towels thin and old, only toilettries were very small soap. Dinner menu appeared to serve only food straight from freezer. As hotelliers the proprietors seemed to have lost the will to live. We left after one night although we had booked for 4 nights & were charged for 2 nights. An absolute rip-off!-

Lovely pool and jacuzzi staff very friendly.

Chosen because of availability for somewhat late booking for Easter weekend, needed on site parking, dog friendly, restaurant available on site. Fulfilled all requirements. Staff delightful - helpful and friendly and plenty of them. Heating and hot water very efficient. Bathroom modern and well functioning. Large trays of complementary hot cross buns in the bar. Altoghther, very comfortable.

Glimpsed another room where a dog had been allowed on to the bed, not sure non-doggy occupants might like that. Food copious but unimaginative. Full breakfast tough.

Breakfast was good enough

Not accessible as advertised, as I am disabled, facilities not working, staff were clueless, bathroom was smelling of urine

Breakfast service

Room, TV not working..no internet connection..toilet...so on...

This hotel was very friendly and clean good food and excellent family rooms lots of space, pool are is fab and open from 7-22.00 Dailey

The Melbourne Ardenlea Is friendly clean and comfortable. Great breakfast which was very well cooked and presented .Lovely staff, which I suspect emanates from the management who seem to be genuinely nice oeople

The hotel really needs to be refurbished/ decorated. Its just getting a bit faded. Though I am not for a second saying it is unclean. Quite the contrary

Central location. Hotel staff very obliging.. Clean and comfortable. Everything there that we needed for our weekend break.

We felt very welcome and staff were very pleasnat and helpful. We have stayed here before and would recomend it to anyone. I think it is better suited to couples and adult groups. The indoor pool is excellent and towels are provided free from reception. We will definitely be going back as soon as possible. Great location. Good breakfast. Overall no complaints at all

Hotel was great. Only slight criticsm is nothing to do with hotel and staff at all. There are coach parties and they seem to all be in their late sixties and seventies. Most were great but a few were really rude to the young waitresses and this caused a bit of an atmosphere. But hey ho it didn,t spoil our stay.

My wife and I had an enjoyable short 3 day stay. The hotel in my opinion reprsented good value, the staff were extreamly helpfull and polite will come again but but for the next visit a longer stay.

The hotel was in a good location for shopping, beach,transport and walking. Enjoyed my stay.

The front lobby was a spartan and not verywell layed out or inviting to sit and relax.

The location, staff were helpful, food was lovely and the bed very comfortable.

Friendly, helpful staff. Short walk to local facilities. Bright clean rooms with ample storage space.

My mother found it difficult to sleep as the duvet was very heavy so she kept getting too warm but there was no alternative cover other than the top bed spread. We all felt we would have preferred to have a summer weight duvet or a sheet. It would have been nice to have a continental choice at breakfast with croissant for example.Otherwise the food was very good.