Oxford Thames Four Pillars Hotel  

Friendly welcoming hotel in spacious grounds leading down to the river. Nice size room with balcony onto the garden. Birdsong in the morning was a real despite the dreary May weather.

Further out from Oxford than I had expected - £10 taxi ride, or an hourly bus service but none on Sundays.

Welcoming and efficient staff and convenient location for Oxford and surrounding countryside. Great breakfast - hot and plentiful. Pool and spa area were extremely clean. No criticisms at all.

The Hotel staff were very friendly and helpful. The Hotel is well situated as a base to explore the Oxfordshire countryside

From the Hotels description I would have thought the bar staff should have been able to make a vodka martini. The breakfast stopped serving at 9.30 which I felt was too early if you were there for a relaxing break. Although the food in the restaurant was well cooked the menu and presentation seemed very dated

Good selection but hot food left too long under lights on counter & dried up/overcooked.

The staff were very good and well trained-everyone we met was friendly. The pool and facilities were better than expected and the bar area was very good too.

We found the breakfast greasy and the door handle was coming off our door from the outside making it look a bit tacky.

Staff were pleasant and helpful

When we arrived, we were given a syndicate room with a temporary bed. We had booked a standard double with no discounts so found this unacceptable. Hotel Manager kindly supplied a standard double on request....why did we not have this room originally? It is not acceptable to say that we had booked at a busy time....if the room we wanted to book wasn't available, they should not have taken the booking.

Comfortable location and lovely surroundings made for a great get away at the end of a long week.

The location was lovely, although the weather did not really add. The balcony on the room was also a welcome treat. The service friendly and attentive.

The setting and public areas are very attractive, staff are very attentive

The breakfast is very disappointing, cold and poorly cooked, if this could be improved I would not hesitate to recommend it

Excellent hotel. Near Oxford and a lovely old stone building next to the river in Sandford on Thames. We had one of the older rooms which was great with a lovely big bathroom. The breakfast was standard english buffet but the sausages and bacon were a bit dried up under the lights but you can order a freshly made poached eggs on toast or other from the menu which was better. The hotel is just outside oxford so you can get a bus (116/106) which stops just outside the hotel up til 6pm in the evening into town. Taxis cost about £10 each way. You can also walk into oxford along the thames path which takes about 40 minutes but was a bit muddy in parts after the rain. Recommend this hotel

I enjoyed the feeling of being immediately welcome from staff and setting. Design of reception was outstanding. The spa facilities were nice and clean everything you needed available including staff this was really nice as we were away for our wedding anniversary also being foster carers there was a planning involved to get there, so the need to relax was huge! I would stay again maybe try different room next time. Breakfast was excellent service was great and being run by a lady called(I think) Laniyha, she was so efficient appropriate with staff very welcoming and friendly a valued member of staff.

I didn't like the noise late evening and during the night people talking outside room, banging doors. Just generally noisy keeping me awake for too long therefore not a great night, very tired next day just wanted to go home. A shame really took the enjoyment of our stay. I also had long black hairs inside my towel! Yuk. My only other comment for our room was it seemed like it needed updating a little was feeling a little tired, like I said maybe try different room next time as didn't look like advert and hopefully be quieter. Menu could have more choice they were all on the heavy side.

The hotel was very nice the only problem we found was the resteraunt staff. Although they were polite their skill level was poor. As with most hotels know it seems to be policy to employ eastern eroupeans and as polite as they were they seemed to lack training and skills