Sandford House Hotel  

Really close to the town for all the attractions

Only 30 minutes slot for breakfast

Every thing about it

checkout is too early

Breakfast, location for shops and bars, staff, honesty bar in lounge, had everything we needed for a one night stay

Very small room with small double bed, parking in pay and display car park although they do tell you about parking

The breakfast was really good, a beautifully cooked full English, our anything else you fancied on their menu. My friend said their scrambled eggs were good, and that's quite hard to do well in a hotel. Served fast and in a friendly way. The ground floor, easy-access twin room was pleasant and well-maintained, with a spacious shower room. The owner gave us the use of the parking space outside the front door instead of us having to use the car park around the corner (the hotel is in the historic centre of Shrewsbury), because both I and my friend have M.E. so we can't carry suitcases very far, even on wheels. We really appreciated this, and found the hotel to be very good for people with mild to medium-severity M.E.

The only little irritation was that the shower-room basin has a glass shelf so close above it that it's hard to clean your teeth into the basin without spitting onto the floor! Otherwise, everything was fine.

location & friendly staff. Clean tidy facilities

Clean hotel and friendly staff Breakfast hot and good Position of hotel walk in town and walk along river

Size of room Position of bed to watch tv No fridge in room but no room anyway Paying for parking but then position was central to town

Clean, comfortable, good price. Convient location in town. Very efficient yet relaxed service at breakfast.

Great, central location. Nice breakfast. Well kept.

Parking wasn't easy to find

Very well run, well situated.

Proprietor was very friendly and accommodating. Close to town centre. Easy for parking. Nice breakfast.

Nothing really. Was good value for what we paid.

Comfy bed, nice breakfast and homely lounge

No heating on top floor room during freezing spell? but room wasnt too cold so bearable

The staff were extremely friendly and helpful, the room was really nice and the breakfast was excellent

Good facilities, nice breakfast friendly,welcoming

Heating noises, radiators needed bleed which was sorted in the morning

Clean and good breakfast

Bedroom furniture and carpet tired and needs updating. Shower poor presure and no hot water

It was very comfortable and welcoming without being obtrusive. All staff very obliging and very friendly and helpful

It would have been nice to have a longer "window" for breakfast

Great location, very comfy room, staff very informative, good breakfast.

Can't really fault anything .

Its location, close to the shops ,pubs, and the river. Very friendly, Clean ,beautiful lounge, open roaring fire, with a help yourself well stocked bar, what ever you had you put your money in the honest box, Nice touch.

Location & cleanliness.

Was given a 2nd floor room(ages 65 & 69 )

Walking distance to all locations in town

1: grumpy reception, didn't like AMEX card...too expensive for him! Not about guest at all 2: first room poor, second room better 3: breakfast ONLY between 0800-0900 4: parking 5: cleaning staff trying to get into room before we were ready to leave

This is the 3rd year we have stayed at Sandford House so we like it. Kerry was on holiday this year and we hope they had a good one. It is the first time we were put in the new building, room 18, one of several 1st floor rooms. 18 was really too small to be a double, hardly room to move around, would not have liked more nights there. We saw the downstairs rooms on Tues morning and they are fine, roomy doubles, we'll have one of them next year. In 18 contortions were needed to plug the kettle in, on the wall, under the dressing table, we moved it to the bedside lamp socket - at floor level - not convenient for pouring. However, moans over, we will still return, breakfast is good and they found us some porridge which is not usual fare at the Sandford. We still like it a lot.

Firstly, forget the "hotel" tag, Sandford House is firmly in B & B territory, and not scoring highly there, either. The location is excellent, being close to Shrewsbury's English Bridge and thus a one minute walk from the Severn River's leafy promenade which (almost) encircles this richly rewarding town. Our other "good" rating is for room cleanliness, and the en suite also pleased, if you forgive water pressure variations caused by other occupants and measly toiletries. Everything else we could only rate "fair".The bed was comfortable but awful foam pillows are really unforgiveable. Thin curtains woke us around 4.00am daily, but we had no complaints concerning noise - we were in the annexe and distanced from the main building, which faces a busy pub. Luckily it did not rain on the mornings we had to walk over for breakfast.

There is no parking on site. Visitors by car must use the riverside open carpark - £4 daily 8.00am to 6.00pm - which the Sandford website says is at 50 metres distant. At least double that when the popular near section has filled, so no fun when loading suitcases whether wet or dry, as there is no possibility of stopping outside in the busy narrow lane with double yellow-lines. Breakfast in a modest, pleasant room is available for only one hour 8.00-9.00 and is B & B at its basic - the single juice, the depressing Lego stack of Kelloggs boxes, the fry-up. No fruit, no yoghurt, no continental option. Cooked well (except the poached egg request) but little scope to ring the changes. All the Sandfords' shortcomings would be forgiven if the breakfast experience had been better, but it was presided over by a proprietor who is loud and overbearing. His verbal treatment of a kitchen assistant, no doubt for our amusement, was at one point boorish verging on something worse. A response by us that we prefer coffee later in the breakfast rather then upfront brought on similar playing to the gallery. "I've got a system, me, and if that system's messed up...."etc for a grandstanding two minutes. Put us in our place. "The card machine is out of order" we and earlier arrivals were told. We were asked to settle in cash which showed amazing foresight as, indeed, the machine was still out of order when we left. Well, a pound for every time we've heard that. The impression persists that the Sandford operates for the proprietors' convenience.

No-nonsense but comfortable. Staff were very friendly and polite!

Breakfast was probably a bit early (8-9am on a Sunday) but that was a minor gripe and it was my own fault for missing it because I was so hungover...

Clean, spacious rooms.Éxcellent dining facilitied and very friendly service. Would recommend.

Cute place, good breakfast & lovely garden. We had a lovely stay.

Room was nice but had smelt faintly of wet dog

Central location, quiet and relaxing breakfast satisfactory.

Poor welcome, door locked with specific instructions to ring bell only once, however it took four rings of the bell and a considerable wait for someone to answer. Reception was abrupt and seemed to lack front of house staff.