The Speech House - "A Bespoke Hotel" -  

Beautiful hotel and surrounding countryside. Friendly, courteous staff. Lovely food

The original features in the main house. Breakfast was excellent and staff were very helpful

The courtyard double room which was quite dark, not very spacious and we felt quite uncomfortable although the bed was lovely.

Superb Carolean building (hunting lodge) still used as Verderers's Court, sited bang in middle of Royal Forest of Dean. Forest and wildlife brilliant.

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staff extremely friendly and helpful food imaginative, well presented and appetising - as vegetarians we were well catered for. All areas clean and comfortable.

Public rooms smaller than illustrated, a slight problem when over populated esp during daytime when events or functions taking place.

if you are going to the forest of dean you couldn't ask for a better location as this hotel is right in the middle of the forest so you can access all areas of the forest and surrounding areas easily. the hotel itself is clean with friendly staff and we stayed in a family room in the courtyard for one night and would happily stay here again

I thought the staff were lovely and were very friendly! :D

Room old fashioned- needs updating Breakfast- Bacon very burnt and crispy, sausages not very nice Shower- Constantly going from hot to cold when in use Cost- We paid £85 for this room, dont think it was value for money really :( Works being done on hotel tar-poling constantly banging throughout the night

The Staff

The Food

Excellent staff and facilities. This was our second stay within two weeks and I cannot express how much we enjoyed staying at Speech House.

A slightly later check-out would be useful

The location in the Forest of Dean, the breakfast, the friendly helpful staff.

Full price room charges too high, we obtained a good discount thro Booking.com

Breakfast cooked to order not a buffet

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Excellent location at the start/finish line of the Forest of Dean Half Marathon. Weather put pay to the race but we still enjoyed an excellent stay at Speech House and will be back. The four poster was comfortable and the bath easily fitted two; what more could we ask?

Checkout is at 10.30, 12 would be more appropriate plus the hotel accidentally charged me twice though this was easily sorted.

The 4 poster bedroom. The food was excellent. The whole `atmosphere` of the hotel. This is our second trip there & we would go again. The staff were efficient & friendly.

Our room faced onto the main road & as the building is fairly old, it did not have modern double-glazing.So the noise from the trafffic was a problem early in the morning.

cozy

decor a bit dated and looking tired

The staff were so helpfull . the food in the eve was first class.

The cortyard rooms need a freshen up..but realy they were ok I have only mentioned it to fill some thing in the negative box.

Relaxed and helpful staff and facilities

The welcome was good, the evening meal was superb, the location we knew was wonderful

The room was small, adequate is the best description, bathroom had 'adequate' shower, but a lot of black mould, bedroom, had many many cobwebs, especially above and around windows. The only reason this was not mentioned was that the receptionist was particularly helpfull. I don't think we'll be staying at Speech House Hotel again. It is such a pity, we like the area very much, and the hotel does only need some tlc. Elbow grease!! It is down to poor housekeeping.

The breakfast was excellent. Staff were helpful and friendly. The hotel was dog friendly and she was allowed in the bar. The room was clean and comfortable.

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The genuine warmrth and friendliness of all staff.

The decidedly cramped bedroom and bathroom.

up to 4 inches of snow and ice right up to main door days after snow fall,

The very friendly, helpful staff. There was a very good choice of food for breakfast. The location is just right for access to the forest trails.

Excellent service Excellent food A well organised New Year's Eve Excellent value Very attentive staff

2 flights of fairly steep stairs up to our room!

The whole experience was thatof feeling spoilt by the staff, who were friendly efficient and good sense of humour. Thanks to them all for providing us with a great break.Welldone

Lovely food.

The friendliness of the staff.

The only disappointments were that our room was advertised as a luxury double, but it was no bigger than our double at home. The shower unit was exceptionally hot, and took patience to wait for the regulator to kick in. The pressure died when switched to a cooler temperature and we felt it was not more than a trickle!! But then we were positioned at the very top of the hotel.

We had a lovely stay ay this hotel and would recomend it for style, comfort and excellent sevice - all at a reasonable price.