Macdonald Bear Hotel  

Genuine old building with creaky floors. Friendly professional staff. Comfortable rooms with old but modern charm. Quiet & peaceful location.

Good Breakfast but terrible toast soggy & chewy and realy just slightly browned bread which is not toast! The Full English can have extras but make sure you ask or baked beans come by default. No cot in our room as requested and was told "you did not request a cot" when the receptionist looked on our form it was requested!

Checking-out

Christmas party going on whilst we tried to have a romantic dinner for two. Food was poor and over-priced. Service was also poor from staff who tried hard but were clearly not experienced. The champagne was flat.

Cosy rooms/lounge, good choice of food/wine, friendly attentive staff, all in the middle of a lovely village

Only negative would be we found the constant music being piped through in the bar/particularly in the restaurant at breakfast time a bit unnecccessary - the place has enough charm & character not to need music being played continuously

good quality comfortable hotel. we will almost certainly return - unusual for us to state this. Nice breakfast. our room was large and congenial with tea making and other accoutrements all present.

No would not stay again,room so small and dark glad we only stayed the one night .Room 52

Lovely old hotel; friendly and helpful staff; well-appointed rooms.

No bath; excellent evening meal spoilt (a) by faulty fire alarm going off, necessitating evacuation of whole building, and (b) appalling choice of intrusive (Christmas) music.

I had a very spacious room with a four poster bed which was lovely. It is great you can take your dog, even a little basket and blanket for them provided in your room. Many thanks.

NB:There is now a £2 charge to pay with a credit card.

Great location and history.Very friendly restaurant staff. Very comfortable accommodation.

The setting & rooms were quite nice.

The staff were for the most part, rude. The service was very poor as was the quality of the food.

It was well managed and the staff were friendly and helpful. The breakfasts were good value for money and there was ample selection

As we paid for and stayed in a feature room I thought a little more attention could have been paid to the booking. The tv could have been used to welcome us to the accommodation and possibly some flowers etc. In paying a premium I expected a little bit more attention to detail and some little treats to make the weekend a little bit more special.

The lovely setting and the warmth of the old building

We had a very comfortable stay in this hotel, good service, beautiful location, and a good restaurant too.

The service was excellent and our room was very well appointed and comfortable. Our daughter lives in Woodstock and we were able to celebrate her birthday by entertaining her to dinner and breakfast at the Bear Hotel - which, thanks to the superb cuisine, quiet ambience and attentive service made it a special occasion for her.