Please do not stay here
Pros: central location in Alnmouth, with good pubs nearby. Staff were friendly (albeit not helpful)
Cons: The pictures on the listing are not what the hotel currently looks like, it has been (badly) refurbished. The hotel does not have the free parking as advertised, the parking is on a busy street and is only valid for 2 hours at a time. Staff are impossible to find, it seems a one-man band in the kitchen, bar and front of house. We were shown 3 separate rooms, all of which were unclean; with black hair on the surfaces and carpets hair, paint stains on carpets, dust, blood in the sink, dirty cups, water damage from the ceiling, spider webs, and general damage to fixtures. The electrics around the hotel are generally unsafe, with flickering lights, corroded sockets, fire break glass points hanging from wires from the ceiling, and cables badly repaired with electrical tape. There was initially no toilet paper in the room, and we were then delivered 2 half-used rolls. There was no hot water in one room, and the other having hot water coming out in explosive bursts from the sink. The bed was hard, lumpy, and covered in black hair (but did not have bed bugs, I checked). The heating in the hotel is not adequate; you cannot control the radiators and there is no heating in the hallways or bar area.
