The Crown Whitchurch

Despite the recent bad reviews we decided to try the restaurant as it's only a mile to walk from our hotel. From the outside it looks shabby certainly could do with some TLC. The meal was excellent, the manager was trying to do all the serving himself which was nice in a way as it gave us chance for our food to go down between servings. There was a musty smell around the men's toilets which you have to pass to get to the ladies. I'd be happy to dine there again.

Indian restaurant in bad repair smells of damp and old food odours man on desk was not nice inside looks like a hostel scruffy and dirty could not make a cup of tea as kettle looked unclean and tea bags were loose TV did not work shower was tiny and useless and constant noise all night kept me awake left early so I could find somewhere else avoid Rooms: 1 Service: 1 Location: 1

Good price. Fantastic service really pleased with our stay. Thank you Rooms: 3 Service: 5 Location: 5

TV was smashed, mold in the bathroom, had to call owners to open the door, me and my partner was waiting an hour to get in, thinking we was going to end up sleeping in the car, never going again. Rooms: 1 Service: 1 Location: 4

Illegal business, the hotel is “operated” being closed!!!!! That was quite scary experience. The hotel didn’t seem to operate at all. The large sign on the entrance saying “temporary closed”. But several hours before we came, a person called us to ask calling him back when we come to the place. Which we did watching the temporary-closed sign and feeling as we beeping in a scam situation. The place looked abandoned. But it was too late to search any other place to stay. After we called, that person opened a front door and closed it after us on a padlock. He said restaurant or room service were not operated and showed us our room, as well as a fire exit which we should use for leaving, not using the entrance door. The whole night we were hoping only to spend it safe and leave the hotel as soon as possible. In the morning when we had a breakfast nearby we’ve been told by the owner of the Potting Shed Whitchurch restaurant that that Crown Hotel was closed for good after being raided by the police for immigrants something issues. She was shocked that someone was still able to spend a night there. I can’t imagine who was the person who let us in. Maybe it's squatters? Anyway, I’ve reported the situation to Booking.com, but they didn’t seem concern about a safety of their clients, they said “As far as we understand they accommodated you, so you stayed the night. In this case we cannot treat the property as closed. Also it is a property responsibility to close the calendar on our website. “ So I only can just warn potential clients with this review. Please be careful.