The George Hotel

The hotel in Wallingford is praised for its cleanliness, comfortable rooms, and convenient location near the town center and River Thames. Guests also enjoyed the plentiful breakfast options and the attentiveness of the staff.

Bad, at the start, ‘our car park is full, we have a wedding, as a hotel guest you will have to pay and display’ Then brief hope. Large, nice clean room. Then ‘reverted to type’. Very loud noise from wedding ‘should be quiet by 1am, no we are fully booked, no quieter room, you literally must have got the last room’ Not what I experienced when I booked 5 months ago. Absolutely no intention to help at all.

We had afternoon tea at The George today and I would have given it a higher rating but there was an issue with dietary needs. On booking we stated that I wasn’t able to have cheese, egg or white bread (I have a high intolerance and become unwell very quickly) they wrote this down. We then had to rearrange the date and they repeated the dietary needs unprompted. Upon delivering the food to the table I was surprised to see cheese and pickle alongside ham and tuna sandwiches. There was one person serving and it took a while to get her attention, when we pointed out the error she apologised and blamed it on reception who hadn’t passed this info on and informed us that it said against our booking no fish. Either way the dietary needs were not taken into consideration (we were given cheese that I can’t eat and tuna which they said was on the dietary to not be served) I was going to leave it as someone else could have eaten the cheese sandwich but had it pointed out that for others this could have been very serious if dietary requirements are not followed. On the plus side the food was delicious and very generous in a nice setting. One oddity is that it was tea for 2 but 9 miniature deserts! It would be nice to have a little card or list of what the deserts are especially with the earlier errors with dietary needs, some places do this some don’t.