Mr & MRS Smith Eckington Manor

The website for Eckington Manor is misleading. The “hotel” has no connection to the actual Manor House other than sharing a car park. The actual Manor House is rented long term to a family. We saw them bringing the children home from school. This place is not a hotel, it’s more a motel and we can’t understand the reviews as being about this place. The “hotel” is made up of guest rooms in the outbuildings and the reception area (a desk in the doorway), restaurant (uninviting room upstairs in prefab building) and bar are all across the gravel carpark in the industrial unit. Pros - The rooms are clean The staff friendly Cons We were hoping for a 2 night stay of fine dining and relaxation in a beautiful setting. Neither happened due to lack of outdoor seating that wasn’t overlooking the car park, no relaxing bar area, a weird and uninviting restaurant on the first floor of the prefab and a guest suite that wasn’t comfortable to spend time in. The bed was so hard we didn’t sleep at all and checked out of our 2 night stay after 1 night. The food at dinner was fine but didn’t wow and the wine choice poor. We’d hoped for more with the hype of a chef who’s a Masterchef winner. Breakfast was as poor, where was the sour dough, avocado, fresh pastries etc? Also, who sets breakfast to be between 8am to 9am when guests may want to eat slightly later. We are still puzzled by the whole experience and on how this place keeps the good reviews and star rating.

Hotel was easy to find and very handy being off the M5. Beautiful place. Plenty of free parking. We stayed in the Milking Parlour and it was so hot. However there is a fan provided. Very clean and excellent facilities. Breakfast was the best cooked breakfast we've ever had, in a hotel. Would happily stay there again.

We only stayed at eckington manor because other plans got changed. This was a high light of our English holiday for us. Apart from traveling along some quant English roads the manor estate was delightful. The room was lovely, clean and very comfortable. We thought we would have to get a local pub meal from in the small town, but we found that the manor had its own Resteraunt. Oh boy, were we pleasantly surprised. Not only was the food being cooked by a past winner of Masterchef profession. It was magic. (Even better than a local pub meal) the wine was nice too. We also met some lovely other travelers. I highly recommend the manor. Even just for a weekend away. Brilliant.

Stumbled across this online and booked a one night Dinner BnB en-route to an exhibition. Easy to find tucked on the edges of Eckington village the renovated farm buildings and Manor House sit gently in gardens surrounding the courtyard. Warm welcome from the start from genuinely friendly and engaged team. Dinner was fabulous, (from an acclaimed chef) and the room in the old milking parlour was spacious, comfortable and beautifully appointed. Generous breakfast choices and a relaxed checkout (nothing worse than being rushed of a morning) Thoroughly recommend a stay, we’d like to return to explore the area a little more.

We attended a cookery course at Eckington Manor’s cookery school. What a fabulous experience. Lovely chef to lead us through the prep and cooking of two dry tasty and re-cookable dishes. Cleaning fairies were great …so no washing up or clearing of the immaculate work stations. Learned some great new skills and enjoyed the food we cooked very much ….. thank you to everyone involved it was a great experience and we may well be back for another course.