Bryn Meadows Golf, Hotel & Spa

Had a lovely day at the spa with a mud treatment, then an afternoon tea in the Blas restaurant. We were greeted by the delightful Sara, who made us feel very welcome ,even in this busy environment she had time to make conversation and look after our every need .Thank-you so much .

I have never written a negative review before, staying away regularly with work. I have stayed at this hotel on 2 occasions, the first I changed rooms as it was dirty, cold and missing light bulbs etc. The 2nd more recent stay was worse in terms of a burn I sustained on my wrist from a fraction of a second touch on the 'scalding' towel rail in the bathroom. Clearly this was a dangerous appliance to cause such damage at this temperature. It was not simply warm or hot as you would expect, but literally burnt through my skin as I accidentally touched it when removing the towel. I am left with a scar. I completed an incident report form the next morning, for which the hotel will not send me a copy. The response from the management has been horrendous - no follow up, no response to my emails until chased but still no answer to what actions they have taken to remove this appliance or mitigate injury to another guest. As I said to them at the time, had a child touched ths rail, they would have no doubt been hospitalised. It was beyond simply 'hot'. It was dangerous and certainly not labelled as such. The manager seems to blame me for touching a 'hot' appliance with no apology or response to my emails and is clearly refusing to accept any responsibility for this incident. Customer care or safety clearly does not apply here and I would urge any hotel guests to think twice about staying at this establishment that markets itself as 4* with luxurious rooms. This could not be further from the reality.

Went for an evening meal with my wife and although the restaurant was only half full service was slow. There was a group of older staff members standing around the bar doing nothing. As someone who works in senior restaurant management this isn't acceptable. However a young girl Ellie was exceptional - she worked hard and was non stop. Smiling, polite and helpful - I would happily employ her at my work and she would easily fit in at my last job in The Savoy. Don't lose this girl as she is working harder then any other staff member and probably the only reason I would return.

Oh gosh, where to start?! We were visiting for an event, and being friends who didn’t want to share a bed, we booked a “Junior Suite” costing £220 per night, which provided a sofa bed as well as a king. For that amount of money at a hotel and spa graded 4 star, maybe our expectations were fairly high. We were not prepared for a room in the basement, with so much heavy dark furniture, it was virtually impossible to open the door or move around the room once the sofa bed was open. In particular, there’s an enormous cupboard in the middle of the room containing just a kettle a tray and a rubbish bin. The bathroom is in two parts, with washbasin m in an alcove and a very short bath with shower over. There is no towel rail by the sink, so dripping hands between sink and bathroom. All of the above were inconvenient, but the worst was to come when we found a driving license belonging to a previous occupant of the room next to the television - this surely calls into question the thoroughness of cleaning. Open reporting the above to reception on check out, we received no apology and were told the sofa bed should have been turned round to make more room. We won’t be back!

I purchased 3x Calm weekend spa packages (1 was a voucher for a 65th bday present) We turned up for our spa day only to be told that our treatments hadn’t been booked properly (their error), so we couldn’t have them. This was very frustrating as we had travelled an hour to get there, had arranged childcare etc and we were celebrating my Aunty’s Birthday. We were told we could still use the facilities and have the lunch, and as a good will gesture we could have the mud treatment (self applied). And we could re book our original treatments for a later date. As we had already traveled there we felt we didn’t really have much option, so we said yes. The facilities were quite basic and a little outdated, and after discussing we decided we didn’t really want to come back as we weren’t that impressed with the place, and it’s not worth the £109pp price tag! Instead I asked for a refund, however, the general manager would only allow for 2x refunds as apparently it’s in the T&C that the voucher cannot be refunded (even though their website or my email confirmation doesn’t state that, and it was their mistake!) The general managers attitude was absolutely horrific and he wasn’t very apologetic at all. He kept saying “you’ve had a treatment and we’re giving you a free lunch” and not really understanding our point of view. The whole day was a complete let down because of an error on their end. He then followed us into the restaurant to continue to state his case, and was very rude. We decided not to stay for lunch at that point, as we were so offended by his attitude. The role of a manager is to diffuse any conflicts, not to be offensive towards customers. For this reason I’ll never go back!

I purchased 3x Calm weekend spa packages (1 was a voucher for a 65th bday present) We turned up for our spa day only to be told that our treatments hadn’t been booked so we couldn’t have them. This was very frustrating as we had travelled an hour to get there, had arranged childcare etc and we were celebrating my Aunty’s Birthday. We were told we could still use the facilities and have the lunch, and as a good will gesture we could have the mud treatment (self applied). And we could re book our original treatments for a later date. As we had already traveled there we felt we didn’t really have much option, so we said yes. The facilities were quite basic and a little outdated, and after discussing we decided we didn’t really want to come back as we weren’t that impressed with the place, and it’s not worth the £109pp price tag! Instead I asked for a refund, however, the general manager would only allow for 2x refunds as apparently it’s in the T&C that the voucher cannot be refunded (even though their website or my email confirmation doesn’t state that, and it was their mistake!) The general managers attitude was absolutely horrific and he wasn’t very apologetic at all. He kept saying “you’ve had a treatment and we’re giving you a free lunch” and not really understanding our point of view. We decided not to stay for lunch as we were so offended by his attitude. The role of a manager is to diffuse any conflicts, not to be rude to customers. For this reason I’ll never go back!