The George Inn

I’ve stayed at The George a number of times due to it being so close to Windsor for work. It is obvious that a lot of time and money has been invested into the rooms and in the food offer. The staff have always been very good but the small changes that have happened recently have made this the perfect stay for me for work.

Filthy. Room had clearly not been cleaned properly in a long time. Carpet and soft furnishings were dirty. Room is above the kitchen so stiflingly hot. No parking. Breakfast not included. Can’t check in til 4pm. £140 a night - a rip off. Go 50 metres up the road to the Christopher Hotel and you’ll pay circa £40 more but get parking, a clean room, and breakfast.

A pub full of character, excellent food and a wide range of Windsor & Eton Brewery beers. I stayed three nights in a single room that was completely adequate for my needs, with en suite and a view out over the High Street. The staff were very friendly and I would certainly go back and stay again. Although not the right time of year, they have a very large, partially covered outside seating area. With my set of keys I could come and go whenever I wanted. Currently they don't serve breakfast, but there were two cafes opposite, so no problem.

We were really impressed with this characterful Inn. The staff were professional and very welcoming, a special mention to Finn for doing everything he could to make us feel welcome and ensure all out dietary and comfort meeds were met! The room was very clean and comfortable, the evening meal of beer battered fish and chips was delicious, and after tasting the capuccino my friend is now a convert from flat white! If I come back to Windsor in the future this is where I will be booking to stay! Thank you to Paul and Denise for making this such a nice place to be.

We'd booked a table for noon, most staff hadn't made it to work due to Windsor being gridlocked. None of that is why I'm writing this, we weren't in a rush, that was fine. If you want to order food you go to the bar, if you want more drinks you go to the bar, if you want to get anything you go to the bar...that's ok when the queue isn't 20 minutes! No table service for desserts or more drinks yet plenty of staff. One server said she's ask someone to take our desserts order but all sh did was explain that we had to go a queue. Food was ok but not good enough to offset the queuing regime. Doubt we'll go again.

Stayed here for a night after two days at Legoland, you enter through the bar and there is a kind of reception beyond it. They tell you that there are no breakfast facilities and how to get into the hotel if you are going to be out late, but not how to get out in the morning, more on that later. They showed us to the family room, through a rabbit warren of passageways where the roof is so low that there is foam fitted to stop you bumping your head, now they do say it is a 300-year-old inn. The first impressions of the room were good, large and on different levels, with plenty tea and coffee. They tell you at time of booking that the family room does overlook the beer garden and can be quite noisy, there is a form of double glazing, but this was one of the hottest nights of the year, however, there was a fan in the room and a pint of ice from the bar turned this into our air conditioning system. Now for the problems, when we plugged in our phone chargers all the lamps started to flicker, this really needs checked. Then my partner said the carpet outside the shower room was damp, now this could have been due to the extremely loose hot tap in the wash hand basin, it was so lose you had to hold it with one hand and turn it on with the other, the water was scalding so when you held it to turn it off it burnt you, not good when you are trying to encourage your 7 year old grandson to always wash his hand. Also, there was no plug so you couldn’t mix the hot water with cold to cool it down. In the morning the more likely reason for the damp carpet was found, when you turned on the shower water went everywhere as the shower rose was old and broken, then the water didn't drain away quick enough, and the shower tray overflowed. I would have mentioned these problems to the staff in the morning if there had been anyone there, but there wasn't. The door to the bar was locked and there was a key box on the wall to leave the keys then you exited the property through an emergency exit, which led to a narrow passageway that contained the bins, delightful, then into the beer garden. The main door back into the bar was also locked and you had to work out that there was a gate that you could get out, but you wouldn't have been able to get back in if you had forgotten anything. One other thing, we put our grandson to bed early and I got a couple of drinks from the bar to take to the room, over £22 for a large G&T and a Whisky & Ginger Ale, now that is even more expensive than Legoland and I thought that would have been hard to beat!