Review of De Vere Cotswold Water Park 4*

If you like hospitals and Travelodges, then this is the place for you. I say this because of the long, feature less corridors to the rooms, with occasional cleaning trolleys gave me a distinctive feeling of being in a hospital — and the rooms only being marginally better than the last time I stayed in a travelodge. On arrival, my chirpy conversation was met without a smile and instead, only a rather grey, dreary check-in process. There's only so much you can do to try and crack a smile out of someone who clearly isn't enjoying their job. The room itself was simply not not a four star room. It's an insult to genuinely 4 star hotels to call it one. The regular double sized bed mattress was very thin, sat on top of two solid divan bed boxes. Only two pillows were on the double bed itself. The walls were thin and you can hear people next door and in the corridor very easily. The room had a single paltry electric heater, so inadequate that an additional standalone heater had been added to the room. The television was a cheap, poor quality flatscreen, the hotel guide book had a few hilarious stock images adorning its cover — showed smiling photos of business men in bedrooms entirely different to that of the hotel. No Wi-Fi in the room. The view from the window was on to a car park — as I expect a majority of the rooms must be, considering the hotels layout. As the queues for breakfast the following morning were simply too big, we didn't have time to hang around to experience it. The most positive thing I can say about the room was that it was clean (ignoring the red nail varnish and the orange juice carpet stains). I should also point out that we didn't use the Hotel Spa. To put it succinctly: this place is a three-star, mediocre quality, souless, over priced conference centre. Our friends payed for a B&B down the road, saved £40 and also got a lovely view, free Wi-Fi and a decent bed.