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Boringdon Hall is an historic Country House Hotel with a beautifully equipped spa, located on the…read moreoutskirts of Plymouth. The house itself has a colourful history: a 16th Century Tudor Manor House that once hosted the likes of Sir Walter Raleigh, it was remodelled in the 17th Century. The owners - the Parker family - moved permanently to nearby Saltram House in the 18th Century and the house, let to farmers, slowly deteriorated. It was partly demolished around 1800, but continued to be occupied until shortly after World War II. It was restored and rebuilt as a hotel 1986-7 and restored again after a fire in 1989. The Spa is a very recent addition. It's hard to describe as a hotel without the description sounding like that of a country house. The exterior has two splendid square towers, a smaller tower enclosing the large 17th staircase, and a wealth of Tudor doorways and windows. Inside, old doors abound, but the most impressive room by far is the lounge bar, located in the Great Hall. This has an original doorway and a restored fireplace dated 1640, with the Royal Arms of Ling Charles and two huge plaster caryatids (statues) representing peace and plenty. The decorated plaster ceiling is actually a modern pastiche, as is the panelling, but the staircase incorporates genuine 17th Century fragments. Off the bar are the Brasserie restaurant (where we ate) and the first floor gallery is used for both fine dining and breakfast. There's a "secret" bar accessed through a hidden door, and a quiet rear lounge. It's all furnished with large, traditional sofas and chairs. Rooms are scattered throughout the main house, and the former outbuildings and barns. In the main house, some are large and splendid in the four poster style, other spacious and modern (in the annex), but ours, in the east wing, was a more standard modern double, as you might find in a Marriott or Holiday Inn, albeit with two foot thick stone walls. Overall, we had a very comfortable stay. The bed was fabulous, and the room had nice touches such as a jar of locally baked shortbread with the tea/coffee facilities, fresh milk, water from the hotel's own artesian well. The toiletries were lovely if strongly scented. The breakfast was a mixture of cold buffet and hot food cooked to order, with vegetarian options. Both breakfast and dinner were fine, if not outstanding. (Dinner around £60 for two with a glass of wine.) Otherwise staff (mostly in their 20s) were lovely, ever present, and eager to please. The highlight, though, is the Spa. This includes a 20m swimming pool; a large hot water pool with an outdoor jacuzzi and several different water features; a well-equipped gym; two saunas, two steam rooms and a lapidarium, all with various treatments available. It's fitted to a high standard and free to hotel guests. We spent a couple of hours there before dinner every day. Practicalities: there are three car parks, the house bring accessed by a narrow drive, off a minor road on the edge of the sprawling suburb of Plympton. A car is pretty much essential, as it's up a steep hill and some way from public transport (it's about 5 miles from Plymouth station). It's well located to drive into southern Dartmoor, or the beautiful Saltram House and it's park (National Trust).

Recently stayed at this grand old hotel that I managed to book on book a room.com…read moreThe only room available was a family room which we didn't really need for two of us but the price was good so I booked it. Am I glad I did, our room was in the courtyard away from the main building and it was an extremely comfortable, clean modern room that was extremely spacious with a lovely en suite I have to say this must be the best nights sleep I have ever had in a hotel, being in its own grounds there was no traffic or street noise and not even a peep from other guests. This was finally topped off with a superb full English breakfast. Highly recommended for anyone wanting a comfortable and peaceful nights stay in the Plymouth area

My stay here was fine. I slept well in a very comfortable bed, in a room that had all the important…read morethings right (even had sky sports 1, amongst an unusual selection of channels). The hotel has a slightly older feel to it, which I like as it reminds me of staying in hotels on holiday as a child. The location is handy for the train station and for shopping, but is a bit of a trek from the Barbican. But I actually went out of my way to book a hotel with a gym on this occasion (don't ask me why. Misguided good intentions?). And even though their fitness centre is still advertised on their website (a couple of months after I stayed at the hotel), it is in fact no more. All the signs to it on the walls have been recently covered up. This annoyed me as I already know a lovely hotel in Plymouth (http://www.qype.co.uk/place/286915-Grosvenor-Hotel-Plymouth) and the only reason I didn't stay there this time was the will to work out a little.

This is listed as a 4 star hotel. Well all I can say is the star rating need amending, this is not…read moreworthy of 3 never mind 4. The room we had was small and hot, even with the ceiling fan on it didn't seem to help. OK it was clean but not a place I will be in a rush to get back to. The receptionist was however pleasant and helpful in advising us of local places to visit all in all I would recommend you look elsewhere.

Last night about 8 people had booked a taxi from the London-Plymouth train. As the train was 20 min…read moredelayed (arrival time 00:50 am) we had all phoned the taxi company to warn them. Not a problem, they said. We came in 25 min late instead at 00:55. All but two taxis just left instead of waiting for 5 min for a train they knew had not arrived yet. The lady next to me saw her taxi drive away when she walked out of the station door. We all rebooked our taxis. The lady and I had decided to share her Taxi First taxi as mine was showing as booked but no driver was assigned. We could see hers was on the way. The driver refused to take me. He left me stranded. It was now 1:10 in the morning. I phoned Taxi First back and they told me they had no drivers. Thankfully, an unbooked taxi turned up who took me home. I arrived home at 1:30 in the morning instead of 1 am with First Taxi. I will NEVER use them again. Don't recommend them to women who need to get home at night!

This is stupidly unprofessional. I used the app (because I was asked to) to prebook a cab for…read more19:30. I did this at 14:00. 19:30 comes around, no cab, 19:45 comes around, no cab so I call them their excuse is we're busy. I thought the whole purpose of having people prebook was so that they could jump to the head of the queue. So I was told. Yet this is now the forth time that this has happened. I don't recommend them at all. They're useless and they're cabs smell.

If you burn a jar of salt, does it turn into Salt Ash?…read more This is a lovely little railway station in Saltash which is a nice part of Southwestern England. It's great that this town has a railway station and it connects directly to the rest of Cornwall and Devon and also to the country at large. It's one of those cute little British Railway stations that I love visiting whenever I'm in this part of the country. Yes I admit it, I'm a weirdo, I visit all the railway stations when I'm traveling in Europe... both on trains, or even if I'm driving. Or hell, cycling! So... It's right in the middle of town, with a massive bridge over the river towering above the platforms in the background, which makes for a spectacular view and causes me to give it an inevitable 5 star rating.

Lots of trains pass through here, but surprisingly few stop. Then again a small screen keeps you…read morewell informed of any delays in the trains that are stopping and the local pub is a very handy place to wait for 'em. Bit hidden away from the town centre, but not too far to walk. A tricky gradient from the riverfront though!