The Angel Hotel is coining it! It must be if it can afford to have seven persons waiting on just…read moreeight people in the restaurant. More about that later. The Angel Hotel is a former Georgian coaching-inn, now rated three AA stars. It has 32 en-suite guest rooms, plus a Lodge at nearby Abergavenny Castle. The restaurant has an AA rosette, with an award-winning wine list. The Foxhunter Bar has an open fire, original wood panelling from the early 1900's, and interesting old paintings of Abergavenny.There's a good range of beers like The Reverend James and London Pride, plus guest beers, and a half-dozen wines by the glass. Special mention must be made of their superb Afternoon Teas, with scones, cakes and pastries, served from 3.00 - 5.30pm, with is proper bone china and linen. For £6.00 you may have tea or coffee with a small selection of cakes, or freshly-baked scones with jam and cream. For £9.80 you get the pastries plus a selection of sandwiches:Black Mountain smoked salmon, Marinated cucumber and cream cheese, Home-cooked ham, and Egg mayonnaise with cress. Weighing in at £14.80 is the Champagne Tea: copious amounts of all the above plus champagne. The Angel has been awarded membership of the prestigious UK Tea Guild and for 2008 an 'Award of Excellence'. The Angel is one of only six hotels outside of London to have achieved this accolade. The Tea Menu runs to about 6 pages and is a really good read, describing with great affection the wide choice of leaf teas available. The hotel claims currently to be refurbishing their bedrooms. If you intend to stay there, make absolutely certain you ask for, and get, a refurbished room, because the older ones are shabby and unkempt. And the restaurant? Some seriously good food, much of it sourced locally. For Lunch expect £20 per head, Dinner double it; plus wine, from an excellent list containing several by the glass and half-a-dozen half-bottles. The room is L-shaped and the staff, whenever I wanted them, always seemed to be 'round the corner' out of view; and I counted SEVEN of them. Perhaps they were expecting a big lunchtime, but it didn't materialise. They reminded me of the proverbial London Buses - you wait for ages and then 2 or 3 came round the corner simultaneously. But no real complaints - better to have than not to have!

My friend and her family go here for afternoon tea and champagne if someone's done well. Very Jilly…read moreCooper i always think. Anyway i'm not a fan, i went with once and thought it was filled with pretentious idiots who talk to loudly, eat too fast and behave like well, idiots. Now, to me, it's as if the Angel is desperately trying to be something it's not, much like Abergavenny itself. I'm told the rooms are lovely but expensive. I'm told the food is lovely, but expensive, I'm told the place is lovely, but...you guessed it, expensive! So, you can imagine my surprise when i found out everything was not lovely but still expensive. Right on the corner of the High Street The Angel isn't even that pretty. I'm aware many people take their vows down here and i had a sneaky peak at the wedding prices and be Jesus! it's probably cheaper and more fun to fly your whole wedding party (vicar and all) to Vegas than it is to get married here. All in all for people who like to think their posh. Not moi!

A lovely, friendly, little hotel on the outskirts of town…read more The rooms are neat, clean, comfortable and quiet, and the continental breakfasts are tasty and generous, served in a cosy dining nook replete with several papers. The hotel also has complimentary wifi, very useful when one is roaming. I am also grateful for the hotel's exemplary service, and extreme generosity as I dealt with a partner who was in and out of hospital due to an pre-existing illness. I cannot recommend this lovely little hotel highly enough.

Please read the whole review because the 3 stars needs a bit of explaining…read more This place has 2 faces, the hotel and the rest of it. The hotel bedrooms are brand new. Everything is clean, comfortable, and functional. Definitely happy with that. The rest is old, shabby, and in need of a huge face lift. In fact, they may be in the midst of that. The breakfast room is a hodge podge of stuff thrown together. No ambiance at all. The shared bathroom is horrid. I imagine the hostel looks the same. The staff is attentive and the hot cooked breakfast was prompt and good. So 4 stars for the bedroom and breakfast. Maybe 1 for everything else.

This place is disgusting ! We arrived this morning for a pre arranged early check in 09.00 - 10.00…read more. It was a bit like the Marie Celeste , opening the front door made my hands dirty , there was no reception desk just a scruffy uncleaned bar . The place looked completely run down , was smelly and stomach turning . there was no way we could contemplate staying there and no one on duty to complain to . We went outside and rang the hotel tel number and spoke to a guy who said he was on his way to work and I cancelled our booking with him . He said OK but since we had booked through booking.com we needed to cancel directly with them which we did immediately .Because of the late cancellation we would be charged the full amount ! How can we be liable for a place that is not fit for purpose, a veritable flea pit, not an hotel but as we learnt later from locals its deemed to be a bit of a dump and generally thought to be a hostel for backpackers. In our opinion it gets one star because there is no lower option ! We fully understand having to pay for no show or late cancellations is correct but to be charged for cancelling on grounds of false representation is surely wrong . Booking.com need to do more thorough vetting of their so called hotels !

Used to be a big fan of this place but the quality of food is far better and cheaper at…read moreWetherspoons these days (no joke) no air con either so sat uncomfortably eating overpriced food that any trainee chef would be embarrassed to send out of the kitchen. What happened guys? Very disappointed

Continuous service, with a broad menu: Asian, Indian, and Welsh of course, along with the typical…read morebeers, with "Brains" being the house brewery. We had two beers, lamb shank, and Curry of the day chicken at 4:00 PM. All was good for £33.85.

Very average lunch. Cup of soup for 5 Pounds with stale bread. Cheddar bites were 6 Pounds and…read moreonly came with three pieces.

I came here the other day with my family for a meal, the food was very good quality and not too…read moreexpensive, there is a great park for small children, the only downside about the park is that there is a dangerous slide which my younger brother fell off, although the food tastes great there is not much to choose from, overall great pub and would recommend