The best pub food I have ever eaten. We attended with 7 friends all had large portion sizes and…read morelovely service.

Quick glance: + generous portion…read more + well plated and looked appetizing + friendly staff The pub is located in the heart of Shanklin and offers decent pub food. It's not the best pub food in the world, but at least they made the effort with plating and fresh ingredients.

Nice pub to head to for a Sunday roast and has been under new ownership recently so definitely…read moreworth trying a night out too! Its a really attractive looking place and the interior is nice and cozy too. They do a Sunday roast (2 courses) for £10 which I think is really good value. I had the roast pork and it was really well cooked and had some fantastic crackling on the side too. The staff and owners are really down to earth here and always make you feel as welcome as possible. Country pub dining at a very high standard!

A lovely traditional old Sussex pub , extremely busy . Went out for a Sunday cavery my girlfriend…read morerecommend this establishment she'd been there with her dad . Absolutely heaving with people plenty of staff . When we turned up they said the wait was 30 minutes but we only had to wait 10 so that was good . I had the roast beef carvery which was ok nothing to write home about but ok . She had the gammon which she totally enjoyed. Her daughter had the veggie burger which she thoroughly enjoyed her little boy had the vegetarian pizza he liked that too . The staff are polite and always smiling and helpful. A good selection of ales too . Loads of outdoor seating in their massive beer garden and a massive bouncy castle type slide . Swings and slides to keep the kids entertained. And loads of car parking worth a visit shame my roast beef wasn't a bit more exciting. lovely surroundings 9/10

They had a special going - free, unlimited refills of cider…read more I don't remember much of the evening, but the next time I'm in Portsmouth you betcha I'll be back.

This is a good, clean, large Wetherspoons where you know what you get. Locals and students mix, the…read morebar is large and the personnel good and kind. Definitely a safe place to go when you need a Wetherspoons.

Holiday Inn Express is pretty cookie cutter. But this one is quite good. Breakfast was delicious…read moreand everything well stocked. Rooms were comfortable and quiet despite being in a busy area. Nicely designed modern building. The location is great, with all the restaurants in Gunwharf Quay right outside and an easy walk to the Historic Dockyard. And service was particularly friendly.

Conveniently located next to Gunwarf Quay, this newly built 130 room Express by Holiday Inn is in a…read morenice spot for exploring the Spinnaker Tower, shops and the whole quays area. Within a mile you can walk to the centre of Portsmouth, the Guild Hall, the university and the Mary Rose. Plenty of parking is available in the nearby multi-storey car park.

Quite a trek, near Cowes. Amazing food and really clean and crisp interior, just slightly loud.read more

I don't often use such adjectives to describe an eating experience, but our visit to the Portland…read moreInn was truly exceptional. My husband had the steak and ale pie, and I had the summer salad which included chicken and scampi in sweet chili sauce. Both dishes were absolutely outstanding, and we've been traveling for more than a week in England and have been to England before. Had to be right up at the top if not the top meal we've had in England! On top of that, we were late to an attraction, and as we walked down the street after leaving the pub, the owner Mark pulled up alongside of us and insisted on giving us a ride to the ferry so we'd have plenty of time to see Osborne House! Of course we came back and visited a couple of additional times, and were never disappointed by the coffee, the Ale, the food, or the company. We would highly recommend this pub to all comers!

You don't get pubs in areas like this very often. Its surrounded by the beautiful Knepp Estate with…read morerolling fields populated by wild roaming deer and Exmoor ponies. The pub itself is perfect when there's a bit of a chill as they have an amazing open fire and in the summer and then a huge bees garden for the warmer months. Best of both Worlds! We always pop in for lunch and a nice pint of Harveys. Last time I was there I tried the Sussex pate on rustic bread and it was absolutely perfect. They also do a fantastic Sunday roast but do get there early as it is extremely popular.

I've eaten here twice when visiting family in the UK, once last summer and again this year. The…read moreservice and food the first year were very good, definitely 4 star worthy, and had me looking forward to a return visit. Disappointingly it didn't quite meet expectations, hence the 3 overall. Nothing was truly terrible during my second visit, but there were a few areas that I feel could be improved. Although not incredibly expensive, prices are sufficient for me to expect better than average food and service (that said my brother thinks I've been living in the USA too long and my service expectations are too high for the UK...) I ordered a special for the day we visited, topside roast beef with seasonal vegetable accompaniments. The beef was cut rather thick, which is either generous and rustic or, as my grandmother with extensive food service would have said, completely wrong (beef thin, lamb thick, pork in between...) I also would have preferred the meat a little rarer, but despite the apparently longer cooking time it was tender and flavorful. The vegetables were generally good; could perhaps have been cooked a little less for a firmer bite but that's certainly open to a range of preferences. The Yorkshire pudding was overly-crispy for my tastes, and with the gravy already poured (a separate boat would have been nice) was hard to rescue. The one item that was really disappointing though was the courgettes (others in my party with those on there plate agreed). They appeared to have been cooked in an olive with strong vegetal/pungent/sharp/bitter tones to it. It would seem the oil was not hot when it met the courgettes and they have a tendency under such circumstances to soak up oil leaving them tasting rather funky. One wonders if they were taste tested in the kitchen... My wife ordered a risotto of some kind which she felt was lacking salt (unusual for my wife so probably true). Desserts were well received -- didn't have one myself but they looked good and were said to be good and tasty. Service seemed well intentioned but I found it odd that we had all three of the waitresses visit us for different things at various times -- this did not appear to enhance the level of service but rather to leave them all confused as to what stage of the meal we were at. We received multiple queries on things such as whether or not we had ordered drinks, starters, dessert, etc.

Awesome alternative pub!…read more Djs weekly, good music, and students get 20% off drinks too with a student card. They currently even have a retro games night, on a wednesday.

Great pub, very friendly staff and good prices on drinks…read more Music is at times too loud but they do play good music. A great place to meet up with friends while on a night out.

Absolutely pants hotel frankly, they should lose a star or even two! I've stayed in a few four star…read morehotels in Spain, Mexico, and America and attended hotel and catering school, therefore, I know absolutely nothing about the hospitality industry. Upon check in, when asking for the safe to deposit my passports and extra cash they looked at me a bit funny and provided an antiquated sealed bag system; no big deal here, but we're just getting started. I booked a single room months in advance but since the hotel was full up I get a family room with bunks no extra charge but weird. There is an iron burn in the floor but no iron to be found anywhere. The trouser press works at least but what about my smart shirt: never mind. The décor looks like it has not been updated since Queen Victoria's day; although I do enjoy a touch of nostalgia, when I'm paying over 100 GBP a night for a room, I want it to be clean and smart to look at. I will say a kind word so you can see I'm not a monster troll who lives in the internet just to slag off poor unsuspecting lodgings. Shower was very nice and water pressure was good and the sheets were clean and smelled nice. Moving on to breakfast; day one we had to queue in order to be seated although there was another room that had tables and chairs in it not made up. Fair enough if there are not enough staff members and too many guests but there were several of them milling about trying to look busy until the queue started. Qualify of food was fair, but absolutely forgettable. Day two, I received a cheerful good morning but was made to wait twenty minutes before the girl came over to take my order. I was only having weatabix and juice so it was fine, but come on! Now for the reason I decided to write this review that will be lost in the annals of Qype/Yelp, but here goes. Checking out of the hotel there was a deluge in the street, a proper storm, and so I asked the front desk to ring me a cab. The manager informed me that there were only two cab companies in town, a boldface lie mind you, as I now know after some research that there are at least five! I will review a very nice bed and breakfast that I stayed at just to prove I'm not always a miserable bastard. If you managed to survive through this review, found it helpful (or hideous) please leave a comment. Thank you very much and all the best!

I greatly regret bringing my family and my grandparents to stay at The Chatsworth. This hotel has a…read morefantastic location. That's essentially the nicest thing I can say. We took 4 rooms over 2 floors and stayed for two nights. A good night's sleep is next to impossible. The rooms are small and have little to no sound insulation whatsoever. My partner and I had a room on the 3rd floor, overlooking a coach station. Leaving the window open meant listening to engine noise late into the evening, using the air-con unit and closing the window meant waking up with dry throats and itching eye. We could hear the extractor fans from bathrooms on either side of us. The bedroom doors are heavy and have no closers, so we were disturbed regularly over both nights by doors slamming shut with irritating frequency. The building is old and the owners haven't/may not be allowed to do much structural work, meaning the floors and stairs are almost comically creaky and uneven. This further diminished any chance of sleep. On our first morning the maid knocked on our door at 8.45am to ask if we were ready for a room clean before requesting we use the do not disturb sign. That was not ideal but fine. She knocked again at 9.00am and 9.10am to see if we'd gone yet. This was less understandable. Lastly, and I'm going to say that the largest element of this was outside the hotel's control. Okay? My issue is with the hotel's response. On our second night we found that the hotel had (without knowing) booked an entire college basketball team to stay on our floor. The previously mentioned noise problems now got unbearable. From 11pm-1am the other guests slammed doors, palyed music in the corridor, sang, yelled and generally made our stay unbearable. When I complained about this to the staff, I found the night watchman playing cards on his phone, oblivious to a group of young men carrying crates of beer up to their rooms. This disruption began again at 4.00am when the groups returned, staggering along the corridor and slamming their doors. When I raised this again the next day, I was told that there was nothing that could be done to improve the sound insulation and that the night staff had done all they could. We were eventually offered 1 free upgrade if we returned. While I appreciate that the situation was worse than usual, I do not consider this to be fair compensation for what was a very disappointing stay for myself, my parents and my 90-year old grandparents.