Had a great breakfast at the Acorn guest house this morning. There were three to choose from: The…read moretraditional English Breakfast, the Continental Breakfast and the Vegetarian Breakfast. The Continental Breakfast is about cereal and cold breakfast items. The Vegetarian, of course is about no meat. The traditional English breakfast (Which I ordered) features an egg sunny side up on a piece of toasted white bread, a sausage link, a couple of pieces of ham, a cooked piece of tomato, sauteed mushrooms and baked beans in a tomato based sauce. White and wheat toast with a variety of jellies and jams, coffee, tea and orange juice also came with the breakfast. Everything was cooked very well. The meats were all a bit salty, as you might expect, but everything was quite good! The dining room is very small and tables are right next to each other. Very cosy. (The price I clicked on below refers to the hotel, which is a very nice - moderately priced three star European hotel. Smallish room with a smallish shower, but super friendly staff)

First thing to know, you need a pin code to get in. In case you did not receive a pin code or if…read moreyou have problems with the door, you can call a number and ask for advice. There is nobody at the hotel to assist you. Luckily another guest arrived at the same time and could help me out. Next issue was that I was locked in my room. The door didn't open from the inside. Again, the hotel hotline had to be called. Luckily, 20min later a helpful person arrived, let me out again and repaired the door. Apart from these surprises, the hotel or better guest house is centrally located and easy to reach and find. It has nicely decorated rooms and in my case also a very nice bathroom with a shower. The lighting good be improved. There is no reading light next to the wing chair, desk or even a bedside lamp, just one at the ceiling. It would also be good to have the option to open the window just a bit instead of wide open for some fresh air, especially in winter. Breakfast is served in the basement and provides a good selection. Everything is nicely decorated, but since it is the basement the room is rather dreary. Strange thing is that nobody seems to be around taking care of the breakfast. That appeared a bit ghost-like. In summary, interesting option in case Cambridge hotels are fully booked, but otherwise I would not book the Regency Hotel again.

The bed and pillows were quite comfortable. The staff is friendly and tries to be accommodating…read more The location, right next to the Cambridge Common, is convenient and quite pleasant. Other than that, the place is sort of an expensive dump. When we arrived, we found out that we were to share a bath with two other rooms. The shower in the bath wasn't particularly hot. There is no place to sit down in the guest house other than the hard backed wood chairs in the basement dining area,which is open an hour a day for a breakfast yet to be consumed. There are random mattresses hanging around and other things that lead one to think the guest house is going thru either renovation or deterioration or both simultaneously. The whole place feels a bit dirty. And, to add injury, it's expensive! Cambridge is an incredibly beautiful place and it deserves the flocks of tourists it attracts. So, make your travel plans early and get accommodations that are really worth the price because one suspects that a bunch of them are not.

I was shoked when I saw the Coach & Horses from the back yard. On the webpage the photos were ok…read more It was not what you expect in the UK. After waiting and looking for personal I phoned the landlord who told me that somebody would be there on two minutes. I waited 15 minutes luckely it was not raining. When I got into my room (double beded) I was shoked the second time. A room which would suit a very cheap hostel but not B&B. Two beds, a wardrobe block by a bad smelling switched off fridge, a TV on top (picture after adjusting the arial and than no sound :-( ). No hook for a towel no shelf for your toilete stuff. (but there's a carpet) Migrowave and waterheater with tea, coffee and sugar working fine. But just one electric connection with 4 positions of which two are occupied by TV. And that in a time where everybody has a mobilephone. Two other elec. connections where blocked by each a bed. One toilete which was or looked clean but no handwash or towel. The bath with toilete and shower looked clean. The breakfast was rather spartan. Three tables for guests one for the table-ware and a trolley with cerials, milk ,juice and other things but not comfortable. P.S. Wifi is free as service at the most accommodations. I had to pay £5 for the three nights and at one night it did not work.

In the room u could tell it wasn't washed properly as there was weird hairs on the bathroom walls…read morein the shower aswell as on the "clean" bedsheets and sheets there was loads everywhere on the corners in the middle of the beds under the covers. There was also a humbug sweet in between the sheet and bedspread stuck between suggesting it had been there a while aswell as a black thing on the toilet seat.