The Riverside

Been to the Riverside a few times and always very friendly and welcoming, lovely place to relax, breakfast brilliant, evening meal brilliant, staff brilliant. We love the rooms overlooking the river with the sound of flowing water it’s tranquil. Will definitely be returning. Boscastle a great place to visit.

Lovely clean room with everything you need, tea/coffee replenished daily ,beds so comfortable. Staff so friendly and accomadating nothing too much trouble. Highly recommend . Breakfast pre order but staff did not let us down when we were too late one night.

Clean spacious room, breakfast and Sunday carvery was tasty and hot. Friendly staff, helpful, comfortable and would return. Views were beautiful and the hotel was in an ideal location. Car park is 2 minutes from the hotel, it costs 6.30 for 24hrs. We stayed in a double room number 15.

A spontaneous overnight stay. It was a lovely night. Beautiful sunset. Check in was very welcoming and efficient. We liked our room. No view of the river but it was spacious, clean and tidy. We had dinner. It was very nice. Enjoyed the complimentary parsnips skins. Yum. Probably a tad overpriced I'd say. We paid £75 for the 2 of us. That was a main and dessert each with 1 drink each. The only slight disappointment was the breakfast. I had granola and yoghurt for starter and avacado and poached eggs on toast. The starter need some kind of fit compost with it. It was very dry and quute tasteless. The main also was not that tasty. There was lemon in the avacodo which would be lovely but needs to be balanced with abit of salt. My decaf coffee had a strange taste. May of been the brand but I couldn't drink it. Overall though, this is a lovely place. The river was lovely. Watching all the ducks in the rapids. We would stay again.

Expensive, tired and food disgusting with staff having an attitude of Basil Fawlty. Bed uncomfortable two single bed frames pushed together with a double mattress on top. Room needs a good clean. Bed linen terrible with polyester doona. As for breakfast it’s a joke don’t even bother. We asked for an early breakfast of 8am we were told on check in that was possible you are made to order breakfast the night before which I believe is because they pre-cook everything and just reheat in the morning. When we turned up at 8am for breakfast no staff on duty eventually somebody turned up and with an attitude snapped ‘who told you that’ then said not possible so now waiting in our room to settle our bill and have breakfast. If you like to be up and out early this place is not for you.

Evening meal…..prawn cocktail with no sauce. Microwaved trio of fish, overcooked and very bland. Sticky toffee pudding consisting of “cake” with cold sauce. Little choice of wine by the glass. Not that interested when discussed with member of staff. Definitely overpriced for quality served.