José Pizarro the Swan Inn Esher

Nice pub however if your idea of patatas bravos is roast potatoes with a dollop of sauce on the side then you’ll enjoy. Room clean however only managed 5hrs sleep due to staff deciding on have a loud conversation outside my room after midnight

The staff at The Swan Inn in Esher can not do enough for you. I stay here once or twice a year with work for 3 nights at a time. The rooms are mews rooms just behind the pub/restaurant main building (you check in at the bar) so great to have your own exit outside and window for fresh air. The rooms are very modern and have great shower facility. Beds are comfortable and there are coffee (Cafetiere) and tea making facilities. Ironing board and iron in each room. Some rooms don't have desks, so if you are working/needing a desk space it maybe worth requesting one that does. Breakfast is served in the pub and has a spanish twist to it and is very nice, all freshly cooked to order. We always have dinner and drinks here a couple of times as the tapas and food is amazing. Make sure you book though as it is super popular with locals! Off street parking is just by the restaurant.

I was pleased to see that Jose Pizarro had a pub with a few rooms. I love Spanish food and it was a chance to get away for a couple of nights. Esher is relatively easy to get to from London, just a few stops on the train from Waterloo and 10 minutes walk from Claygate station. I was lucky to be able to get Room 2, which is the largest of the rooms available in a small block at the back of the pub. It was very clean. No great view and there was a bit of noise from traffic first thing in the morning - and on one day at about 8am when a big lorry arrived to bring barrels of beer. The room was very good, clean and fairly minimalist. The bed was a medium sized double and very comfortable - it made me realise that I need to change mine at home! The shower room was excellent and the towels were very fluffy. Coffee facilities were available. I had problems getting the channels I wanted on the television, but maybe that's just me! I often have this problem, so maybe it would be good if brief instructions were available. Before I went down to Esher I wondered whether ironing facilities were available. The pub's own website only says that one of the rooms has ironing facilties and this was not Room 2, so I made sure that my t-shirts were ironed at home - only to find an iron and ironing board in the corner of the room. The website also doesn't say that breakfast is included. There's a reasonable choice and I had the Big Breakfast, which consisted of toast with butter, bacon, a sausage which was described as Catalan, a grilled tomato, some baked beans which were not just straight out of a tin, mushrooms and a couple of beautiful poached eggs. I will never be able to get my own poached eggs to look the same as theirs! The coffee and orange juice were both good. Apart from breakfast, I ate in the restaurant three times - once for lunch and twice in the evening. I'll do a separate review for those meals.