britseyeview
ngày 29 tháng 5 năm 2024
This is a very nice hotel, with an elegant main building. The hotel bedrooms are in two wings, on two levels. Overall we enjoyed our stay, and Hamilton is a great hub if you want to travel around the island. Our room was well furnished, with ample hanging and drawer space. The king bed however was a little too large for the room, with the left hand side being too close to a window, insufficient room to even walk on that side. The bed was comfortable but also very high, making it a stretch to get in and out of you are less than 5ft 7ins. The housekeeping was very good, except our laundry did not get returned on time, and we had to chase it before it eventually arrived the following day. Our bathroom has a strong musty smell which we realised was coming from the bath drain and we kept our door open whenever sitting outside. We enjoyed relaxing by the pool, sitting on our terrace, and having the buffet breakfast in the main building each morning. Most of the other diners appeared to be members of the public, business people, rather than hotel guests. We did not have dinner in their Huckleberry restaurant as we weren’t sure why everything seemed to be accompanied by curry froth, puréed carrots etc, and it was all rather expensive. The hotel is lovely, but you do need to be fit to really enjoy it. If you have any mobility problems you will find the steep driveway a problem when walking to and from the hotel, and the numerous steps to reach your room are an additional problem. We had asked for a ground floor room, and were even told we had one when we checked in. But we didn’t, we had a first floor (2nd floor US). This turned out to be a blessing as the ground floor rooms are down by the pool, with even more steps up the hotel and restaurant. We were disappointed to find that the hotel is not near any bus stops, as we travelled every day around Bermuda on the excellent buses and ferries. The bus map says there are bus stops by the Ferry Terminal but the Visitor Center told us we had to go to the Bus Terminal itself to actually get on a bus. Another long steep walk. That’s of course not the fault of the hotel, just the way the bus routes are planned. The hotel was very helpful in booking our taxi to and from the hotel, which was excellent with our driver telling us a lot about the Island. If we were younger and not bothered by hills and steps we would stay here again. However, the day we left they announced in the local paper that they are starting a renovation this fall, including redoing the bathrooms, adding a pizzeria at the front of the hotel and a bar by the pool, which will be open to the public. The last would not have appealed to us as we and other guests relished our quiet evenings sitting out on our terraces.
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