The George Hotel and Beach Club

We had a great stay! The George is a small comfortable historic( King Charles II used to stay here) boutique hotel with a fantastic location right on the beach and great views directly across the solent in the middle of the pretty village of Yarmouth. Its restaurant serves excellent food and the wood panelled bar, with its open fire, has a robust wine & cocktails list. Some great fine wines. Our room overlooking the garden and sea was warm & simple, providing a really comfortable nights stay. The staff without exception were professional, friendly and couldn't have been more helpful. I should mention the slow cooked shoulder of Lamb for two was excellent and frankly staying here feels like being part of a private house party! Easy to get to as-well - the Lymington - Yarmouth ferry is only 50m away so easy to come as a foot passenger if preferred although we took a car to explore a little. Even managed to take a picture of a Spitfire flying over the nearby Needles bathed in the Autumn sunshine! Thankyou Team George for a lovely stay - albeit too short - we will be back!

We were initially made to feel welcome but that soon changed when we said we only wanted drinks, we were only allowed to sit in certain places outside as the other tables were reserved for diners .. there were none & plenty of tables. We ordered 3 coffees & a pint of coke despite there being lots of staff (more staff than customers) service was very slow. Other customers started to join us but were also dictated to as to where they could sit. We eventually paid the bill & left, however we realised later that we had been charged £7 for a pint of coke! That’s a complete joke .. you can buy a 2l bottle for less than £2… I would not recommend this hotel not only for the rip off prices but also for the lack of service & the feeling we weren’t welcome.. sorry (not sorry) we don’t own a yacht!

We did stay at the hotel but just stopped off for some food & drinks, in the outside area on a Sunday evening and it was all very lovely. The staff were very helpful and friendly, and we had some unbelievably tasty nibbles. Also a great selection of drinks. Very happy to recommend and can't wait to go back for a full meal

Popped in for a drink on a lovely sunny day the host was very friendly when we entered the garden she said just find a table sunny or shade wherever , found a nice table overlooking the sea , we sat there and sat there, staff were milling around it nobody came to us , after about 10 mins we thought maybe you ordered at he outside bar yourself so my husband went to the bar , the gentleman said you don’t come to the bar someone will come to you , he said explained we’d been there a while and no one had , a waitress appeared next to him and said I don’t think you can sit there anyway I think the tables reserved, there was nothing on the table at all to show it was reserved absolutely nothing , she then came to the table and said you can’t sit here you’ll have to move , we asked why she sullenly said it’s reserved ,we said it doesn’t say reserved ,she said well it it , we said we will leave then there are plenty of place to go and she just pulled a face , the staff really need some customer service skills and it wasn’t even that busy

We walked past this establishment two years ago in the rain and agreed that next time we were on the island we would visit. So, on a warm and dry day recently we were fortunate to have a free day to visit. Sadly, we were late from a meeting in Newport and so couldn’t really get to know the hotel. However, our stay was near perfect. Out of season and largely fully of locals. I enjoyed the beef bourguignon and my first wife said the crème brûlée was one of the best she had had I can’t but recommend The George to all. Also “P” we ordered the glasses thank you you are a star.

Popped in for afternoon drinks on bank holiday weekend. Not many guests in garden and several (young) staff members either walking around with heads down or chatting with one another at the bar. After waiting 10 minutes and seeing staff members disappear inside, my husband went up to the bar to order some drinks to be told that he could not order them there, they had to be ordered via a staff member. It’s not as if drinks were being brought out from the hotel, they were being dispensed from this bar. My husband returned to our table and waited, and waited-eventually, he managed to cost the staff member and we finally placed an order, which took another 10 minutes to be delivered. When a slightly older staff member walked past, my husband passed on his comments about how the other staff members were not looking up or checking whether people needed drinks, she merely laughed. A while later, an older man in a white shirt and black trousers came out into the garden and came over to us, and commented that he had heard we were not happy with the service. My husband reiterated his comments about the staff not looking around and he said they were looking down because it was sunny !!! I’ve no idea how the whole of sunny Europe functions, if that’s the case and what a ridiculous thing to say! He said the staff were overwhelmed with the number of orders-there were barely 20 people in the garden and at least 4 staff members, not including the guy behind the bar, who was just there looking around . Heaven knows how they would cope if it was busy ! He also said that if we were not happy with the service, there were plenty of other pubs in Yarmouth! Again, a ridiculous comment to make. No apology for the amount of time we had waited. We have been to the George many many times over the years and enjoyed a fabulous afternoon in the garden – I can only assume this is new management and they are doing a very poor job, in my opinion. What a pity… (We subsequently bumped into a friend a little later who had gone into the George garden just before us but had left after waiting for ages, without being served).