Moggerhanger Park

Had a lovely night stay here with my family of 5. The hosts were lovely people and made us feel really welcome. The house is beautiful - it was a privilege to stay in a historical house with stunning grounds. We loved the tea room and play park for our children. Will definitely be back when visiting the area again! It was clean and the shower was fantastic. The bed was also very comfy and we had an amazing view of the countryside from our window.

Our family of 5 stayed here for 4 nights. What an atmospheric place. The grand entrance hall, staircase and antique furniture are not what you expect for less than £100 per night for a family! The room we had was adequate but when the manager realised we had 3 children he upgraded us to the bridal suite which was fantastic and allowed us an extra adjoining room for our 2 older kids. Customer service and breakfasts were great as was the woodland trail and playground within the grounds. If you need to stay in the Bedford area definitely consider this place, similar pricing (if not cheaper) to a chain hotel brand but much more interesting and grand.

I love my stay at Moggerhanger Park and will definitely stay there again - It is an old historic building, a small stately home with ample history. It has a lot of grounds, beautiful trees, a woodland walk, a cafe, a museum of its history, and even a lovely walled garden! If you stay here, you are allowed to wander round the old house and really you get so much more for your money than a usual Bed and Breakfast. It also now has an in house restaurant which serves simple meals in the evening which I found useful. My room was quirky and flushing the loo took patience (Due to the historic nature of the house), but my room was lovely and I love all the old antique furniture both in my room and round the house. Breakfast was good and served in a lovely room. All in all - I think this is great value for money, and I will definitely stay here again. Staff are all very helpful and friendly as well. Jacky from Norwich.

On 5th MAY, the hotel confirmed my reservation for Saturday 8th-9th OCTOBER. On 28th SEPTEMBER, they phoned to cancel the booking. They offered a half-rate stay in the future! I think not. I have emailed their confirmation of 5th May. I am speechless.

We booked here overnight whilst visiting relatives in Bedford, after walking the grounds previously and loving the location and look of the house. When we got there there was no one on reception, we pressed the bell, waited, and eventually rang the number - but there was no one! We waited approx. 10 mins until the staff member happened to walk back to reception and appeared shocked to see us there. She checked us in and took us to our room, which we have to say was lovely. This is where the extra touches made the difference. There was bottled water by the bed, a chocolate on the pillow, hot chocolate, tea, coffee, de-caff varieties, soya milk and biscuits! The bathroom had little bottles of shampoo/cond. etc. Unfortunately being an old house, sound proof was non existent, which is to be expected, but it was that bad it sounded like the woman next door was in our room when she chose to have her very loud 11.30pm speaker phone call. The view of the countryside was severely lacking - as there was a parapet blocking the window. Obviously an original feature of the house which is great, but the room can't really be advertised as "with a view". Breakfast the next day was abysmal, such a let down. There was one woman on her own serving very large families and a few couples. We found the one clean table in the whole room and sat down. There was no bowls for the cereal, no pastries/bread out, milk was almost empty, and the coffee was barely warm. Eventually the lady came to take our order - basically egg on toast - to which she said she would try as they were running low on bread! When it eventually came we had toast, but apparently they'd run out of butter. Eventually she managed to re stock the bowls, but no pastries made an appearance. I can't blame her, it's extremely unfair of the place to make her serve all this by herself. It was an extremely disappointing end to our visit. Moggerhanger sent us an email to leave a review, and invited us to speak to them if we had any issues. I emailed them with the above issues, and they failed to respond. Had those little touches not been there it would have been an average score.

The breakfast service was appalling. We arrived on time, but waited over an hour for our food. Other tables got their orders taken, and their food before us. It was hard work and frustrating, thought we had managed to achieve invisibility. Staff didn't seem to be working as a team. Long story cut very short.