The Holroyd Arms

If you’re visiting here for the rage room, all I can say is please be careful. There was no safety talk provided beforehand, the ‘waiver’ was quite literally a blank notebook where you signed your name and signature and the safety gear had seen better days. I expected something like a boiler suit to cover up with, but nothing was provided, just head on in with whatever you’re wearing. The room itself is quite small and it didn’t feel like it’d been cleaned up particularly well from the party before, with shards of glass covering the floor. You are provided with glass bottles, plates, and two appliances. It took some getting used to at first as we were quite worried about injuring ourselves. Overall it was fun but equally it could have been more fun had we been wearing the right protective gear, and the room been bigger. It just made us feel uneasy.

Over priced. Over rated. Don’t get me wrong. It’s fun smashing things up ! It says on the website to save 10 minutes beforehand to have a safety talk. He basically said sign a waiver here’s your hat gloves and glasses and walked away! That was ridiculous and quite disappointing. You can have a playlist so you connect to a stereo that’s in there all good There is not enough in there to smash for half hour. One TV monitor one microwave and a few bottles. There is a punch bag thing, but it’s not all that good. You get a bat and a mallet . The hat kept falling off the protective glasses steamed up all the time the gloves aren’t really hardy enough for the glass flying around. I did enjoy it. It was fun a lot of pent up frustration was used up , but it’s not enough for the money that’s asked the deposit was paid but he asked for more than it says advertised. I’ll never go there again. The guys is obviously just to get money he doesn’t care about what goes on. He couldn’t have cared less if I’d got hurt. As I said in the beginning, he gave me a two minute if that safety talk and walked away. He was friendly enough, but didn’t actually seem to give a crap. If you wanna waste 60+ quid, go if not think about going somewhere else

Desperately needs a clean. Bathroom was dirty, dirty walls, mould around the shower tray, cobwebs, fan filter filthy, fan wouldn't go off, faulty light, no toilet roll holder, no hot water at the sink, no soap or hand towels, towel rail looked ready to fall off the wall. Side of bed stained, chair dirty, even the TV screen was dirty. We were advised we could check in after 1:00pm, place was locked up and couldn't get hold of anyone by phone until after 3! Loud music from the on site club, and disturbed by people talking loudly at the tables positioned right outside our window. Was cheap but that's all that can be said for it

Great place easy to find car parking easy and free. Rooms comfortable neat tidy and clean. Good selection of tv channels including netflix if you desired. We came down for a mates bday had drinks before and after going out to town in the bar area. Pub full of character nice bar area. Great area with stage for bands and crowds. The staff were welcoming friendly and helpful. Outside area is lovely as well plenty of benches chairs etc. Would highly reccomend we will actually come back again just to have a night out at the pub itself

No breakfast. We booked believing from the various websites that this establishment offered breakfast, this is not the case. Outside there is also a sign stating B & B. One has to go to a cafe for breakfast or as we did, drove to a Tesco for a bacon bap. On arrival the lady who greeted us was very pleasant and warm. The people in the bar area were male contractors, who from conversation stayed at Holroyd Arms frequently and were quite lively in a nice way. Suspect they are the main customers of the business. Also seems to have quite a few live music nights. The room was appeared clean but some of the items listed as being available were missing e.g. toiletries, hairdryer. The toilet roll holder was missing off the wall. The duvets were thin and there were no pillow protectors under the pillow cases or proper mattress protectors. We did inspect the pillows carefully. Heating was good. The walls are quite thin and we could hear a person snoring in the next room. When looking for a hairdryer, my husband open a storeage area in his bed base and he said the interior was not clean. We had to ask for extra tea bags and milk only two bags and milk in room on arrival. The evening meal on the first night caribbean food was on offer. It was very good, having goat curry with rice, fried cabbage and plantain. The second evening my husband had a pie with mash and peas, it was passable. I had a burger and it was very nice. The burger itself was juice. Whoever the chef/cook is/was are good. The bar area is all very high (elbow height) tables and high stools not very comfortable. This establishment is not set up to cater for families or disabled. The staff are warm but we would not stay here again. We felt we had been mislead by the advertising on various booking sites and we were not told about no breakfast when we booked directly with the establishment.

We received a warm welcome on arrival. The room (number 5) was basic but we were already aware of that. It was good value for money. The walls are very thin so we could hear people talking in the other rooms. And we were kept awake for ages by someone snoring VERY loudly in the next room. Once we got to sleep we did sleep well. We woke up around 8am and the snoring was still going on ! We appreciate that nothing can be done about that. It was very handy to be able to attend the gig at The Holroyd and then stay the night - to save us driving all the way home.