Alvaston Hall Hotel

The entertainment team are the best of all of the warner hotels I have stayed in. It is a lovely place with helpful and friendly staff. The only sore point was management decision not to service rooms the day after arrival. It is expensive to buy drinks

It was a great stay as always. Alvaston is one of our favourites, not just for the fabulous hotel and what it has to offer, but for the amazing surrounding areas as well. The entertainment is always very professionally presented with first class acts. The food drink and customer service throughout the hotel is always first class. The staff there are always eager to help and make sure your stay is memorable and you go away thinking yes I will be going back there.

Unfortunately the staff and entertainment are let down by the poor condition of the hotel. It is obvious that little attention is paid to cleanliness and upkeep of the hotel. The staff are friendly and, for the most part, are committed to their job but upkeep/maintenance is very poor. Communal areas are scruffy. Chairs in the fountain bar are so worn that the wooden frame is visible through the cloth coverings. The chair in our room was badly stained. The housekeeping staff report they are allowed 8 minutes to clean a room. To achieve this, they do not make the beds nor vacuum the carpets. Penny pinching is rife - one tea bag between 2 at breakfast ! However, the entertainment was very good although we have done the Sunday afternoon quiz more than once! Maybe time for a new set of questions!!

An excellent weekend stay in very pleasant surroundings, an hours drive from home. After the initial walk from the car park to reception, and the hotels ability to accommodate a change of our booking. My wife and I enjoyed every second of our stay.

We usually do a Friday to Monday at Warners but as it was my Birthday on a Wednesday we opted for a Monday to Friday. We arrived around 12.30 and went straight to the leisure centre to book Laser Pistol as we had previously booked Rifles, Archery, and some free spa treatments online. At 1pm we had our usual Afternoon Tea with a bottle of rose prosecco, good selection of sandwiches and cakes, one of the best we have had at a Warner Hotel. We booked a standard room in the main house but on check-in we realised it was in the extension of the main building behind the Fountain Bar, it was good that we did not want any early nights as the late night cabaret started at 11pm until midnight as the sound travelled to our room. The room was very large with a sleigh bed and a big bathroom that had a bath and a walk-in shower. The bath was a Jacuzzi one but it did not work. The room was not particularly clean, as we found a pill from a previous guest on the skirting board, there was cobwebs on the window and the chest of draws that the TV was on was covered in dust. As this hotel has a dinner theatre we were lucky enough to get a good table, 174, that was close to the buffet and also had a great view of the stage. On the first night was ate in the Market Kitchen, The Grove. The food was good and it was hot. We ate in the Cheshire Barn for the next three nights as it is always nice to be waited on. The food was again very good with big portions. We did the wine tasting on Tuesday afternoon, just my wife and I. Max who lead us through the 6 different wines was knowledgeable and kept us entertained for an hour. Well worth the money. As at other Warner Hotels there were lots of quizzes throughout the day and as at our previous stays we did not win! The evening entertainment was wonderful, especially Jayne Middleton as Annie Lennox. Would we return, probably, even though it is a 4 1/2 hour drive.

Excellent hotel, good food and excellent entertainment. Rooms lovely warm and cosy We had tinsel and turkey break with Christmas food and even Santa came. The entertainment team did a Panto , Jake and the Beanstalk. They are all excellent singers and dancers