Ferrymans Cottage

Great A lovely quiet comfortable stay, so good I’m going again. Great position and awesome views across and along the Thames.

Great stay away from home working. Great rooms, great staff and lovely food.

We were at the Beetle & Wedge for the 3rd or 4th time last New Year's Eve. We'd been before for dinner B&B and really rated the accommodation and food. On NYE 4 of us checked into 2 of the 4 rooms. The rooms seemed nice enough when we checked in (we had a couple of drinks before dinner in the other room so didn't spend much time at all in ours). The dinner and celebrations that night were great. Food was excellent as usual. And they even sang happy birthday when they brought out a cake that my father in law had made. During the night I literally couldn't sleep at all because the stink of the room was nauseating. It smelled like the sewers. It was really overpowering. Even my husband noticed, and he can barely smell a thing on the best of days. So, the following morning, I felt really rough, and it wasn't due to celebratory drinks the night before! I complained about the smell to the staff and was told that they knew there had been an issue before in that room, they'd got a plumber in to fix the problem, and had HOPED that it was fixed. So they weren't certain that it had been fixed at all. And then they said that the bookings for the other 2 rooms had been cancelled, so why on earth did they put us in that room when they had 2 others available. They didn't even really apologise, let alone offer any sort of discount on the bill, or a good will gesture. Felt pretty let down, and disappointed in the end. Especially as we were there for my birthday celebrations, having missed out on a big birthday the previous year due to covid. As it's far from home, we would never go there without booking a room. Pretty sure we won't be risking doing that again. Such a shame, as previously it was one of our favourite overnight breaks for the two of us, and family get-togethers.

Comfortable rooms, lovely location right by the river, great food in the resturant and really attentive and helpful staff. But please... add a couple of quid to the room rate and get some decent toilet tissue!