Boringdon Hall Hotel and Spa

房間很有特色，很乾凈 但是沒有電梯有點麻煩

The accommodation, food, spa, service and general hotel ambience was very good. I am writing this review specifically to help other EV owners. We booked the hotel specifically because they had 3 EV chargers mentioned on their web site. I downloaded the “Project EV” app before we arrived in preparation for using said chargers. The first charger of the 3 we tried was “offline” with the other 2 spaces being taken up by fellow Tesla owners. We then parked elsewhere anticipating that a space would become available once the other 2 cars had finished charging. The following morning we saw a space was available with another car charging next to it. These 2 spaces were the ones occupied by the Teslas the day before. The end space that was still “offline” was occupied by a non EV car. We had reported to reception that that particular charger was not working the day before. We discovered that the car next to us was using the cable meant for our space so we tried the cable for the other space. This charger also did not work. It was “offline” like the end space so of course the car next to us had used the cable. No problem we thought - we will monitor the app and see when the charge was finished and the other car would then move to a different parking space. We could then charge overnight. By 5pm the charge had finished so we waited until dinner to see if the car would move. It didn’t so we asked reception to contact the car owner. They tried and left a voice message for them. They didn’t bother moving the car and it was still plugged in the following morning when we checked out. We then had to go and find a charger as we had intended to charge overnight. We would like the hotel to consider adding more chargers and faster ones as the present are not fit for purpose. We would also like the hotel to mark out the EV charging spaces with large EV symbols on them and a large notice saying “EV charging only” “no parking” and “remove vehicle as soon as charge is complete” The hotel also needs to patrol the EV charging area and put notes on cars who park and don’t charge. As the hotel has everyone’s mobile numbers it should not be difficult to get cars moved that don’t need to be in the spaces. There was an overstay fee on the chargers after 240 minutes but this didn’t make any difference to the car whose charge finished at 5pm and “overstayed” until after we left at 10am.

Friends visited Boringdon Hall last week and recommended it to us as we were visiting the area for a couple of days. This hotel really is an amazing place, being very old with lots of character with a very stylish extension providing further rooms with private terraces and a luxury spa. The rooms are very spacious and stylish and enhanced by the private terraces and attractive shower rooms. The bedroom also has a free standing bath. The breakfast was excellent and there is plenty of parking. All in all we were looked after extremely well by friendly staff. We will definitely re-visit