King John Inn

Well worth a detour to stay here Beautiful location. Delightful pub and dining rooms, very comfortable room with excellent food and service.

Old pub with atmosphere and great staff, food, room and brilliant value deal on Sunday night with dinner deal. Late Sunday lunch was lovely, good choices of beer, cocktails and on the wine list. Breakfast good too with lots of choice, - will be back.

We enjoyed our 3 night stay - the breakfasts were excellent and everyone was very friendly but we had some reservations: We were originally booked into a first floor room but the steps from the bar are very narrow and steep which my wife could not manage. The alternative route via an external fire escape was not acceptable on a cold, damp dark February night. We were therefore offered a courtyard room which was newly decorated to a high standard but the lighting was so minimal that we had to use torches to read. I asked for a standard lamp but none was available so from the hours of 5pm to 11pm we lived in darkness. The in-house wifi worked well in the pub but the signal was often lost in our courtyard room so we often had to go in to the main building to log in to the Butcombe site, and re-enter all our details again . The room lighting and the wifi are issues that can be rectified but the difficult access to the rooms in the main building is a major obstacle - if the courtyard room had not been available we would have had to try to find somewhere else.