Plastic plants and clashing colors: Inspector not impressed with this Cotswolds hotel
Plastic plants and clashing colors: the inspector is unimpressed by this Grade II listed Cotswolds hotel. The inspector checks in at Ingleside House in Cirencester. want to fade'
A lot is going on at Ingleside House during our Saturday night stay.
Barn Theater is putting on a production of The Girl On The Train; The Teatro restaurant is buzzing ("We can welcome you at 7:45 p.m. because you are a hotel guest") and a big birthday party is in full swing.
It's a local couple presiding over all this activity on the outskirts of Cirencester, who only added the 11-bedroom hotel to their theater and restaurant operations last year.
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'Dramatically different' is the tagline , the website claiming it's 'the antithesis' of your bland Cotswolds' country hotel.
Yes, but I'm starting to fancy of bland when confronted with some of the toughest backdrops: plastic ferns and palm trees, art déura giant, contrasting colors and general lack of air.
Its best feature is the Georgian hall and staircase - and there is a pretty courtyard for eating and drinking outdoors in the summer.
Our room is called Needham. Strangely, it has frosted windows (which only open a few inches), a red velvet headboard, and dark green walls. Beatrice's line from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, "There was a dancing star, and under it I was born", is framed and hangs above the fireplace but without any attribution.
>Going down to the Teatro, we notice that the corridors and the staircase are in great need of a vacuum cleaner. For management to not be above this, while charging £200 B&B for some stays, is a bad oversight.
A lot is going on at Ingleside House during our Saturday night stay.
Barn Theater is putting on a production of The Girl On The Train; The Teatro restaurant is buzzing ("We can welcome you at 7:45 p.m. because you are a hotel guest") and a big birthday party is in full swing.
It's a local couple presiding over all this activity on the outskirts of Cirencester, who only added the 11-bedroom hotel to their theater and restaurant operations last year.
> 'Dramatically different' is the tagline , the website claiming it's 'the antithesis' of your bland Cotswolds' country hotel.
Yes, but I'm starting to fancy of bland when confronted with some of the toughest backdrops: plastic ferns and palm trees, art déura giant, contrasting colors and general lack of air.
Its best feature is the Georgian hall and staircase - and there is a pretty courtyard for eating and drinking outdoors in the summer.
Our room is called Needham. Strangely, it has frosted windows (which only open a few inches), a red velvet headboard, and dark green walls. Beatrice's line from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, "There was a dancing star, and under it I was born", is framed and hangs above the fireplace but without any attribution.
>Going down to the Teatro, we notice that the corridors and the staircase are in great need of a vacuum cleaner. For management to not be above this, while charging £200 B&B for some stays, is a bad oversight.
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