The Watersmeet Hartpury — Restaurant in Forest of Dean

This is the worst place ever. Damp and dingy rooms, electrical sockets hanging off the wall, charity shop furniture and fittings. Pillows are choice of colour white and what one would describe as stain yellow. The wood floors are creatively decorated with mop pieces. Chipped bath, plugs unattached, frayed towels, shower door rubber beading limply hanging pointing at the constantly wet floor, with rusty bins and radiators to finish the ambiance . When the extract fan finally chugs into action it is like an old banger being slowly strangled. Sleep times are accompanied by the bite alarms of the carp anglers beep beep beep beep beep beep. Views of the big pond are hampered by bags of fishing tackle plonked directly in front of your window. Externally you can take your pick from various garbage dumps with what looks like power sourced from a the main building through an open cable going to one of the dumps. You may ask what do you expect for £10 per night but this was an eye watering £75 per night breakfast not included. Which may be a blessing in disguise. By any standards, this place should be avoided by all except if you are a coarse angler. Pull it down and start again Only one star but it should be 0 as they will not let you send...

Fantastic family meal; 9 diners (6 adults and 3 children) visited for Sunday lunch. Bar and waiting staff very attentive, friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Two little children were given colouring books which was a lovely a touch. Sunday roasts are incredibly generous portions with a selection of four meats (you can pay a couple of pounds extra for all meats) accompanied with roasts, stuffing, yorkshire puddings and at least 5 different veggies. Truly home cooked food and it shows through presentation and taste. Although none of our party ate from the menu as we all chose sunday roast, the menu was varied with something for everyone. Bar was well stocked with 5 different flavours of Whitley Neil Gin (my favourite!), local ales both bottled and hand pumped and a varied selection of wines. Great stuff! Many thanks for accommodating us all at what was short notice when you already had another large party attending. My only tip is: go visit. You will not be...

A shame! We’ve been a few times, always had good food, good service and good value. I would have liked to have given a good review but we were let down at our recent visit. Firstly, the staff behind the bar are excellent, always pleasant and provide good service, the food is excellent, huge portions and very tasty, this we enjoyed as usual but… We stay at a local campsite which we love and when a local asked us where we were staying he was then very rude about the place, giving some pretty bigoted remarks which the landlord sitting nearby joined in with. They were also being quite derogatory of the Welsh, which we are and not being very quiet about it. Sadly, we won’t...