the hotel was great and the service was not to be faulted in any way. Food was excellent. My only complaint would be as to how the bar in the hotel can charge £1.60 for a glass of soda water? Sona water was not even on the till so they were using tonic water.

We arrived at Hunton Park at around 6pm on Friday night. We had booked a double room but were shown to a very small (and very hot!) room which unfortunately was set up for 1 person (one set of towels,glasses,mugs etc). We then called reception and,after a frosty response from the receptionist, requested the extra items. 20 minutes later the towels etc turned up! We then decided to ask reception if we had been incorrectly allocated a smaller room only to be told that all rooms in the hotel were the same size and that even if there were other rooms we couldn't move as there was a wedding party in that night. Oh well at least the restaurant might offer some respite....We wandered to the deserted restaurant which looked remarkably like a conference room with harsh lighting and no music to set the mood. We took a seat at an empty table and there we sat for 15 minutes without seeing any restaurant staff (or indeed a menu!) and only the loud dance music coming from the kitchen for company. I decided to revisit our friendly receptionist to ask if the restaurant was indeed open. A very friendly girl was then dispatched to look after us and she did her best to welcome us and keep us happy. Unfortunately, the wedding party in the function room next door got most of her (and the rest of the staff's) attention and we were left feeling in the way and not really welcome. No one else entered the restaurant throughout our entire meal except for a waiter who noisily wandered around the room laying out tables for breakfast clanking as much cutlery as humanly possible and breaking only to enter the kitchen and embark on a shouting competition with the chef and other staff! Not exactly a romantic start to our weekend but at least the food was reasonable although the dessert looked and tasted as if it had sat out all day.We then headed off for bed and back to our furnace of a room. Only once we'd turned off the lights and TV did the drone of the swimming pool plant room beneath our room really become apparent. At least we'd discovered why the room was so hot though! A greatly disjointed night's sleep then followed with lots of noise from the wedding party in the corridor outside being nicely supported by the generators below! The following night followed much the same pattern only with a different wedding party who excelled themselves by raising the noise levels to a new high. Give Hunton Park a miss if it's romance and peace you're looking for is our advice!