The Crown and Castle Reviews
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| How refreshing to find a hotel with hands-on owners, who have their priorities right. David and Ruth Watson (yes, she’s the TV presenter) were already well-known hoteliers when they set about making this (originally) 16th-century inn their own. Their aim was “to create a new concept in hospitality, offering a genial atmosphere, good food and well-designed, simple bedrooms at modest cost”. Nothing is surface, nor clichéd, nor overpriced. They’ve succeeded in spades. |
Key Attractions:
value, great food, good service, village inn
Price Bracket: Inexpensive
In a Nutshell: TV hotelier Ruth Watson's own excellent hotel
Location: in the centre of Orford
Address:
The Crown and Castle,
United Kingdom
They Say...
The Crown and Castle has 18 light, stylish bedrooms all with modern en-suite bathrooms. Although extremely quietly positioned, it is not a country house hotel in the hackneyed, ruched-curtain, prohibitively expensive sense. Neither is it efficient but soulless, in the way modern, city-centre hotels can be.
Ruth and David Watson have set out to create a new concept in hospitality, offering a genial atmosphere, good food and well-designed, simple bedrooms at modest cost. The Watsons are well known restaurateurs and hoteliers in Suffolk, having previously owned Hintlesham Hall and the famous Fox and Goose Inn at Fressingfield.
Divided between the garden (11 rooms) and the main hotel, all the bedrooms have been completely refurbished and are airy and bright, with Fired Earth and Paint Library paints; Osborne & Little curtains or blinds, top quality beds, and Conran-cum-Ikea furniture. The garden rooms have undergone an external refurbishment and the internal décor is modern, good-looking and casually styled.They also have the added virtue of a semi-private terrace with a great view of the castle. Bathrooms throughout the hotel have been completely modernised and have both baths and power showers - with the exception of our two standard rooms, which have baths only.
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