Hotel berhampiran Watershed Mill, Settle

I love food, I simply can't recommend this hotel because the food is a let down. The hotel is in a beautiful setting, it has all the makings of a nice hotel; the grounds, a lake, the settings, a spa, EV charging etc. The View restaurant where dinner and breakfast is served is modern and smart. The quality of the food served at breakfast and dinner is not fitting with the rest of the hotel. There is very little choice at the breakfast buffet, barely any fruit. I had a cooked breakfast both days I was staying there, the first day as an English breakfast. The scrambled egg was watery, pale and luke warm, it looked and tasted like it had been diluted with milk and cooked long before my breakfast was made. The porridge I ordered the second day was incredibly dry. For dinner on the first night I ordered the lamb culets for £29. The portion of lamb was tiny, there were 2 small lamb culets and a few little bits of veg. I'd ordered sides as well but they were not great either. The food tasted ok but it wasn't great and the portion was tiny. For the second evening, we dined out at another hotel a few miles away. We paid a similar price and the meal was what we expected, it was much better, that was a place that I would return to. The only other thing I have to say is that the spa is quite expensive for hotel guests. It's £30 each for 2 hours. This meant that we only went once during our stay. If it was half price for hotel guests, we would have gone again. The rest of the hotel was good, the staff were all very nice, the place seemed fairly clean and well maintained.

Beautiful hotel, staff friendly and knowledgeable, food lovely, leisure facilities clean and staff very welcoming. Will definitely recommend and can’t wait to return.

The Plough Inn was a delightful place to stay. The staff were very friendly and the room was spotless! I had the best nights sleep ever because it’s so nice and quiet. The food was absolutely delicious also, both dinner and breakfast were fantastic. Drinks at the bar are reasonably priced. Parking is free and plentiful. Would love to visit it again. A lovely, cosy Yorkshire dales vibe.

So the Fence Gate Lodge only gets two stars because the room was lovely - NO other reason! Along with my daughter and her partner we booked a ”Lazy Sunday” deal but there was nothing lazy or leisurely about it - more pandemonium than peaceful. I rang a few days before to check how accessible my room was as I explained I had limited mobility. They said they had a function on during the evening of our stay and kindly upgraded us to a better room free of charge to be away from the noise...the only good bit! However, they failed to mention that it wouldn't be possible to get any food in the Lodge itself and that we'd have to go the the Inn up the road (which was too far for me to walk). My husband kindly offered to be designated driver which was disappointing but there was no other choice. We arrived about 3.15 for a Sunday lunch booking at 4.45 and hubby drove us to the Inn. At 4.10 my daughter went through to the restaurant to let them know we had arrived and would come through for our lunch shortly. At 4.40 we went through to be told there was no reservation for us!! The two girls on the restaurant reception had no explanation and said ”we only work Sundays” We were kept standing for about 20 minutes (difficult with limited mobility) until they found the manager who eventually worked out that when my daughter had told them we had arrived they had cancelled our booking! There were two weddings on that evening aside from the Birthday party at the Lodge so the place was heaving. We were seated for dinner and, to be fair, that was OK until we came to pay. We had incurred some extra drinks charges and also some supplements over and above the deal we had paid for. My husband gave my daughter his credit card to pay the bill and another 20 minute wait ensued as they couldn't work out how to sort it (never did manage to reconcile it!). While we were dining one party left the restaurant in disgust without paying and several members of staff told us what a terrible day they were having!! After a couple of hours over at the Inn we wanted to go back to the Lodge for the rest of the evening so we rang across the road to se if we could get a drink anywhere. We were told that provided we didn't disturb the Birthday party in any way we could sit and order drinks in Reception. We arrived in Reception and they came to take our drinks order. We ordered some beers but were told that there wasn't any beer as it was all for the Birthday function. Understandably we were a bit put out but asked for some red wine. We were told that they only had Merlot (possibly the only wine in the land I wont drink! We said no the the Merlot but I asked if we were ok to drink a bottle of shiraz that I had in the car from a wine shop visit earlier that day. I was told we could but that we would be charged corkage. I challenged this as I explained that we trying very hard to spend money with them but nothing was available!! They did agree to let us drink the wine a

I always stay here lovely place .................................................................................................. . ...................... ............. .......