The Bear Hotel - Wantage, United Kingdom 

This was, for £70 per night the worst hotel i have ever stayed in. The room was tiny (and i really mean tiny although i did see other people in our party with larger rooms), and the fixtures and fittings were pretty much all broken or partly hanging off the wall. This was the first hotel i've stayed in to not even supply tissues in the room. The tv was really small and there was no remote control. We also had a window onto the town square which gets very noisy with drunks from 11pm till 2am. The staff were also generally very unhelpful, and seemed to be quite happy doing as little as they could to help us. If i had been paying £35-£40 per night then i could stomach the aforementioned problems, but they are charging proper prices for very very poor accommodation. We only stayed as it was pre booked for us by the groom of the wedding we were going to. Otherwise i'd have been out of there sharpish... If you've got other options.... Take 'em!

Several of us were booked into this hotel for a wedding nearby, and from what the website says, it looks relatively nice, however looks can be deceiving. For £70 a night, although in the centre of town, its far too much for what this hotel offered, or rather didnt! There was no real vegetarian option for breakfast, staff didnt know how to smile, only one high chair was available despite it being a family hotel and when we stayed there were at least 3 babies were there, my nephew and friends baby included, staff were also rude in the restaurant and only acknowledged your arrival if you were a party of 2 sitting on a 3 person table, and they managed to run out of baked beans on Sunday morning (which they did not apologise for), and it doesnt seem that they have heard of a shop! Rooms are also luck of the draw, you could end up with a tiny room with just a shower, a slightly larger one with a shower in bath,or a really nice room. The bar however, i have no problems with, very friendly staff, especially the night porters and most of the service is done with a smile, apart from the owners, the woman didnt smile once, and i must say, i lost track of the amount of times it was referred to as fawlty towers, though if john cleese had been there, it would have been worth all the hassle! In hind-sight, the place over the road looked much nicer, tho i am not intending on returning to Wantage anytime soon! Best steer clear, it's not worth it!