Elstead Hotel

Lovely hotel with added bonus of a gym and indoor pool. Short 20 min walk from the beach. Service was good and welcoming with ample parking.

3rd year staying here and 5 star for Annabelle alone. Although dated, the rooms are more than adequate. Comfortable, clean and literally less than 10 min walk from the beach. Frre parking, gym, pool and sauna.

Lovely hotel, lovely staff, the potion size of the food is more than enough and a good choice of food also. The rooms are clean and tidy some with a ceiling fan as the radiators are constantly on and the rooms do get very warm.

This hotel came to my daughters rescue when she was locked out of home late at night (very late). They were so friendly and helpful to her and I will be eternally grateful. She said the room was clean and comfy and couldn't sing the praises of the staff that helped her enough. Fantastic.

A very happy stay and good value for the amount we paid. Lovely food and room was bigger than expected with a little fridge which was a bonus as is the gym and swimming pool. Staff very friendly and helpful. In need of a little uplift in places but didn't affect our stay and the staff more than make up for this. Will come back again. Value for what we paid for Bournemouth.

There's a diamond in this rough. All the staff are amazing. Friendly, helpful and make it a pleasant stay. But they are let down by their surroundings. It's clean in the rooms. But very dated and threadbare. Lovely clean sheets and towels. Slept fine. But felt uncomfortable with the standard of furniture in the room. A helpful fridge and an old fashioned tea tray. Great buffet breakfast. It's a bygone age of hotels. Keep the service update the rooms.

Very friendly staff, very clean room. Breakfast is amazing and alot of choice. Good location between Bournemouth town centre and the beach. Boscombe town is well worth the walk to it too. Will definitely be using again. Thank you for a very pleasurable stay

Beautiful rooms.very clean.even the bathroom toothbrush glasses sparkled;) The beds are so comfortable, the pillows are marvellous, but. I only got 2 hours sleep, the fire alarm went off at 2am! Someone smoking in their room! I do feel the hotel could have a silent alarm for detecting smokers, it's not rocket science.it saves the ringing in my Son's ears for the following 10 hours!

I know the fire alarm is there to save lives, but our hearing doesn't have to be damaged in the process. After my 2 hours sleep, I did really enjoy the hotel breakfast;) it really was enjoyable:) Would I stay here again? I wouldn't.until the hotel sniffed out the smokers:( it really isn't fair on the children.the children are the ones that suffer, my Son was screaming in fear, he placed my hands on his ears for 1 hour ( even after the alarm had been turned off! ) his body was shaking for 45 minutesI was really worried out of my mind.in the morning he was fine, but he did say he didn't want to go stay at that hotel again, which is a shame, because all the staff are top notch;) very helpful, lovely food & a handy location

We stayed for 2 nights and although hotel decor is a bit dated the staff are first class especially Anabelle with her sparkly face masks and personality. She and her colleagues made us feel very welcome. Breakfast and diner were both excellent.

All depends what you personally want. The Hotel is dated and the decor is tired. Notwithstanding that the Hotel is clean and welcoming, the bedrooms and en suite clean and comfortable with tea and coffee making facilities. The Staff are very pleasant and helpful and the food is delicious. I enjoyed my first stay and am booked to return for several days.

It provides all I require and more than some more expensive higher rated Hotels. I will be booking again in the New Year. The Hotel provides all I require in ample quantities.

I have been here several times, convenient for care home to visit family. Some of the rooms are small and tired, some large and lovely with fridge. Room 114 the latter, and has a bath.

The staff make this a 5 star review.the hotel itself is very dated but kept clean.the breakfast is a typical English breakfast and always well cooked and plenty of choice. Well stocked bar where you can also buy bar food, the bar food is quite basic but ok if you don't fancy eating out at one of the many eating places that Bournemouth has to offer. Nice family hotel.

Great stay. Great room. Great breakfast. Great location. Great price. Great service. A re-vamp of the decor would have gotten a fifth star but this wasn't of detriment to the visit.

Value for money, all staff are pleasant and courteous. We will definitely stay here again. Any1 who moans, needs their head checking.

Nice hotel but very dated, Nice quite rooms, nice reception staff, Nice breakfast staff, Nice buffet breakfast, Only serves fried eggs, No black pudding. Gym in a very old rundown state, The pool is open from 8am, We went at 9-15 and were told we couldn't use it as the man had only just put chemicals in, It's terrible to advertise a time yet because staff were late we lost our chance to use the pool.

The pool is small and has dirt in the bottom, The ceiling is very poor and the mirrors have never been cleared. The jacuzzi is never turned on only put on to mix the chemicals, (why? ), The restaurant dinner from Autumn is terrible, Only fish n chips, chili con carne, or curry all at 11 each When we decided to book to eat there the manager told us they were only doing finger foods that night again Why?, He did tell us to go to dine at a local hotel which we did and it was lovely, overall I would say it's a bit to expensive to stay here so shop around.

Stayed here over the Bournemouth Half Marathon weekend. Great location for the finish. Also, good location to get to the beaches. Rooms have issues. The shower was terrible, next to no water coming out. Bed very uncomfortable, and pillows that were paper thin - considered using towels and clothes to make up a pillow. Housekeeping did deliver extra the next day, hoped for a better nights sleep, but the walls were as thin as the pillows and could hear everything next door.

As mentioned here, the decor needs attention. Breakfast was ok, but they won't serve a minute before 8. Didn't use the fitness centre. Not for any other reason that the weather was fabulous.

Overpriced! It was within 15 minutes walking distance of beach and/or town centre if you are young or fit. The whole place looked tired and was in need of a complete overhaul and redecoration, although to be fair they had quite a nice pool. There was a gym of sorts but the equipment was a little old. The family room we were in had a large double bed and a fold out single.

The double bed was comfortable with a very nice mattress, but the single bed's mattress was old, stained and with several tears in it. Cooked breakfast was included in price and you were served by a waitress. The food was average but quite oily. There were no evening meals available only bar snacks - but it was in October. The staff seemed to be lacking in training. There was car parking which was nice but quite small and in the summer months would fill up quickly. Suffice it to say we would not return there.

Really enjoyed our stay. The staff are polite, helpful and knowledgeable, the hotel is immaculately clean in both communal areas and bedrooms/bathrooms, and the breakfast was delicious. Beds were comfy and we got a great night's sleep. Plenty of tea, coffee and biscuits in the room, as well as an iron/ironing board and hairdryer. It doesn't look like it has been decorated since the 80's but this is part of it's charm and made us quite nostalgic. Overall, would we stay here again? YES!

It was an OK place to stay, nice and clean. The decor was dated, from the early 1980s and no mushrooms with breakfast. Pool was fun. I would stay again but maybe find another place to eat breakfast .

My husband and I made a critical error involving this establishment and I wish to alert other travelers. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES make a non refundable reservation and expect ANY concessions on the part of this hotel. Due to unforeseen issues we had to cancel our reservation. I personally called the establishment, explained our dilemma, giving them 8 days notice and the management punted me off to Booking.com inferring it was a Booking.com issue not the hotel. Needless to say I was not given a refund.i was extremely disappointed and wish to make others aware of the hotel's iron clad policy

A very bog standard hotel that just didn't really make an impression on me, a good price for central Bournemouth though! Stuffy staff in places, the dinner menu was incredibly limited, the pool was very cool, and just felt a bit dated. The room was comfortable enough, it would do for a business stay, but I wouldn't want to stay there!

In truth, I've only used this hotel for work purposes; training courses, away days and Christmas lunch. The food is very good, if served in a slightly awkward way, a bit like a carvery, but not. When there's a whole buch of you it can be tricky but with team work, it sorts itself out! There is a small dining room with a large long table which in which we had our Christmas lunch.

Silver service, very tasteful darkwood decor and a roaring fire. Lovely. The conference suite is good, but the door is in the wrong place. The furnings are comfotortable. The Ladies is good, clean and simple. There are also facilities for the disabled, and men. The entrance is straight into a conservatery style lounge which is very pleasant, and the bar is situated here too.

A very pleasant space. We did find that teas or coffees seemed to take ages to come through, and we often ended up having those back in the conference suite. I really never moan when told this is a venue. It's better than some others by far.