Canterbury Hotel Guide. Independent Hotels in Canterbury, Kent

Stayed for a mid-week 2 night break. Location is brilliant but you must pre-book the onsite parking. Room was compact but perfectly suitable (we prefer a king size bed but has forfeited this for the location). Loved the cathedral view and walking back from our meal in town at 10pm we enjoyed sitting in the grounds with no-one around. Very special. Breakfast was great and the fact that we had access to the cathedral for 3 days made the hotel even more reasonably priced.

We had a lovely couple of days on the way to the car ferry

Found the Hotel easily Staff excellent Food very good

Nice small B&B, helpfull owners giving adequate in

Great hotel with really friendly staff. Room was clean and spacious. The bed was very comfortable and was massive! Was starting to look a little tired around the edges but doesn't stop the enjoyment of your stay. It was very competitively priced and I would recommend it to anyone.

Have stayed here before & find it very useful for overnight stops either before or after a channel ferry/train crossing, if your travel logistics need such a stopover (Dover being a bit overpriced these days). On this visit, I was using Canterbury as a base for having an MOT done on my car, as I live & work in southern France some of the year. Basic student accom, but perfectly adequate - (single) bed, desk, wardrobe, chest of drawers, chairs, coffee/tea makings, sink, free wifi, good breakfasts. Efficient reception, slick check in & out, useful info leaflets/maps etc all available. Rooms are not en suite, but that's not a problem for me.

This review is based on a £50 overnight stay in the middle of one of Britain's most popular tourist attractions. The welcome by the male receptionist was excellent and he gave me a useful guided tour before showing me the Cathedral Room which I was allocated. No en-suite in this room but it had a fantastic upstairs view of the Cathedral and its grounds. Like my last stay in the Isle of Man the feeling that the floor was not level was confirmed when I placed the remote control on the bedside cabinet and it slid the whole length and fell off the end. It also gave the phrase climbing out of bed a new angle. The doorway was also built in times of smaller stature and I learned to be careful the hard way. However the location could not be better for the City and was about 10 mins walk away from both railway stations. The layout of the stairs and passageways was a challenge but I coped easily as it turned out. The breakfast experience reminded me of times gone by but was none the worse for it. The mature gentlemen in charge was most efficient and coped admirably. A quirky hotel, a Travelodge antidote, but excellent value for money.

The location is good and the hotel condition is fabulous. The drawbacks are 1. Rubbish toilet paper. 2. Not enough cooking facilities in the kitchen.

As a single traveller I was looking for a base for Canterbury. This fitted the bill admirably - a 25 min walk down to the city centre (definitely down!). There are buses, but with the fine weather I didn't bother. This is university student accommodation, so single rooms are the norm - clean, well decorated, on a lovely campus. There was no TV in the room - this could be plus or minus depending on requirements - I certainly didn't miss it. Breakfast and reception were in 2 different buildings - not an issue in good weather but would have been an irritation in the wet. Wifi is through the university - the instructions weren't terribly clear, and I needed to get one of the technicians at the library (a very helpful young man) to set it up - apparently it's a problem with Windows 8.1 Parking available, but limited spaces available during the day - no problem overnight