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Reviews of The Fox Inn

3 out of 5
The Fox Inn
Lower Ansty, Dorchester, England

Reviews

8.8

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 127 out of 254 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 94 out of 254 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 23 out of 254 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 8 out of 254 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 254 reviews" "

9.2/10

Cleanliness

9.0/10

Staff & service

7.8/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Peter

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The staff at the Fox were extremely friendly. The Room was a good size and bed comfortable however one of our rooms had very steep eaves which restricted movement without leaning over. The food was good standard pub food, as was the breakfast, without hitting any heights, hence 4 stars, but service was excellent.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

David

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely little find in the middle of nowhere. Good food, bar and open fire. Spot on.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Cheryl

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Krzysztof

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rodney

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ben

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
super venue, great food, great rooms and friendly staff
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mary

Travelled with family
Reception staff very welcoming, room comfortable and spotlessly clean. Good varied menu in restaurant and excellent breakfast. Lovely location.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

William

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice break away in a friendly well kept inn.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Alastair

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place
Just an overnight stop but the staff were welcoming, the room was excellent as was the food.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Vivien

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The Fox Inn is a beautiful, well maintained property. Our room was spotless and very comfortable on the top floor. We found the staff to be helpful and friendly and both dinner and the two breakfasts we had were well cooked and delicious. A car is essential for travelling as the inn is situated in a very rural area, but there are country walks that can be taken from the inn itself.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

John

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very nice
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

10/10 Excellent

Judy, Fairfield

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

AD

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

4/10 Poor

David

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Rowan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Friendly & relaxing
Needed to get away to de-stress. So glad we picked The Fox Inn , surrounded by beautiful countryside, rooms very comfortable, I loved the window seat. Phoebe and Brannon were great, nothing too much trouble and we loved our chats and banter every time we saw them, definitely made our stay even more enjoyable.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

EDWIN

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

john

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

karen

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

4/10 Poor

JASON, Chulmleigh

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
My room was superb. Nice size and a big comfortable bed. Very quiet location. However, I was let down the following morning as the chef failed to show up on time to cook breakfast. Upon check in I was asked what time I wanted breakfast. I went for 8am as I had attended for specific plans the following day. After ordering breakfast at 8, I was told 10 mins later that the chef was late and was only just starting to prep for breakfast. Consequently, I didn't receive my breakfast as I needed to leave. I would have given this place a glowing recommendation had I received the bed & breakfast I paid for but I only received the bed.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Clive

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

Brian

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Very enjoyable stay but could do with a bit more detail in rooms. Such as phone charging points and not using extension cables to plug in TV etc. That said would certainly stay again and would recommend.
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Lisa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2022

6/10 Okay

Sue

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

Penelope

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice PLace
Very pleasant place to stay with friendly bar atmosphere and adjacent restaurant. Booked 4 rooms which were spacious. Food very reasonably priced and had a relaxing evening. Had a slight issue with breakfast not starting early enough for us and a misunderstanding with the staff about leaving out cereals. The management were very apologetic and compensated us for their error. We will not let this stop us from returning
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

10/10 Excellent

Ron

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
very comfortable room although it had a sloping ceiling and banged my head numerous times! Did not detract from the comfort of the room and i would use the Fox inn again and defiantly recommend it
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really friendly and helpful staff. Food was fantastic.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Kingsley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very friendly and helpful staff. Excellent dinner too
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

8/10 Good

Nigel

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good place for a weekend
Great place for a break, not so good for business. Breakfast started at 8.30
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Tomasz

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2021

8/10 Good

Kevin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Lovely place, friendly staff...drive from hell :)
Lovely staff, the manageress was reallybhelpful and friendly. Its a really nice hotel, tastefully decorated, good food and very clean. We were unlucky and the room we were given (6) had dormer windows that were extremely long and the slope extended over the bed. The tv was very small. Getting here can be trecherous! If your sat nav takes youdown Aller Lane beware...this riad has a U Shaped ford and a very narrow 3 ton max loading bridge. If you go through the ford in a normal car you are likely to get stuck and need the fire brigade to rescue you. If you take the narrow bridge, booke your car in to get the allows refinished. In short dont go down this road
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

8/10 Good

Stephanie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

8/10 Good

Saijal

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Jill

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent Stay
We received a very warm and genuine welcome from the team. The Inn is in a beautiful location and very good parking right onsite. Its a lovely place, with excellent service, staff and facilities. we ate in the restaurant and the food, menu and service were all excellent. The room was very clean, well furnished and had everything we needed. Overall I can't recommend The Fox Inn highly enough. A great find and we will return.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Janet

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cheeky one nighter
Just a little overnighter - room really nice, clean and comfortable - ate in restaurant in the evening and it was lovely, as was breakfast
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

4/10 Poor

John

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Room very small
Food was very good throughout the stay. It was disappointing that the smallest room was allocated to the only couple and lead booking for our three rooms and they refused to allow us to change as the computer couldn’t be changed! Our room was very small no hooks to hang coats etc- water leaked in the bathroom and floorboards were very noisy.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2020

10/10 Excellent

paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Fox Ansty
Had excellent stay at the Fox lovely room well appointed very welcoming staff helpful and efficient nice restaurant good menu choice Good choice for Breakfast very nice setting very quiet area very rural and peaceful good walking area
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020

8/10 Good

Christopher

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good pub hotel experence
Staff were excellent, friendly and efficient. Food was ok, trying hard but guessing the midweek chef was on. Beer was good. Breakfast was good and again staff eager to help and very accomodating. Bed was very comfortable, room was quiet and dark and shower hot. ticks my boxes
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020

10/10 Excellent

Richard Joanne, Hexham

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely dog friendly hotel, friendly staff struggling at times due to covid. food generally good but dependant on staffing. Comfortable room.
Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

DG

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

8/10 Good

Carolyn

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The fox inn
Lovely cosy pub, lovely garden and amazing dinner and breakfast.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great stay
We stayed for two nights in a superior room. Really big room which was clean and nicely decorated. Tea and coffee ( real coffee) in room. Wifi was really good even in our room. Breakfast was included and consisted of full english, poached egg,cereal. All cooked really well We ate in the restaurant both nights and had lovely meals. Not as much selection due to Covid19 but something for everyone. The Fox Inn is in a rural area but the pub was quite busy in the evenings with both locals and guests. There was a lovely atmosphere.The staff were all very friendly and helpful We would definitely stay here again
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

10/10 Excellent

David, Haywards Heath

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very friendly and helpful staff, good food and our bedroom was excellent. In the recent hot weather it was nice to have a communal fridge adjacent to out corridor.
Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2020

10/10 Excellent

Fred, Lancs

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
a brilliant village inn
a great stay in a lovely part of the country. we were visiting the tank museum amd the location was perfect.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Moyra, Surrey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely countryside pub
Lovely pub and rooms in a very pretty village. Our room was very comfortable and we had a good night's sleep in the nice big bed. The pub downstairs was nice. Very dog friendly. We had a great dinner in the evening and breakfast was made from local proper bacon and sausages. The local area has stunning walks and beautiful scenery. Will be back
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Alison

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
An excellent hotel experience
Our stay at the Fox Inn was wonderful. A beautiful location. Clean comfortable and friendly hotel. The food was amazing. The staff were welcoming and helpful. I would certainly recommend this hotel and hope to visit again.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2017