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Reviews of Strenneth Guesthouse

4 out of 5
Strenneth Guesthouse
Airfield Road, Fersfield, Diss, England

Reviews

9.0

Wonderful

Rating 10 - Excellent. 52 out of 85 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 24 out of 85 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 4 out of 85 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 85 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 3 out of 85 reviews" "

9.2/10

Cleanliness

9.2/10

Staff & service

10/10

Amenities

9.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

4/10 Poor

Jacob

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Response from The owner on 12 Oct 2023
JacobI am sorry that you didn't enjoy your stay. All because you said you were going to arrive late after 12.00am and you didn't arrive until much later on the second day and you wanted me to refund the first nights accommodation which I was not able to, particularly since you hadn't completed your address details correctly which said you came from USA whereas you came from Nottingham .UK.

10/10 Excellent

Tina

Travelled with partner
Liked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Paul and his team were absolutely first class,we wanted somewhere off the beaten track and Strenneth certainly ticked all the boxes.Breakfast was delicious,rooms were cosy and it was like being at home from home. We had a great time and we enjoyed the peace and quiet of the countryside.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2023
Response from paul on 31 Aug 2023
Hi TinaThank you for your lovely review and we are very pleased that you enjoyed your stay. . We will look forward to seeing you again in the future

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
B&B needs some TLC … bed very uncomfortable , bedding old, pillows very soft, duet to small for bed, bathroom floor boards soft . However place full of character and breakfast fantastic all local produce
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2023
Response from paul on 31 Aug 2023
Hello anonymous.We are very sorry that you did not find everything to your satisfaction. I assume you stayed in Bedroom No1 and we have scheduled the bathroom floor for work this Autumn. We have had no previous complaints about the bed or duvet in fact the very opposite and our linen all comes from a reputable launderer.. If you had raised any of these points during your stay we would have immediately rectified those that we could.

8/10 Good

Ernst

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
nice and clean room and facilities, friendly staff and very friendly little dog
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2023
Response from Paul on 31 Aug 2023
Hi Ernst Thank you for your review and we are very pleased that you enjoyed your stay and Rocky our Jack Russel.. . We will look forward to seeing you again in the future

10/10 Excellent

Michelle

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Paul was an exceptional host, nothing was too much trouble. Offered advice on places to visit and took time to talk and made you feel very welcome. Room was Amazing, very clean and spacious with a very comfy bed. Breakfast was exceptional. We will definitely be back and would not hesitate to recommend.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023
Response from Paul on 29 May 2023
Hi Michelle Thank you for your very kind review. We will look forward to seeing you both the next time you come to Diss. Any time in the next 3 months and all the Sweet Peas will be inn Bloom. There are about 5000 plants!

10/10 Excellent

Tracetech uk ltd

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fantastic host Paul is real gentleman nothing a bother always helpful great set up
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2022
Response from paul on 26 Nov 2022
Hi Guys,Thank you for stopping with us, it was our pleasure.

8/10 Good

Lee

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2022
Response from Paul on 7 Jun 2022
Thank you for your review. We are pleased you enjoyed your stay.

10/10 Excellent

Nick

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

Eric

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2021

8/10 Good

Paul

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2020
Response from paul on 13 Oct 2020
Hi Paul I really enjoyed our conversations and swopping our experiences of Mechanical Engineering over the past 50 years. I do hope that we will see you again

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2020
Response from paul on 3 Oct 2020
Thank you for your review, very kind.

10/10 Excellent

gianpaolo

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2020
Response from paul on 3 Oct 2020
Thank you for your review, very kind.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Steve

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Picturesque
Beautiful place right in the countryside
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Reg

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
fantastic B&B. Lovely rural location, very clean & tidy. Friendly owners who bend over backwards to help and make sure your stay is as comfortable as possible. I cannot recommend this accommodation highly enough.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2017
Response from paul on 26 Dec 2017
Thankyou Reg for your very kind comments. We hope you had a good Christmas with your family and the skiing went well.

10/10 Excellent

Keith

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Give me Stenneth 4 b&b !
Superb breakfast, comfortable bed, great shower, helpful staff
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017
Response from paul on 26 Dec 2017
Hi Keith thankyou for your very kind comments and we hope you are enjoying the Christmas break.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Run by lovely people who make a great breakfast featuring lots of local produce including eggs from their own hens. I was in room 3 which was a spacious twin with en-suite. Only downsides would be the shower in bath tub and thin walls.... I had to listen to the couple next door copulating, they may as well have been in my room! A bit awkward at breakfast....
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

8/10 Good

Moira

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely countryside stay
Beautiful place wonderful breakfast friendly people the only drawback is that it is remote and a long way from amenities there are pubs and food available but nothing within walking distance. Will definitely stay again when not on business as the place itself is very nice indeed.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017
Response from paul on 9 Sept 2017
Hi Thank.you for your review. We are very rural and quiet. However we are only 2 miles from 4 pubs that all prepare evening meals, so we are not that remote and 2 miles doesn't seem very far to us.

10/10 Excellent

Chris, Northamptonshire

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Central base for us!
Friendly atmosphere with excellent breakfast with local produce. Homemade marmalade a must!
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2017

10/10 Excellent

Simon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Quiet and comfortable
Very pleasant and very quiet - excellent breakfast. Will stay again if in the area.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

10/10 Excellent

B Jones, uk

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
excellent
as always the service was excellent.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely place and people could not fault them. Only issue was the toilet is in the same room (no door) and right next to the bed and because they are very clean the room stinks of bleach. A bit of an odd set up but overall it's a cracking little place to stay
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2017

8/10 Good

mikael

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
very pleasant stay
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2017

10/10 Excellent

B Jones, Midlands

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
exceptional
outstanding
Stayed 1 night in May 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

10/10 Excellent

Juan, High Wycombe

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Would definitely come again
Very pleasant staff and very nice facilities. And the breakfast was brilliant!

10/10 Excellent

B Jones, Midlands

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
excellent
Really enjoyed my stay. Can't fault anything. will be visiting again

10/10 Excellent

B Jones, Midlands

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
excellent
My second stay at Strenneth and as before I couldn't fault anything. Quiet location, very clean and comfortable room. friendly helpful staff.

10/10 Excellent

B Jones, midlands

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
excellent
very clean comfortable room, quiet location will be staying again.

10/10 Excellent

Ian, NE

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Just what you expect from a b&b in the country.
Quite, clean, spacious rooms, helpful owners, lovely place to stay for a few days in the country. If I'm back in the area I wouldn't hesitate on staying here again. Thanks Paul.

8/10 Good

elisabeth, B

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Quiet, clean, comfortable, great value
The house is well signposted and easy to find-even on a dark December night. The welcome was warm and the room very comfortable and clean. Breakfast was delicious with lots of home made or locally sourced ingredients. It was all an amazingly low price. Really good value.

8/10 Good

andy

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely quiet Retreat
A beautiful location in a quiet area, was met by a lovely lady who worked for the owners. So helpful and a commendable attitude that perhaps the owner could learn from. My original small single room (no. 5) had the bed in the toilet or the toilet in the bedroom ,take your pick !! Not something youd expect unless on remand. Thanks for changing me to an ensuite , despite wanting more money , yeah right Mr Grumpy.!!

10/10 Excellent

Doug

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Home from how you would like your own to be!
The staff were friendly and professional. The dining room was beautiful and cosy, as was the bedroom and despite some pre-stay concern there might actually be an airport there was none and it was a very quiet area. Breakfast was of high quality food cooked perfectly. If we find ourselves in the area again we will certainly stay there again.

4/10 Poor

Bruce, Perth

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
very basic accomodation
paid for a single room with ensuite but instead got put in the bunkhouse with a shared bathroom.Bed was too small,was the bottom half of a bunk bed.Walls are paper thin,could hear the guy in the next room snoring.Wifi is limited to 100mb per day,if you want more you have to pay extra.Breakfast cost an extra 4 pounds but is worth it.Have stayed in better for less

8/10 Good

Bob, Washington DC, USA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Relax in the middle of the English Countryside
A nice hotel with very friendly staff in the middle of the English Countryside. The room was spacious and clean. An excellent breakfast with a wide choice. Good parking.

10/10 Excellent

Mr.P E, spalding

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
lovely stsy
Excellent and the owners very nice people

2/10 Terrible

claudette, London

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Unsatisfied
Would not recommend this hotel under any circumstances. The service was that of Faulty Towers. After agreeing to book the last double room for a family member under single occupancy tariff rate over the phone. The owner chose to refute such an agreement and we were overcharged by £100. The owner also attempted to take money off of the credit card on the second morning of our stay in direct breach of the terms and conditions of the booking. Overall it was a horrible experience which I will not be repeating.
Response from paul on 24 Oct 2015
The comments do not relate to a room booked on Expedia. The comments relate to another room booked separately. The room price quoted was for a double room and a double room was occupied and charged . The guest gave a card number that could not be authorised as there was insufficient funds.

10/10 Excellent

Ricky, Beckenham

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A very quiet location, a perfect weekend

10/10 Excellent

stefano

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Quiet location and a spectacular breakfast
USed it as a stayover during my roadtrip with my son. Location is very quiet, rooms are good, not exactly modern, but adequate for a building this age. The real surprise came at breakfast. All ingredients are locally sourced, or locally produced. Lookaout for the hand made apple juice and the home made jams.

8/10 Good

Jon, Suffolk

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
A pleasant short stay allowing us to take the dog
A pleasant short stay allowing us to take the dog, (lots of walks in the area) Charming little self catering cottage with all you need. Wonderful rural so no mobile phone or broadband without using their network. Central east Anglia lots to do all round even the coast.

2/10 Terrible

Christopher, Miami.

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Stay at the 'bates' motel 2
Very bad stay! My wife and I booked this B&B based on the stars but WE REGRET IT. The room had a bed that felt like it was broken, terrible. Dusty room with minimal to none care in cleanliness. The walls were so thin that we could hear the snoring of the next door guest and the child's cry during the night. The bathroom had no curtain or even rails which my wife felt very uncomfortable washing, NOT showering because there was no shower, she said she felt like someone was watching. We had a very bad experience and would NOT recommend this to anyone. Finding the hotel was a mission if not for a nice neighbor who helped us. Further to this we couldn't open the room curtains in the morning because there were men walking pass the window (no privacy). Very OVERPRICED, check closer and there other accommodations for 30% less, we found it when it was too lat. We fail to see how they got there 4 star rating.
Response from paul on 24 Oct 2015
All our bathrooms have curtains and this is the first time in 15 years that someone has complained about the wall thickness. Our rooms are cleaned every day I have no idea what the ref to Bates motel is must be something you Americans have on TV? Rooms on the ground floor can occasionally have people walking past . If you had mentioned your problems we could have tried to resolve them.

10/10 Excellent

Chris, Rickmansworth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I've stayed at Strenneth many times and keep going back,the silence is golden. Very friendly welcome and great breakfast.

10/10 Excellent

Barrie, Maidstone Kent UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
great Stay
We was only there for 24 hrs ie over night service was great very friendly and helpful. Breakfast was great lots of options nicely presented and cooked

8/10 Good

brinners, kent.

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location
I used this as a one night stop over as a self employed sales agent but would consider going there with my wife as it's a great location,really quiet and peacefull and very reasonably priced as well.

8/10 Good

Carol, Western MA USA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A tucked away country retreat.
The Strenneth Guest House is located in an updated, converted 15th century farm house in the rural countryside. It is homey and pleasant and the hosts are welcoming. Rooms are clean, if small, and with a comfortable bed, lend themselves to a good night's sleep.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Recent Stay at Strenneth
Had a lovely stay at Strenneth B&B , rooms were very clean , lovely garden area and decking to sit out on in the evening . I would highly recommend this accommodation.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice b & b recommended
the host very welcoming food was excellent I found the hotel very comfortable was a short drive to diss town centre but that was fine grounds were very good too

8/10 Good

Ian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Chix, UK

Liked: Staff & service
It's a nice country location.
This a nice country location, quiet most of the time, with country views, the fried breakfast is from local suppliers which sets you up for the day and reasonably priced overall.