Sir Christopher Wren Hotel and Spa

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Excellent Hotel and Service!

Areti V on 18/11/2017 21:39

I visited Windsor for a business trip and I fall in love with Sir Christopher Wren Hotel. Most friendly and helpful receptionist ever, so lovely and great first impression of the hotel. Located on a walking street along the old town next to Thames River. I had an amazing and romantic view full of swans.

The hotel is an old building but well renovated into a 4-star hotel. Everything about the hotel was exceptional, and I don't give praise lightly. It was clean, stylish, roomy and felt like home! The room itself was well equipped and comfortable.

Food was beyond good and great value for money and service in both places attentive and efficient. Breakfast were good, will fresh fruits and juices, fried eggs, sliced salmons and everything you would want for breakfast.

The reception personnel was very helpful in advise on what to do in the city or anything I asked. They were polite and always in the best mood. Unfortunately, they didn’t have an option for a paid late check-out. So, I wish I knew this in advance, therefore I would have booked the room for some extra hours the last day of my stay.

Do not neglect to try a massage or a spa therapy! All rooms and hotel facilities are smoking free.

One last tip: Don't order Creme Brulee, unless you do want to get disappointed.

Location location location

Marianne C on 18/11/2017 19:02

Right on the river with terrace overlooking Eton bridge, with masses of swans including black ones, ducks, chugging boats, towers in summer.

Outstanding jump off point to visit all Windsor has to offer, notably HRH weekend haunt, the astounding castle.

Food was excellent. Don’t personally like the recent bar re-fit, far too modern but maybe I’m not the right target profile. Accommodation across the cobbled road is swish and pristine.

Stay at Sir Christopher Wren

anngedney on 13/11/2017 14:28

The rooms were great and very clean.
All the staff we met were lovely and extremely helpful.
Had dinner in the Brasserie which was delicious and the place had a great atmosphere.
Staff in Brasserie exceptional, especially Benedito who went out of his way to make our son's birthday memorable. Paul, the bartender and Reka, the waitress, were brilliant too, all very attentive and nothing was too much trouble.
Can't wait to return, had a fantastic stay.

Lovely hotel... bit chaotic

Mike J on 12/11/2017 15:48

We just spent 2 nights here on a weekend break and found the pre-arrival experience to be excellent. I especially loved the fact that we got offered a free drink (of anything!) in the bar just for booking direct with the hotel... it was the best price anyway so seemed an obvious route to book through.
We chose off-site parking which was £15/day and only 5 mins walk away which worked great for us. Check-in was great... friendly welcome. Lovely bar/restaurant overlooking Windsor Bridge and the Thames, and really lovely room - although we booked a feature room and the one we wanted with a decent seating area wasn't available so we were given (confirmed in advance by phone call - very attentive!) a different room that had a balcony... that's very nice but in November when it's particularly cold it didn't really seem like much of an additional feature given how cold it was and that we couldn't use it... still, we really enjoyed the room anyway. Massive bed and very comfortable.
On Saturday night though, there was a wedding in the hotel. For the most part this really didn't bother us... some of the wedding guests came in to the bar which added nicely to the atmosphere. But on Sunday morning things weren't so great... the breakfast room was completely rammed and even though there were so many staff on duty nobody really seemed that attentive. When we came in to be seated (and we could really have just taken a seat ourselves!) we were made to wait while the staff at the podium took payment from someone, but the card machine didn't work so we were easily waiting 3-4 minutes... while this was going on another guest appeared for breakfast and jumped in front of us and was seated by another member of staff even though it was clear we'd been waiting. The guest apologised but clearly didn't care. We then spent ages waiting for someone to offer us tea/coffee when staff were seating people around us and asking them if they wanted tea/coffee as soon as they were seated!
When we were waiting to retrieve our luggage later on, the receptionist said it could only be brought to us from the luggage store by a porter. We waited nearly 15 minutes for a porter to appear, and then when he did come he couldn't find our luggage and had to take us into the luggage store to find it.
The hotel was clearly busy, but I just find it a bit crazy that when a hotel hosts a wedding there is always some negative impact on other residents who are not part of the wedding. While I totally understand that weddings are big business for hotels, I don't understand how they never seem to be able to manage such events without it impacting on the experience of other guests in one way or another.
All in all this is a lovely property and we really loved our room and the staff, for the most part, were really nice, but for the price we paid I think we'll be staying somewhere else when we next come to Windsor.

Lunch venue

Janfrank51 on 12/11/2017 02:00

Superb lunch venue with seating that has stunning views across the river Thames and Old Windsor. Very relaxed setting, excellent menu and high quality food but most of all very friendly, attentive service. Our waiter Bennie was outstanding!