Duke of Buckingham

“Ask to be in the main building”

I cannot comment on the hotel as we were put in what looked like a converted garage round the corner from the main building. The receptionist was helpful. We paid £5 for a permit to park in a nearby street, which seemed to be safe. It was a good price for Portsmouth City Centre and the room and … more

I cannot comment on the hotel as we were put in what looked like a converted garage round the corner from the main building. The receptionist was helpful. We paid £5 for a permit to park in a nearby street, which seemed to be safe. It was a good price for Portsmouth City Centre and the room and en suite were acceptable. I would have refused to have stayed there if I'd been alone, I wouldn't have felt safe.

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“Disappointing visit”

This was the 2nd time staying here and unfortunately we got the same room number 17. To use the shower you need to kneel in the bath, the toilet was constantly making noises as though it was filling itself overnight, it was making the noise when we arrived, we did ask if we could change rooms but t… more

This was the 2nd time staying here and unfortunately we got the same room number 17. To use the shower you need to kneel in the bath, the toilet was constantly making noises as though it was filling itself overnight, it was making the noise when we arrived, we did ask if we could change rooms but the very nice girl on reception said it would be another £20 (on checking their website the only room available was only £12 more than we had paid) we declined. Unfortunately we won't be staying here again

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“Nice hotel but some strange goings on in The Cottage annex.”

We have stayed at the Duke of Buckingham now on two occasions. Once in the main hotel and recently in the Cottage annex around the back. Two different experiences. Our first stay at the main hotel was great. Clean room. Nice comfortable bed. Tv, tea, coffee making facilities in the room. En suite … more

We have stayed at the Duke of Buckingham now on two occasions. Once in the main hotel and recently in the Cottage annex around the back. Two different experiences. Our first stay at the main hotel was great. Clean room. Nice comfortable bed. Tv, tea, coffee making facilities in the room. En suite with good shower. Street parking in area with a parking permit that puts you in the heart of Old Portsmouth. It’s a great location to explore and at a very reasonable price. Then recently we stayed at The Cottage, annex. Still at the Duke of Buckingham but a separate building around the back. It’s a small property that’s been converted into 4 rooms with en suite bathrooms. Our room again was clean and tidy. Tv, tea and coffee facilities were great. The shower room was a little tired but perfectly acceptable for our short stay. One thing we did experience this time. Noise. The floors and walls are paper thin and you hear everything in the cottage. And I mean everything!! We were woken early one morning by a couple in the room above practising their bedroom athletics! We laughed it off in good humour. The couple left early in the morning but strangely had no bags with them. Odd? The same afternoon, we came back to the room after a day of sightseeing and were treated to another ‘sound show’ from above, this time a different couple and extremely noisy. We’re not prudes but this really was a little over the top, if you pardon the pun. There could have been youngsters in one of the other rooms, it was around 5pm in the afternoon so not late at all! We had a table booked at a local restaurant which came to our rescue so we made a hasty escape. We eventually got back to our room at around 9:30Pm, hoping they’d got it all out of their system. Thankfully, they had, but just as we thought everyone was settling down for the evening, that said couple upstairs, left the building, dropping the keys off in the box outside our room, clearly checking out covertly. Who checks out at 10pm having checked in earlier the very same day? See what I mean with this? We’re all adults and we are by no means prudish, but it did make us think the Cottage annex might not solely be being used by fellow tourist types like us! Of course it’s very difficult for a hotel to try and filter this sort of thing but we felt the experience warranted mentioning as it really was obvious what was going on. We wouldn’t recommend the Cottage annex to anyone with youngsters. We didn’t know we were booked into the cottage and wouldn’t want to stay there again on the back of this. It’s a shame because our first stay at the main hotel was great. The Duke of Buckingham is a good little hotel with friendly helpful staff, ideally situated at a very reasonable price in Old Portsmouth. It’s close to all the tourist attractions and has parking available outside. Just be advised about what we experienced if you happen to find yourself booked into the cottage at the back of the hotel!

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