Oyo The Leven

“Fairly Basic With a Comfy Bed”

We'd booked to stay a night here so we could have dinner in a local restaurant and not have to worry about getting home afterwards. We'd made the reservation via booking.com which was straight forward as was checking in on arrival. The rooms are on the 1st and 2nd floor, where ours was, with the … more

We'd booked to stay a night here so we could have dinner in a local restaurant and not have to worry about getting home afterwards. We'd made the reservation via booking.com which was straight forward as was checking in on arrival. The rooms are on the 1st and 2nd floor, where ours was, with the up to it being via some fairly narrow stairs and corridor where it would have been difficult getting a large suitcase up/along. The carpet on the stairs and down the corridor wasn't particularly nice and showing it's age in places although there are signs up saying that the hotel is currently undergoing some minor renovations and there was lots of squeaky floor boards as you walked down it. The double room was a reasonable size and appeared to have redecorated in the recent past, it would have benefited from having more than a few hooks on the wall for hanging clothes and the only drawers being 4 small ones on the dressing table with a stool that had wobbly legs. The bed was comfortable with no real noise coming from anywhere outside over night, however the blinds over the windows did nothing to keep out the early morning light, leading to a slightly disrupted sleep. The bed side lamps were cheap and tacky being moulded plastic, one of which the bottom was split. We found the radiator on and the room very warm, it did eventually cool down once we'd turned it off and opened one of the old sash windows (with difficulty as the blind wouldn't stay up while opening it), which wouldn't stay in a part open position. The power shower was adequate, yet the hot water in the sink was a very low flow and never actually warmed up, so it had to be filled with the water from the boiled kettle (which had water left in it when we arrived) to have a shave, the tiles around the bath (which had a few cracks in it) could also do with a bit of a scrub. We were aware that there was not breakfast option offered so had cereal with us and walked the short distance over the road to the Co-op to get some milk in the morning. A budget room that's OK for a one night break if you want to visit the town/area for any reason or it may be catering more for contractors who would be working somewhere in the area.

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