The Griffin Hotel

Great hotel Great host Lovely food Definitely stay there again

A lovely English Inn. It's an old building looking out on the town and church. The bed was comfortable and room was warm. The staff very friendly. Breakfast was great. Richard is a character. Will come again when visiting family.

A lovely English Inn. It’s an old building looking out on the town and church. The bed was comfortable and room was warm. The staff very friendly. Breakfast was great. Richard is a character. Will come again when visiting family. A proper old fashioned Inn

Friendly & Welcoming. Good Food. Basic Room but fine for an overnight stay.

Ideal for a one night stay over. The room was comfortable and clean and the staff were welcoming

The host & staff were very polite and engaging. Parking was restricted to small cars, but on street parking was freely available in front of the hotel. I had visited the bar on previous visits to Snetterton Circuit, which was a traditional style of 1970's decor, which I liked. The breakfast was excellent value, with quality items one step up from the high streel economy hotel brands. Plenty of it, with a decent selection of options.The cost of £80 per night for my wife & I was reasonable for a one off stay, but the room was only just wide enough to house the double bed, but had a desk with draws for a few clothes. The bed was comfortable and the pillows sumptuous and clean, but there were a few negatives my wife said I should mention. Now I dont want to sound like a hotel inspector, but the following were obvious oversights.T he first was that the heating was on 24/7 an unable to be controlled in the room, so we had the windows open all the time we were in the room. The outside temperature was about 15 degrees, but using my phone app, the inside more like 25 degrees with the windows shut.The walls were originally decorated with white art ex plaster, which had become stained over its life and the groove in the plaster were dust traps meaning that the cornice areas were full of cobwebs. The paint scheme was in ned of a good clean and make over and the carpet started going threadbare on the stairs from the bar. The toilet needed cleaning round the hinge are of the seat as it was brown and stained. The shower needed a service, as the water control valve was very stiff to operate and the heat control was locked into the 35+ range and could not be switched off. We have a similar shower at home so it was not operator error, probably just scaled up. For me it was acceptable, as I have stayed in much worse, but with a little more due diligence, it should have been a 4* review, never going to get 5* due to the type and age of the property, location and cost. I would not deter anyone staying for a short break, as the host is a nice chap, but any longer than a night or two and the negatives i mentioned above, would annoy me. I hope this gives you an honest overview of our experience. I would probably stay again, as it is convenient for my wife & i to support our son at a Snetterton race weekend.

The hotel was welcoming and the people were really friendly, the bar was good and the food was nice, that’s where the food ends unfortunately, the rooms are very tired and not as clean as they should be, the shower didn’t look like it had been cleaned, the shower head was blocked and I had to clean it with my toothbrush (now disposed of) the building is 400 years old and I’m not sure if the mattresses or decor have been updated much since

I hadn't been here for 26 years when I last stayed and Richard was waiting behind the bar just as he was before. I stayed here with my wife for the weekend while attending a race meeting at Snetterton. The building is old and historic and if you bare that in mind you'll appreciate what a great place it is. Great food and excellent service. I won't be waiting 26 more years to revisit.