Hotels Near Cheesefoot Head in Itchen Valley

The location is perfect and walking distance to main sites. The Japanese restaurant is also wonderful. The room is clean and spacious. However, data access and wifi is limited. Overall it was a very wonderful experience staying at Kyoto room

We’ve just completed 3 nights at the Mercury Winchester. We chose the hotel as it was the cheapest hotel with closest proximity to the city centre. As someone with the mantra “ I spend more time in the city than I do the hotel” I was not expecting the Ritz. Location is 10/10, within 100yds you are in the high street and right at the beginning of the local market when it is on. It’s worth noting that when the market is happening they close one of the main roads leading to the hotel so you would have to use a back route. Our Sat Nav took us down the road the market takes place so would have been a problem had it been market day. The hotel itself is tired and our “privilege room” was plentiful with stained carpets & even child pen scrawl on the wall. That aside the TV was large & bed & bathroom clean. We had a view of the cathedral & a mini fridge stocked with a couple of bottles of water & bottles of Pepsi. Breakfast was satisfactory but nothing special. The staff throughout our stay were very nice and we had no issues. Parking isn’t great, the small covered car park is a little tight to manoeuvre & at £15 per day very expensive. In summary if we came back to Winchester we certainly wouldn’t discount the Mercure as an option but it would be dependent on whether we could get a better price elsewhere.

The room is very close to the main street and is recommended.

Lovely hotel and spa . Only let down was the car park attached to hotel only has one way in , no exit very very dangerous there was four of us grid locked inside it. Lucky we were all good drivers and managed to exit . There is a public one outside , but hotel car park is very limited and dangerous hardly any room inside , weird old shape and reverse driving more than forward . Hotel are cash less and there attitude was.... ah na , sorry cashless system . Shop up road. that's all they could offer don't give a dam how you park. Also took 160 deposit and will return sometime after. At later date. That was the real letdown reception staff.. .. not my problem attitude was poor. While the people that did get in hotel carpark was lucky to pay at reception off there deposit. Such poor service for such a lovely hotel. Apart from that the rest good.

We arrived very close to end of service in the restaurant but were made very welcome. The staff were friendly, informative & careful as we had caeliac & gluten intolerant people in our party. Our only real disappontment. Having offered gluten items like fish & chips & having gone to effort to make gluten free batter, then foolishly cook it in same fryer as other gluten products. The staff were quick to point this out & quite rightly too as this would make us ill. By cooking in this manner, this should not be marked up gluten free. Your staff could offer chips for various meals as they cooked them carefully in the oven. A small seperate gluten free fryer or even an isolated air fryer would give you so many additional options to offer to your customers. I know gluten free flour is more expensive but bought in bulk, it could be used for so many meals, again opening up choice for allergy customers & so attracting them to your restaurant. As with fish/chips all customers could eat it. No loss of taste. And such flour used in quantity would add pennies or fractions of pennies to meal cost. You attract the allergy sufferers, you also bring in all their family & friends & earn a reputation to draw in their custom & spread the word that you cater especially well for allergy sufferers as well as offering a variety of good quality tasty food, reasonably priced. I hope you value this feedback as I'd really like to come back as atmosphere, location & service was excellent

Had to wait a long time to check in and the receptionist was quite dismissive. Rooms ok but nothing exciting, the bath had black marks round the sides.

Excellent facility and location but it would have been very nice to have telephone in the rooms to be able to make requests. The bathroom/shower room (for the club room as in my case) needs to have shower curtains or door to prevent the water coming out when taking your shower. Apart from that, excellent facilities and AMAZING Breakfast and dinner.

We had a lovely room - how did they guess it was the one that had attracted me when I decided to book! Every aspect was comfortable, the food was excellent, and the staff were cheerful and nothing seemed to be too much trouble - even finding sourdough toast for my breakfast when I tentatively asked if it were possible. What impressed us most though was the cheerfulness of the staff and the fact that they all worked together seamlessly. The hotel itself was delightful, lots of different places to sit, and husband has just suggested I should say how good the cocktails were, as well as the high standard of all the meals. Wish I had asked for some names so that all the staff who looked after us so well could be thanked individually.