The Museum Inn

Lovely stay! EV chargers were very handy for us. Staff were all very helpful and friendly. Excellent food. Lovely location. Quiet in the evenings and a nice area to walk around in the mornings. Room was great if a little dimly lit! Bathroom was lovely and big with a great shower. Good amenities. 20 mins to Blandford Forum and 30 mins to Salisbury by car so very easy to get about. Overall, a great stay, would definitely recommend for a beautiful country break!

Stayed one night. The bed was excellent. Proper mattress, quality linen, and pillows. The bathroom was spacious, clean, and modern. Evening meal, sensible choices we'll executed. Breakfast all wad good. There is a resident lounge. Can't remember what we paid, but I remember thinking great value. Thank you, team Museum Inn.

A very cosy and welcoming hotel with character

The atmosphere at the Museum in was fabulous. The staff from start to finish were very helpful. I needed extra pillows as needed to sleep upright. They were there for me with in my room in 10 minutes. All the locals were extremely accommodating as well making you feel at home 7 hours away from our actual home. Food and drink was great. Rooms were beautifully clean beds were comfortable bathroom was large and clean. There were two couples and we had a link in rooms which was ideal for an evening nightcap. Staff were accommodating with ice and glasses for our nightcap. Beautiful village, pleasant walk round and lots to do in neighbouring. Towns and villages would definitely visit again.

Such a lovely place and service was fabulous!

Stayed here whilst working in area. Room was very good with quality hot drinks including sachets of hot chocolate. Choice of 3 Butcombe real ales with very friendly staff. Evening food menu was a little pricey and the portion sizes were average but it was freshly cooked. Did not have chance to sample breakfast as had to leave early next day.

Rural upmarket pub. Old house with modern amenities and good restaurant with good breakfast. Electric car chargers but hotel location somewhat hidden in little village.

Went on a midweek Winter deal. Hugely disappointing. Staff were friendly and accommodating, dinner was perfectly nice but nothing more. Expensive food but that I feel is to be expected in this climate - standards have to be raised though to meet this. Breakfast was shocking particularly on the first morning. Eggs royale - couldn’t be bothered to toast the muffin, soaked through with poached egg water, one runny egg, one hard. Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon didn’t fare much better, just smacked of ‘couldnt be bothered.’ Butcombe Brewery, you need to do better. This place is SO tired. The carpets in the public areas downstairs are so disgusting and need to be replaced with something a little more hardwearing bearing in mind it’s a country pub with plenty of muddy footfall. The carpet in the breakfast room is enough to put you off your food - and supposedly you can have your wedding in this room. How they sell that to couples I have no idea. Rooms are clean but tired, our bathroom was hygienically clean but pretty grubby, paint peeling or scuffed everywhere, and the shower didn’t work properly. Public areas on the way upstairs are very badly scuffed so not a great first impression. I get it, pubs get busy with people who don’t treat them like they would their own homes but honestly, get your paint pot out and touch up once in awhile, it’s not difficult and it’s not expensive. Hospitality is struggling, the cost of food is astronomical and it’s not easy. But money doesn’t grow on trees for me the customer either. Just not good enough. We won’t return sadly, and we couldn’t recommend. We’d paid up front, couldn’t even be bothered to complain, just looked forward to going home.

Our stay was absolutely amazing! Service was great, everyone was super friendly! We were in a rush to leave in the morning because we had other things booked, so we weren’t able to partake in breakfast and one of the ladies offered to pack us up some delicious croissants and some apples for our travels! We also had dinner there the night we checked in and it was the best food we had all holiday! If we are ever fortunate to come back we will make sure we stay here again!