The Blue Ball Inn

Very nice place , friendly staff , lovely room ( not too impressed with room service ) . Stacey was so lovely she is very kind & helpful . Took my mum here for a few day away , highly recommend , as we had never been to Sidmouth we both thought it was a perfect . Please sort room service out ! Xxx

What a lovely place this is , the staff and management are amazing . Food was great and accommodation very comfortable. We will definitely be booking again this year and hopefully many more years to come Thank you Blue Ball Inn for making our stay so enjoyable.

Outstanding service from Alison and the team! Followed by an amazing meal here. We arrived early and the Manager got us into our rooms earlier and was extremely friendly. Downstairs there were at least 4 roaring fires and plenty of local ciders and ales’ the team were brilliant and looked after us! We would highly recommend Staying here and eating here! I had many many ciders but the food and service was brilliant

So convenient for the donkey sanctuary just up the road. Lovely friendly staff and our room was just right.

We have eaten at this pub many times over the years when passing through Sidford and have always been delighted. However, we arrived at the pub a few days ago to find the car park almost empty, in the past its been a matter of finding a parking space. So we should have been prepared for a suspect visit, but it was lunch time and we wanted food. We were warmly welcomed on arrival, but we should have been suspicious as there were only eight customers in the pub. Two other customers warned us when we sat down that its was long wait for food. Our drinks arrived (flat Coke, I like to think presumably the first coke out the pump that day) and we placed our food order, this arrived 35 minutes later, by which time we were the last customers in the pub at 13.45. The food was basic but generally hot. We decided to avoid a desert and pay and leave. Lacking anything approaching a good pub atmosphere. In future we will drive on by.

Excellent atmosphere, comfortable and relaxing, great food, friendly and attentive staff.

Fabulous country pub, everything you expect from this type of property.

Six friends went out for Sunday lunch. We had a lovely round table in a little side room that we loved. The food was lovely! No complaints there BUT we had to wait an hour for our mains and another hour for our pudding! There were plenty of waitress staff so I presume there wasn't enough help in the kitchen and the poor chef was working single handed. Definitely needs another chef! Shame cos we liked the food. Not sure if we would want to wait so long again!

A building steeped in history great food and extremely good and efficient service