About Schoolhouse Restaurant and Hotel
Schoolhouse Hotel is located in the Wiltshire countryside near the Cotswolds border, less than 10-minutes drive from Royal Wootton Bassett. The hotel gets its name from the building’s former use as a Victorian school.
All rooms are en-suite, with a shower or bath, and they have a hairdryer. Rooms also include a TV, telephone, and desk.
Schoolhouse Hotel provides free Wi-Fi throughout and free parking. The hotel are happy to arrange car hire, as well as station and airport transfers. The outside terrace is opened for drinks during the summer months.
A range of breakfast choices are available daily, including a cooked breakfasts and a vegetarian option. The restaurant serves meal on an evening using locally-sourced produce where possible.
Royal Wootton Bassett is a market-town mid-way between Bath and Swindon, where the weekly market still has the traditional town crier. Other local places of interest include Cheltenham, Oxford and Bath.
Positive Reviews
positive:
Very well located.
Guests find the Schoolhouse Hotel to be in a good location because, while it is in a quiet, rural setting, it is also a good base from which to explore the surrounding area’s attractions. The hotel is within easy reach of the motorway, as well as several towns and cities popular with tourists including Oxford and Cheltenham.
positive:
Very friendly and welcoming staff.
Guests say they feel at home at Schoolhouse Hotel. Staff are reported to be very friendly and always do their utmost to make them feel welcome.
positive:
Excellent meals in the restaurant.
Guests enjoy their meals at the Schoolhouse Hotel. They say there is a good variety of meal options on the menu, and the quality and presentation of the food, which is freshly cooked to order, is superb. Furthermore, guests with special dietary requirements find they had also have a good range of items to choose from too.
Negative Reviews
negative:
Rooms are basic but comfortable.
Guests say the rooms and bathrooms are quite basic. For example, the rooms are without tea and coffee-making facilities which it is fair to say most guests would expect of a hotel room nowadays. However, guests do say that the rooms are spacious and clean and that they still tend to have a comfortable stay.
negative:
Poor quality of TV reception.
Getting a poor TV picture is a rarer occurrence in these days of digital and satellite TV, so it is a bit unusual to see that a number of guests have said the TV reception at Schoolhouse Hotel is not very good at all.
negative:
Tired décor throughout.
Schoolhouse Hotel is decorated in an old-fashioned, classical style, but even so some guests still feel like the hotel could do with a lick of paint here and there to freshen things up a bit.