it was one of those weekends when we decided to skip town for the heck of it. we'd not been to sheffield before (tell a lie, i had as a child) and it seemed like the sort of place that one might spend a leisurely weekend it. the mister was quick to find a sweet little hotel online and we rolled up late on friday night, just in time for dinner at the restaurant. the restaurant was famous for steak so of course we'd ourselves a huge chunk of red meat. the service while polite was patchy and we literally had to ask five times before we got some tap water in addition to our cocktails. it wasn't even a busy night!
however, the welcome basket was a nice touch, and the room was pretty (below is not our room but one i took a cheeky photo off because the door was left open!) what i liked about the welcome basket were the handmade cookies (from the hotel) and chocolate (from a local chocolatier) along with the bottle of ground coffee and san pelli for the drive home.
what i didn't like was being woken at 7am by the unholy racket of last night's glass bottles being taken out to the dumpster just below our window. the room we stayed in was called criollo so do avoid that at all costs. but the other rooms were closer to the heavy fire door that slammed incessantly through the night. pick your evil? it'd been a long week of women's health with pre-dawn starts and 12h shifts so the last thing i'd wanted on a weekend was to be rudely awaken at 7am -mumble grumble-
but the hotel did look lovely in the morning light, with the bar and our breakfast table below.
what i was a little disconcerted by was how the interior designer seemed to have taken all the 2012 (?) designer trends and squeezed them into one hotel. hanging lightbulb-esque lights? check. hipster penguim book cover wallpaper? check. quirky signs with witty copy? check. came across as trying too hard and we later realised the hotel had been recently bought over and rebranded.
cheeky copy and the sign to the bar
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