Royal Hotel

We have an annual dinner in Crewe and it is getting harder and harder to find a hotel that can cater for us - so this year we ended up at The Royal. It was not as bad as I had feared - thankfully I hadn’t read these reviews! We had a meal (34 of us) and I have to say it was excellent - much better than I had imagined. The staff were amazingly friendly and helpful. The function room was interesting but perfectly suitable. Unfortunately the bar in the function room couldn’t be used - I think the pumps had been left a long time and the beer/lager was undrinkable but not a problem as there is a public bar just down the corridor. The public bar is interesting - or some of the clients are. In terms of the room, it was warm and fairly clean. A bit dated, but everything you need and big. Same with the bathroom. No curtain to the frosted glass window in the bathroom which I could imagine would worry some people. The bedding wasn’t brilliant and that combined with the room being on the front of the hotel next to the Nantwich Road many I didn’t sleep. Breakfast looked ok, but I don’t bother. Looks like the team are trying hard and suspect given a chance, they may turn it around.

We and our team were working in Crewe and booked 5 rooms for a 2 night stay. The rooms were NOTHING like advertised on their website. They were dated, with several broken elements, not to name broken bathroom handles which were sharp and actually ripped my clothes (room 31 to be precise). One of the rooms, our staff noted a strange smell. upon further investigation, there was an old pizza box on top of the wardrobe, covered in dusted with mouldy pizza inside. The sockets in our room, in particular, was dangerous. They were faulty and covered in masking tape. The extractor fan did not work. Two of our staff had floods from the rooms above, through the bathroom light (a severe electrical/fire risk). When these were reported, the staff came to the room, saw the flood and just walked away with no explanation or apology. We had to use the room bin to collect the water. The tap in our room had a constant drip. Road noise is problematic as is rooms on the first floor. One of our staff was placed on the first floor and couldn't sleep from the bass from the ground floor bar. We had to stay an extra night and was accused of not paying despite showing them proof, direct from from our bank. This was later rectified and finally an apology about something. All I would say, is look at Trust Pilot as these seem to be very accurate reviews. There have been lots of Google reviews left over months, with the management saying they will look at the issues. Clearly this is just words as our experience, across 5 rooms, demonstrated that actions are not being taken. We have not had a single apology from this hotel. The rooms are old, broken and have severe health and safety issues - STAY AWAY!

Very good central location for Crewe Station and plenty of places to eat. Room a good size but very dated decor and window would not shut so all of the noise from the very busy street directly below the window could not be shut out and would be very busy at weekends at night as the hotel is above a pub. Towels threadbare and faeces in the toilet, a pubic hair in the bath as well so not entirely clean. Toiletries, tea and coffee provided. Bed made ominous spring noise when I sat on it and burn in carpet. Tv has good channels. However I did not stay the night as I had an overwhelming feeling of being unsafe and I left after 5 hours. Plenty of parking but needs better lighting. I would not recommend this hotel.