We had a comically terrible time at Coulsdon. I came with several family members for a reunion and we booked 6 rooms months in advance.
The grounds are nice but the rooms are tiny, old and the plumbing barely works. The staff is practically apathetic. You have to explicitly ask for what you expect.
My parents’ room toilet only flushed every 5 minutes. My sister’s and my room toilet didn’t flush at all and the manager (whom we had to convince the night desk person to call on the phone) had the gall to tell us “sleep it off, we’ll deal with it in the morning” when this had already been going on 2 days and we were jet lagged and obviously our bodies weren’t working in the right order due to time difference.
Other family members had a torn curtain that never got repaired. The staff doesn’t check notes or communicate with each other, and they prefer to give you an excuse first rather than solve the problem. Most times any attempt at understanding or asking to change the room received a response of “we have a wedding, we’re fully booked.” It felt like pulling teeth.
We managed to get a room changed because well, the BASIC expectation of a hotel room that is paid up front would be a working toilet, right? When we moved into the new room, there were mosquitoes outside the door and a musty smell in the bathroom. Turns out there was black mold in the shower. But guess what the response was? “We’re fully booked.”
It was a disappointing stay and I don’t recommend it.