Name: Devonshire Hotel
Address: Parkhill Road, Torquay, TQ1 2DY, GB

10/10

Exceptional

24 Jul 2026

Ruqayya

Lovely hotel and location about 20min walk to torre abbey sands. Although it is a steep hill on the way back I’d recommend a taxi. The hotel was comfortable and amazing staff who showed us our room and was available to contact at the desk all day for any queries. They cater to older guests and families and had such a lovely atmosphere with the pool. Parking was easy in the hotel car park but I can imagine it can get full. The room itself was simple but perfect for on a budget.

10/10

Exceptional

03 Jun 2026

Lysette

Last minute booking as we decided to stay another night, the hotel we booked for the first night was full so looked elsewhere and managed to book this. Overall this was a nicer hotel, cleaner and friendlier staff. Would highly recommend and stay again. Thankyou!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

31 May 2026

Jazzmin

Lovely hotel, brilliant staff. Location is great and the pool was a huge bonus. So good we stayed another night, we’ll be back!

Family_with_children

10/10

Exceptional

02 Sep 2025

Marc

Great stay at Devonshire Hotel.

Had a great stay at this hotel. Parking was easy and I was greeted by a friendly member of staff at reception. My room was clean and tidy and contained everything I required. I'd definitely stay here again when I'm back in the area.

6/10

Pleasant

09 Aug 2025

Michelle

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Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

02 Aug 2025

Gaby

To get to the property by foot the incline is steep. Buses are only one an hour to and from the hotel to take you into the town however once in the town plenty of buses in the town to take you to Paignton, cockington village, Brixham etc.
We had a family room, spacious but very outdated. Some facilities need replacing i.e single bed, rocking and squeeking. Gets very warm in the room but reception had plenty of fans. Pool was lovely, our youngest loved it.
Staff were friendly and helpful. Obliging to keep our luggage too for checking in and out.
There is entertainment on an evening but we didnt use it.

Leisure Family

4/10

Poor

01 Aug 2025

Muhammad

Its said on the website Devonshire hotel but we stayed at Devonshire Lodge which is behind the hotel and it's quite inconvenient to go past the dining area. No lift is difficult to carry the luggage

Leisure Family_with_children

4/10

Poor

31 Jul 2025

Verified traveler

Very run down

While the person who checked us in was very nice, the hotel was awful. It is so run down that furniture was fraying and stained. The carpets were old and stained. Marks on the wall, damaged corners, peeling paint and the room smelled of mildew. Everything was run down. The dining area looked like a cafeteria in a run down nursing home with bad cruise ship entertainment every night. While the pool was spotless, nothing else was. Not a nice place to stay.

Friends_and_family Family

4/10

Poor

22 Jul 2025

Saleem

nice location

nice location friendly staff nice room not much choice on breakfast basic. couldn't sleep from 9pm to 11pm playing live music and disco very load i had been work all day wanting peace and quiet not on holiday the staff at reception didn't inform me of this live music and disco played at the hotel 7 days a week no ear plugs in the room supplied sent email and message to hotel no response very poor commuincation. if i had knowen would have not booked this hotel yes play live load music on friday and weekeds only not on a weekday not everyone is on holiday i had to work at Torbay Hospital next day was tired due to lack of sleep from the noise from the hotel!!!

Business

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jun 2025

Kris

Staff all super friendly and kind.

10/10

Exceptional

02 May 2025

Bryn

Great property, location and staff. Customer service exceeded expectations

8/10

Excellent

12 Sep 2024

Marguerite E Baldwin

Very nice hotel. Enjoyed our stay here.

Friends_and_family Family

4/10

Poor

02 Sep 2024

Nuthiangpuii

READ THIS FULLY FIRST! before you book the hotel through any agency ( hotels.com/ expedia etc) please confirm with the hotels of your booking specially any extras like breakfast! We had a very disappointing experiences sadly!

I booked through hotels.com . On the booking site THERE'S NOTHING MENTION ABOUT DINNER NEEDS TO BOOK IN ADVANCED! me n 2 daughters sat down for dinner ( like other normal restaurants) thinking that we will order food and pay the bills as normal.Approached by waiter that all meals need to order prior he asked me to talk to the reception which i did n she says the same that they cant provide any meals ( which i understand) ( receptionist could be bit nicer)we left the table n find other restaurants (my girls were very embarrassed)
I wasn't because its not our fault!
In the morning . Because of this incident i double check with reception for breakfast (included n paid in my booking) to my horror . He says that my booking was 'room only' fortunately i have the prove of my booking thats says . \" breakfasts included \" so he rushly arranged our breakfasts ( thank you to this reception) .
All these issue clearly stated NO COMMUNICATION in between this two and make the guest very confused!
Also on agencysite it says ' indoor pool' main reasons i booked and again found out only outdoor pool
Because this hotel is a chain their other hotel has got indoor pool ( looks like hotels.com wrapped all in one) !
Very disappointed yet again with hotels.com!

Friends_and_family Family

2/10

Poor

15 Jul 2024

Sarah

I booked this hotel because they were the only property in the area with a triple room for 3 adults (or so Expedia claimed). I was traveling with my elderly grandparents, so we needed to be together in a room because I was their caretaker for the trip. There was no communication from Devonshire Hotel prior to our arrival, so I assumed everything was fine. When we arrived, the reception told us that there was a mysterious “problem with our booking” and that we could not have a triple room - they could only do 2 rooms on 2 separate floors, one double room and one with two single beds. There was nowhere else in the area that we could book so last minute, so we had to agree, but it was EXTREMELY inconvenient and frankly DANGEROUS for my grandparents. The double room on the ground floor is poorly kept and has 3 stairs down to the bed, so I was up all night worrying that they would trip down the stairs during the night on the way to/from the bathroom. Super weird bedroom setup. The hotel rooms were also not in the main building, they were in the lodge out back which involved a 5 minute walk with many stairs to get from the car and dining to the room. Also, the reception would not honor the breakfast we had paid for with Expedia until I spent an hour communicating with Expedia - Expedia had to phone the reception to argue with them. And after all of this inconvenience, nobody had the grace to offer us a refund or any kind of apology. Disappointed.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

14 Jun 2024

Peter

Liked everything, only problem was with expedia. Paid for breakfast, but hotel didn't have record of it. Luckily I envisaged something like this, so had printed the very difficult to find in the emails confirmation of having paid for it..

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Feb 2022

Paul

Welcome

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

20 Sep 2021

Jayne

Lovely stay

Very friendly welcome and staff are very thoughtful,, eg remember preferences for breakfast etc

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

07 Sep 2021

Vivien

Lovely!

Could not fault anything and would recommend.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Aug 2021

Pabs

Such lovely and helpful staff! 10/10!!

8/10

Excellent

29 Jul 2021

Alan

Very clean and customer friendly

Our 2 night stay at the Devonshire Hotel was very satisfactory and we found the facilities really clean and comfortable

Partner

8/10

Excellent

26 Jul 2021

Yvonne

Breo

The staff very friendly and helpful but the bed was very uncomfortable

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

24 Jul 2021

Caroline

The Devonshire is a lovey s

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

23 Jul 2021

Steven

nice clean hotel

the location was the only negative for me.a walk up a hill from the bay area.but all the plusses made up for it.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jul 2021

Verified traveler

No hairdryer in room

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

22 Jun 2021

Susan

Lovely hotel

Very comfortable hotel with friendly and helpful staff. Could do with updating

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

07 Jun 2021

A

Nice few days away

Nice few days at the Devonshire, decent location, 10 to 15 mins walk downhill to the harbour and good location to base yourself for visiting the wider Torquay region. Its a coaching inn with predominantly older generation staying on an organised coach holiday. Entertainment in the evening catering mainly for the coach guests. Stayed in the lodge at the back which was clean and comfortable beds with newish decor and fresh coat of paint. Staff were friendly and helpful, cant complain really... (although curtain in room could have been slightly longer so not as bright in the morning)

Friends_and_family Family

6/10

Pleasant

24 Oct 2020

Dean

It was mainly for the older generation and the hotel needed maintenance and upgraded.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

30 Sep 2020

Gary

Weekend stay.

No hot food available on arrival. Had to carry our case up to our room myself. Hotel was very dated but was all clean. Breakfast was disappointing. Staff were friendly.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

03 Sep 2020

Verified traveler

Nice but dated

Hotel room was a bit dated, dusty headboard and the bathroom had a strange smell. No hot water on the second day, they had boiler issues. Breakfast was ok and my son loved the outdoor pool.

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

02 Sep 2020

STEWART

hills are alive

Nice Old hotel very clean only a very steep walk back from the Promenade

Friends_and_family Family

6/10

Pleasant

02 Sep 2020

Andrew

The main hotel was clean and tidy and up-to-date but I've put in a lodge room which was in severe need update there was wallpaper peeling away from the wall all the room was clean and tidy functional you are going on holidays I would have expected more but it was for work

Business

8/10

Excellent

31 Aug 2020

Austin

We had a loverly stay only for one night so didn’t experience the hotel but the room was fine for us

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

20 Aug 2020

Verified traveler

The Devonshire staff were friendly and courteous. The hotel is well located but fairly basic

Business

8/10

Excellent

14 Aug 2020

Verified traveler

James

Nice and clean, comfortable

Business

6/10

Pleasant

09 Aug 2020

Kathleen

just ok not great

Very dated .. bar staff not very friendly... just ok

Partner

4/10

Poor

07 Aug 2020

Verified traveler

The gentleman that greeted us and checked us is was very nice, polite and welcoming. However the cleenesses of this hotel is appalling. Durinf Covid-19 you would expect them to take extra care. Well let me tell you that they put the bedding sheets on the floor outside the bedroom before changing them. They dont use a trolly. People shoes are disgusting and the clean sheets touch the floor then go on the bed. This is a huge Covid risk as people spit on the floor then the shoes spread it and then the sheets touch it. In the room the floor and under the bed was dirty. Sink wasnt clean. This is appalling. On top of all this, on checkout they tried to charge me again and i had to prove that i already paid and the bloke on checkout was rude.

Im very disappointed. The only good thing was the man that checked us in.

Leisure Family

4/10

Poor

07 Aug 2020

Verified traveler

The man that greeted me was lovely, very polite and kind. However, Im not happy with the cleanness with this hotel. Before they change the bedding the put the sheets on the floor outside the room where people shoes have been, whixh

4/10

Poor

22 Jul 2020

Amber

If you value sleep, then stay away!

Woken by staff slamming doors repeatedly first thing in the morning , manager not bothered and told me 'well the staff obviously work ....'

Partner

8/10

Excellent

19 Jul 2020

Kirsty

Nice for my son to have the swimming pool to use. Really friendly staff who were great with the children.