Name: The Golden Pheasant
Address: Plumley Moor Road Plumley, Knutsford, WA16 9RX, GB

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jul 2026

Dan

Great pub with fantastically appointed rooms and excellent breakfast. For the price I could not fault it for a stay near the Cheshire show grounds where we were attending an event.

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

04 Jul 2026

Sheena

The food was excellent- dinner and breakfast, and the staff were attentive, pleasant and helpful.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

03 Jul 2026

David

We only had an overnight stop here, but it was a great place to stay. Staff were very friendly and helpful, and the room and general public areas of the property were all fine. We had an evening meal and a full breakfast and they were both very tasty. Having an EV charger (22kW) in the car park was a really useful bonus as we left our car to charge overnight. Would definitely stay here again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Apr 2026

Christian

Great pub, lovely staff, lovely food, amazing clean and comfy room with 4 poster bed. Only slight criticism is food portion size, the full English equivalent was one slice of bacon, one small sausage, one hash brown etc…and dinner was much the same - which was a shame as it tasted so lovely.

Self

6/10

Pleasant

26 Apr 2026

William

Friendly staff. Excellent breakfast. Room decoration was tired and in need of updating.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

03 Apr 2026

Georgia

The service and room was excellent. The staff were very helpful, friendly and breakfast was AMAZING! Would definitely recommend

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

22 Mar 2026

Anthony

Plenty of parking. But most of all the staff were excellent couldn't do enough for you. Thankyou big thumbs up to all the Staff x

Partner

8/10

Excellent

13 Feb 2026

Mark

Very pleasant staff, nice food for evening meal and breakfast, reasonably priced evening menu (we had the fixed price menu).

Room was large, felt cold when we arrived but that was due to the radiators being switched off. Once they were on the room warmed up very nicely and quickly.

Room felt a little dated but nothing too bad, could do with a little fresh coat of paint.

Our room (5) was also above the main bar area, think this might apply to all the rooms and we could hear the conversations quite clearly from below. So if you are a light sleeper and want to go to bed before closing time this might affect you.

Overall, I was happy and would return for an overnight stay and food.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

20 Dec 2025

Robert

Come venie t good service and good food in restaurant

Business

6/10

Pleasant

03 Dec 2025

Alexander

The standard of decor in some of the public areas needs refurbishing. The stairs and corridor look a little tired. My room was adequate but, unfortunately, it was located above the kitchen/restaurant in and out doors which constantly banged. The room had no view other than over the kitchen roof. The TV was thick with dust and the remote barely worked. The bathroom was dull in both lighting and spec. I know that JW Lees can be better!

Unfortunately, the restaurant service was poor as the young waitress appeared to have no help whilst the restaurant was busy. I had been sitting at a table for more than 20 minutes before I even received an acknowledgement!

With a small improvement in the attention to detail, the Golden Pheasant could be much better. I would return but definitely not to room!

Business

8/10

Excellent

30 Nov 2025

Charlotte

Excellent staff and service just needs some TLC.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

27 Nov 2025

Paul

Food & staff difficult to fault.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

21 Nov 2025

Veronica

Good sized room, friendly staff
Clean bathroom and bedroom.

Leisure Pet

8/10

Excellent

10 Nov 2025

Charles

Yes

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

08 Oct 2025

Stuart

Very nice hotel

Business

8/10

Excellent

26 Sep 2025

Philip

Overnight stay

Very nice hotel, restaurant and bar.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

18 Sep 2025

Brian

Nice hotel and convenient

Room was very spacious and well equipped. I arrived a little late for food and even though the kitchen was closed they did offer to make sandwiches and chips for me which was a nice gesture. Would like to stay again as menu looked awesome.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

10 Sep 2025

Steve

Tranquil location set amongst the beautiful Cheshire countryside close to knutsford and lower peover and tatton park I was satisfied with the food and selection on the menu

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

12 Aug 2025

John

Lovely hotel in great location

Lovely hotel in great location, staff very friendly and helpful, rooms very clean with all necessary facilities for a great stay. Breakfast was frshly cooked to order and very tasty with good selection, serving staff we're very accommodating ans knowledgeable

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

01 Jul 2025

Margaret

Great location and great food.

6/10

Pleasant

29 Jun 2025

Ian

Great location, friendly helpful staff, good service.
The shower screen was short of the side of the bath so flooded the bathroom and soaked my towel.
This definitely needs attention.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Jun 2025

Dale

Excellent. Staff all treated me like each alone was the owner.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 May 2025

Annabel

Very friendly staff. Comfortable, clean rooms. Nice breakfast

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

24 May 2025

Verified traveler

Happy to recommend.

Good hotel, ideally located for a weekend with local family near Knutsford.

Hotel exterior well presented Big car park /free parking.

I had a large and well presented room (Room 1) which was quiet with rural views (beyond the bins !). It and the bathroom were spotlessly clean. Good quality linen and toiletries.

Suggestions:
- Better bedside lighting
- A luggage stand and a waste paper basket in the bedroom would be helpful
- Stronger and more focused lighting above the bathroom basin.
- Resiting glass shelf above basin which currently loses a hazard.

Excellent breakfast with good choice of options. Eggs Royal excellent.
Staff friendly, helpful and professional.
The hotel worked well for me and I would be happy to return.

Self

8/10

Excellent

25 Apr 2025

Samantha

Overal was good.

10/10

Exceptional

26 Mar 2025

Annette

Very friendly and comfortable stay with a lovely breakfast

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

16 Mar 2025

Peter

Friendly Staff, good food...nice quiet location

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

08 Mar 2025

Sharon

We will be back.

Nice comfortable stay breaking up a long journey. Staff and locals were friendly and helpful.

Had a great evening meal by the fire, a comfortable night and a good breakfast.

Will definitely stay there again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

13 Feb 2025

Jamie

The staff members were so amazingly helpful and friendly. As a solo traveler with a cane I struggle with stairs and excessive walking but the staff helped me to my room when I arrived and Katen even helped we all the way to the train platform across the way when I left. While this location is remote the charm and guality mke it a beautiful destination stay and the food was to die for. I had one minor issue in my room and they resolved it while I was out so 5/5

Leisure Self

2/10

Poor

15 Jan 2025

Verified traveler

Bad experience

Bad hotel, don’t stay here.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

06 Jan 2025

Michael

Great staff and food

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

26 Oct 2024

Hayley

Great comfortable stay. Had a meal in the pub which was very good and a nice atmosphere. Room was a clean but could do with a little updating. However would definitely stay again.

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

21 Oct 2024

Verified traveler

Great spot

Really lovely place, cozy and great staff. Fantastic food and welcoming room

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

20 Oct 2024

Laverne

Check in and first night hospitality was excellent. Welcoming,quiet and cozy atmosphere by the wood fire. Easy conversation with other guests with great tips on local points of interest. We slept well all 3 nights. Some concerns, breakfast is 7-9 prepaid the day before, so we opted in the first morning which we didn't do again as, there was one server for the whole dining room. At 8am, there was little left of the continental offerings and my Benedict was stone cold from the kitchen.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

05 Aug 2024

Julie

Perfect stay in this beautiful pub/hotel. Rooms comfortable and look wonderful. Food and drinks in pub/restaurant excellent, lovely atmosphere. Would definitely stay again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Jul 2024

Julie

Buzzy place

Staff great run off their feet but didn't seem to faze them running all the time could do with more staff at night. Rooms ok need new windows.
Would stop here again

Partner

8/10

Excellent

14 Jul 2024

Verified traveler

Nice pub with great food

The hotel was good overall and the food/drink and service was amazing.

However, the bed in our room was really hard so we didn't get a good night's sleep on either of our two nights there.

The windows in the room also didn't appear to open so we couldn't get any fresh air in. This would be more of a problem if it was really warm outside.

Finally, the photos of the bathroom are a little deceiving as we didn't get a walk in shower. Instead we had a shower over the bath (it was still a good, warm, powerful shower though).

The EV charger on site was a great bonus and worked flawlessly.

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

09 Jul 2024

Ben

Nicely kitted out and very spacious.

Nice staff, very friendly, room was veey spacious including the bathroom. We liked the decor, but the smell feom the bathroom was awful, definite needs addressing. Has ev charge points, nice location. Would stay again but smell is a bit off putting.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jun 2024

louise

A very pleasant stay! Lovely large room and the bar and restaurant was great. Comfortable bed and good shower. They even made me food after the kitchen was closed.

Only negative was the mini single use plastic shower gels and shampoos. Refillable soap and shampoo dispensers would make it perfect!

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

20 May 2024

Donna

Lovely location have family live in Northwich so nice place to meet up.
Came for a family occasion in Sale so didn't feel it was too far away from everyone and I prefer a country setting to stay in .
Perfect for us .

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

05 May 2024

C.

A comfortable country inn along with all the associated creaks of the flooring. Friendly staff . Good breakfast

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

26 Mar 2024

philip

Excellent convenient stay near the M6. Recommended

Business_and_leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

07 Mar 2024

Dan

Nice but too noisy

Good points: very nice staff, great service and lovely food
The room was also nice and spacious
Bad points
Quite possibly the noisiest pub ive ever stayed in which resulted in a poor nights sleep mainly caused by being in the Manchester Airport flight path, but the real reason being the binmen emptying the bottle bin at 4 am in the morning right outside my room. I don’t understand why they would do this so early when you have residential guests? The walls are also very thin, so I was kept away by the noise of people talking, then planes and bin. I literally had about two hours sleep. They all also didn’t serve breakfast before 7:30 am which on a weekday is just too late, also felt the room rate for the experience was a little bit high. Although the room was nice, it was a little dated in the bathroom was quite tired.
I would return for a meal and a drink, but unfortunately I wouldn’t stay there again.

Business

6/10

Pleasant

18 Jan 2024

David

Cannot fault staff, pub or food.
However the room, while a good size needed a more thorough cleaning. Dusty and carpet needs cleaning.

Leisure Partner

4/10

Poor

03 Dec 2023

Thomas

Poor

Staff were ok, very standard. The premises was quite big and there were about 5 cars parked so I can’t imagine business is great. The decor was super old, not shabby chic, just shabby, all dark wood and like it’d come from a charity shop, which is probably due to the size of the premises and furniture needed to fill the place. The wood was very worn on everything from the cupboards to the bannisters and doors. Shower was ok. The TV was small and so far from the bed that the remote barely worked. We didn’t get a login for the internet. The room was cold and it was quite noisy until about 11pm. The guest entrance looked like it was just off the latch and open all night as it was beeping late at night and same in the morning when we walked past. Breakfast was pretty poor, the vegetarian breakfast came without the veggie sausage, the full English was tasteless, both went unfinished, the waitress didn’t even crack a smile but did bring us milk with floating bits in it and eventually brought some sauce. Overall, a fairly miserable experience and there’s no way this place was worth the cost, we stayed at somewhere nearby a week earlier which was far better and far cheaper. We think someone defrosted the car for us in the morning, so that was a small bonus, probably for the quick getaway though to be fair.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

13 Oct 2023

Edward

The staff are very helpful and polite, unfortunately the room is clean but tired, comfortable but not as advertised on the website when we booked no walk-in shower either. The evening meal was very nice and good selection again staff very friendly and helpful. The noise was from the road at the front as we needed the window open

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

15 Sep 2023

Nigel

Fantastic service from staff.Rooms could be better

Beautiful location and beer garden. Rooms were ok but very tiered, in need of a freshen up and dragging out if the 1980's. Please remove the horrible net curtains, they are filthy!
Apart from the room, everything else was lovely. Brilliant service from all staff members, check in was friendly and all bar and waiting on staff were wonderful.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

02 Sep 2023

Graham

A great place to stay

Welcoming, clean and comfortable. The staff were excellent.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

01 Sep 2023

Anne

The staff were friendly and the breakfast was good. We were in room 2 which was noisy because of nearby mechanical noises (we were told it was the cellar). There was no soap provided so we had to use shower gel. Recently decorated walls, unfortunately spoiled by damp / mould on a part of outside wall. Bathroom extractor fan not working.

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

22 Jul 2023

Lisa

Short staffed and even though we were acknowledged as soon as we arrived we had to wait for 5mins before anyone came to check us in. They had walked past us to say they would be a minute but instead went to serve several people at the bar.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

12 Jul 2023

Nigel

I expected better quality of room for the price. Squeaky floorboards, varnish flaking off the tired looking wardrobe, missing sealant around shower panel, lots of cobwebs in top corner of bathroom. Food was excellent though and staff very helpful and polite.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

28 May 2023

Lucy

Great for a little romantic get away

Great place and lovely service - only minor niggle is breakfast finishes at 9:30 which is a little early for a weekend. Will definitely return.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

06 May 2023

Verified traveler

Pleasant stay

Pleasant stay in this country hotel/pub/restaurant on the outskirts of Plumley. Excellent parking.
Rooms clean and comfortable.
Food good

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

27 Mar 2023

Verified traveler

Great stay

Great stay. Lovely staff. Was travelling alone and felt very comfortable in the restaurant.

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

10 Feb 2023

Tai Ho Howard

Great stay!

Great hotel and ppl, happy to stay there again.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

03 Feb 2023

Verified traveler

Great stay

Brilliant stay, happy friendly staff great breakfast, would have been a 10 but my evening meal fish and chips was really poor, batter hard as nails dry fish way way over cooked, what a pitty! Other than that very good will defo be back next month,

Business

10/10

Exceptional

04 Jan 2023

Ronald

Friendly and efficient service.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Dec 2022

Christine

Great stay

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

14 Dec 2022

Ewan

Noise from below during first part of noght - perhaps fridge compressor in kitche; car park not gritted was quite dangerous.
Otherwise excellent.
Thank you.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

07 Dec 2022

Malcolm

Great Value

Great friendly staff

10/10

Exceptional

28 Nov 2022

Sophie

Lovely stay

Was a characterful stay, in a lovely area located 1 minute walk from Plumley station. Helpful & friendly staff- would highly recommend and come back!

Partner

8/10

Excellent

22 Sep 2022

Verified traveler

Pleasant room if a little dated and slightly small, however the bed was very firm and pillows very soft. Food was good.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Sep 2022

Anne Marie

Wonderful stay.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Sep 2022

Patrick

Room was lovely and clean ,staff were very friendly and breakfast was excellent

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

05 Sep 2022

Ajaz

Excellent value

Arranged an early check-in with them before hand and on arrival at 1pm the 3 rooms we had booked we're ready for our wedding party.
Breakfast was all cooked to order which was a treat.
Parking is plentiful and secure.
Highly recommended

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

05 Sep 2022

Verified traveler

Lovely stay

Stayed here whilst attending a friends wedding. 4 Poster room was clean tidy and surprisingly a lot larger than expected.
Staff were wonderful and they have a lovely homely pub downstairs.
Breakfast was amazing as it was all cooked to order

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 Jul 2022

Carol

Clean & comfortable

Was a comfortable two night stay ..the room was spacious and clean. A decent fan was provided and the room tea/ coffee tray was excellent...a little cut above the usual. Staff were polite & helpful. Would recommend.

Friends_and_family Family

6/10

Pleasant

16 Jun 2022

David

3 of our meals were inedible and finally deducted from the bill. Some meals that were ordered turned out to be unavailable, but only advised of this when the other mains were being served???? Starters were lacking in flavour. Breakfast the following morning however, was excellent.....Later in the evening our small party was pestered by a drunk and the staff took no action about this.........

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

29 May 2022

Daniel

lovely b&b,friendly and helpful staff

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

27 Apr 2022

Elise

Very welcoming staff. WE were shown everything prior to attending a wedding and arriving home late that night. Excellent breakfast provided by attentive staff. Bedrooms well appointed. Excellent - would recommend to anyone.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

08 Feb 2022

Janet

Excellent service and value for money

Staff were extremely helpful and service at breakfast and dinner was excellent. Food was delicious. Four poster room was excellent value and room very spacious. Thanks to the Team for looking after us we wpuld definitely stay again

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

01 Jan 2022

Valerie

We were most impressed with all the staff at The Golden Pheasant. The food was absolutely delicious and the service in the restaurant was excellent. We look forward to returning in the future.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

03 Dec 2021

david

Really nice hotel/ pub, great food and nice breakfast. Will stay here again....

Business

10/10

Exceptional

25 Nov 2021

Gerard

We could not fault this hotel. Everything was perfect for us.