The White Lion

8/10

Excellent

19 Jul 2026

David

Clean room

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Jul 2026

ANDREW

The room was modern, new, clean and of a reasonable size, shower /wc room was good with a large shower, overall very comfortable. The staff and owners were all friendly, efficient and helpful at all times. The breakfast whilst appearing to be a little limited, you could have almost whatever you wanted, very flexible. The restaurant was very good (perhaps the choice could be extended slightly) with meals of a high standard and with good service. The location whilst in a village is excellent for visiting surrounding attractions (Portsmouth, Beaulieu, Arundel, etc)
Overall we had an excellent 5 night stay and will definitely consider returning

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jul 2026

Rebecca

Lovely rooms and nice pub

Self

10/10

Exceptional

23 Jun 2026

Graham

Wonderful tranquil location. Beautiful accommodation and lovely staff. The team went above and beyond when we were delayed for check in and served up an amazing breakfast the next morning 😁 Will definitely return 😁

Friends

10/10

Exceptional

16 Jun 2026

Claire

It was very comfortable. Had all we needed. White Lion staff all attentive and the breakfast was excellent

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

24 May 2026

Bill

Very quaint hotel. Enjoyed dinner and breakfast. I recommend.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

19 May 2026

Michael

Super friendly and welcoming manager. Compact room was comfortable and well appointed enjoyed a good dinner and very good breakfast

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

15 May 2026

Jacqueline

Very comfortable and clean

Self

10/10

Exceptional

10 May 2026

annie

Had an amazing stay in tasteful and clean bedroom with comfy bed lovely
Pillows and great bathroom. Lots of tea and coffee. Had dinner and breakfast in the pub and they were really tasty. Properly cooked bacon! Great wine list with lots of option. Really lovely beer garden and covered courtyard. Lovely staff. Also v close to Hambledon so a good base to visit there. Really recommend.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

08 Apr 2026

Robert

I didn't need a shop, so I don't know.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

22 Mar 2026

Ann

Such a lovely find and a 3 mile walk to Hambledon vineyard. So handy for a base. Food was great and pub atmosphere was wonderful. Thank you.

10/10

Exceptional

08 Mar 2026

Mr lee

Lovely place too stay

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

10 Jan 2026

Darren

Everything is excellent!
The room is beautifully equipped, with superbly comfortable bed, brilliant shower, decent size bath and good Wi-fi.
All staff in the pub were friendly and served us with good humour at breakfast, lunch or dinner. Food was brilliant (we ate there every night).
Location was just what we were after, small village with no shops, but easy driving distance from larger centres. Plenty of walking trails nearby.
Highly recommended.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

16 Nov 2025

Sharon

Lovely location, wonderful breakfast & a lovely sleep on such a comfy bed

10/10

Exceptional

02 Nov 2025

Judi

Beautiful clean room, great food and drink. The staff was so welcoming and helpful. I would love to visit again.

10/10

Exceptional

14 Oct 2025

LAURANCE

Our second stay and will be back. Lovely room, spotlessly clean and all the amenities provided one needs.
Comfortable and friendly Inn and welcoming staff.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Oct 2025

David

Wonderful staff and location in a small Hampshire village. Much local D-Day preparation history. Food was great excellent.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

30 Sep 2025

Scott

Nice bed and pillows plus quiet surroundings.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

20 Sep 2025

Linda

Food,sleep all excellent

Eat great food and sleep well and be happy.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Aug 2025

diane

5 star!!

The room was comfortable and clean. Basic, but what we needed. The food and staff were excellent! We ate there all 3 nights. Extremely english. Extremely country. Highly recommended.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

10 Aug 2025

Bernard

Delightful Country Retreat

Overnight stay for my wife and I. Our accommodation was excellent in lovely setting and very comfortable.
Dinner was great, well presented and terrific staff who were very helpful. Breakfast equally good

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Mar 2025

Craig

Enjoyable 1 night stay

Great one night stay after attending a wedding in the area. Well appointed room, in adjoining stable block, with bottled water, comfy bed and great shower. Lovely breakfast. We were also given a courtesy call on the day to check we were still coming as we were at the wedding. Highly recommend.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jan 2025

Briton

Pre cruise overnight stay.

Stayed overnight before starting a cruise.
Very good restaurant, service & bar. Excellent breakfast.
Staff friendly. We will definitely stay again as very handy for Southampton.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

03 Dec 2024

Michael

Authentic English Countryside Delight

Staff was incredible, food was delicious and room was small but comfortable and like new. You can’t beat this place for an authentic English countryside experience!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

20 Sep 2024

Neil

Clean and smart, friendly service, lovley pub to

10/10

Exceptional

20 Sep 2024

Linda

Very comfy bed. Superb shower, luxury towels. The food in restaurant was excellent. Starter Fish platter to share a great choice and chicken Kiev very tasty. Can see why it is a popular place to eat. Staff friendly and helpful. Good well cooked produce at breakfast. Soberton is a lovey quiet village worth a walk around to see church and the views.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

14 Sep 2024

Verified traveler

A beautiful gem

Beautiful place to stay in a beautuful village. Amazing meal, chicken kievs are must. Great hearty breakfast.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

02 Sep 2024

Tony

Lovely spot and friendly hosts. Dining was very good

Business

10/10

Exceptional

16 Aug 2024

Rebecca

Nice stay

Lovely pub with rooms in converted stables. Everything lovely

Business

10/10

Exceptional

23 Jul 2024

Timothy

Solo business trip

Great location good food helpful staff

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

29 Jun 2024

Janet

Hidden gem

Clean comfortable accommodation, converted stables adjacent to pub set in picturesque village. Great menu, selection of wines and friendly staff. Lovely stay

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

21 Jun 2024

karen

Excellent stay

Wonderful one night stay prior to a cruise. Room very clean and bed extremely comfortable.
Ate dinner and breakfast, both meals were delicious and dinner prices ( and drinks) were reasonably priced.
Special thanks to Wendy and Richard for looking after us well. Will definitely book again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Jun 2024

KARIN

Cant fault it in any way - spectacular place

Always lovely to stay here, the most amazingly friendly country pub, with wonderful food. Stay for business few times a year cant fault it. they even go the extra mile by coming in early so we can have breakfast earlier than normal due to 8am meetings. Stay wonderful, and definitely give this place a try (even if its just for food and the ambiance).

Business

10/10

Exceptional

12 Jun 2024

LAURANCE

Lovely friendly village pub with restaurant- good selection of beer and lovely garden area. Stayed the night in a comfy well appointed room.
Will definitely be back!

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 May 2024

Tony

Lovelly located pub with an anex having rooms. Really welcoming good food and good accommodation in a quintessential English Village pub.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

22 May 2024

Rebecca

Perfect stay

Everything was perfect with the stay. Very comfortable and clean rooms, service spot on and the pub food was very good

Business

10/10

Exceptional

19 May 2024

Mark

Lovely place, great food. Thank you.

We really enjoyed our stay. The staff and the food were standout. In fact, food was really really good. Our room was lovely and excellent value.

We stayed for a visit to Hambledon Vineyard which was also fab.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 May 2024

Briton

Stayed at the White Lion before heading to Southampton the next day. Perfect stop over before joining our cruise.
A really pleasant night, lovely meal, nice staff & a good breakfast.
We’ll certainly be staying there again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Mar 2024

Marcia

Highly Recommended

Fantastic stay, very welcoming, lovely room

Business

10/10

Exceptional

14 Feb 2024

gillian

Lovely pub with great food in a country village setting

Business

10/10

Exceptional

16 Nov 2023

kevin

Friendly welcome, lovely clean, well appointed room, comfortable bed. Lovely dinner and breakfast. All in a stunning location.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

15 Oct 2023

Lloyd

Staff were great, room was clean and spacious,food was superb

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

04 Sep 2023

Robin

Lovely staff and excellent location for the beautiful countryside walking
Really enjoyed our stay

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 Aug 2023

paul

White lion in Siberton

Very friendly locals from as soon as we drove up the side road.

Highly recommend for room and food, 10/10

Room was great with bathroom and sitting room on ground floor, bathroom very spacious eith bath and very powerful seperate shower cubicle. With large double bed upstairs.

Can’t fault staff at hotel at all, from checking in, to service at bar and restaurant . Very friendly and accommodating.

Dinner was lovely, chicken Kiev was huge and lovely and the steak and ale pie was probably the best pie I have ever had full of juicy and well cooked meat. Prices in restaurant very reasonable.

Bar prices also good and a wide selection of lager, ales and cider.

Thanks to everyone at the white lion, we will return.

Shout out also to the lay preacher who stopped for a chat whilst going to the church to lock up, what a lovely man.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

24 Jun 2023

John

Great Place to Stay

A lovely stay in really nice room. My only minor criticism is that if you are tall the ceiling is really low, but there is little the owners can do about that. The staff were wonderful and we did love the room inspite of the ceiling. Food was really good too.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Jun 2023

Helen

Hampshire Downs at its finest

Absolute gem of a find in a beautiful part of Hampshire we only live 50 mins away but where at an event at the local Hambledon Vinyand did not want to drive home - so glad we made that decision and returning in July and will be a drive out to eat place in the future

Partner

8/10

Excellent

01 Jun 2023

william

Excellent

Excellent welcome, great service and great room

Business

8/10

Excellent

27 May 2023

Maurice

Nice short break.

Nice room, lovely friendly staff and an excellent dinner and breakfast.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

17 May 2023

Colin

Great little find

Very nice place to stay, was here for business but definitely a nice destination for a getaway, I would return with my wife. Unexpectedly the double room was effectively a mini suite, with its own lounge, was impressed to have a good size shower and bath in the bathroom. Everything was clean, the staff were friendly and the food was very tasty!

Business Self

6/10

Pleasant

10 May 2023

Paula

A disappointing stay

We had just one night here over the Coronation bank holiday weekend. Pretty location, with a church next door and lovely surrounding countryside.
The room was very small but that wasn't the issue - it was more about the cleanliness or rather lack of it. Scuff marks on the walls, cobwebs around the room. Even the drawers and bottom of the wardrobe were not clean so we chose not to use these. The floor in the room was particularly dirty, as was the entrance hall. There were complimentary toiletries and small bottles of water, plus a hairdryer and iron/ironing board provided. Staff were courteous and gave us top-ups for the tea/coffee making tray, plus fresh milk. The bedding was clean and the bathroom towels were thick and fluffy. However, the towels had a greasy (pub kitchen) smell to them. Our evening meal in the pub was good. Breakfast wasn't as enjoyable. We didn't raise any concerns during our stay as we knew it was a flying visit. But we certainly wouldn't stay here again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Jan 2023

John

Excellent

Fantastic friendly customer service from a small village pub Restaurant serving good traditional Pub food
Excellent base for exploring Portsmouth Winchester and South Downs

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

14 Dec 2022

Andrew

Highly recommended!

I was very pleasantly surprised to learn that the room was 2 floors - lounge and bath/shower downstairs and bedroom upstairs. The bathroom was very spacious with plenty of toals, soap, shampoo, conditioner etc. Bonus point for having an iron and ironing board in the room.
Everything was wonderfully clean.
The free wifi was plenty fast enough for me to get some work done with, handy it was there as i had no mobile internet signal (phone signal was good enough to make calls on though)

The pub itself was lovely. Staff were friendly and the beer went down a treat.

Considering the breakfast was a fairly cheap add-on i was expecting continental but not only did i get offered cereals etc i also had a really nice full english.

All in all a great stay, i will definitely be staying here again for my next visit down that way!

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

28 Nov 2022

Luke

Lovely stay

A lovely old pub with great bedding. The evening meal and breakfast were of the highest quality.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

18 Nov 2022

Ben

Great Room, Great Food, Great Stay

We had a very nice one night break at The White Lion. Our room was comfy, decorated very nicely and good size bathroom. Breakfast was very tasty and all in all we had a lovely time.

We ate in the restaurant too and the food was absolutely delicious. All appeared to be freshly prepared on site and was of a very high quality. Staff are very friendly too.

There's some lovely walks around and about, especially down the old tramline nearby.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 Aug 2022

Ben

Fabulous accommodation

Absolutely fantastic service and food. The evening meal was sorted, great home cooked food at good prices. Mark & Wendy really went the extra mile to make our stay special.
Great room excellent base for a couple of days if touristing in the area

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

24 Jan 2022

Kim

Warm and welcoming

Friendly, efficient and very comfortable. Lovely hypnos bed, good quality bed linen and having seperate living room made the whole experience very relaxing. Very hearty breakfast was served at our convenience by a lovely lady who was welcoming and chatty plus gave us helpful directions to our next destination. Highly recommend.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

22 Jan 2022

Lindon

All good or very good apart from noisy cellar chiller on during night which kept my wife awake and excessively bright emergency exit lights which kept me awake- great. Not feeling as though we had a restfull stay at all

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

28 Dec 2021

Verified traveler

Excellent place to stay

I stopped in room 3 which was very roomy with a downstairs sitting area and the bedroom upstairs. Recently decorated ans in excellent condition. Staff at the pub were very friendly. There was a little noise from people chatting in the beer garden area but that died down fairly early. Overall a great stop over.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

23 Nov 2021

Verified traveler

A little gem

Modern, spotlessly clean accommodation in the converted stable block of a very popular traditional pub set in a beautiful part of the world.

No need to drive anywhere to eat - the Sunday roast was exceptional.

Quality bedding - slept like a log.

Will be my first choice in future for this area and for miles around.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

01 Nov 2021

Gary

Great weekend

Very lovely place to stay comfortable nice big bed and the staff are very friendly and have a good sense of humour

Partner

8/10

Excellent

29 Oct 2021

Rebecca

Would stay again

Great room, pretty village, food was excellent and the so was the service, especially the two girls that were on - evening and the following morning. The only thing that was a bit disappointing was the shower had very low pressure which made it difficult to wash my hair

Business

8/10

Excellent

18 Oct 2021

Denise

Lovely one nighter in East Meon

Lovely traditional pub with rooms in converted stables.
Very comfortable bed. The food in the pub restaurant was excellent quality and more than just traditional pub food. I’d eat here even if I wasn’t staying. Free breakfast was fab too, really substantial

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

14 Sep 2021

John

Great stay. Comfy room, great food, lovely garden

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

22 Aug 2021

Nigel

Immaculate Stable Conversion

Very quaint converted stables next to the pub. Beautifully finished and immaculately clean. A very warm welcome from the pub staff. Excellent evening meal and very good breakfast. Location is great for walking and conveniently located for us following a visit to Hambledon Vineyard.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

17 Aug 2021

Julie

Ideal for short break in the area

Pretty village with fabulous walks, we walked along disused railway line to Wickham, lunch then back around 11 miles or so. Friendly staff, fairly small room but clean and comfortable. Enjoyed breakfast of full English or eggs and salmon. Nice relaxing break.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Jul 2021

Verified traveler

Lovely pub with great modern rooms

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

15 Oct 2020

david

Really nice pub, staff are very helpful and friendly, food is great.....I would stay here again.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

13 Aug 2020

Mark

Great

Wonderful place , the room was very nice the food was amazing and the staff were very friendly a couldn’t do enough to help or make you more welcome . Highly recommend.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

12 Dec 2019

Wesley

Excellent

Really good place to stay. Friendly service and very comfortable room. Good food and accommodates my gluten free requirement. Excellent breakfast

Business

10/10

Exceptional

22 Sep 2019

Verified traveler

Very comfortable modern accommodation in a well-converted stable block across the old pub yard. Excellent food and drink at dinner in the pub too. The beer garden looked attractive but it was a bit late in the day / season to use it.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

06 Aug 2019

Verified traveler

Very quaint! Food excellent!
Very comfy bed! And very clean!
The setting beautiful!

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

05 Aug 2019

Verified traveler

Superb pretty pub. Great food and friendly staff. Generator in pub yard was very noisy night and day and woke me many times. It would be good to move this machine.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jul 2019

Verified traveler

Very clean room with space around comfy bed and good shower in bathroom.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

07 May 2019

Gerry

Wonderful hidden gem if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle and just enjoy the quiet of the country.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

21 Apr 2019

Ian

A great place place to stay with good rooms and excellent food.

Partner