Name: The Woodvale
Address: 1 Princes Esplanade, Cowes, GB

8/10

Excellent

13 Jul 2025

William

The Woodvale is a pub with rooms. Our room was pleasant and was reasonably spacious. Bathroom had a shower and was very clean, although a little old. Staff were friendly and helpful. We ate in the pub which served decent food. Overall we enjoyed our stay.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

15 Jun 2025

Tom

The hotel manager was very accommodating and friendly. We really enjoyed the stay, particularly because of the level of service. Great!

10/10

Exceptional

03 May 2025

Gregory

Excellent service and lovel
y outlook. Great cooked breakfast!!

10/10

Exceptional

12 Jan 2025

Joanne

Can't wait to go back!

We had a fantastic stay at the Woodvale. The food was excellent and despite it being a very busy time (just a few days before Christmas so lots of big parties) we didn't wait too long for our meals.

We had a lovely, en-suite family room with a sea view. There was a sofa and coffee table too which gave us another space to sit, rather than just the bed. Even though there was a busy bar downstairs, we couldn't hear anything upstairs in the bedroom. We weren't disturbed by any noise. A definite bonus when you need your 8 year old to go to sleep!!

The staff were exceptional. As I said, we stayed just before Christmas so it was busy with locals and parties but nothing was too much trouble. Everyone was so welcoming.

We wouldn't hesitate to recommend the Woodvale to anyone and we will be booking again for another stay here!

Thank you Steve and the team!

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

12 Aug 2024

John

Really good value lovely room with a fab sea view and food fabulous. A good half hour walk into Cowes but still worth stating

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Jul 2024

Chris

Good little gem

All went well. Check in quick and smooth. food very good. very frieldy team , showed flexibility with check out etc.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jul 2024

Michael

Excellent location, accommodation and service

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

06 Jul 2024

Bernadine

Nice property in good position. Staff very helpful and friendly. Room nice and clean. Over bath shower nice and powerful.Food in restaurant in the evening ok but far from fine dining. Some dishes ok but fish and chips a little tasteless. Breakfast was much better. Overall the price for bed and breakfast staying in a double room with seaview was very good.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 Jun 2024

Leonard

We have used this property over several years and really like it. The staff are friendly and the rooms have been improved over the years. This year the Wifi has been upgraded and is far better.
We stayed in room 5. The plumbing is good, but the shower head needs attention.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

23 Jun 2024

Sharon

I yad eaten here in the past but this was our first time staying. Very generous and comfortable room with seaview and great breakfast options. Lovely walk from the hotel along the beach path into Cowes.Will definitely stay again.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

11 Jun 2024

Elaine

Overall excellent

Extremely good - all services excellent except room was a little noisy and could get very hot.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

22 Apr 2024

Bestdecisions

Wonderful Woodvale

Fantastic location with Solent sunsets; great menu and good food served quickly and politely;decent room with good shower. Immaculately clean. Recommended to anyone staying on the IOW!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Feb 2024

Sally

Lovely place to stay, food amazing room great clean /modern/ peaceful.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Jan 2024

stephen

Excellent

Excellent place and great food . Would stay again

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

06 Oct 2023

Matt

Great weekend in IoW

Staff were very very accommodating, particularly Molly who went out of her way to make our stay very enjoyable.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

04 Aug 2023

Ken

Great food menu for lunch and dinner, great views and easy no cost parking. Breakfast arrangements in the week could be better - only one on when we were there , so a long wait. Staff are friendly and they make a good atmosphere in the pub.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 Jun 2023

Mandy

Great stay.

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jul 2022

Susanne

We had a perfect few days

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

14 Nov 2021

Nicholas

The hotel is in a fabulous location with stunning sea views from the rooms and breakfast suite. The rooms were spotless, the food excellent and the service first class.

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

02 Aug 2021

Susan

Overpriced nightmare parking dodgy shower

We arrived on particularly hot day and all parking was taken for at least two miles away. We were told at 6pm we would not get parked as beach users would not move on…. So come back at 8pm. We came back at 9:10pm and it was the same. We parked on “no parking” bins area of hotel. We were advised that was ok but we would have to move before 7:30 am. The parked cars cleared at 9:45 and we moved the car then…. Just as well as it was rammed again by 7am the next day. This spoiled our enjoyment of the hotel, I could not have a drink and relax until after the car was parked. Same thing happened 2nd night. Not what we expected and we certainly would not have chosen here if we had known about the parking nightmare.
The room was in attic level and was like an oven. The fan did nothing to cool it, we got little sleep either night.
The shower had no cold water flowing so we could not use it. We would have been scalded. We reported this and on out return on day 2 we found it the same. The Manager assured us it had been looked at and came to the room with us. It took her a good 5 minutes of fiddling to get any cold to flow, again not acceptable for £150 on B&B above a pub. Great position spotless, Breakfast was excellent a real high spot. we cannot recommend based on difficulty parking, lack of properly working shower or heat in the room. We did raise all of this with Management but no adjustment to price was offered. We felt it was vastly overpriced for the experience.

Partner