Clive
The hotel was clean throughout, however it did look very tired. Gardens not maintained, externals need a lick of paint, no windows or air conditioning in our room, bathroom clean but you could see the knocks/marks. The staff though were excellent, the breakfast comprehensive and a limited restaurant menu offered a good enough choice for an evening meal. There is plenty of parking. This hotel is ideally located for the Hickstead Showground albeit you do have to cross a couple of very busy roads to get there on foot (29 minutes away on foot). Hickstead offer a hotel bus, but it does not come to the Hickstead Hotel. Perhaps the owners could speak to the Hickstead Show Committee. We did speak to a number of folk returning to the hotel for a second or subsequent time, which is clearly a positive. Some were riders family members. The hotel is also planning a major redevelopment, so comments about its tired appearance may well be redundant in 12 months time. All of the staff we met were very friendly. We may well return again. For information we travelled by train to Haywards Heath (lots of trains from central London) with a taxi finishing the trip at a circa £20 cost. All in all a good trip and we met some lovely people.
