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Macdonald Berystede Hotel

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3.5

Bagshot Road, Ascot, SL5 9JH, United Kingdom | 0344 879 9104 | Website

Pulling into the car park the red brick house looks ok

Along by the terrace area, you may enjoy a cup of coffee

before your adventure into the spa, or if weather suitable, the terrace would be a nice place to sit

This looks down on the gardens

with paths you could take to enjoy looking around, as the gardens are well maintained and quite a sun trap with places to sit and relax

However, to get down to them you will need to take the lift which is situated over to the left from the main hotel, signed for the Vital Spa and health club

with a ramp to help you get to the lift inside

This takes you down towards the Spa entrance and to the garden approach

you will be welcomed by friendly staff members who will be willing you show you around their club

A wooden tiled floor is handy as it allow your chair freedom to move around and leads along the corridor

although not being a posh pool, it is a good size with easy access.

A disabled toilet is available in the club, clean and tidy, tiled, with plenty of room to be able to use your chair. Grab handles and pull cord available but we did notice the pull cord had been strung up to a bar, and we imagine it would be like that most of the time, because when we pointed this out to the staff who were kindly showing us around and they undid the cord, it hung right in the middle of the floor area, and some would find this a nuisance and would then wrap it around the grab handle again, but at least the staff acknowledge our concern.

It is quite a reasonable sized gym area

but a step needed to get up for some equipment, but most are ready for use on the level with a good selection of equipment. Overall, it’s not a bad gym and spa club, it has all you need, and well looked after, and many disabled people do make use of this facility, it seems to be very popular with locals anyway, and it’s unusual front appearance does appeal in a way.

The Macdonald Berystede Hotel

It was an interesting enough drive towards Bagshot, where the hotel is situated, and you suddenly come across the interesting looking black and white Tudor style house

and you can see the carpark area as you draw close

with its Berystede hotel sign

Pulling into the car park the red brick house looks ok

and over to your right stands the only disabled bay we could find

It is just a short push to reach the front entrance

but the ramp, although needed, did not inspire us to feel that this was going to be a visit to look forward to

Entering the hotel, we noticed immediately a horrid smell of toilets, right at the front door, then another ramp needed to get up

which took us to the hallway

but this area was undergoing repair work, so what with the the terrible smell of toilets, ramps that looked way out of place, and an untidy hallway, I,m afraid we were not at all impressed.There’s a small reception area, unmanned

but clean and tidy, and signs helped us to find the bar

Just beyond this a wooden floor that lead us to a few seats so we sat and ordered coffee

and that was not hot at all, so at the moment we were very disappointed with Macdonald hotels, but other hotels in this group have left us uninspired as well, so not surprised by how we were feeling about this hotel. Other passages were clean and tidy, but lacked any appeal

but at least led us towards the Acanthus restaurant

Just by the wooden tiled floor a side door pointed another way into the restaurant, shown as being “Fork” restaurant

What a silly name for a restaurant ! Someone has no imagination at all. However, the actual restaurant looked very nice

we liked the deco and its colour scheme, it looked warm and inviting

but would be of no use to us, as it does not open until the evening, and we can assure you we will long be gone before then. So we left by the same doorway

and found accessible toilets

which was nice and clean, tidy, with grab rails and a pull cord, spacious enough to use a wheelchair inside, and tiled in nice plain coloured tile

Pulling into the car park the red brick house looks ok

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Pulling into the car park the red brick house looks ok

Along by the terrace area, you may enjoy a cup of coffee

before your adventure into the spa, or if weather suitable, the terrace would be a nice place to sit

This looks down on the gardens

with paths you could take to enjoy looking around, as the gardens are well maintained and quite a sun trap with places to sit and relax

However, to get down to them you will need to take the lift which is situated over to the left from the main hotel, signed for the Vital Spa and health club

with a ramp to help you get to the lift inside

This takes you down towards the Spa entrance and to the garden approach

you will be welcomed by friendly staff members who will be willing you show you around their club

A wooden tiled floor is handy as it allow your chair freedom to move around and leads along the corridor

although not being a posh pool, it is a good size with easy access.

A disabled toilet is available in the club, clean and tidy, tiled, with plenty of room to be able to use your chair. Grab handles and pull cord available but we did notice the pull cord had been strung up to a bar, and we imagine it would be like that most of the time, because when we pointed this out to the staff who were kindly showing us around and they undid the cord, it hung right in the middle of the floor area, and some would find this a nuisance and would then wrap it around the grab handle again, but at least the staff acknowledge our concern.

It is quite a reasonable sized gym area

but a step needed to get up for some equipment, but most are ready for use on the level with a good selection of equipment. Overall, it’s not a bad gym and spa club, it has all you need, and well looked after, and many disabled people do make use of this facility, it seems to be very popular with locals anyway, and it’s unusual front appearance does appeal in a way.

The Macdonald Berystede Hotel

It was an interesting enough drive towards Bagshot, where the hotel is situated, and you suddenly come across the interesting looking black and white Tudor style house

and you can see the carpark area as you draw close

with its Berystede hotel sign

Pulling into the car park the red brick house looks ok

and over to your right stands the only disabled bay we could find

It is just a short push to reach the front entrance

but the ramp, although needed, did not inspire us to feel that this was going to be a visit to look forward to

Entering the hotel, we noticed immediately a horrid smell of toilets, right at the front door, then another ramp needed to get up

which took us to the hallway

but this area was undergoing repair work, so what with the the terrible smell of toilets, ramps that looked way out of place, and an untidy hallway, I,m afraid we were not at all impressed.There’s a small reception area, unmanned

but clean and tidy, and signs helped us to find the bar

Just beyond this a wooden floor that lead us to a few seats so we sat and ordered coffee

and that was not hot at all, so at the moment we were very disappointed with Macdonald hotels, but other hotels in this group have left us uninspired as well, so not surprised by how we were feeling about this hotel. Other passages were clean and tidy, but lacked any appeal

but at least led us towards the Acanthus restaurant

Just by the wooden tiled floor a side door pointed another way into the restaurant, shown as being “Fork” restaurant

What a silly name for a restaurant ! Someone has no imagination at all. However, the actual restaurant looked very nice

we liked the deco and its colour scheme, it looked warm and inviting

but would be of no use to us, as it does not open until the evening, and we can assure you we will long be gone before then. So we left by the same doorway

and found accessible toilets

which was nice and clean, tidy, with grab rails and a pull cord, spacious enough to use a wheelchair inside, and tiled in nice plain coloured tile

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