Our accommodation

Two of our seven guest rooms are singles and have a bath with overhead shower. They are on the first floor, where there is also a twin room with a bath and hand-held shower and a superior double with a walk-in shower.

The remaining three rooms are on the second floor: the twin and double room have a bath and hand-held shower. The superior double has a spacious bathroom with a roll-top bath and walk-in shower. A lobby connects this to the (small) bedroom; from the lobby and bedroom, doors open out onto a narrow balcony and external staircase (a new feature in 2006, which also enhances our health and safety provision).

For partners staying with one child, the second floor double becomes a family room: a small single room leads off the bedroom. Alternatively, the twin rooms may suit a family with up to two small children.
  The extra-wide beds in our twin rooms are an unusual feature, and typical of our efforts to provide what will be most comfortable for a good night’s sleep. Soon after we moved into Lloyds in 1993, we bought the beds, carpets and other furniture in these two rooms from the Edinburgh Sheraton (five-star). Since then, we have replaced most items, except the mirrors, headboards and table lamp which remain in excellent condition and the chairs which we have had recovered.
     
  Another spoiling weekend, feeling replete in every direction. We wish we could find a way to ‘beam down’ into those splendid new showers for a quick Lloyds’ fix whenever we felt the need for some five-star treatment.

Tim and Julia, Newbury, April 2005

 
All the beds are President, a luxury quality hotel range (one-time of Staples, who held a Royal warrant). In the singles, the beds are metric width; in the twins a special size (4ft wide); in the doubles, king size (5ft wide). The single and twin room beds are made-up with sheets and blankets, the doubles with new duck feather and down duvets (or otherwise as requested). Bath sheets (larger in size than bath towels) are standard. In the two superior rooms, all the linen is luxury quality and bathrobes are provided.

Each bedroom has a colour television and digital box with Freeview channels, radio/alarm clock, beverage-making facilities (vacuum flask of fresh milk on request) and hairdryer. (The TV in the single which forms part of the family room just receives the four terrestrial channels.)

The four rooms facing the town have double glazing in the bedroom. Three rooms have ceiling fans for hot summer days, and the other rooms are supplied with a desk or wall-mounted fan. All the rooms have individual (and time-controlled) electric convention heaters, with a heated towel rail and fan heater in their bathroom.

Walkers and cyclists have access to our laundry room to dry wet clothing. Cycles can be stored overnight in our cellar.
  The bathroom for room 1. What was once a corner bedroom, we converted into two bathrooms. Since this photo was taken, the curtains have been replaced by a vertical blind, a hand-held shower/mixer tap fitted on the bath and the carpet renewed.
     
  Room 3 is one of our two single rooms. The bed has since been upgraded to a metric width single.

About our breakfasts

Breakfast is cooked to order and comes straight from the pan onto the plate and to you. Our bacon and sausages are from an award-winning local supplier. Our eggs are also local, from free-range chickens. It is helpful to know at least a day or so in advance if you are vegetarian, no dairy or gluten-free, so that we make sure we have suitable alternatives to offer you.

We ask what time you would like breakfast, the only restriction generally is not later than 9.30 am to come down. 
  The breakfast room with its collection of farm implements, wood burning stove and the original glass from the front door, engraved with ‘Humphreys Commercial Hotel’, mounted in an oak cabinet.

Checking-in and departing

It is helpful to have some idea of your arrival time, to make sure the room is ready, or if it is to be late, not to be worrying over what might have delayed you. For practical reasons, we do ask guests to vacate their room by midday.

During your stay, you have a key to the front door of Lloyds and can come and go at any time as you wish. 
  The day’s newspapers and a wide range of books for guests’ enjoyment in our sitting room/reception. Pre-dinner drinks are served here (or at your table).