Name: The General Eliott
Address: 37 Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 5AS, UK, Oxford, Oxford, Oxford, OX1 5AS, United Kingdom
Rating: 7

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The General Eliott

We knew of the General Eliott, as about 2 years we were interested in buying it. We didn't (obviously), so were very keen to see how it had been re-done.
We parked at the Hinksey outdoor pool and had a lovely stroll through the park, over the lake to South Hinksey. The outside space has been really well designed with long tables and an area for the kids to play in.
The pub is very rustic (this is a good thing), with really friendly staff and cute dogs about. We ordered food and we weren't disappointed. 
The only negative was that it was very quiet for a Sunday lunch. The General Eliott deserves to be fully booked and busy. Maybe more promotion of it would help ? 
Well worth discovering this lovely pub.
Next time we come, we will bring a good crowd !

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Very well presented country pub with great food

We had reserved our room back in the spring on the back of positive feedback on this very website, prior to going we reviewed the latest comments and were concerned at the negative comments. I must say we didn't experience any concerns with what had been written recently. We arrived and was shown to our room, the staff were pleasant and polite and didn't take money as has been reported. The room was well decorated, modern and served our needs. Certainly plenty of tea, coffee and a decent size fridge. Quite often you can here the bar downstairs - not here, though the walls between rooms do seem thin but the next room seem to be their office.

Breakfast had been an area which had received poor feedback, I can confirm breakfast is provided although its a cold buffet style (but plenty of it). Just watch though as we found the yogurts out of date. We had to offer to pay before departing as we could have easily have left without paying.

The pub is ideally located for a trip to the city, 15 min walk to the city so close enough for everything Oxford has to offer but set back for the peace and quite with no passing traffic. 

The bottom line is this establish is not as bad as recent comments have suggested.

Better than previous comments suggest

A lovely location (although please add South Hinksey to your address on booking.com) as we and another unrelated guest both ended up in Central Oxford! Rooms are fine if scruffy. Showers were strong and bed was clean and comfy. Pub is very laid back which is nice but almost so much it is horizontal. A friend was let down at the last minute as "they hadn't built the 5th room they were planning in May " but didn't think to give us any notice on that one?! Odd. Breakfast super casual with no-one in sight so we made it ourselves. A slightly odd experience but perfectly pleasant if you like the slightly hippy, bohemian style of living.

Not totally sure what this place wants to be...

The pub and location are very pleasant but if you choose to stay here you must be prepared for a completely different experience. We arrived for a 4 night stay and full payment was taken as soon as we arrived, which looking back was probably not a good sign. The back area of the pub and hallway/stairway to the rooms was pretty filthy. Once in our room we discovered a blown bulb in the bathroom (which was shortly replaced) and despite a large tv and sky box we were missing a remote control which rendered the whole set completely unusable for the duration of our stay. A note in our room informed us that it would NOT be serviced each morning and if we required it cleaned there was a number we could call to discuss costs!! I travel around the UK for work most of the year and a room clean is standard in all hotel and b & b costs, to put it as a extra is absolutely outrageous and not standard practice and is obscenely greedy of the owners. The first 2 mornings breakfast was provided but on the final 2 mornings it was absent without explanation or apology. Indeed on coming downstairs the entire premises were empty without a single member of staff in evidence. When we emailed to ask where breakfast was we were curtly informed that it was not part of our booking!! Condsidering we'd been told when our breakfast would be served and had consumed it the first 2 mornings this made absolutely no sense. When we challenged this further the person communicating with us refused to take any responsibility saying they were not in charge of that side of the business! On reading other reviews it seems that refunds are pretty hard to come by once you've paid in full on arrival. For the last 2 days of our stay we never saw anyone in authority to speak to and when we checked out our note of complaint was put alongside another 2 notes from disgruntled patrons who had also left that morning unable to find anyone to complain to. In short it seems that the pub offers a pint and slightly over priced food in pleasant surroundings but the B & B side of things is neglected and unmanaged and in charging for things it fails to provide and in not including a service that would normally be expected it sails very close to the wind in terms of trading standards. If you stay do not pay in full on arrival and keep your fingers crossed, the only thing you can reply on is inconsistency of service.

dreadful B & B

Stayed for 4 nights.We were served a passable continental breakfast for the first 2 mornings but then nothing for the latter 2.Not great as this is definitely not self-catering accommodation and there's nowhere else nearby.Most of the time this scruffy-looking place was entirely devoid of staff but when we finally found someone we were told this was because breakfast wasn't including at the time of our booking but their policy had changed since.What??!!So many other things wrong...TV not working,no proper wardrobe,filthy carpets,room-cleaning supposedly available at extra cost.So much potential in this lovely setting but the place is run as an utter shambles.£75 exorbitant for an ill-equipped,scruffy,non-serviced room with (or is it without?!) breakfast.

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