There’s been plenty of pleasure concerning the opening of One Warwick Park in Tunbridge Wells.
An enormous sum of cash has gone into changing three separate buildings, one among which was the previous Brew Home resort.
The issue is that, for all that expense, it stays three separate buildings, albeit two of them joined by a tunnel that doubles as an artwork gallery.
All change: An enormous sum has gone into changing three buildings into One Warwick Park
The reception space is minimize off from the bar, the bar is minimize off from the restaurant and the gallery is apparent minimize off.
Type is conventional fashionable — or, extra to the purpose, protected fashionable. Which implies it’s a notch up from a business-class airport lounge. All the things is spanking new. Shiny, however unusually company.
Our room on a Monday evening (a cut price at £85 B&B and we’re upgraded) is spacious with a cushty Hypnos mattress.
There aren’t any footage on the restful cream partitions and a giant effort has gone into the lighting. The toilet works effectively, with its walk-in bathe, Grohe faucets and Duravit basin. There’s a terrace outdoors, which is neglected.
We would like a lot to like this place, not least as a result of the workers are tirelessly well mannered. However there simply isn’t a lot in the best way of environment.
Fairly: Tunbridge Wells is a picturesque place, with the Pantiles arcade at its coronary heart
Maybe to make up for this, the muzak is way too loud within the soulless L’Amore restaurant, the place one of the best factor is the view of Corridor’s second-hand bookshop.
No complaints concerning the primarily Italian menu, the place many of the major programs are underneath £20.
Music at breakfast is all the time dangerous and it doesn’t work right here — aside from drowning out among the clanking of utensils on the laminated wooden tables.
And we want the lights might be much less brutal right now of day.
We’re certain One Warwick Park is geared toward romantic {couples}, however can’t assist pondering it’s greatest suited to businessmen rewarding themselves for clinching the deal.
