The Dirty Bottles Inn

Really friendly at hotel and nice setting x

Quirky Room but not practical for living in. Fabulous wallpaper, lighting, period portraits, bed and bathroom with old fashioned chain toilet. Large old shipping storage boxes at side of each bed but are unusable and nailed shut. 4 very small drawers and one small wardrobe for clothing, nowhere to put personal belongings much and toiletries had to be put on floor as no surfaces. Cleaner never cleaned toilet or bath during stay. Very hot room thankfully there was a fan. Biggest problem was no fridge for liquids so had to ask for ice bucket at bar. Breakfast was average, cooked full English had cheap ingredients but eggs well cooked both days ( I had eggs Benedict second day ) contential nice Staff friendly.

I was quite disappointed with my stay here. I had done a lot of research into this hotel as my boyfriend (who's birthday it was) is a huge Harry Potter fan and we wanted to see the castle and I had read about the Harry Potter rooms the Dirty Bottles Hotel offers. I had paid the extra price for the "Superior" room, which the pictures looked incredible. This cost me £400.95 for two nights! I didn't mind paying as, as I mentioned, the pictures looked incredible. However, when we arrived, we had to wait 10 minutes to be served at the hotel check-in, despite staff just standing around. We were told to ring the bell, when we did no one came, we than rang it again, and when someone did come it was the same person that told us we needed to ring the bell...bit pointless. We then got shown to our room, and it was certainly not the room advertised. It was much smaller, darker, and did not have the details as suggested in the photos. We were on the first floor and it was incredibly noisy, especially in the evening/night time. The pub is obviously open until midnight, which I don't have a problem with, however, it was so noisy, you could literally hear word for word of people's conversations until about 1.00am. Meaning we couldn't sleep until the pub had closed it doors. It also meant that when the doors re-opened for breakfast the next morning you could hear tables being dragged around the pub as they prepared. The room itself was very clean, however, the water pressure in the bathroom was next to nothing. The shower basically just dribbled water from it. It took a long time to get the shampoo out my hair! The cold tap in the bathroom ran hot, meaning brushing your teeth was done in hot water. The TV was behind a cabinet, which was quite cool, however, the right hand door did not stay open and was swinging shut. This meant we had to find something to prop it open with. We had breakfast included in our stay. The cooked breakfast was fab, however, on the second day, with breakfast starting at 9.00am and us coming down at 9.30am, there was no pastries left, no juice left, no coffee left and no plates left. Which was disappointing. Maybe they had been extremely busy that 30 minutes before, but when we came down there were only 3 other tables with people on. Overall, I was very disappointed with our stay here. Somethings can be forgiven, but when they are false advertising, it's a real shame. I would not recommend paying the extra and I definitely won't be staying here again, having travelled 5 hours to visit!

Visited here with my wife before moving on up to Scotland. We were met by jess and from minute one she was brilliant. Helpful with info we needed and couldn't do enough for us at breakfast. Nothing was too much trouble. The hotel is in a perfect spot and has a great atmosphere. Our room that I had asked for when I booked a month in advance was perfect.

Smashing stay at the Hallow & Crux, room was fabulous. Harry Potter themed but very subtlety done with a grown up feel. This is actually part of the Dirty Bottles hotel which perhaps should be a bit clearer online? Also, website could do with showing that breakfast is included in the price. Staff very friendly and helpful Food good pub grub. Decent sized breakfast Small suggestion perhaps a stand/shelf in the Chamber’s bathroom for a wash bag? Alnwick itself was great for food and shopping. Lots of independent shops perfect for Christmas presents all very friendly

We stayed for our 21st Wedding Anniversary in The Chamber Room. The room was fabulous and just what we had hoped for. Our evening meal was very tasty as was breakfast the next morning. We did have a few issues with our stay, however Daryl sorted everything direct with us and all was well in the end. There are only four rooms and they are all fantastic. We are staying at the sister hotel in January as well. Well worth a stay.