The Market Hotel

Visted here for a very good freind's hen party and the staff were fantastic! Stacy and Martin made the occasion very personalised and were incredibly attentive to making the Bride to Be feel special. Service was excellent and food great! A real community feel with the locals too, who were fun and friendly. Highly recommeded!

5/5- Food was absolutely amazing and staff are very friendly. Inside and outside very nice and tidy. Lastly, toilets very clean. Very good selection of food/drink. A very lovely older building that had been very well kept. Would defo recommend!!!

Pleasant staff, room tidy and ok. Went a Friday and Saturday night and very very loud music in bar until 1am then at last half an hour afterwards when they were all leaving. DON’T stop here if you want to go to sleep before 1.30am - this was definitely more bar than a hotel.

We were looking for a venue for our daughter’s 21st Birthday party and wanted somewhere local so when we spoke to the team at our local we were excited with what they could offer. We already love the Market and its food is incredible so it was an easy choice. Not only that but Dave and the whole team made it a fantastic night..every body thanked us for the party and said what a great venue it was.

Had an awful experience at the Market hotel on Saturday. Earlier in the week I booked a table in their dining room for Saturday at 7pm for 4 people. Saturday afternoon they rang me explaining that there was a private function in the dining room & would we mind eating in the bar area, which we were happy to do. We arrived at 7pm, sat at our table & ordered our food. We waited nearly an hour for the food to arrive. Three of us ordered steaks & my niece ordered the lasagna, which should have come with garlic bread & seasonal vegetables. What she received was a dish which was about 6” long & the lasagna took up only half of the dish & there were 2 pieces of garlic bread in the other half. Apart from not being very big the lasagna did not look at all appetising, it looked like it had been reheated. I took it to the bar & had to shout at the barman because the music was so loud, I told him that the lasagna was disgusting & there was no way I was going to pay £16 for it. The barman took it away & after about 20 minutes the landlord brought my niece a replacement with the excuse that it was a new chef & they had served up the lunchtime lasagna by mistake. By this time the rest of us had finished our meals. If they had served that at lunchtime I would have still sent it back. It certainly wasn’t fit to eat. The replacement lasagna was a lot better & it came with chips, salad & garlic bread, but it wasn’t very warm. A bit like the steak pie that I had there a few weeks before, my pie was still frozen inside & the replacement wasn’t very warm. And then to top it all it was karaoke night, which we didn’t know anything about. So we had karaoke in the bar area where the sound was turned up to ear splitting & ABBA songs belting out in the dining room in competition with the karaoke. The noise was deafening & the four of us couldn’t wait to get out of there. I am assuming that the dining room had already been booked for the private function & if that was the case why did they take my booking? They should have told me that there was a private function on. If I had known, I could have booked somewhere else.

Only visited for lunch, and found it to be VERY GOOD pub grub. I had the steak and Guinness pie. The pastry was cooked, crisp, and buttery. The chips were excellent and the peas perfectly cooked. Reasonable prices too for the area. I should definitely recommend the Market Hotel for lunch if visiting Alton.