Great location, charming -- but faulty
As the previous reviewer, my daughter and I stayed at the Legacy Falcon Hotel because we were visiting Stratford to see Ian McKellen in Trevor Nunn's production of King Lear at the RSC theatre.
The pros:
(1) Location is fantastic -- you are literally across the street from Shakespeare's last home in Stratford and in the heart of Stratford Upon Avon. Everywhere you want to go is an easy stroll.
(2) A free hotel car-park. It's large and easy to get in/out so if you're driving to Stratford this is a big plus
(3) The hotel is Ye Olde Traditional English pub style which is very cool if you're visiting from America (as we were).
(4) Staff very nice: they had lost our reservation for a two-bed room and didn't have a 2 bed room (which we needed: daughter & mother travelling together) but when we produced proof (print out of our reservation) they put us in a 3-bed room and gave it to us at the reservation price. We only needed 2 beds but it was nice to have such a huge room!
(5) Price was excellent via Priceline -- all taxes in I think we paid about CAD$150
The cons:
The window sill was really dirty and the bathroom needed to be updated. The carpets in some parts of the hotel were a tad on the sad side.
All that being said -- would I stay there again? YES! Let's face it -- you can stay in a faceless hotel anywhere -- this hotel really was part of our Shakespereana experience!
TIP: Buy your English Heritage pass from the [--] site before you go (you get a e-mailed print out) This is the cheapest way we found to buy it and the 4 day pass was definitely worth it: entrance to tons of places -- if you go to 5 places anywhere in the UK you've paid for it. You can turn in your E-Mail voucher at the Tourism centre in Bath or Stratford or lots of places in London.
Falcon Hotel,Stratford upon Avon.
