Name: Waveney Inn
Address: Staithe Road, Burgh St Peter, Burgh Saint Peter, NR34 0DE, United Kingdom, Beccles, Beccles, Beccles, NR34 0BT, United Kingdom
Rating: 7

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Waveney Inn

Beccles

Lovely situation although to get there you need to go down a single track road with passing places. Staff were very friendly and efficient. Room was large and comfortable with a large wet room. The food was excellent.

A great place to stay

A last minute long weekend away. Our room was lovely, although beware of Booking.com! They say it was 'River View', but it isn't! Very quiet and extremely pretty place. The bar does close really early, so if you want to make a night of it bring your own booze. Ask for 2 cards for your room. We were only given one and you have to use this to keep the lights on. The staff were all lovely, Marianne was so nice, professional and helpful too. All in all a lovely stay.

Very Nice Stay

the hotel was fabulous 
but the food from Waveney inn ( not part of hotel  ) was limited  to chips,  chips  and more chips,  it was 29'c   ( How's for  chips) 
apparently they they have just had a new chef
give them time

Waveney Hotel  river centre

We arrived at 2pm in time for check in. Our room was immaculate and had obviously been completely renewed at the start of the season. Good choice of tea bags, instant coffees etc but no toiletries. The mini shop in the bar area did not have shower gel.
The hand pump (real ale) I saw in a photo of the bar had its pump clip turned round the 4 days we were there. The kitchen closed each day at 4pm. The lovely lady at reception gave us a cycling route to the Toft White Lion but it is closed on a Sunday and the kitchen has been closed since Covid.
Breakfast was an excellent full English (or vegetarian equivalent) but no fruit juice, cereal, yoghurt or fruit. No expresso machine either.
After breakfast we inquired about the ferry to get us across the Waveney, but it wasn't working and wouldn't  be for our stay. That was one of the reasons for choosing the hotel so we could walk to the Carlton Marshes Wildlife Trust.
We asked about boat hire, but that started on Wednesday, the day we were leaving.
Google Maps had a cycle route to Beccles, but according to a local cyclist the route was blocked by Edward Haughey Jr at Gillingham hall. We clocked 11 miles on our bikes for journey of 7 and a half miles by car.
The bus stop at Burgh (Borough) St Peter was only 2 miles away but unfortunately there appeared to only be one bus a day.
If you like driving your car every day on holiday then this is a good place to stay.

If you like driving your car every day when on holiday this is a good place to stay.

My wife and I had one of the small rooms with two single beds. Room was very well appointed and very clean. We both enjoyed a good night sleep. When we arrived we were greeted by Ruby. This young woman was brilliant, she showed us around and made us feel very welcome. Ruby was also on the morning shift and again greeted us for breakfast. It is very refreshing to find somebody who is obviously very enthusiastic about their job and the service they provide customers. Unfortunately, we have found this to be a rare quality in other hotels we have visited in the last 12 months. Breakfast menu was I think typical of this type of accommodation, but it was presented well and we had no complaints. Waveney inn is very good value for money. We have re booked for next month

Great one night stay

Room was very nice and a good size. Very clean and bed comfy. Nice selection of teas and coffees. Pleasantly surprised to see towel art in the shape of swans on the bed.
Reception staff very nice and polite and helpful.
Saw a sign by the bar that it was open 8 till late. Wasn't interested in having an evening meal at the hotel so didn't check the menu. Went out to dinner and as driving did not have a drink as the bar was advertised as being open. Arrived back at 8.15 and bar shut.
Breakfast the next morning was just OK. Not a buffet type and only 4 options. Was also offered a oughmans or fish and chips for breakfast. Full English consisted of 1 egg, beans, 2 sausages, 2 bacon, ½ a tomato ,1 mushroom and 2 hash browns. Offered toast or bread and was served one slice of toast.
No information in rooms re what's occurring in the area, breakfast menu and times or evening menu.
Very remote location and so needs info to be able to plan evenings. When we returned - bar closed, no staff to see, TV poor signal. This needs improvement. Will not be returning.

Hotel ok but some improvements needed.

Now this is a review of two halves, so I’ll get the negatives out of the way first.
The first negative is the room we had ‘Chart Room’ was described as ‘Overlooking the river’, it should have been described as overlooking the workshops, but if you look to the right you can see the river across the car park!
The other negative happened when we decided to eat here on our third night. I did book the first meal before we left home for our first night. At breakfast we were told we didn’t need to book as we were staying in the Inn and not the River Centre. It was only river centre holiday makers that needed to book. I took it that they meant for all meals, but it transpired that it was just breakfast that was guaranteed. We were told that they were fully booked for an evening meal, and there was nothing they could do. The centre and the inn are in the middle of nowhere and accessible by a few single track roads. We didn’t feel like going out again through those roads, especially after we had been out all day. 
I asked if there was anything they could suggest, and I was flabbergasted by the reply of ‘Ring Just Eat!!!’
Bearing in mind we are in a room with 1 chair, no table and no cutlery!
Having got the negatives out of the way we had a nice time. The room was comfortable, roomy and clean.
(Most) of the staff were friendly and helpful. It’s a lovely place, the setting is perfect. Just those niggles that let it down really in my opinion.

A nice setting, but…

A week before we were due to stay, we received a phone call to say the usual “staff shortages” excuse meant we would not be getting the cooked breakfast we had booked. Very disappointing as it was one of the reasons we booked but I was sure that an effort would be made to provide a decent continental breakfast instead. In fact it was very disappointing . No eggs, cheese, cold meats just cereals, toast, waffles, croissants with strawberry jam and butter. No marmalade or honey. A bowl of plain yoghurt and a small selection of fruit. I asked for marmalade and was told there was a problem with suppliers. There’s a Morrison’s a short ride away and how much effort would it take to serve some hard boiled eggs? Anyway, the next day marmalade appeared and the following day, some Brie. 
The room was lovely,it was the Port Cabin, very spacious and clean with a great view over the marshes and the en suite was a great size too although the only toiletries supplied was a small bar of soap. Nice soft towels. Plenty of complimentary hot drinks on the hospitality tray and some nice biscuits. The bed was huge and very comfortable and there were two old, tatty armchairs in the room. One was reasonably comfortable but the other had three big springs sticking out so you couldn’t sit on it. I asked reception if they could change it but they said they didn’t have any more. Her immediate reaction told me that she was well aware of said chair and had clearly received complaints about it before.  Perhaps they should look on Freecycle, there’s lots of free chairs on there in much better condition. It did let down the room. The biggest fault with the nicely refurbished room was the fact that there was no proper sound proofing on the wall adjoining the next room. We could hear everything. This is a major fault and did detract from our stay, particularly on the final night. The door of our room and the room next door did not close properly and you really had to shove it to open and close, making a lot of noise. The architrave was coming away from the wall, due to the force needed to open/close the door. Just a simple maintenance issue but it’s important to rectify.
The pool was nice, albeit a bit small, and was a good temperature. Incredibly, pool towels are not provided, we were told to use our room towels and then hand them in to reception and we would be given replacements. The pool is in another building nearby. One morning it was raining so we went to the pool in our swimwear, as advised, with jackets over our swimwear. We towelled down after our swim and returned to reception to hand our wet towels over and asked for replacement ones so that we could go to the room and shower. The lady in reception asked a gentleman, who was hoovering the floor, to get some towels for us as we had just come from the pool. He said he would bring them to our room in a minute. We sat there, wet and cold before we realised that Andrew wasn’t going to bother so we used our hand towels after our shower. 50 minutes later he still hadn’t bought the towels so I went back to reception and complained. Such a silly system, there should be separate pool towels available for guests, expected for the price of the stay.
I’ve tried to be balanced in this review, giving the good points along with the points that could and should be improved. The Waveney Riverside centre is in a lovely position with great views of the river and lovely surrounding walks in the nature reserve. The staff were lovely, friendly and polite. So it’s down to the management to make the necessary improvements to improve the quality of the stay. We did have an enjoyable stay here, despite the few issues I’ve mentioned.

4 night stay in a Nice location but needs improvement

Wonderful library room in the Inn, excellent staff - warm, friendly, couldn't do enough to help.  BUT - food very limited for breakfast and dinner , especially if one is staying for a week.  The specials didn't change and there was limited choice of mains and deserts.

Waveney Inn and river centre

Decided to have a family meal out here, menu was limited, the 5 of us decided what we wanted & ordered our meals at the bar,  the meals came out very quickly...wow quick service, we were impressed, but thats as far as that went as now we got to eat our food which we looked forward to all afternoon. omg thats when it all went wrong!! its the dearest microwave meal i have ever had... yes microwaved reheated meal, it was awful, overcooked & tasteless & for £12.00 we will never eat here again, rated 2 stars as the staff were lovely though. 

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