Name: Prince of Wales
Address: York Avenue, East Cowes, East Cowes, East Cowes, PO32 6JT, United Kingdom
Rating: 7

Smoke-free property

Heating

Newspapers

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All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)

No elevators

Reception desk

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Non-smoking rooms

Flat-screen TV

Linens

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Coffee/tea for guests

Breakfast

Kettle

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

Picnic area

Recreation

Free parking

Free Parking on Premises

Parking

Beach/pool towels

Pool and beach

Pets Not Allowed

Pets

Extra decontamination measures

Personal protection equipment for guests

Contactless check-in and/or check-out

Additional measures against COVID-19

Health and Safety Measures

Location

At the guest house

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East Cowes Ferry Terminal

East Cowes Beach

Cowes Yacht Haven

Southampton Airport

Bournemouth Airport

Prince of Wales

East Cowes

The breakfast was really good, our room whilst small was comfortable enough and most importantly clean. I was pleased that the shower had decent power and warm water. The room was quiet, although on a Saturday night you have to accept that a pub with entertainment is going to have some noise and the drag queen was very good and finished at a reasonable time). 
Location is great, we got the No.5 bus from Newport (15mins and literally stops at the pub door!) and literally cross the road to Osborne House. Evening food is not available but they recommended the Victoria Tavern which did tasty food with friendly service about 15mins walk away.
A few things we would suggest for improving is teaspoons in the room and it to be clear that the pub is actually closed until 3pm in the week, rather than just this being the check in time. This is totally on us for not getting in touch, but we did try to leave our bags around 1130 before going to Carisbrooke Castle (understanding we wouldnt get to go to our room) but it was locked up. Not their fault, but something to be aware of if you want to do the same.


Victorian Pub, comfortable enough

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The pub / Hotel is not worth booking in our opinion (although the staff are lovely  the owners have strict rules for them to follow).
Check In is @ 3pm if your lucky & the bar closes if there are 3 customers in so times vary considerably 8pm on a Friday night 9pm on a Saturday...

They have no chef currently so no food available & the breakfast is inedible all deep fat fried & hard.

Rooms are very small we booked a superior double & at best was a large single.
Pub looks run down which is a shame as it is in a great location.
The owner needs to look at investment in all areas of this business 

Don't bother

Me and my partner stayed for the weekend. Upon arrival we didn't realise it was on a main road. But as we went inside and was shown to our room we were pleasantly surprised as we couldn't hear the road to our relief. The room was clean and nice and the bathroom was the same. The only bad thing I would say is the shower was too small. Me and my partner are both small but it was very cramped. The staff were very friendly and welcoming. And the breakfeast was ok. I would go back as we did enjoy our stay. 

Friendly and welcoming. 

Mixed Reviews.................

Stayed here 3 nights as it was my Birthday and I had always wanted to visit Osborne House.
The Hotel /Pub is opposite the gates to the house so a perfect location,
We arrived 2pm ish and all was closed and locked up (it did say 3pm check in) so wasnt out of our ay to visit nearby Whippingham

Checking in. Theres a car park at the front but as its an Old building there are lots of steps so with luggage that's a mammoth effort!!! and required 2 trips.

Firstly we couldnt find a remote control for the TV (very small TV at that!) so member of staff took one from another room. We later discovered it was hiddenunder the bed throw! so had to go again to the bar to return it.

Complimentary Tea (;loose tea bags!) and coffee, milk sachets and some biscuits were there and fresh towels and soap etc

So we hoped for a lovely stay

The breakfast was lovely - home cooked and hot (l;ovely lady who cooked it) A hard worker! You could choose cereals or a full english breakfast. juice, tea coffee etc. Only downside I would dsayt is toast is not served seperate but balanced on the brealkfast plate!

Then the mishaps happened that made the stay less than enjoyable. Came back to room after first day out. Bed  was made. We had left towels in shower to be replaced (one towel gad a stain on it we noticed on arriva;!) these were NOT replaced and no tea / milks etc replaced either so had to go down to reception AGAIN.  Then the landlady? and barman came up with new towels and tea coffee to apologise.

I had also noticed ONE pillow had NO pillowcase - TWO days on purpose I left that on the top of the bed so it would be seen., It was ignored. The pillow was stained too!

NO working air conditioning so had to have window open, Fan orovided was useless - sounded like a rocket taking off (thankfully we had our own as my partner needs a fan for medical reasons)_

On the last day we were packing, we put their  DO NOT DISTIURB sign on the door and locked it. Then heard a key turning and the room cleaner walked in - then said sorry and left. Well I laughted it off BUT thats really poor/ VERY POOR

This has the makings of a great business but these small mishaps do and WILL put custpners off, You have to be made feel welcome, We paid £315 for three nights and thats a lot for what it is, The location swung it for us but even so these errors.................

The rooms are themed with royal names and are small. I imagine its a listed building so they are limited what they can do and the renovations are lovely. The bathroom water / Loo operate on a water pump. So it occassionally rumbles for a few seconds.

Breakfast area needs refreshing. I am amazed they are not marketing the royal side of the Pub Hotel more as it has cvnnections to Osbornes histrory. Pub seems much quieter. We had a room at the back so as its on main road didnt have traffic passing by

Would we stay again.............. mmmmmmmmmmmm

Not sure



Nice hotel but so many oroblems with stay

Five minute drive from the ferry terminal, opposite entrance to Osborne House. Its a pub with rooms, interesting historic building. Staff were all friendly,  room was really nice, spotlessly clean. We were on the top floor in a bit of a heatwave so it was quite hot but they had opened all the windows and set a fan going.  Breakfast was nice. Car park to the side. Would stay again 

Nice stay

We arrived on Thursday 28th July. Check in informed us that last orders at the bar would be 10pm. 
We went into town for a meal in town and returned to the pub at 8-40  and were informed that the bar was closed. We said we had been told 10pm. The answer "its quiet, so we're closing"
The room next to ours, the guests had two yapping dogs.
No clean towels for 3 days.
No glasses in the room for a drink.
All in all a really poor experience.
Breakfast was OK though.

Definitely would not recommend 

The room was very nice, well decorated and adequately sized. The bar was awful, televisions which have no place in pub but that’s my view and probably not shared by many. Some pretty uncouth customers, actually all the customers. One pillock decided it would be fun to try and strip fortunately he only got as far as his shirt being removed his girlfriend, poor soul, manage to stop him removing his trousers. No one from the pub tried to stop him. The breakfast wasn’t great, I think I may have been given instant coffee. Either way it was fowl. For the price there are better places to stay. Not somewhere I would stay in again and certainly not somewhere I would pop into for a drink.

Not the best

Visited in September on a Saturday night at 5pm. Nice and quiet. Ordered food and I had to wait an HOUR after everyone else ( only 6 of us) for my ''messy fries''. No apology . They were luke warm and soggy and overpriced for what they were. Won't order food again.

Don't order food

This was very cheap compared to other places we looked at. It is certainly not 5 star (3 star on the blurb) but the rooms are clean and comfortable and the showers nice and hot. Full English breakfast will set you up for the day.  The location is excellent. The bus stop is literally outside the pub and the buses run to East Cowes one way and Newport or Ryde the other way. This obviously means that you will get traffic noise at night but the buses stop running after about 12 midnight so not too much of a problem. 

The bar itself is like an old fashioned bar used to be. Don't expect anything too fancy but the staff were very helpful and friendly, There is a nice pub garden to use if weather is good, as it was when we were there, 

The bus service on the I o W is second to none...just buy a rover type ticket (ours was £16 for 48 hours) and you can pretty much cover the island! You are also within spitting distance of Osborne House. In fine weather you could spend most of the day at Osborne House, there is so much to see and plenty of room for s picnic on the private beach. In the evening we got a bus to E Cowes, took a  a short walk to the chain=link ferry service, then another short walk in to trendy Cowes where you will find lots of boutiquey style shops and many restaurants. The chain link ferry runs till very late..12.30am and the last bus the other side was about 11.50 so you get plenty of time to have a meal and a drink and then be deposited right outside the pub. 

If you want expensive, 5 star modern accommodation.  (no a/c here) try somewhere in Cowes itself but if you want a place to sleep that is clean and comfortable and very down to earth, this is a good place. Make sure you check when the restaurant is open as I think it changes depending on day/covid/weather. We cannot comment on evening meals there as we ate out each day.

Excellent location and price on a very good bus route.

Good location after a trip round Osborne. Serviced but a young lady named Rachel who helped us with everything we needed to know about the rooms and food nothing seemed to much for her. Definitely will be back

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