Mount Pleasant Hotel

Amazing location with beautiful views across the hills. Friendly staff. We had a good breakfast.

Pleasant helpful staff. Great location

Limited car parking

Excellent evening meals and the full breakfast. Staff were excellent.

Continental breakfast was bland. No muesli croissants or loaves of bread to choose and cut to your liking. The steep hill from the shops and stairs to the room was hard work. Limited parking created parking anxiety and we were constantly worried we wouldn't get a parking space and would have to park at the bottom of the hill. As a result we always came back early from day trips to secure a spot. Even though upstairs, windows can only open two inches from the bottom so impossible to create a draft during the recent hot weather. Even with a fan it was very uncomfortable trying to sleep. No fridge in the room to keep cold drinks.

I prefer to stay in somewhere that has some history relevant to the town rather than a modern 'everything works' place so I assumed the hotel might be a bit faded grandeur and I am happy with that. The room was large and beautifully proportioned with sash windows and a pretty comfortable bed but a wood chip ceiling with obvious water damage. I don't mind that but keep your expectations at this level. Lovely old house with beautiful views down over Malvern and easy access to the hills and the Priory. Has a lovely feel of being a former focal point of the town,

Would have liked a fridge to avoid having to have UHT milk portions for the coffee/tea. We ate in the dining room on one night and it was OK nothing special and the breakfast left A LOT to be desired. For example, the bread was brown or white supermarket cheap - it would be easy to have decent bread and, in a hotel, offer croissants/pain au chocolat - in the town I saw at least two pretty good looking bakeries. The scrambled eggs were done with an air thingy which is my personal dislike and they couldn't cook poached eggs. The inclusive breakfast doesn't include the cost of tea and coffee which was a first for me! The reception was rather intermittently manned and I, as a guest, had to help two separate arrivals with directions to go downstairs to the restaurant. after a tiring travel, it doesn't set the hotel up well. Although there are a few electric car chargers, none were working (and haven't been for a while), and, in my opinion, are very badly located - they are up a very very steep hill which, as anyone with an electric vehicle will know, is worrying for a low slung car/battery. Is there an outside terrace? yes, ... in the car park!