Green Man by Chef & Brewer Collection

All good - reception, evening meal, breakfast. Only downside is the lack of parking, but this is available within a few yards outside. Great team at dinner.

Parking

Clean room

Not enough fans to go around. The rooms are too hot

This is a pleasant, unexpectedly inexpensive Essex stopover, very handy for the M11. Owing, I think, to a mix-up over our dog (though I'd exchanged emails with the hotel on the subject, the fact we were travelling with a cocker had not been registered) we had an unusually large ground-floor room equipped for disabled visitors. The rooms are in a plain, modern hotel block behind the more traditional pub. The restaurant is popular and the food is fairly good, both dinner (a little bit slow) and the cooked breakfast. There is ample parking. The hotel staff loved the dog!

The Chef & Brewer internet service is a bit clunky. Otherwise, nothing in particular. This was just what we needed on our way to the Channel tunnel, 90 minutes away.

The staff were friendly and the room was clean.

The room was stiflingly hot, so much so that I thought the radiator was on. It wasn't but I couldn't get any more ventilation because the top hinged window had a security cable and only opened a few inches. There was a fan in the room but I didn't want to listen to it all night. Amy, the waitress in the restaurant was charming and took my order on a hand-held device i.e. it sent it straight through to the kitchen and bar. My starter arrived almost immediately but it was several minutes before Amy returned to say that the wine I'd ordered wasn't available and several minutes more before the alternative appeared luckily before my main course arrived.