Hotels near The Menagerie, Northampton

Clean room, good breakfast and good service. Will return when visiting again.

It's a beautiful space, i mean really beautiful - what they've managed to achieve is extraordinary and completely unlike anything within 40 miles. It's full of potential, and a very positive addition to the area that deserves to do extremely well. All the right ingredients are there, but they need time to bring them together. Making any judgement on a place that has been open for only 2 weeks and particularly in the current climate may be considered unfair, and there is nothing broken here, it's just some elements need rebalancing in my opinion. There's a difficult balancing act. It needs to be affordable enough to attract regulars, but special enough to justify the huge investment and feel like a destination. I'm sure they will find the right balance soon. The dictionary defines Eyas as a juvenile or untrained falcon. Based on our experience, i'd say that there is still some maturity to be realised. Dinner and drinks came to £250 per couple, which is London prices, and Michelin Starred London prices at that (and more than St Helena or Hibiscus, the nearest local comparisons i can think of). Having been lucky enough to go to quite a lot of good restaurants over the years, i'd say they have a little way to go. It's not bad, in fact i'd say the food is very good - the halibut was absolutely divine, the venison slightly underwhelming (although the ragu was superb!), and the desserts were phenomenal - tarte tatin was every bit as good as the one i had to wait 40 mins for at Gordon Ramsey. Mark is clearly an excellent chef, but the pricing simply doesn't match the quality of the food yet. £60 for 3 courses + sides (£7 each) is punchy. It's also somewhat incongruous. The sides are really pub sides, the wine list is very reasonable but can't decide if it's a pub list or a Michelin list - £14 for a 125ml of LPR on one end and then only £27 for a bottle of Primitivo on the other. Why produce lovely food menus and then give a cheap, laminated wine list? They seem to want the best of both worlds, but don't quite deliver on either. A few other small things rankled, but luckily all of them easily fixed. The service is not there yet - no one offered to take our coats when we came in and then only when i mentioned it, was mine taken, but not our other friends'. We waited an age to be asked for drinks, and then almost immediately food orders were taken and food arrived. If there were 2 sittings i'd understand, but for one 4-hour sitting, i feel they could have spread it out a bit. There was no signage in the hotel, so entirely unclear where to go when we came in, and when we left, there were no lights on in the garden, so we had to use phone torches to navigate back to the carpark. The cocktails were served in completely the wrong glasses - a martini should be served in a martini glass, not a wine glass. The main bar was also far too bright - a few lumens lower would have created a much cosier experience - it felt a little corporate,

Stayed here for a couple of nights and it was great. Spacious room with a fridge and safe nice big tv also a digital radio and a very good aircon unit to keep things cool in the heat. Nice coffee pod machine with a choice of pods also tea bags and coffee bags and biscuits- Nice comfy corner seat with foot rest and an office chair at desk and wooden seat in front of mirror- Very nice soaps in bathroom Hand soap Shower gel and shampoo Body location These were lovely and used morning noon and night- You can purchase them when you leave if you wish to take home - You also get fluffy robes and slippers and night mask and pillow spray Trouser press came in handy Dinner was great a delicious Burger and a crunchy lamb starter - The bed was super comfy Breakfast was also delicious I recommend the eggs Benedict they were perfect you also get a help your self area with pastries bread cereal fruit etc All the staff were helpful informative friendly and enthusiastic 10 out of 10 Nice décor though the hotel A nice spa area with steam room sauna big jacuzzi and a pool- Nice outdoor area to sit and have a drink if the weather is nice - I could go on A great experience from start to finish Plenty of parking and pubs shops supermarkets within walking distance 10 out of 10 5 stars Next time we are in the area this is where we will be staying .

Very quiet considering it's right next to the A14, i didn't hear anything from the traffic. Supported by a Starbucks and a Petrol station. The hotel was great the staff were all very helpful and happy to help with any questions i had. Clean towels, tea, coffee, milk refills means that you could stay there without going anywhere if you wanted to just chill out on your own. With a TV and my crime magazine i was happy to chill in the evening. Would be really happy to book this hotel again in the future.

This was a last minute booking, literally got to the hotel and crashed and the woke up early in the morning and was out of there. Did not really get to check out the hotel but did the job. Oh and their breakfast is good.