Frommer's Review
This inn blends the very old and the very new. The black-and-white timbered inn was licensed a quarter of a century after Shakespeare's death; connected to its rear by a glass passageway is a more sterile bedroom extension added in 1970. In the heart of Stratford, the inn faces the Guild Chapel and the New Place Gardens. The recently upgraded rooms in the older section have oak beams, diamond leaded-glass windows, antiques, and good reproductions. Bathrooms aren't special; some have brown linoleum floors and plastic tub/shower enclosures.
In the inn's intimate Merlin Lounge, you'll find an open copper-hooded fireplace where fires are stoked under beams salvaged from old ships. The Oak Bar is a forest of weathered beams, and on either side of the stone fireplace is paneling removed from the Bard's last home, New Place.
Facilities:
2 restaurants; 2 bars; room service; rooms for those w/limited mobility
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