Name: The Duchess of Cornwall Inn
Address: 12 Queen Mother Square,, Dorchester, Dorchester, Dorchester, DT1 3DD, United Kingdom
Rating: 7

Terrace

No elevators

Reception desk

General

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Free Wi-Fi

Internet

Free parking

Parking

Pets allowed

Pets

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At the guest house

The Keep Military Museum

Roman Town House

Borough Gardens

Bournemouth Airport

The Duchess of Cornwall Inn

Dorchester

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

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limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

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ocean-front

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park-view

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partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

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water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

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breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

Spent a evening with family for dinner. The Tanglefoot was great along with all the food, cooked very well. The service from Catherine was very good, polite and discreetly attentive. All the staff were pleasent and happy.
A good evening. 👍

Family dinner at The Duchess

Rooms are lovely but attention to detail is lacking. Creaky bed, dirty shower head, water from shower leaks onto floor. A non slip mat in the shower/bath is necessary for those guests who are a bit unsteady underfoot.
Breakfast was tasty but having to get starters upstairs then take it downstairs to eat with the dog was a bit of a juggling act.
Toilets could be more accessible, lots of up & downstairs to get to the ladies & gents.
Good food, great atmosphere & friendly staff.

A good experience

Having stayed here I am reluctant to be so effusive about how great it is because it will become too popular, which would make it not so easy to return. The room was fantastic and the bed was the most comfortable super king I have ever slept in. The room looked Victorian but had all the mod cons like a simple low level light when you went into the bathroom in the night. USB ports in the plugs. Everything you would want in a 5 star hotel was thought of here. Coffee and tea facilities  were top notch and I even loved the old school door key. The staff were lovely and Mariana who served our breakfast was brilliant with great customer service skills. Our included breakfast  was served in a gorgeous high ceiling dining room and the choice for breakfast was extensive and well cooked. I wouldnt hesitate to recommend staying here and exploring Poundbury and Dorchester. We will be back soon.

A wonderful hotel and pub, I would highly recommend staying here as the rooms are fantastic.

Easy free parking in the front of the hotel with a simple  and friendly check in were the indicators this was going to be great.

Dinner booked - room sensational with the small touches and a lift to make life easy.

The staff were engaging and the food and drink just right at the bar. Pasta dishes - Papperdelle Ragu and Pumpkin Ravioli were all that was needed with some nice bar drinks.

The breakfast the next morning - full continental - had some of the best pastries you could imagine.

Staff are lovely and location is tops .

Be sure to book here it is well with it.

Amazing place

A warm and friendly hotel with a nice lofty ground floor restaurant and bar. I was breaking the journey from Sussex to Devon with an overnight stay. The room was spacious and very comfortable. They had thought of everything. A good night’s sleep followed by a friendly welcome for a tasty breakfast. I will definitely be going back for a longer visit.

A great discovery I’ll definitely be returning to.

Lovely, spacious room because I reserved the luxury room. Well-worth the money and incredible value! Some of the quietest nights and restful sleeps that I have had in the past few years when not travelling outside the UK. Breakfast was delicious, with both continental and cooked breakfast options. Loved the music playing on the radio and overall presentation as I initially entered the room because it felt very welcoming!

Highly recommended!

Arriving at the end of a busy Sundayafter a long drive the outdoor table were messy and not a good welcome. Generally what was a super designed pub now showing a lot of tiredness staff  included.dinner disappointing in the quit a few items had run out and cookery showing same fatigue.
Bedroom's again impressed on first sight but  dirty bedroom chaired stained by brown fluid and broken light fitting with worn sideboard not impressive!
Overall some attention to detail and money spent on minor repairs would transform a disappointing stay to a successful one!

Nice place but!

Unfriendly staff, shabby inside with tired decor, poor facilities and not worth the room cost. Poor food quality.  Bed uncomfortable and squeaky every time you moved. Couldn't get a drink in late evening as residents even though the staff were habing one! Not one member of staff smiled. Service and experience very disappointing. Having stayed in all types of hotels across the UK this will score in our bottom 10 and in my opinion should be your last choice of hotel in the area. 

Hugely over priced!

our previous stay in early 2019.
1). Hotel booking was made via booking .com. Prior to our stay, we were contacted by booking.. com- acting on behalf of Duchess of Cornwall hotel - inviting us to book a table in advance should we be intending to dine in the hotel restaurant during our impending stay. Our original booking was made via Booking.com. On two occasions, my email reply requesting a dinner booking was pinged back as undeliverable . Therefore, I was careful to also contact the hotel itself via email requesting a booking for dinner on first night of stay. I carefully emailed the hotel twice. When we presented ourselves at hotel, a member of the very very busy bar staff informed us that regrettably no booking had in fact been made for us. Clearly, someone at hotel does not bother to read emails. We were told that no table in restaurant was now available but that we could instead eat in the very lively (busy, noisy ) bar area instead. The hotel staff had no explanation as to why our request for a restaurant booking had been ignored. Further, we could not be accommodated at our elected time of 7.30. Instead a table in the bar would be made available at 6pm. We waited an hour for our table in the bar to become available. After ordering our meal at the bar, (from the bar menu, obviously, not the restaurant menu,) and having been seated in the bar for some time, we were then told we might be ‘squeezed ‘ into the restaurant after all, because we were ‘paying guests.’ Having been initially refused a restaurant table, we elected to stay with the bar meal we had ordered. So, we got fed and not the end of the world. Just a bit chaotic and incompetent when you consider we were guests paying 380 pounds for two nights, supposedly as guests in a deluxe room. And when you consider that I had emailed hotel directly twice requesting a restaurant table.
2). On a broader design note: The reception desk is not really a confidence-inspiring reception desk, but one end of a very busy bar. Somebody may or may not be in attendance at this check in desk at any particular point, it seemed. It all feels a little perfunctory. On arrival you feel that you are checking into a pub rather than a hotel. There was unused space beneath the open staircase. That space could  easily be repurposed as a small but more convincing, dedicated reception area at a slight remove from the bar and the beer taps. 
3). Let’s face it, beds are a subjective thing. Some like a hard mattress, some like medium, some like soft. What most people baulk at is an uncomfortable mattress. My wife felt that the mattress was simply very hard. I felt that it was both hard and weirdly lumpy. Whatever, neither of us slept well on either night. Which is a shame at 190 pounds per night. And yet the hotel make a big thing about their deluxe mattresses. I would be wary of ROOM 16 unless your taste in mattresses runs to hard and weirdly lumpy. 
4) minor point but this was a deluxe room- the cold water bath tap simply did not work. We circumvented that by using the shower to supply cold water to the bath water. Again, a minor quibble .
5). On up side the young staff at breakfast are really nice people, doing their best so well done to them. 
6). I left an iPhone charger behind in hotel room. My fault entirely. I chased this up with the hotel . I still haven't been contacted by hotel confirming whether or not the item has been found however. So customer service bit lacking there I feel..
7) I am not a captious person, and a previous stay at the hotel was really good, hence this second visit. I feel the quality has deteriorated unfortunately and shall not make a third visit.

Decline in quality 

This is an excellent place to stay in Poundbury.   The bedrooms are spacious, the beds very comfortable and the atmosphere is friendly and relaxed.
Dinner was most enjoyable, well cooked and tasty with a good selection of wines and other drinks.
The staff were pleasant and helpful.

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