Name: Imperial Hotel
Address: Wilder Rd, Ilfracombe, EX34 9AL, United Kingdom, Ilfracombe, Ilfracombe, Ilfracombe, EX34 9AL, United Kingdom
Rating: 8

24-hour reception

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Ilfracombe Beach

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Cardiff Airport

Imperial Hotel

Ilfracombe

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Booked through Alfa Coach Travel, for New Year. Had a really good time. Staff really friendly helpful, food good with a lot of choice. Entertainment excellent, best I've come across on a coach holiday. All on all, a really excellent few days away. The only downside is 2 of us came back & immediately went down with Covid

The Imperial Hotel, Ilfracombe

Hotel decoration a little tired but everything else was really good. Hotel clean and beds very comfortable, staff all very nice and efficient too. Entertainment great but we  needed a bigger dance floor - so many people were bopping away and enjoying themselves. Food tasty in small quantities but after eating all the courses was sufficient  
Very good position and with lovely views- well worth paying for a sea view. Very nice seating area if you just wanted to relax with friends.

lovely experience

We all had a wonderful time. Yes hotel a bit dated but its homely. Staff fantastic and work so hard to make your stay go smoothly. There were issues around standard of food but that was quickly resolved. Entertainment great. Location perfect, right by the sea and not far to the harbour. Bus stops just outside and you can easily travel to other places. 5 of us wanted to book for Nov 24 but sadly fully booked so we've chosen another hotel staff helped us locate as we required 5 single rooms. Didnt want to come home. Well done Alfa for putting on this trip😊

Would go again in a heartbeat!!

Visited The Imperial Hotel in Ilfracombe on 7th October for 4 nights, booking  with Alpha travel.  We booked a twin room with sea view and couldn't have had better. Huge, warm  room overlooking the theatre and sea. Lovely crisp, white bedding and new carpet. Big bay window and side window. Spotlessly clean bathroom with huge bath and great shower and fluffy white towels.  Food was good and  plenty of choice. Dining room staff were run off their feet, but remained pleasant and very obliging. Entertainment fine except for the corny jokes. Lovely little museum in the gardens opposite  took us back to our childhood.   We were in room 204 and the lift seemed to have a mind of its own and is small ...3 or 4 people comfortably or 6 extremely good friends! Overall a lovely stay with great weather.

Best coach trip in recent years.

This is a very friendly hotel. The room was warm and clean. There was a good choose of food on, and it was of a good quality. Reception could of been a bit warmer but this was also clean. You can walk straight on to the seafront. A bit of an up hill walk to the shops.

A very friendly hotel

The Imperial Hotel Ilfracombe
We were on a short tour with Alfa Travel in late October 2022.
The Imperial Hotel is in a good location very near the sea front and about 10 minutes walk to the Harbour. Be aware Ilfracombe has lots of steep inclines that makes walking difficult.
The hotel has 4 floors with a restaurant on the first floor, entertainment room and bar on the  ground floor.
There is just one lift to all floors which is only a problem on arrival when the coach disembarks.
The building is a typical old seaside property probably built over 100 years ago, the hotel decor and quality is what you’d expect from a 3 star rating.

Our bedroom was more than adequate with newish modern furniture.
A small flat screen TV, Tea and Coffee, hair dryer, good WiFi connection, our room included a modern en suite bathroom with bath and shower. Plenty hot water on demand.
One comment generally about the bedroom and hotel is that it was very warm, some heating was on in the public rooms.
The hotel staff are very polite and helpful.

Some reviews are critical about the food quality, I think these comments are a little unfair. The food is very comparable to many hotels on the coach tour circuit.
The breakfast was fine, normal hotel full English Breakfast although the service was quite slow. One downside was vending machine orange juice which was foul.
The evening dinners were mostly very good the only downside being some of the vegetables were served unpeeled and undercooked almost raw.
A Chef’s special is offered each day, ordered at breakfast. One day we chose the Chicken Curry and Rice which was surprisingly good.

A nice touch on our free day at leisure in Ilfracombe the hotel offered us a free light lunch of soup and sandwiches, this had to be ordered at breakfast. A good option if staying in the hotel due to poor weather.

The entertainment room was large and comfortable. There is Bingo most nights and entertainment in the form of vocalists about 3 or 4 nights each week. The bar prices were not excessive, Carlsberg at £4 a pint.

Overall the hotel lived up to our expectations for the tour price paid.
A thumbs up for Alfa Travel who organised the trip, excellent day trips and good friendly and knowledgeable coach driver (Wills and his copilot Charlie the Chimp)

A Lovely Short Break in Devon

I'm just coming to the end of a short break to the Imperial with Alfa holidays. The hotel is mostly on a par with other Leisureplex hotels I've stayed in. It is quite old though and, as others have said, the lift isn't really adequate. It is old, slow and small. The food is typical coach party fare but the dining room staff are very friendly and efficient - none of the delays with service which I've encountered at other Alfa hotels. The entertainment is also typical, (not really my cup of tea, but predictable), however the room has a lot of pillars that obstruct the view of the stage. There's nothing going on in the hotel in the daytime if you decide not to go on the two included trips out. I didn't find them very  enjoyable. It took an age to get to Minehead, which doesn't have a lot there, and at Lynton and Lynmouth I was twiddling my thumbs after half an hour. Nearly two hours there was far too long. Bideford also has not much to recommend it and Barnstaple has plenty of great shops, but I don't come on holiday to shop. Ilfracombe itself is very small. It has a harbour but no boat trips were running this week. The shops on the high street weren't very inspiring. Most were closed too. I took the bus to Woolacombe which, unlike Ilfracombe, has a nice long beach that would be worth visiting in hot weather. To sum up, I won't be returning to Ilfracombe as I found i,t and the surrounding area, boring after a day or two and there is nothing more I would want to see, but if anyone is thinking of going on this Alfa trip, I would say go in the summer when hopefully you will have good weather and more resort facilities to compensate.

Hotel is ok but Ilfracombe is boring in the autumn.

Had a nice six nights at this hotel,restaurant staff, especially Christine and other staff work very hard. Trips out very good, driver Andy very informative, knew he's job very well, weather very nice for October. All in all not bad. 😀😀👍👍.

Ilfracombe Autumn 2022

The hotel is definitely dated. Only one small lift, it really needs a couple more. Some issues with the heating system as some radiators did not work in all of the rooms. Also it some rooms it was very hard to control the water temperature. The best thing about this hotel are the staff. They are very accommodating and very patient and pleasant!! They went above and beyond to please everyone in our coach party!! The food was always served piping hot and very quick to come out of the kitchen. There was a good selection and all needs were accommodated.

Coach party to illfracombe

Went on a coach holiday for 7 days.
The hotel was a little dated but very clean. It has 4 floors with a lift. 
The food was very good with waiter service and entertainment was 5 out of 7 days.
Squeaky floorboards but I wouldn't hesitate going again.

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