DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel-Cadbury House Spa

Awful!
Phoned them before we left to say my partner and I need a relaxing evening at a spa and to find out prices etc. It was £35 each so quite a bit more than we have payed for this sort of thing in the past (for example the relaxation centre £20 per person for an evening session) but that did include a light meal so we thought we’d go somewhere different, I have to admit it sounded lovely over the phone. So we drove the £18 miles in rush hour which took over an hour.
We arrived at the manor house and asked where the spa was and were pointed to what looked and sounded like a public swimming pool. At reception I asked where the spa was, Do you mean like massage and that? The giggly girls behind the desk asked. That’s upstairs she said. We debated going up but decided we’d go for a look round then make our decision.
We walked upstairs and through the bar/​restraunt and the lady at the desk showed us in and we waited in the ‘relaxation room’ which was nextdoor to the bar and the spa information desk where you could hear the phone ringing (not very relaxing). She showed us the massage rooms which were not being used and they looked lovely and I’m sure the massages would be but we were just there to use the facilities for £35.
We were told if we went downstairs we would be shown around the sauna and pool etc. Again we went to the front desk and were told It’s all just down there to the right.
We walked down, had to walk through separate changing rooms, in which we both had a ‘sauna, steamroom and showers sign’- so I’m guessing we would not be able to relax in there as a couple. And through to the poo which had around 15 people in it from young to old.
Needless to say we walked out! Everything was wrong with the place! A spa? You would not want to walk from the relaxation room to the pool in a dressing gown and we could not even have a sauna together. A meal in the ‘resteraunt’ aka bar would not have been relaxing or romantic.
Maybe if there were charging £12 for a light meal and use of the small pool, sauna and steamroom it would have been about right but £35!!!