St George Hotel (Chatham)

My husband and I stayed while we attended my sister in laws wedding so we have experiences with both the hotel side of things and events.
The hotel itself is kind of dingy and not very nice to look at. A number of guests drove right past the place because it is so hidden and covered in scaffolding (which we wasn’t told about when we booked to stay the night, separate from the bridal booking of course). Inside isn’t much better and is honestly like a maze with wonky floors. Talk about fun house effect!
The rooms are pretty cramped too and the room we stayed in had both a double and a single bed with a small desk, there was next to no floor space. The bathroom however, was fairly big and had both a bath and shower. Well, a shower in the bath anyway.
The bed was very comfortable but the room was so hot! As soon as we arrived at 2pm I opened both windows slightly to cool it down but waking up at 4am I felt like I was in the Bahamas, so hot and sweaty! There wasn’t any need for both the duvet and sham on the beds.
Room rates included breakfast and was typical mass produced cooked items (Bacon, Sausage, Eggs) and toast which was really just slightly warmed bread. Our Beans were cold, Croissant very oily and Orange Juice was actually a carton labelled ‘Orange Mix” they dilute with water.
Other breakfast items are what they call ‘buffet style’ where you help yourself. There’s cereal, Coffee and Tea.
As for the wedding meal, it was marginally better than the rest of our stay. The manager in charge and overseeing the serving of food was very nice and friendly. meal wasn’t all that great but again, it’s mass produced. Meal included:
— Starter of Tomato Soup. Taste a texture was more like Pumpkin and our table agree’d it was very buttery.
— Roast Chicken. Our ‘self serve’ Roast Potatoes and Vegetables arrived 10 minutes before our individual plates of Chicken, Stuffing and Sausage so were cold by the time we got to serving them. Gravy also came 5 minutes after out Chicken.
— Profiteroles. 2 of my 3 didn’t have any cream filling in. Others on the table also said theirs didn’t too. Weather they ran out of cream and thought we wouldn’t notice or they get an outside company in I don’t know.
The ‘Coke’ they also served us was Pepsi (yuk) and flat as a pancake.
One thing I was very impressed with the wedding meal and evening reception was the decoration they done in the room. It was very well laid out with plenty of spaces between tables and decorations themselves very pretty. The evening DJ, also supplied by the hotel was good. He kept the party going well into the night with a good mixture of both English and Indian music to keep both Bride and Grooms families happy.
Not a place I would like stay at again but for the short time we were there is was ok. 2.5 stars overall I think