We have stayed here on several occasions and have never been disappointed. This hotel is quite simply fantastic - a gem in the Costwolds. The rooms are extremely well appointed and clean and the staff are tremendously helpful. The food is superb and the environment is charming. This hotel really does set the standard.
The Super Sunday Saver is great value for money (check this deal out).

Have just returned from a two day New Year break at the Bear at Rodborough. Our room was large, warm, quiet, well furnished and spotlessly clean.

Staff were extremely friendly, helpful and well trained. Special mention due for the General Manager, Donna (restauant manager) and Natasha (receptionist).

Food was good too, and very well presented.

Met many really nice people, of all ages, who were also very much enjoying their stay. One couple were on their fourth visit.

Will certainly visit the The Bear again and would strongly
recommend it.

I took my girlfriend to The Bear of Rodborough to celebrate her birthday. We had a very pleasant stay indeed.
We booked a superior room which included a huge bed. The rest of the room was equally as comfortable.

On arrival we found the staff very pleasant and courteous. We booked for dinner, bed and breakfast which we enjoyed very much and this added to a very enjoyable and relaxing weekend.

In addition to this we also accidentally left a pair of boots in our room which the hotel forwarded to us free of charge. You don't often get service like that any more.

My husband and I booked this hotel for my Birthday weekend based on location and their website which looks fab. First thing that annoyed us was that we lugged our cases up the steps to Reception only to find that our room was in the annexe, so had to lug them back again. On arriving at what was in fact a nice room, realised that they hadn't asked us whether we wanted a newspaper delivered. I called Reception to order the Mail on both Saturday and Sunday (needless to say it didn't arrive on either day and I had to phone Reception both times). On the second day, they didn't even knock on the door to give us the paper, they just left it on the mat (for us to guess when it had arrived?)

We were gasping for a cup of tea on arriving, and realised they hadn't refreshed the tea/coffees, but had some tea bags of our own (couldnt' be bothered to call back yet again).

There was no head waiter in the restaurant, which appeared to be run by very aimable "kids", many of whom didn't even speak English. I realised that things weren't going to be great when the cutlery was arranged wrongly, with things missing and the waitor used the water glasses for the wine. Our empty plates were never taken - we had keep handing them to the staff when they brought the next course. The restaurant was also very hot indeed. On our second night we decided to eat in the pub as we didn't think we could bear another night in the restaurant and that was better. However, as you can imagine, despite telling us that they'd amend our bill accordingly, they of course still charged us for dinner in the restaurant the second night, so that had to be amended.

Breakfast wasn't great either - on the first day, they'd obviously run out of black pudding, so we had a semi-circle each (which was rock hard, anyway) and on the 2nd day we had the same thing with the black pudding and half a rasher of bacon too! I laughingly commented that it was just as well we weren't staying a further night, as they'd have run out of sausages too!

My opinion is that this hotel could be so much better and gets away with very poor service due to its location. No one appeared to be running the hotel which seemed to be lacking both a manager and a head waiter. We certainly will not be returning. This experience completely ruined my Birthday.