My partner and I stayed for 1 night at Hardwick Hall Hotel as we were attending a wake at the hotel marquee after the funeral of my mother. We were assigned room 411, advertised by the hotel as a premier double room at a cost of £144 for the night. Unfortunately we found the room to be substandard and, had we been staying for longer, would have asked to have been moved to another room. The maintenance of the room was poor to say the least, spot lights fitted in the bed and bathroom platform floors were loose and protruding from their fittings posing both an electrical and injury hazard to guests, the toilet seat was loose and a very poor repair of the toilet roll holder had been attempted using an electrical crimp fitting and a screw jammed to hold it in place, the shower control unit was also loose on the wall of the shower cubicle and the bedroom window would not stay open. It was obvious that the bathroom window had not been cleaned for some time, and the design of the bathroom was also questionable as there was no door between the bedroom and bathroom and the wall between the bedroom/bathroom was a glass panel with a shear black muslin curtain covering it that provided no privacy at all for any guest using the bathroom or shower.
We reported these issues to the receptionist at checkout and have also emailed our concerns to the hotel. The hotel is a lovely building in amazing grounds but is in need of major maintenance and/or upgrade.