Warner Hotels - Heythrop Park - Chipping Norton

E782SKgillh

Heythrop Park was amazing. Warner's opened it less than 3 years ago so it is lovely and new. Everything was great - the food in 3 restaurants - Market Kitchen offers more variety, but Travelling Duke was good especially if you're hungry - the staff, the welcome and the entertainment, both daytime and evening. I loved the grounds which have interesting features and walks through the trees. Our room was great too, with a fridge in the standard room. It was quite 'boutique' but with a good sized balcony.|The Spa offers a good range of treatments and swimming pool. Molly at the spa gave me a great massage.

Heltheexplorer

This is a beautiful hotel; we loved that it was adult-only and we really felt the tranquility of the place. Rooms are spacious, well-decorated and immaculately clean. Our room had a fridge with fresh milk and cans of water which was a lovely touch. They also provide plenty of tea, coffee and biscuits in the rooms.||Food and drinks service was great and we were impressed by the number of places to eat and drink on site and the outside seating areas. We loved the on-site pubs in addition to restaurants. We loved the Late Lounge where you can get drinks and live entertainment until late. Breakfast was included in the price and the food and service were superb.||Staff were friendly and helpful and we felt that the hotel is great value for money as it is such a luxury experience.||The only issue we had is that there is no room service and nowhere to get food after evening dinner service so we resorted to crisps from the bar. This is a 4-star hotel, but it could easily be a 5 with some tiny tweaks.||We had a fantastic stay and we will definitely return. Thanks so much 😊

Mustafa J.

My wife and I stayed at Heythrop Park for one night and were thoroughly impressed. The experience is pitched as a land-based alternative to cruising, and I can absolutely see the appeal.

From the moment we arrived, it was clear that a lot of thought and investment had gone into making the place feel special. The recent £100 million renovation is evident throughout — the interior design is breathtaking, with a beautiful mix of colours and textures that had us mentally taking notes for our own home renovation project!

We enjoyed both dinner and breakfast, which were delicious and well-presented, and the included entertainment added a lovely touch to the overall experience. There’s certainly no shortage of things to do — whether you’re into archery, laser rifle shooting, bowls, billiards, or just relaxing with a board game, there’s something for everyone.

Our only small disappointment was that the bike shed was closed during our visit. With such expansive and beautiful grounds, it would have been perfect for a leisurely ride. Hopefully, that’s something we can enjoy next time.

Overall, Heythrop Park is a fantastic short getaway — relaxing, fun, and visually stunning. Highly recommended for couples looking for a UK-based alternative to the cruise lifestyle.

P9608XQelainec

We had a lovely 3 nights. Food ok but repetative, the building is wonderful. Lots to do but now some activities have to be paid for unlike previous years. Drinks we thought where very expensive, a 750ml bottle of water was almost £5. Wine was very expensive compared to other hotels we stay at over £30+ a bottle for the cheapest. 3 different places to eat and more choice of entertainment than other Warner Leisure hotels. We will go again but take our own water supply. For any disabled person this is not a hotel I would recommend. I am somewhat disabled and found lots of stairs and long walks to get to the places we needed to go. Our only complaint was the 10am checkout - we loaded our car with most of our luggage then went for out booked breakfast (9.30) at 9.25 only to be held up getting to our table followed by sitting for over 10 mins for our order to be taken and another long wait for it to arrive, hence we rushed to eat only one course before rushing back to our room to find we were locked out. I then had to go to reception only to be told all doors are locked at 10am.. we were then given some time to empty the last of our belongings before leaving.

Janet W.

I stayed here this weekend and thought it was lovely there. The building is magnificent. Architecture brilliant. The room was great big walkin shower. Clean. Spacious. Aircon. Everything you need. The entertainment was fantastic really enjoyed it. Lovely grounds. We eat in the Brassiere 32 for breakfast and first night. Lovely food. 2 evening meals in the Market Kitchen which was ok but needs improvement on the menu and of the cooking and presentation. Buffet was ok but roast chicken look bland and was pieces not whole chicken roasted. So didn't like the look of it too pale. Everything else ok. But cooked food needs a little more attention in the Market Kitchen.

Elaine T.

Wow what a beautiful place. The manor house is fantastic.
Food was gorgeous so much of it. Staff were excellent,
really knew there job. It's a huge place, you can get lost. But all the staff knew how to get around and direct you to the correct place.
We loved the quizzes with Ryan. Who was very funny.

tq8pb

We've recently returned from a 2 night stay at Heythrop Park and I decided to write a review to highlight some good and not so good points about our stay.|We arrived eventually, after following the sat nav directions to the postcode supplied by Warners but it took us to the back of the estate onto a dead end lane! We weren't the only ones to do this as we met another couple who did exactly the same thing. We had all travelled up from the South West, so from this direction, ignore the postcode and just put Enstone into your sat nav!|A friendly welcome on the entrance gate and we were advised that although we had our room number, our check in time into our room was 3pm, which is fair enough. We parked up in the spacious car park in the South West wing area and made our way to the Travelling Duke for some lunch. The service was slow but all the staff were so friendly and smiley that we forgave them! A nice extra was the singing from the lawn area by one of the entertainment team. Before we went to our room, we decided to visit the golf driving range and paid for a bucket of balls and enjoyed 30 minutes there! We then explored inside the house and had a quick game of snooker on the fabulous full size table, before we headed to our room 129, in the SW wing. On arrival into our room, we found that the air conditioning had been turned off and it was like a sauna in there. Unfortunately it's not possible to open the windows, so we both took a cold shower and tried to cool down but the air con didn't go lower than 18 degrees, and we felt that the room never did cool down during our whole stay, even though we had the air con on all the time. This, together with the fact that the milk in our room fridge had badly gone off and we arrived to just half a loo roll in the bathroom, made us feel that housekeeping need to up their game. |Our room was located perfectly for the Late Lounge, the main theatre and bars and we soon found our way around. Comment has been made about how far it is to walk but we could walk leisurely from our room to the spa building in around 7 minutes and it's pretty much all flat, depending on which route you take.|For our first night we ate in Brasserie 32 and enjoyed an excellent dinner and great service and it was nice to eat with the feel of a proper restaurant and not a canteen like so many of the other Warners are like. Breakfast on one of our mornings was in the Travelling Duke and the service was appalling! We waited for 45 minutes for our breakfast. We're not the sort of couple who complains quickly, we're pretty laid back but when I saw that others who'd arrived after us were being served, I wasn't happy. We were told that our breakfast had been 'put on hold'.....!! It arrived shortly after so in total, we waited 50 minutes with much apology from our waitress.|Dinner was taken on our 2nd night in the Market Kitchen. It was a mix of table servie or buffet, depending on what was chosen. The service in here was excellent (The Travelling Duke could learn much from them!) and we had our final breakfast in there too, which again was spot on. I wish I'd taken the waiters name to mention him personally - he worked so hard and was so attentive to us - he was a tall, thin man with glasses and spoke with an accent, working at the very back of the restaurant. Thank you to him! |The food overall was excellent and we paid extra both days for lunch, which was also excellent. The wine choice was great (we loved the South African Chardonnay) although pricy at £30 a bottle but when you're on holiday, you pay these prices! |We thoroughly enjoyed the rifle shooting and the electric bike hire, the bird of prey experience and all the entertainment, which was of a high quality. Special mention must go out to the Ukebox band who were so entertaining and superb. We also loved the music of Leigh Chambers - especially great that he moved into the Late Lounge after his main set.|So apart from a bit of hit and miss service and poor housekeeping in parts, we thoroughly enjoyed our stay here, wish we could have afforded another night but we definitely made the most of the time we had there.

Rob R.

Impressive, although not pretty, house. Our room was spacious and comfortable with good quality fittings and furnishings.
Service was generally very good, mostly youngsters but very polite and attentive. The grounds are beautiful with a couple of pleasant walks. Food and drink was generally excellent, although pricey. We tried all three restaurants, would recommend the Market Garden for breakfast although the Brassery had amazing views of the grounds and the food was very good as well. The pic is the view from our room.