2 /5
Reseña
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I went to Ashdown Park Hotel for high tea with my mother and my sister and, frankly, for such a prestigious establishment, the experience was more than a little disappointing. When we arrived there were 3 members of staff just standing in the entrance hall. Nobody came up to greet us. It was only when the people who followed us in, also for tea, approached them to ask for directions, that a member of staff suddenly came to life. High tea is not to my mind a complicated meal to serve. However, we had to return one of the teacups as it had somebody else's lipstick stain on it. My tea looked extremely weak, so I lifted the lid to stir it and discovered that the hotel had scored a first for me a pot of tealess tea!! The brown bread sandwiches were fine, but the white bread sandwiches were already dry when they were served and were positively curling by the time we came to leave. A very positive point, apart from our friendly waiter, was the scones which were delicious. As for the cakes, we felt that some lacked daintiness, but overall they weren't bad. As we'd prepaid the tea with a voucher, we slipped away in the same way as we had arrived, without so much as a goodbye. So, unfortunately, I could never recommend high tea at Ashdown Park Hotel as I've had far better elsewhere and the experience, for the amount of money it cost, was underwhelming.