The Bent Arms

service very good, food excellent room clean very good My stay over the weekend excellent staff very helpful.

Very friendly pub with rooms. Great staff, good beers and very good breakfast. Stairs and lobby areas a bit shabby but room was large, quiet and comfortable. Exceptional value for money in this area.

GOOD BREAKFAST ,NICE CLEAN ROOM.

The location is super for me. This Hotel is OK for the price, or it could be a bit cheaper.

Lovely old pub in a quaint place. large room and great value for money. Good breakfast included in the price. Also fantastic lunch which was super. Would definitely stay again.

Would not recommend this B&B

Overall Disappointed. Food in pub was v good. Staff friendly. Bed comfy, BUT room in dire need of updating and painting. Was drab and dreary with a filthy chair. walls in terrible state in room and bathroom. Stated on my form that I was vegetarian and to reception desk but was given ham sandwich for my packed breakfast so therefore had no breakfast. Would not stay here again.

Very friendly staff. Olde Worlde charm. Excellant breakfast and very good Shiraz. My friend and I came for Christian conference at the showground and will definitely hope to stay again, possibly for longer next time

Lovely comfy room. Excellent breakfast. Friendly staff.

Beautiful approx 15th Century pub. Friendly and helpful staff. Comfortable bed. Good breakfast choices.

Very friendly staff. A good value menu for an evening meal. Rom was good, but could do with a fan or aircon. Shower was only adequate. Breakfast was good.

My meal was delicious in the evening, service fantastic, rooms could do with some t l c ( curtain hooks, lick of paint, new kettle ) but v comfortable bed, linen and towels good quality.

My stay was fine, and I am booked in for another stay. Location perfect 4 me. Had supper at Hotel which was fantastic. Enjoyed my stay.

For the price of bed and large breakfast could not fault. Could not get a table for dinner that night so disappointed nothing was suggested at check-in. Went to Italian next door. Too many body washes and soaps supplied. They were everywhere. Good selection on quantity of tea and coffee although.

Great service a Exellent food

The staff very nice and very good

Last minute stay for my girlfriend and I while we were in the area. A little pricey for two people for what it is. The room itself was spacious, the en-suite bathroom was very small but the shower fixture/pressure and consistent flow and water made up for it. The en-suite needs a good revamp, the room needs the same too, or at least the ceiling, door frames and walls all need a fresh lick of paint white and magnolia to brighten the place up and compensate for a desperate revamp, curtains need changing or at least fixing. The mattress of the double bed was surprisingly comfortable and the pillows. Towels were not bad either. Had a good night sleep and everything was quiet, and the breakfast in the morning was a big surprise. We were greeted with Howard from Ireland, a very nice chap. Made my girlfriend and I what we wanted. Poached eggs and bacon on toast with fresh real coffee in a French press. The quality of the coffee and bacon and eggs was surprisingly good than what we were expecting or what usually comes with free breakfast on your stay at b&bs . Going forward I would return but you seriously need to decorate and revamp the rooms and make sure the breakfast was impressive for every guest and for every day of the week, consistency is a must.

Stayed for one night visiting friends . Room was adequate - as to be expected in a very old building. Very clean and the dinner and breakfast were very good

Very friendly staff with very good attention

Amazing food and a great stop for anyone hiking or running from London to Brighton.

Lovely friendly staff. Very busy pub. Couldn’t offer us breakfast as we were off early but gave us a lovely lunch bag to takeaway. Food was fantastic in the pub highly recommend.

The staff were helpful and the food good; although the bed was comfortable, the bedroom and the bedroom corridor were very tired and needing refurbishment; our impression of our room was sealed by there not being enough hooks for the curtains to hang properly.

Comfortable and relaxing break, as usual

Very pleasant traditional pub hospitality.

I love coming to stay here, it’s one of my favourite places and I try to come every year. The proprietor is charming and funny and often feeds my dog sausages! The atmosphere is great.

Place had loads of character, but rooms need attention, tied and run down

The pub was old and very attractive and the food was great. The room was querky but clean and everything worked. Out stay was spoiled by a very uncomfortable mattress.

Staff friendly, good breakfast, room clean. Whole property needs a refurb but undoubtedly has charm.

Great stay as always, best accommodation option in the area for our remote workers. Rooms are dated but very clean. A fantastic breakfast offering!

Great staff, lovely character interior to the bar/dining area. Very enjoyable cooked breakfast. Safe, free carpark to the rear of the Bent Arms Inn.

.

Functional rather than cosy room. Problem was 75 minute wait after ordering for evening meal and over 30 minutes for breakfast.

Excellent food . beautiful traditional inn down stairs. A little dated upstairs but perfectly acceptable. Super friendly and helpful staff. Great experience.

Good location, convenient for local transport. Good food available in the evening. Basic cooked breakfast - with no cereal, fruit or other things to enhance it - and it took ages. If you are in a hurry, the wait for cooked breakfast is bad news. It was cooked to order (which is good) but took longer than you would ever expect.

The room is basic and you get what you pay for…. The shower was weak and cold … had to run sink water for 5 minutes to get it hot after giving up on shower after 10 minutes trying to get a bearable temp. When breakfast slot is only 8 til 9 am this is important stuff people!!.However, staff were lovely and evening meal was excellent value and very well presented . Would have liked a choice of brown or white toast for breakfast and to be told what options there are as there is no menu … cooked breakfast is rather assumed to be your preference

Lovely staff

Recently stayed at the bent arms. Finding the hotel was relatively easy. Parking was tricky due to the busy restruant downstairs but opened up later on. The room looked ok from a distance, but apon looking around the room there was several issues. The main issues including the vent fan in the bathroom was not working which was causing mould on the walls, the room had several cobwebbs of which included a live spider (removed) and also the windows was not cleaned. The bed was reasonable and the sheets where clean.

Nice old building with character. The rooms are a little tired but are clean. Free parking is good. Breakfast was nice. The staff were all very friendly and helpful.

Very attractive village. Hotel reasonably priced considering the area. Staff friendly and efficient. A few minor negatives - the shower space quite constricted but with plenty of hot water, bedside lights much too dim to allow reading in bed. Food good quality and quantity.

A bit loud if your windows face the main road. Basic room with en-suite. Excellent breakfast and easy parking.

Good location, relaxed & friendly place. Good evening meal, breakfast limited which was a shame. Bedroom s bit dated & stuffy so fans would have been a useful option. But appreciate an old building & upgrades cost money. But comfortable, convenient & dog friendly so all good

Quaint genuinely old pub which, thankfully but unusually these days, has not been "modernised" and had its character removed. Bar and garden area lovely. Excellent beer. Check-in and breakfast staff great. Bedroom had lovely clean sheets and was very clean overall but the bathroom is in need of a refit! Breakfast OK. Excellent big thermal cafetiere of good coffee. It was fine for a night and I would go there again as it is value for money.

The room was comfortable, and generally clean, though there were some room for improvement, such as a disgustingly dirty light switch. The chair in the room was broken and couldn't be used, and the hallways were full of obstacles such as bags of laundry. But the staff were friendly and breakfast was good.

Very good all round services

Great breakfast

Clean but basic rooms but you only want it to sleep in .The atmosphere was welcoming and the food was exceptional

Excellent value in historic pub, with good food.

Lovely old fashioned inn. Lovely staff. A little messy along the corridor to the rooms . Lovely comfy bed

A very warm welcome and excellent food and staff. Our bedroom was clean and bed comfortable but tired as was the hallway.

Enjoyed our stay. Nice location, The staff were helpful, food good. The room, especially the bathroom needs decorating.

Comfortable basic room with ensuite and kettle but no fridge. Staff excellent pub lovely and friendly great beer garden

Very friendly staff and lovely meal downstairs. Parking was difficult but possibly because it was extra busy. The only thing missing in the room was a water glass. Would happily stay again.

Good value and pleasant staff in a historic pub setting. Room was fairly basic but perfectly functional and comfortable. Nice breakfast. Plenty of parking space and treat location

I like everything about bent arm s

Really nice pub with rooms, evening meal was excellent and reasonable value. Cooked breakfast was on the whole excellent, only let down being the toast which was under cooked. (Both on the plate under my scrambled eggs and the selection on the toast rack).

Staff lovely food ok, breakfast disappointing no continental, some jam but toast came with food. Rooms very dated zero water pressure In the shower. Street very noisy out side. Pub has the damp smell when you walk in which is off putting. Garden us lovely and not cramped

Really good option for Lindfield and the surrounding rural Sussex area. And possibly Gatwick. We had an evening at Trading Boundaries and the Bent Arms was perfectly located for the B B we needed. Will return

All fine comfortable stay

Very good staff very helpful ,food and service great served with a smile .Nothing to much trouble.

It has been very nice staying, and injoyed my stay Thank you.

Lovey food great staff good beer Rooms are much better but beds and bathroom could do with update The car park needs tidying the junk in the car park lets a lovely Sussex pub down I will certinaly stay there again

Situated in the beautiful village of Lindfield. Fantastic hotel and all the staff were so friendly and helpful. Thank you for a wonderful stay.

The food at The Bent Arms was wonderful, and so was the service, in the Bar and in the Garden. But because The Northern Lights was being watched from the Garden and next doors Restaurant, my wife and I had no sleep at all. So we left the next morning before we should have, very disappointed. The village is really nice and enjoyable. Edward and Margarita Gibbens.

Another wonderful stay at the Bent. Three days of comfort and enjoyment in familiar surroundings. What more can one say!

It was in an ideal Place for where we were visiting. Staff couldn’t do enough for us. Lovely old inn good food However the bedrooms were very basic and lacking in facilities like table or chairs poor decor no toiletries or glasses. Needs a refurbishment in the bedrooms and landing. Margaret sugden

The room and bathroom were basic, but clean, spacious and comfortable. Don’t expect modern and contemporary. What you get is a a good old fashioned bedroom, complete with snowy white towels and little bottles of toiletries (something you hardly every see these days). The TV signal is rubbish, but there’s free wifi, so if you want to watch TV or listen to radio, use a smartphone or tablet. Breakfast is freshly cooked bacon, eggs, sausage and tomato with toast and jam, a pot of tea and orange juice. For the price for two of us, we have absolutely no complaints, and would definitely stay again.

Lovely pub with excellent staff and service. Old builidng steeped in history and also some quirks. Rooms maybe in need of a little updating. Also unable to get wifi, which wasn't a majot issue except had wanted to watch something on itvx and couldn't. Food for both evening and breakfast was superb and very decent portion sizes! Lovely beer garden

Ideal location with car park. Helpful, friendly staff. Clean, warm and comfortable. Good breakfast. Would stay again if in the area.

The room was a little tired, but still perfectly clean and servicable. Water pressure in the bathroom was a little low, but still usable. The room was a good size and the bed very comfortable. There was a kettle with the usual hot drinks available, plus a TV. Soaps and gels were provided in mini bottles. All staff encountered were extremely helpful and approachable/friendly. The food was amazing, definitely worth returning for another visit for some more! The restaurant/bar area looked amazing with exposed timber beams, great carvings above the bar; it was a lovely and well preserved environment. I would recommend this property and would happily return again.

Very friendly and helpful staff. The rooms were clean and comfortable, although a bit shabby. The pub was great and breakfast was excellent. We didn't eat dinner there but the reports on the pub's food were very good.

Basic room, quiet, good service, and decent breakfast

Friendly and efficient.

Lovely old beamed pub, room was comfortable but in keeping with price Staff friendly/ helpful and food amazing

The pub was lovely The rooms were basic but clean The mattress on the bed was one of them worst I have ever slept on in the end I slept on the floor

I had a very relaxing night at the Bent Arms, the room was neat and tidy and the bed very comfortable. I had a very nice steak & ale home made pie and mash in the pub, which was full of people eating and a couple of furrsty ferret, it’s a Halls & Woodhouse pub. I had an early start the following morning ( 4am), to catch a flight and had a packed breakfast to go, which was very good and quite large. All in all, it was a really good find.

Very nice area and pub, I stay for business trips every now and again and it's comfortable.

Very nice traditional pub atmosphere

Fantastic old pub with great food and amazing breakfast- the best full English breakfast I’ve had for years. Room comfortable however road noise was quite loud

Room Was a little dated but great staff, a nice atmosphere

Nice old hotel and pub. The food was good. The room was small but clean. The bath could use some modernizing and the bed could use a new mattress. The on site parking lot was fabulous. We would stay again

The room was clean and functional, although a bit tired. The bed is comfortable with clean linen. Staff are friendly and helpful. Food very good with a decent sized portion. Really enjoyed the sticky toffee pudding.! A good selection of beers that are well kept. Looking forward to our next stay.

The Bent Arms was an ideal hotel for a reunion of three university friends. It is not luxury accommodation but does not pretend to be. Its clean and comfortable and the staff are friendly and helpful. The breakfast is good and the set course evening meal tasty, satisfying and exceptional value. There is plenty going on in Lindfield and the surrounding are for a long weekend.

The staff were very friendly, and the village was lovely- close to 3 National Trust properties, which was our reason for going. The room was roadside. The road was very busy and that made the room noisy. The website states cooked or continental breakfast. There was not a continental breakfast, and even cereal was not readily offered as an alternative.

Lovely stay, staff were very friendly and went out of their way to make me a pack lunch because I had to leave early and miss breakfast.

My stay was good. All things were comfortable. The only thing that could have been better was the shower head kept falling down & wouldn't hold up properly. The room was comfortable, with enough room. The decorations was basic, but for the price the room was fine.

Room bit tired . Breakfast excellent

Excellent staff, rooms are getting tired especially the bathroom which need an update

The staff were lovely, and the food was fine. But the room was terrible. Tatty and dirty. The loo didn’t flush properly and the bed was really cheap. The corridors on the upper floors were full of old furniture, laundry bags and dirty dishes. As an added bonus, the room had a psychotic television- which turned itself on at 2am, and cycled through all the channels at full volume. (It did this twice!) We left early, and no one asked why- which doesn’t surprise me.

The staff here are so incredible friendly and helpful. The pub is gorgeous and our room was comfortable. Its on a great location.

Whilst the pub and staff are lovely the accommodation is pretty dreadful. There is no air con and no fan. The window does not stay up easily and is dirty and rotting. The beds and pillows are too soft meaning on hot nights it is so uncomfortable. The bed is also too short (I am 6 foot) meaning you cannot stretch out easily without bashing the iron bed end. The shower curtain had mould growing on the inside (room 9). The corridor to the rooms on arrival was full of half empty pints of drink. Also laundry bags lay around in the corridor. The Wi-Fi does not work in the bedrooms. Overall it’s clear the owners do not think about the customers experience when staying as it shows very little investment in the rooms as they could be straight out of the 1980’s. It’s sad especially as the pub and staff are nice. Invest in the rooms and charge more would be my recommendation.

Room was very dated and got filled with cooking smells from the pub kitchens. The bed was hard and uncomfortable. Also the bathroom only had a net curtain which hides nothing when the lights are on. However the staff were very good and accommodating.

It’s very old and small building invested with insects

The room was not so good. The shower head constantly slipped down the retaining bar. After the first night the room was not made up.

I was very anxious about staying at this property after reading reviews and looking at current photographs of property online. When i arrived there was free parking behind the property, check in was quick and easy. As property is old has history the stairs up to my room were very narrow and steep but lady who checked me in asked if i needed help with carrying suitcase up the stairs, my daughter helped carry back up. The initial corridor to bedroom is dated but clean. My room was family room has double and single bed all very clean and newly decorated (Current pics online are old) the room is room but two windows you can leave open which we did i also took a fan. There was plenty of tea, coffee, milk. Fresh towels and shampoo. Conditioner, soap available. The single bed was lovely and comfortable Double bed was terrible best way i can describe like sleeping on a hard trampoline. We booked b&b as close to Southground on return parking us an issue when pub is busy but B&b are trying to sort this out currently. There is parking in local roads. Breakfast was included and was served by a very nice waiter who want out off his way to see we had what we wanted, extea toast, lovely fresh coffee, fresh orange juice, cereal etc on check out staff asked if i would be coming back i can say i will but double bed needs sorting out.

The History of the building made it a Unique Stay

Hotel is great, staff are excellent, cannot do enough for you, food is good, accommodation is what you expect in a hotel of this age. Overall we enjoyed our stay.

No fan in the room to get the air moving on such a hot night. Wall paper peeling off by radiator. In parts a general tidy up would be in order. NOW the good bits, staff very friendly, Food very Good, Service prompt. In general it had a very good atmosphere, old world feel to it and character which made the place a pleasure to stay in. Would stay there again if in the area. Thanks

The pub is lovely, the accommodation was a let down , it was absolutely boiling hot , there was no fan in the room and none were available , I couldn’t get hardly any water out of the cold tap , so very difficult to fill kettle or clean teeth , on first glance pub looked lovely but accommodation really was not up to scratch and I couldn’t sleep .

Staff were all very friendly. However our only engagement with them was at breakfast and it was disappointing to only hear on our third and final day what the breakfast menu was. To that point we hadn't been offered cereal, juice etc - only cooked breakfast which was excellent. Hotel desperately needs money spending on it with carpets worn through and bathrooms very dated. It's fine if you're just staying overnight / only need to bed, but not suitable if you plan spending longer periods in the room.

We enjoyed our stay at the Bent Arms. Everything was clean and the bed was comfortable but the room was very tired and due a refurb. However staff were very friendly and helpful, breakfast was very good, we didn’t get a chance to eat there as visiting family etc but food looked good when passing. Despite the room we would happily stay again and the fact our room was serviced daily was appreciated, not always done these days! So well done, it was good value and great location.