The Blue Boar, Witney, Oxfordshire - Acorn Pubs

Outdoors on a mild morning with fine menu offerings

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The Blue Boar has recently been refurbished and, I think, the decor redesigned. All excellent, creative and stylish. We stayed the day after the reopening. Loved the bedroom and a very comfortable bed.

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Nyoppusset og trivelig pub og restaurant, super god service og stemning over alt. God mat og deilige drinker. Rommene var store og virket nyoppusset de også. Store og gode bad. Totalt en veldig god opplevelse kan anbefales på det varmeste.

Clean comfortable air conditioning was a bonus, good location for anyone going to Blenheim Palace

Nothing to write tbh

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Friendly staff and good food.

Excellent location, very helpful staff and excellent breakfast. Comfortable room , bed and bathroom.

Stairs to top floor are quite narrow.

Very spacious room, clean amd comfortable. Added bonus to have air conditioning as it was a hot day / night. Finished the stay with a really lovely traditional English breakfast.

The staff were amazing and very friendly, building had alot of character

When the air conditioning leaked and soaked bed , not good sleeping in a wet bed

Very inviting and comfortable- shame about the roadworks but this can’t be helped. Excellent chef and service. Manager was very helpful

All good

Friendly staff, comfortable bed, air conditioning and great breakfast.

Shower was a bit weak, weirdly the floor was a bit uneven.

Staff were friendly and helpful. Room was clean, compact but a great base. Shower wasn’t great at all, no water coming out but enough to do what you needed to do. The toiletries were lovely and made up for it. Breakfast was lovely!

The shower wasn’t great, it was a waterfall shower but it was more of a sprinkle.. parking at the hotel is an issue, this is obviously not the hotels fault, but you can’t park anywhere for more than 12 hours in a 24 hour period, which meant we had to keep moving the car which wasn’t ideal. Also our door didn’t lock.

Room was comfortable, bed was very comfortable, I liked that there was complimentary hot chocolate as well as the usual tea and coffee. Breakfast was very good and plentiful, staff were very friendly and helpful.

Towel shelf in my bathroom was loose, the shower thermostat in my friend's bathroom was missing part of the handle.

Comfortable and decent food

No parking facilities and the email they send you where to park doesn’t exist !! Breakfast was burnt to a crisp although dinner the previous evening was good although many things not available on the menu. Roadworks right outside my window on the Main Street went on until midnight. Obviously been there a long time and I was warned of this

Extremely nice location, and rooms

Clean. Very comfortable. Loved our stay

L emplacement et la chambre

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The staff in the restaurant were excellent

The bed was very uncomfortable.

Great staff lively atmosphere

Poor room no charging ports net curtains torn/ripped did not close to create privacy complimentary bottles of water already opened Dinner was poor steak over cooked very fatty chips and onion rings very crunchy breakfast bacon dry and over cooked beans over microwaved far to hot burnt mouth

Location and facilities.

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Classy place and nice big rooms

Central location in Whitney. Very good breakfast. Was quiet, even though we were at the front.

No parking, although Waitrose car park okay for overnight plus 3 hours

The family room was tiny, very hard to move around with 2 adults one teenager. We stayed for one night over the weekend and it was very noisy with nightlife up to 4am.

Absolutely everything

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I loved the high ceilings in the rooms for someone who is quite tall. I liked how clean it was also

Nothing to not like

Schönes altes Gebäude und tolles Restaurant.

Die Zimmer entsprechen nicht den sehr gut gemachten Fotos. Es kommt kaum Wasser aus dem Duschkopf. Es ist bis in die Nacht sehr laut gewesen.

Excellent

Staff very helpful

Booked the larger space room (Superior) at the higher cost ended up in what I would suggest was a basic room. I questioned this with reception and they moved me to a Superior room, but only because they had availability. I would suggest that if you book via Booking.com that they put you in the smaller rooms and hope you don’t notice. May not be the case but didn’t feel that I was a valued customer.

Excellent service as always, food was fantastic.

Staff were lovely, room was huge and hit our expectations. Food was excellent. We would defo stay again.

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Great service and warmth from the team

Excellent stay, good location, friendly staff, good food, overall very happy

I liked the location and the bed

The shower mechanism was broken and creaky outside floor

Restaurant and location

Steep stairs up to room

I liked that breakfast was included.

My AC didn’t work. There were fans in the room however they were extremely loud. It was very hot.

Lovely breakfast

At my age 82 there were a lot of stairs, l am fit but l would have preferred a room much lower down

Good.

For guests in mid-70's, 3 flights of stairs were a big challenge. On the hotel website or room reservation booking site there should have been more detail on access upper floors. If it thst disclaimer had been stated initially, we would have chosen another location.

Spotlessly clean and very comfortable

The English style I wanted! Staff were very friendly. Food is amazing. Room was big and clean with L’ocitane amenities. Nice.

I can smell an old rug in the room.

Great location, friendly staff, lovely pub/restaurant, breakfast was excellent, so much choice.

Our shower only had an overhead, no handheld shower, the overhead shower had a very weak flow, wouldn't have like to have tried to was long thick hair in it. Also think the tv could do with upgrading, had to unplug it to switch it off, standby button on remote didn't work, not a big issue as we weren't away to watch tv just a bit inconvenient if you want to watch tv in bed.

Breakfast was v good. Bed v comfortable . Staff very friendly

It was Xmas and at night had to enter with a code in very dimly lit entrance . Rooms are clean but the common parts and rooms need to be re painted as looking a bit tired

Location. Comfort. Cleanliness. Breakfast.

Had requested a bath. Unsure if any rooms have a bath. We stayed in room 20 and really struggled with entry key pad.

Good location

Drain smell in bathroom

Very uncomfortable bed. Noisy deliveries from 4.30am.

The location was great. Lovely little market village with tons of bars and shops. Very close to do Clarkson farm activities. The onsite restaurant was good, the breakfasts were amazing! The room was lovely, the bed really comfy. The toiletries were very luxurious and plenty of them (apart from the loo roll) The tea caddy was also very well stocked.

The shower pressure wasn't great and the toilet paper was really cheap 1ply. There is no onsite parking, which was a bit of a pain. The image of the bathroom for my booking showed a bath, but there was no bath. However it didn't have a bath in the description of the room. So I can't complain, but it just seems odd to use a pic of a different bathroom.

I liked the helpfullness of the lady on reception when I needed to change my room,as I did not request a wetroom/ disabled access, I wanted a bath and a room i paid for. My room was changed and it was so much better,even checked in with us the next morning to ask how the room was,it meant a lot. Sorry I did not catch her name..

In the morning the walk into the breakfast room,had a nice atmosphere was a very nice setting, this was short lived after listening to the racket coming from the kitchen, from the chefs...shouting and larking about ,very unprofessional. Having to wait over 20 minutes too for breakfast was too long,there were only 2 other tables at this time... so no idea why it took so long. Saying this the sound lady who took our order was very pleasant and friendly.

Staff were good.

Restaurant service was slow. Shower was not great room had a view of a skip and outside was noisy until pub closing time.

The staff were so friendly and helpful

Its a small point but I could hear extract fan noise during the night, but that's probably because we keep a window open ovenight

The family room was perfect for what we needed. Great having the restaurant downstairs. Staff were so friendly and accommodating. They moved a table for us so we could eat with our children before getting them to bed.

Behind the radiators needed a clean. Our daughter accidentally dropped a toy behind it.

Great location, breakfast, Staff

The bed head lamps were loose, the plug mechanism in the sink didn’t work well.

Great location in the centre of town and very close to the venue I was attending.

I hadn’t appreciated that there was no on site parking at the hotel until after I’d booked it. Whilst the car park was only a short walk away it was slightly inconvenient with luggage etc.

Staff friendly and helpful. Food was very good, we ate breakfast anf evening meal.. Loved the locitaine products in toom,. Bedding felt good quality and clean.

Expected better quality room for the price. Room and whole hotel needs re painting, new carpet, new windows. Shower had low pressure. Noisy room pipework clicking on and off all night. Noise from road and outside pub and we were on the top floor.

Lovely rooms, and staff were great😃

The radiator in our room wasn't working on check in so they very kindly upgraded us to a nicer room. Beautiful decor in both rooms, old building with lovely curved plaster walls and exposed beams in the first room and huge ceilings with a four poster bed in the next. Plumbing is as much as you'd expect in an old building but all the fixings kept in good order.

Wasn't very clear where to check in (with a pub/restaurant). Mattress was a bit soft for us but only because we need a really hard mattress which is always tricky to come by.

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Nothing however should you have mobility issues the stairs might be a struggle

Staff were friendly.

Not having a ground floor room as requested, although available. Breakfast extremely disappointing. Fruit juice served with a glass full of ice cubes, tasted more like squash. Artisan bread only that was very 'seeded'. No cereals or marmalade available. Poached eggs (overcooked and hard) served on one slice of artisan toast that was cold and hardly brown, and with no butter on the toast!

Where to start? We had requested a ground floor room (gfr) if possible via booking.com, but received no confirmation from the hotel that this would be forthcoming. Upon arrival, we were told that as we'd requested a gfr we would be in the annex - fine with us. We proceeded to the annex where there were 3 gfr's but we were on the first floor! The room was comfortable and clean. Dinner that evening was very good although service a little slow, but that didn't bother us. Breakfast was not good! My husband ordered the full English with fried eggs - he got poached. I asked what cereals they had but told they don't have any, quote: "but if you want granola you can have some of that". I declined. I asked for some orange fruit juice that was served in a half pint glass full of ice cubes and some juice that was so diluted it tasted like weak orange squash. I asked if I could have some plain toast, preferably white, for my breakfast. I was informed they only have 'artesan' bread, nothing else. I do not like seeded bread. Anyway I was brought 2 slices that were barely toasted, full of seeds, together with 2 wrapped butters that were solid, and as the toast was cold did not melt one bit. I asked for some marmalade only to be told quote: "we don't have marmalade". The waitress brought me two small bottles of strawberry jam (the sort you are served with scones!!). All this while watching one of the 'chefs' standing on a chair? in the kitchen, with his back towards us, cleaning appliances overhead! The other chef busy on his mobile while preparing food!! The following morning my husband did get his full English with fried eggs! I asked for poached eggs on toast. Two eggs were served on one slice of artesan toast that had no butter on and the eggs were solid! Such a disappointing stay. We have stayed previously (in the main building), but sad to say this most recent visit will be our last.

We stayed here for the night as we were going to the Farmers Dog pub for dinner. This is a great pub/restaurant with rooms. We were in the annexe across the court yard. Room was nice with plenty of space . Complimentary water, hot drinks, biscuits, shower toiletries and comfy top quality bedding. The only downside was the shower was a little awkward. Big waterfall shower but fitted a bit close to the taps so in order to be underneath it you had to stand right by the taps over the plug hole and it didn’t flow that fast. But we weren’t too bothered by that as only one night stay. We sat in the bar and had drinks, staff were friendly and polite, nice atmosphere. We had breakfast which was yummy with plenty of choice. Overall a nice place to stay, would stay here again.

The products in the bathroom were really nice

Clean room and bathroom. Nice cotton sheets and nice pillows. Very central. Lovely bar downstairs. The breakfast was absolutely amazing.

Room a little dated.

Lovely place , clean spacious , comfortable room, nice coffee in room. Breakfast was excellent. Easy and quick check in and out. Right in the middle of Witney so really close to shops and cinema.

Nice wee hotel, comfy room, lovely breakfast.

No longstay parking option, so you need to move your car frequently. There was a generator outside in the courtyard that was very loud, making it hard to sleep.

Room and bar were good

The staff member who checked us in was a bit abrupt in his manner.

Breakfast was very good and tasty. Lots of choice. Also had aircon.

Disappointed with room as lots of mould in the shower. Also our room was in an annexe which was very noisy in the evening as directly opposite outdoor sitting area.