Stanwell House

We had a fantastic family lunch in The Orangery. Beautiful setting and wonderful food. The service provided by all the staff was excellent, especially from our waitress, Bethan. The dining experience was all the better for Bethan’s caring nature and sparkling personality. Nice garden area too!! We look forward to returning again soon.

We visited on a Friday late lunch with a group of friends, our table wasn’t booked (turned out I had booked it for the day before ). This was absolutely no problem for the girls in front of house. They found us a lovely table with smiles and warm welcome. The menu here is so interesting with choices to suit everyone and fresh and exciting flavours. The starter tapas choices are lovely and I always have chicken satay which has tender chicken and a delightful sauce. The service was excellent. 3 young ladies served us and were polite , attentive and efficient. Well done stanwells with such a great setting / menu / staff you are my favourite place in the area !!!

We have just completed a five week tour of the south of England, staying in similar priced hotels. Stanwell House excelled and was head and shoulders above other hotels where we stayed, in all aspects, staff, accommodation, restaurant and service.

This was one of the best hotels we have ever stayed in. Beautiful Accommodation, great food and friendly attentive staff. The hotel makes good use of its various spaces with a formal but relaxed restaurant, a casual dog friendly dining space, bar and a garden that is perfect for any occasion.

We came for 3 nights and loved everything: fab decor, friendly but professional staff, great room, perfect location. Food all locally sourced and high quality, delicious produce. Beautifully and recently renovated, no expensive spared. Breakfast up there with the best. Menu good, only small thing would be to have 3 starters with Sunday lunch as little on the daily menu offers small starters. Small thing. Loved our stay and considering we came for a rest from a tough time and family loss, this hotel has made us feel so relaxed, welcome and valued customers. Will be back.

A fabulous 4 days at Stanwell House. Everything was perfect. The staff in particular were so pleasant and friendly and couldn’t do enough to help you. Food was delicious and we loved the breakfasts. The rooms were lovely - clean, beautifully decorated and had everything we needed even down to toiletries. Stanwell House is convenient for everything. We will definitely be returning.

We have just had a lovely four night stay at the Stanwell House Hotel staying in a house room facing the main high street. There is a small car park adjacent to the long stay car park but spaces are very limited. Whilst our room was very cosy and comfortable the windows are single glazed so even when shut we could hear traffic and people talking outside well into the night/early morning. We could also hear people in the room above us. The hotel has loads of character and we found all the staff to be very friendly and welcoming. We had dinner in the Samphire Restaurant and the Salt Bar. The food menu is the same throughout the hotel and the dishes we had were well presented and very tasty. The fish pie was particularly good and the gnocchi. The breakfast was excellent with plenty of choice and good quality ingredients. We would also recommend the Kings Arms in the old part of Lymington and The Haven Restaurant overlooking the marina. We very much enjoyed our stay but would probably not have a room at the front of the hotel if we visited again.

I went to Stanwell House yesterday just for a drink in the garden. This place is gorgeous inside and out, we had cocktails and wine with nibbles - battered samphire, peppers with chilli and halloumi fries with delicious dips, the garden is extremely pretty, seating is comfortable, staff are attentive. They have live music on Fridays which unfortunately we could not stay for but we will be back, we recommend!

We went for dinner recently in the Orangerie but weren’t staying at the hotel. The restaurant was nicely decorated and seating was comfortable. Menu was quite limited; we settled for chicken satay starter which was a bit tough, served with dry toast and no butter. Main course of Thai vegetable curry with added prawns consisted of mostly courgettes which we didn’t like. Actually no-one asked if it was OK having seen a dish left full of courgettes. We had to ask three times for a glass of tap water, so would say the service was not up to scratch especially as the restaurant was empty. There are nicer restaurants in Lymington, so sorry to say we will not be visiting again.