The Old Stocks Inn in Cotswold

We stayed at Old Stocks Inn for 3 nights. This hotel has everything going for it: great position, great architectural history while beautifully decorated in a subtle retro chic style, wonderful staff and meals that can only have been produced by a talented chef and service levels of the highest quality. Deserving of all 5 stars and an absolute top choice.

Lovely hotel, great food, good service, comfy beds & pillows. Would highly recommend also make sure you book in the restaurant for dinner.I also left my earrings there and they sent them recorded delivery the next day.We would stay there again.

1st class friendly, warm, welcoming service from start to finish. Superb food and cocktails. Beautifully presented and pristine accommodation.A particularly big thank you to the new gentleman who recently joined the team after working in Australia, for your warm welcome and service. An easy five stars!!

Best experience I have had in a while. The decor / extras and staff are 5 stars. This might be rated a 2 star hotel - but it isn't. It is a 5 star hotel. No arguments about it. Stayed in a Garden Room for 4 nights, although it was horribly noisy on the first night, as the room is directly next to the beer garden and I struggled to sleep, this was due to rude guests, not the hotel. Can't fault the stay. Wish I stayed longer.

The food was excellent. Personally, I thought it was potentially Michelin star level.Service was also very good with our waiter giving excellent advice on our wine selection.I would definitely return.

HotelWe stayed two nights and the hotel is excellent. The rooms are small but cosy. The shower was great and it was very comfortable. The staff were very friendly and helpful.FoodThe food, however, was not like other reviewers have described on here.Breakfast: nice coffee, nice apple juice, boring fruit salad. Then a cooked breakfast with some overcooked bacon (maybe they get a lot of Americans?), tasteless sausage, average black pudding, and they forgot to bring any toast.Dinner: asked how I wanted my steak, I went for medium rare, I got charcoal. I could have sent it back but when it’s that hilariously wide of the mark is there any point? The middle of the thickest bit of the steak had a pinkish tinge in the right light. Once you scraped off the crust anyway. Tasted fine if you pretended it was a flame-grilled Whopper.The “Parmesan truffle fries” were crunchy, overcooked chips with a couple of bits of cheese. My palette wasn’t refined enough to pick up the truffle.The salad was floating in (admittedly tasty) dressing.The highlight of the dish was 3 roasted cherry tomatoes with blue cheese (I think?) which were delicious.My partner foolishly braved the wine menu and got a bizarrely jammy, vanilla custard Italian red. I played it safe and had a lovely pint of bitter instead.We would have bailed out here but alas it was a fixed price two-course.Dessert was billed as a chocolate orange hazelnut tart but turned out to be a Mr Whippy-esque mouse in a pastry shell, with two mandarin segments which were full of pips providing the “orange” part of the dish. It was fine I guess.We couldn’t face the hotel bar after that so we popped across the square to a delicious wine bar instead.All in all, a mixed bag.

Excellent cocktails with really interesting flavours and innovative ingredients. Beautiful decor and super attentive, knowledgeable staff. Would highly recommend.

Gorgeous room, excellent food and cocktails, friendly and on-point service. We stayed on a Sunday night and our package included a delicious 3 course lunch in the restaurant plus a cheeseboard delivered to our room later that evening. It doesn't get any better. A very relaxing stay in lovely Stow, highly recommend.

Stopped here for one night (sadly!) and it was fantastic. The deluxe rooms are nice and big to relax in, modern decor but still keeping the old beams of the building. The bath was a nice touch! The restaurant is a set meal with choices, but tastes amazing. The staff were all friendly and helpful.

Well, what can I say!!! We went here for my husband's birthday. It was completely unexpected and I'm glad that we waited for a table. What an absolutely wonderful restaurant. Simply one of the most gorgeous restaurants. Cocktails were magnificent. I couldn't fault the place and want to return when we have our next trip to the Cotswolds.