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Royal Hotel Kettering

2.0 star property

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Reviews

5.0 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Breakfast included
  • Laundry
  • Housekeeping
  • Parking included
  • Business services

Explore the area

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Market Place, Kettering, England, NN16 0AJ
  • Kettering Conference Centre
    ‪18 min walk‬
  • Lighthouse Theatre
    ‪19 min walk‬
  • Wicksteed Park
    ‪3 min drive‬
  • Northampton (ORM-Sywell Aerodrome)
    ‪14 min drive‬

Room options

Single Room

  • 1 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 1

Family Room

  • 2 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 4

Twin Room

  • 2 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 2

Double Room

  • 2 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 2

About this property

Royal Hotel Kettering

Hotel in Kettering with free breakfast
Along with WiFi in public areas, this hotel has a meeting room and laundry facilities. Self parking is free. Additionally, an arcade/games room, a front desk safe and free breakfast are on-site.
Royal Hotel Kettering offers 41 accommodations with coffee/tea makers and a hairdryer. Televisions come with premium digital channels.

Bathrooms include a combined bath/shower unit with a deep soaking bath and complimentary toiletries. Business-friendly amenities include desks and telephones. Housekeeping is offered on a daily basis and an iron/ironing board can be requested.

During your stay at Royal Hotel Kettering, you'll be within walking distance of Kettering Conference Centre. Free breakfast, free self-parking and a round-trip airport shuttle (surcharge) are available.
  • Free breakfast offered
  • Free self-parking
  • WiFi in some public areas for a fee
  • Amenities include a front desk safe, a meeting room and laundry facilities
  • Just a 3-minute drive from Kettering Conference Centre and a few minutes from Lighthouse Theatre
  • Airport shuttle service available for a fee
Free breakfast is served. Public spaces have WiFi for a fee. An airport shuttle at scheduled times is available for a fee. The business-friendly Royal Hotel Kettering also features an arcade/games room, laundry facilities, and a front desk safe. Free self parking is available.

Smoking is allowed in designated areas at this Kettering hotel.

Guests are served a free breakfast.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: WiFi (surcharge)

Parking and transport

  • Return airport shuttle (surcharge) at scheduled times
  • Free self parking on site
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking available

Food and drink

  • Free breakfast available

Things to do

  • Arcade/game room

Family friendly

  • Arcade/game room
  • In-room microwave
  • Laundry facilities
  • Rollaway/extra bed (surcharge)

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Limited-hour front desk
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)

Business services

  • Meeting room

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Rollaway/extra bed (surcharge)

Bathroom

  • Deep soaking bathtub
  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower/bathtub combination
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • TV with premium digital channels

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Microwave

More

  • Desk
  • Iron/ironing board on request
  • Phone

Policies

Check-in

Check-in time starts at 2 PM

Check-out

Check-out before 10 AM

Special check-in instructions

This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply); guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation
Front desk staffed during limited hours

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

  • No pets allowed

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Kids stay free! Children stay free when using existing bedding.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are available for GBP 20.00 per night.

Payment types at the property

Important information

Optional extras

The fees and deposits listed below will be charged at the time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Airport shuttle fee: GBP 150.00 per vehicle (return)
  • Rollaway bed fee: GBP 20.00 per night

This may not be a comprehensive list. Fees and deposits are subject to change and might not include tax.

You need to know

This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business or profession.
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards
Royal Hotel Kettering offers transfers from the airport (fees may apply). Please contact the property on the number on the booking confirmation with your arrival details prior to travel.

We should mention

  • Children stay free in the same room as the parent or guardian when using existing bedding.

Property is also known as

Hotel Royal Kettering
Kettering Royal Hotel
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Royal Kettering Hotel
Royal Hotel Kettering Hotel
Kettering Comfort Inn
Royal Hotel Kettering United Kingdom
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Royal Hotel Kettering Reviews

Reviews

5.0
Rating 10 - Excellent. 3 out of 68 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 10 out of 68 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 20 out of 68 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 14 out of 68 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 21 out of 68 reviews

5.4/10

Cleanliness

5.6/10

Staff & service

4.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
locked out of hotel at 11pm....no one at reception
I had worked in London on Saturday the 12 th...caught a train up to Kettering...a town I had not been to before.I was expected at a pub in Broughton at 7pm for a surprise 50th birthday party.so caught a taxi to the designated birthday venue expecting to check into the Royal upon my return later in the evening....having paid I did not think this would be a problem.BIG MISTAKE!!!!!No one was in attendance to unlock the door to the hotel...after 5 minutes of banging on the door I caught another taxi to the Holiday Inn....a further £12 in a taxi....with another £12 paid out to return to the railway station in the morning for my return journey to London

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Cheap hotel in town centre
Difficult to find due to no signs on the frontage. Phoned for directions but took a long time to answer due to only one staff on duty. No bar available. Décor very tired

2/10 Terrible

Daniel

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Room stank of stale smoke

2/10 Terrible

Richard

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Avoid
Truly awful. Poor state of repair, cold, no hot water and inaccurate fire evacuation plan.

6/10 Okay

Emma, Corby

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Our night away
It was fine,hotel is run down but in centre of town so ideal for shopping and clubbing.(No four poster bed or deep bath tub tho only standard) abit disapointed but standard and wouldn't mind staying again.

4/10 Poor

Peter, Minehead

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
the Royal in Kettering
Room had an musty smell, the TV did not work properly and the lock to the room was of poor quality. The car park had an old mattress lying on the ground at the entrance which didn't give a good first impression. The night porter needs a lesson in manners. Worst of all at 9pm on my return to the hotel,i found a fire door was propped open to prevent it from banging !

4/10 Poor

Brian, Hampshire

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Royal Kettering
The hotel is obviously being refurbished but the management are missing all the things they could get right. The breakfast was not supervised and everything ran out, The bed and bedding was good but the room was not clean behind units etc.The car park and rear parking area was 3rd world with litter everywhere.

4/10 Poor

Paresh

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

6/10 Okay

G J, Andover

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Missed Opportunities to impress.
Not great. No hot breakfast - kitchen out of action - misleadingly, this was not flagged up to me when I booked. No appliances plugged in. I wasn't woken up as requested, so overslept - consequently, couldn't even have a cold, European-style breakfast before hurrying out to start my working day. Suffice to say, I won't be hurrying back there any time soon. On a positive note, I left my wallet in my room and they called me as soon as a maid had discovered it - returned safe with £60 cash and cards still therein.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No heating
Almost froze to death! No hot water, no heater all through night and day.

4/10 Poor

Sue, Rochdale

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Room comfort
Noisy hotel all night
Hotel very noisy all night with people up & down the corridor & talking loudly, not the place to stay as a solo female on a Saturday night. The bed it self was very uncomfortable

6/10 Okay

bev m

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
This is a definitely a 2star hotel
Needs decorating desperately and windows were filthy but good location, good breakfast, friendly staff. Good for a nights stop off. Has a bar in sister hotel a few doors down.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No hot water!
No hot water supply, had to shower cold in a cold night. Also room door lock was broken.

10/10 Excellent

Alven, Milton Keynes

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful place
We had a wonderful stay at this place, staff was so helpful

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Royal Kettering needing some royal love
Greeted by a very friendly chap. He was efficient but from the off I sensed I was in for a bad experience. The hotel needs a total refurb. I can see they have been trying to stay legally compliant but the facilities in my room were in a desperate state. The TV is fine the bed is ok. There are: 1 stains on the wall 2 tv was unplugged and the satallite connection was disconnected from the tv and was pulled away from the wall showing masonry 3 there was a muscky damp smell 4) bathroom was uncomfortable to be in as it was falling apart. It was cleaned but not at any standard you would expect as a paying guest. Mixer tap lose. Tap not shutting water off properly no sink plug. Get the feeling that the bathroom has all kinds of issues hidden under the lino and Bath panel. 5 shower holder was loose from wall 6 dare not operate the window as there was a warning sign on A4 not to open window too high 7 when you sit on the toilet you realise something is not right as you gaze out of the window without a curtain; I guess that's why the en suite door is left open to help block out the window 8) the dysfunctional bar/dinner Hall.... 9 the breakfast.... 10 cruddy car park 11 forgot to mention there was a huge crack in the bathroom ceiling that bowed in Like I said this hotel needs renovating. It could make so much more money. It's a Victorian build I'm led to believe. In the middle of the market place. So location is brilliant. Right investor could do so well

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

2/10 Terrible

Gavin, Birmingham

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
One of the worst places I've ever stayed
Hotel smelt damp, room not as pictured, floor creaked very loudly over whole room, toilet was broke wouldn't flush, window was higher than curtain and street light straight outside shining through, no double glazing so could hear the drunks on the street outside till 3am, doors slamming all through night and had to park on wasteland, wouldn't recommend

2/10 Terrible

Paul

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

2/10 Terrible

John, Stafford

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Old run down hotel
Lumpy bed no hot water staff didn't even say good morning when I left. I will not use this one again. And hotels.com goes to the bottom of my list

2/10 Terrible

Sophie

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
DISCUSTING....AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!!!!
Well i only have one word to sum up this hotel...DISCUSTING!! The bed was like a ski slope when laid down your legs where higher than your head. The towels where that old they had holes in them and had frayed around the edges. The furniture was falling apart the wallpaper was hanging off and mold was growing. The curtains and netting where ripped and hanging off. And to top off our stay our vehicle had been broken into on the night. I'd never go anywhere near this hotel again!!

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Convenience
Travelled from Devon to Peterborough and stayed at the Royal Hotel Kettering overnight to break the journey.

6/10 Okay

Andrew, London

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
name says it all
Its a typical, somewhat crumbling, city-centre hotel which struggles with out-moded everything. But it does a good job!

2/10 Terrible

Daniel, Bromley

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
This thing called hotel needs to be closed down.
Show me a worse hotel in UK and I will change my name to Royal Kettering Hotel. Zero star is a disservice. I should be allowed to give - star. From the moment we arrived at the car park we knew we have just thrown away £60. There was no hot water. The hotel had a horrible smell. I don't even know why it's still called a hotel

6/10 Okay

Andrew, Bristol

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
It was ok

4/10 Poor

laura, Corby

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Looking frayed around most edges. Decor could do with updating and couldn't open any windows.There was a distinct lack of staff at breakfast.