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The Bull Inn Pub

3.5 star property

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Exterior
Bar (on property)
Lounge
Lounge
Comfort Double or Twin Room, Ensuite, Garden View

Reviews

7.2 out of 10

Good

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Breakfast available
  • Pet friendly
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi
  • Restaurant

Explore the area

Map
Stanford Dingley, Reading, England, RG7 6LS
  • Bradfield College Golf Club
    6 min drive
  • Bucklebury Farm Park
    7 min drive
  • Living Rainforest
    13 min drive
  • Farnborough (FAB)
    69 min drive

Room options

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Comfort Double or Twin Room, Ensuite, Garden View

Comfort Double or Twin Room, Ensuite, Garden View

  • 140 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

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About this property

The Bull Inn Pub

3.5-star Reading inn with restaurant
This smoke-free inn features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a business center. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include wedding services and a garden. Housekeeping is not available.
The Bull Inn Pub offers 7 accommodations.
The inn offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. This 3.5-star property offers access to a business center.

Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. Complimentary self parking is available on site.

The Bull Inn Pub is a smoke-free property.

The Bull Inn Pub has a restaurant on site.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi and wired internet

Parking and transportation

  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • Breakfast available for a fee
  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant

Guest services

  • No housekeeping service
  • Wedding services

Business services

  • Business center

Outdoors

  • Garden

Accessibility

  • No elevator

More

  • Smoke-free property

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: 10:00 PM
Early check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 16

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM

Pets

Pets allowed
Service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Property payment types

Important information

You need to know

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

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

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The Bull Inn Pub Reviews

Reviews

7.2

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 15 out of 57 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 19 out of 57 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 11 out of 57 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 8 out of 57 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 4 out of 57 reviews" "

7.0/10

Cleanliness

7.4/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

6.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Brittany

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Brittany

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Matthew

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I would stay again, but just a couple suggestions.
The owner was very welcoming, as were the team working when we arrived. Unfortunately, the window ledge in the pub was pretty dirty, which was off-putting for a place serving food. Once in the room it was clean, but a few things were missing that would have made the stay better: Shower curtain or glass divide to keep the shower from getting the bathroom wet, a light above the mirror in the bathroom, and finally - it was unseasonably cold this June, but it would have been nice if there was some heat in the room or a way to control it. It is good value for the price, and would stay again, but just a few Alex Polizzi improvements would make it so much better.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Daniel

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfy
Comfy rooms, nice pub and village
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

6/10 Okay

Paul

Business traveler
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Loud music, cold and cobwebs
I checked in on a Monday and the pub was full of people and the lights off when it says the pub is usually closed. I went to the room which was okay, I heard them turn the heating off so had an electric heater luckily but wasn’t the best. Seemed to be an event on and music was playing very loud until 12:30pm so not much sleep
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

S

Typical rural pub and restaurant and quite nice. Disappointed to discover they dont do breakfast so we only used the accommodation. Room is modern and provided the necessary things, though cleanliness was below average, large cobwebs above the bed and high level dust was scattered about when the heating eventually came on. Room was cold to begin with. Bed was comfortable though could feel the lump in the middle of joining 2 beds together. It was nice though, not likely to return.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Andrew

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Lovely, but it's a shame the service let it down
Lovely room, lovely pub, food good, however service is the slowest I've ever experienced. I sat down for dinner at 6.15pm and gave up waiting for someone to ask what I wanted for desert at 8.45pm. When you are a solo traveller it's a drag to sit there on your own for so long looking like a lemon. I left cash on the table and went to bed. The only other gripe I would have is that breakfast starts at 9.30am. That all said I'm sure the service was a one off, I'd stay there again and give them the benefit of the doubt.
Funky loo roll holder!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
hotel closed in february. should not be on expedia
hotel closed in february should not have been on expedia - panic to find further accommodation for my elderly father and family. New owners not due to open until September were unaware you had this hotel on your system. Absolute mayhem as my father and family were attending my daughters wedding and had nowhere locally to stay. Where is the apology from Expedia - I will never use this system again - be warned the place you book may not exist anymore and like us will cost you dearly to rectify.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

sara

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely stay and good food for evening meal, shame breakfast was not available
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

6/10 Okay

Brenda

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Great Location
The room was very clean and everything was OK except that the wall street are very thin and we could hear people either side of us talking and snoring kept my husband awake the 2 nights we were there. Great location and friendly staff.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Mick

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A lovely location,just the job for a nice relaxing break,lovely food and bar snacks,friendly staff and locals,really enjoyed it
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2017

8/10 Good

Mark

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
spacious and comfortable but no Wifi
The room was spacious and comfortable, however the WIFI was non existence and there the reception did not open in the morning to serve breakfast or check out
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

10/10 Excellent

tracy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice little place !!!!
Staff were fabulous friendly and pleasant couldn't ask for better hosts nothing was too much trouble ...would not hesitate to stay here again ..rooms are not massive but more than adequate for a few nights stay ..breakfast was ordered the night before and served at our requested time and tasted delicious ...all in all could not fault this place ...and to top it off when we first arrived was sat outside chatting to few of the locals .. and it was none other than pippa Middleton and her hubby and parents . Who by the way were very pleasant and happy to chit chat to us . Location of this hotel is nice too nice country area and can get about to other places thanks to the hosts for making us so welcome x
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2017

6/10 Okay

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Visiting the wolves
I was staying overnight to make sure I got to the wolf sanctuary on time in the morning for a day of photgrahing these amazing creatures. I thought the price should have included the tepid breakfast which had obviuosly been cooked ahead of time. Bacon still had the rind on which was irritating for me as I was out of practice and didn't realise and had to remove it from my mouth - embarassing! Bed squeeked and made cracking noises all night which was annoying and kept waking me up. walls are extremley thin and you could hear the conversation next door. Room was way to hot for me. Remote control didn't work very well and I had to turn over using the buttons on the side. Bathroom needed some TLC with paint peeling off the wall after an obvious water leak. shower needed repairing as sharp plastic along the bottom - gave it a miss. All in all I wouldn't rebook but its not the worst I have stayed in.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A pleasant room, but I need to point out that the shower needs changing. It was pretty much a trickle coming out of the shower head and there was no shower curtain/shield so the bathroom floor got very wet.

8/10 Good

Kevin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely Country Pub
Bed Room and food in the pub was very good, poor wifi in room but good in pub phone signal none

8/10 Good

Caroline, uk

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Warm and comfortable with good food
Friendly staff. Lovely old country village pub. Nice room with good shower but paper thin walls! Food was delicious. No one around to check me out and get a receipt.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely area - just a shame about the experience
These rooms need a lot of tlc. The shower had not been cleaned properly, the shower did not work properly and cut in and out. I had to ask for another large towel and milk when we got there. The breakfasts are over priced at £12 for a full English and £5.00 for two fried eggs on one bit of toast. When we tried to book out at 8.15 on Sunday morning no body except the cleaner who did not speak English was available. So sorry not a very good experience!

2/10 Terrible

Emma, Kingsley

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Ant infested and filthy
The dirtiest room we've ever had to stay in! Only booked because we couldn't find anywhere else which had availability at short notice. Ants in the bathroom. Filthy, worn carpet. Very uncomfortable beds. Food was overpriced and poor quality. Nothing to recommend other than being set in a lovely village.

8/10 Good

neil, nottingham

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bull
Lovely place and room. The only thing was when I walked into the pub the whole place went silent and everyone stared at me, which was weird. I guess it's a local pub for local people.

10/10 Excellent

Alison, West Yorkshire

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely country inn in a beautiful location
I stay here on a regular basis and the staff are always warm and welcoming, the food excellent and the rooms bright, cheerful and comfortable!

2/10 Terrible

Matthew

Liked: Room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Could have been wonderful.
On arrival, was issued my key - only to find my room had not been cleaned (this was 8pm). Returned to bar - was offered a drink whilst they cleaned in the room in the promise of 20mins. However, the beer was off. 45mins later get the key thrust at me in the bar with no words from the staff. Wake up at 7am to discover no hot water - and no sign of anyone at the bar. Had to leave cold at 7:45. A lovely pub, lovely setting. Disaster of a visit.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities