The hotel is in a central location, but suffers from no parking nearby.

The photographs online showed good clean rooms, indeed they may well be, but the information did not indicate that there was a noisy public bar on the ground floor with a karaoke / disco gearing up when we arrived. I had expected a family friendly stay, clearly this isn't. This isn't a bad review of the hotel per se, as we didn't stay ( I found somewhere else), but the online information needs to reflect more accurately the situation. If you want a retreat after a noisy evening out, the SH may be for you, just not for us.

The bar and restaurant of the Saracen's Head are nice, and the bar staff friendly and helpful Good points, bed clean and comfortable and shower hot and good pressure

The place is pretty well run down and shabby. , Bad points, pretty well everything else from the cracked bathroom tiles, the poor fitting windows that stop no sound at all and the tired faded decor were pretty depressing but what's worst is that when you roll in at midnight to get to sleep, there's a nightclub going on in the bar under your bed with bass that moves the bed across the room - this goes on until 2am after which comes the hour of noisy revellers leaving plus staff and guests moving things in hotel, cleaning up etc. If you then try to fall asleep, the constant stream of people outside shouting and yelling over the traffic noise will stop that. Another reviewer said only stay here if you are pissed, I think they may be correct, this place would only work if you were out clubbing till 4/5 am and then got back drunk and passed out on the bed..... book with caution ...