The Swan - A Colombo Edition Hotel

Honest review ! To be honest the people who run this pub are lovely, they couldn’t do enough to accommodate us. We were a large party of 24 boaters staying for the weekend. They kindly reserved the pub moorings for us, and were very accommodating. However there was a few blips on the Saturday night when we had pre booked our meals, they didn’t come out at the same time, and was a long gap in between serving, a few meals got sent back as they were burnt. But the overall experience was good over the whole weekend. The young bar tender looked after us and played some music in the bar for us at our request, we had a great time ! Overall this is a lovely pub with great staff The only thing that let the pub down was the moorings if the brewery spent some money on the moorings and gave it a quick lick of pant or world be brilliant . Would I go back and have a meal ? - You bet it’s a nice pub with great views of the river, and great staff se you soon !

The room was lovely and more than we expected for what we paid. It was very nice to find two very large dressing gowns and 2 small bottles of wine in the fridge for us both to enjoy and a decent coffee maker. The bed was comfortable and it was a lovely view looking out across the river. The balconies could do with a bit of redecoration and the curtains to be slightly bigger as they didn’t quite match in the middle but this didn’t affect our stay. We ate in the pub and the homemade pie was one of the best pies that I have had out, my husband had the curry and said how good it was, we could not fault the food or the young lady that served us. Very glad we stayed here as a stop over on our way to Norfolk. We would stay again should we be passing this area.

We chanced on this pub whilst driving through. The room was clean, the welcome pleasing and the accommodation comfortable. From the outside it looks a little down at heel. But our room was spacious had everything a Premier Inn offers , and had a fine balcony with a lovely river view. We did not eat in the pub, but it was more than suitable for a summer drink by the river. No breakfast offer but not a problem for us. All for £69.00.

Very friendly and helpful staff. Delicious curries. Lovely location too. Delighted it was open for food on a Sunday evening after a cycle up from Ely. Thank you.

WHAT A LET DOWN - I booked here for two nights as I was working locally. It looked horrendous when I pulled up but thought, it’s two days, it’s not permanent. Food was so horrible that the second night I ate out! Second night the fire alarm went off at 4am. All guests evacuated themselves. We waited, no one turned up, no one came to do a fire check or make sure it was on to enter the building - no fire brigade no nothing! Upon informing management that my second night was horrendous as no one could go back to sleep, they just said “oh well sorry” blamed another guest for smoking in their room and so I asked for the full fire report of the incident and have been ignored since! Sounds like a lame excuse to get out of providing a refund for poor sleep as that is what you expect when you book a hotel! Would avoid this place like the plague!