Angel Hotel Cardiff Castle Street, Cardiff CF10 1SZ

"The Good: Location, value (we paid £39 pp for a family room of four with breakfast) one of the beds was comfy (others not so), clean linen, spacious family room. The Bad: On arrival the kettle was disgusting with old sugar papers and lots of orange stuff coming out when filled (always rinse your room kettle!!!), lumpy pillows, very tired room and general public areas. The Angel I have known for over 30 years, and she is a Grande Dame, but one now who should be retired. Too much money needs spending on her. Staff mixed - some amazing and others not so. View from room 224 was abysmal with the neighbouring room (non guest I imagine) with old food on plates visible in the window. Frost the glass rather than see the bones of the hotel (pipes and generally ugly). In the evening we used the stairs to go out and there were several young children on the mid landing with small toys everywhere. We have to pick our way over and through them. Not safe. I guess from one other encounter along with this one that the hotel is hosting refugees which is wonderful, but care needs to be taken when mixing long term residents with regular guests regarding safety and fire regs."

"This is very good for a three star city-centre hotel with its own car park. It proved ideal to leave the car and walk to all the things we wanted see though there are plenty of buses or taxis or city-bikes if you want to go further afield. We opted for the dinner, bed & breakfast booking and standard of food was excellent throughout though there are plenty of other venues if you want to be more adventurous. The staff are very friendly and attentive and the room and facilities were spotless. Most of the windows are single-glazed so the management do point out that bedrooms can be pretty noisy overnight, so they provide free earplugs! We slept like logs on the comfy beds so our stay here was very enjoyable."

"The Angel hotel sits in the city centre of Cardiff, so everything you need is less than 10 minutes walk away. making it a very convenient place to stay. the decor inside the lobby is very elegant and eye opening, it gives the place a very grand feeling. The rooms were well presented and had all the usual facilities, Tea/Coffee, TV etc. And the room was clean. Service was excellent in the restaurant in the morning, and the quality of the breakfast was very good, and tasted wonderful. Very good place to stay in Cardiff."

"You really do pay for the name and location, my room was discounted because of a work event, but wasn't worth the price, very dated decor and the bed wasn't exactly comfortable, the fact your are right opposite the stadiums mean you are paying a ridiculous amount for a very average room, your better off staying in a travel lodge or premier Inn really. Staff are lovely though, and location just is great, close to the stadiums but also not far from Cardiff Central."

"old fashioned hotel in need of some TLC in rooms. However, comfortable and surprisingly quiet, even looking over main road. Breakfast is one of the better in Cardiff. overall, bit pricey for 3* hotel."