The Highdown Inn

3.0 star property
your current months are December, 2024 and January, 2025.
December 2024
January 2025

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Exterior
Garden
Breakfast for a fee
Exterior
Garden

Reviews

8.6 out of 10

Excellent

Popular amenities

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

Explore the area

Map
Highdown Lane, Totland Bay, England, PO39 0HY
  • Tennyson Down
    2 min walk
  • Totland Bay Beach
    17 min walk
  • Alum Bay Beach
    9 min drive
  • Southampton (SOU)
    121 min drive

Room options

Double Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

Twin Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds

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About the area

Totland Bay

With a stay at The Highdown Inn in Totland Bay, you'll be just steps from The Needles Battery and Tennyson Down. .This bed & breakfast is 8 mi (12.9 km) from New Forest National Park and 1.1 mi (1.8 km) from The Needles Landmark Attraction.

What's nearby

  • Totland Bay Beach - 17 min walk - 1.5 km
  • The Needles Landmark Attraction - 1 min drive - 1.8 km
  • Yarmouth Isle-of-Wight Ferry Terminal - 8 min drive - 6.0 km
  • Alum Bay Beach - 9 min drive - 2.2 km
  • Colwell Bay Beach - 14 min drive - 2.5 km

Getting around

  • Yarmouth Station - 15 min drive
  • Southampton (SOU) - 121 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪End of the Line Cafe - ‬3 min drive
  • ‪The Highdown Inn - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪Smugglers Inn - ‬55 min drive
  • ‪Yarmouth Harbour - ‬7 min drive
  • ‪Off the Rails - ‬10 min drive

About this property

The Highdown Inn

Bed & breakfast in Totland Bay with a restaurant and a bar
The Highdown Inn offers 3 accommodations.
Make yourself at home in one of the 3 guestrooms.
At The Highdown Inn, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. Breakfast is available for a fee.
Free self parking is available onsite.
The Highdown Inn has a restaurant on site.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

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

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site

Food and drink

  • Breakfast available for a fee
  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 bar

Guest services

  • No housekeeping

Accessibility

  • This property does not have any lifts

More

  • Smoke-free property

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:30 PM; Check-in end time: 10:00 PM
Early check-in subject to availability

Check-out

Check-out before 10:30 AM

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

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 and cash

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Property is also known as

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The Highdown Inn Reviews

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 71 out of 134 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 40 out of 134 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 14 out of 134 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 7 out of 134 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 134 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

9.0/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Jenny

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We had a great afternoon and evening. Lucy and Sean were very friendly and welcoming as were the rest of the staff. The menu options and food was brilliant and the music in the garden was an added bonus. We will return!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

6/10 Okay

Philippa

Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
It’s the most wonderful location and for that reason we would stay again, it’s quiet and the staff are lovely. The room cleanliness is poor and the cost per night doesn’t correlate, the decor is very tired too.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Murray

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Josh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location and clean. Also great food and helpful staff.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Otto

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Fantastic

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Mike

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

10/10 Excellent

Nigel

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect for us
Perfect twin room, not the biggest but everything you need, bright, cheerful and very well presented. Friendly staff, nothing too much trouble. Dinner in the evening was delicious with a good selection of real ales. Breakfast room (not in the main pub) is lovely and lots of choice. Parking right outside, very handy for the Tennyson Memorial and a walk to the Needles. Can’t fault it and will definitely come back.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Oliver

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent bed and breakfast
Very welcoming staff, excellent locally sourced breakfast. Very tempting menus on the blackboard in the bar - it was a shame we were already booked to eat elsewhere! Next time...
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Malcolm

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jason

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Fantastic views, great friendly staff - amazing breakfast?
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

6/10 Okay

Tricia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Great breakfast
We checked in on a Tuesday afternoon and were shown to our room by a young lady who was young and therefore needs experience in how to pass a few pleasantries with the guests. I have to say when I walked into our room, top of stairs first on right, I was disappointed in it for the amount of money we were paying but its location was good for a wedding nearby so... We had dinner in the pub and the staff serving were again lacking in the friendly banter. The food was fine. The lady serving at breakfast was much more friendly and I have to say the cooked English was lovely (you can always judge a breakfast on the quality of the bacon and sauasage used and these were excellent)
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Sharon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Sahitya Reddy

Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Had a wonderful trip and the stay in this hotel is very good i loved it.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Ann

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

ALAN

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Maninder

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Marilyn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Comfortable room and good food. Very convenient for the west coast of the Isle of Wight
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Oksana

Travelled with partner
Liked: Amenities
The room, the food and drinks were very good. In contrast to the high standards in the property the bathroom was not up to standard. The grouting in the shower cubicle was black and needed replacing and there was nowhere to hang damp towels. This was all in contrast to the high standards elsewhere. Disappointing.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

4/10 Poor

Hannah

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
A lovely country pub in a quiet setting. Unfortunately an alarm in the kitchen, directly underneath our room, was going off all night which meant almost no sleep!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Mike

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great staff, good overnight stay
Nice pub and the rooms was nice and clean, bathroom could do with being updated though. Staff were really friendly and helpful and the breakfast was really nice
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Helen

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice quiet room and excellent breakfast. Shower didn’t work on the first morning but this was quickly rectified. Extremely friendly and helpful staff.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joao Pedro

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
4* highly recommended
The check-in was super easy. Loved the concept and of this "old" times pub accommodation. Even being an old building, it was clean and taked care off. The staff was accessible and we highly recommend you to have dinner there as the food smells amazing (we had the typical Sunday roast - huge portion and affordable). The only thing I would say it's that the shower had no pressure and the water was not hot enough for my partner.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Mike

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
A pleasant pub with rooms which has a bit of character and seems popular with locals. I stayed for one night with girlfriend on a cycling holiday. Room was pleasing, staff were generally helpful and breakfast was excellent. However, dinner was a disappointing experience. Waiting time, even for a starter, was extraordinarily long. The same for the main course, which was not as ordered. Worrying thing about this place is that I got the distinct impression that there is one level of service for locals and another for visitors. Maybe that's how such places survive these days.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023