Name: Riverside
Address: 2 North Station Road Colchester,North Station Road, Colchester, Colchester, Colchester, CO1 1RB, United Kingdom
Rating: 4

Smoke-free property

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All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)

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Jumbo Water Tower

Colchester Town Hall

Colchester Arts Centre

Xtreme Gaming

Lion Walk Church

Headgate Theatre

Tenpin Bowling Colchester

Manifest Theatre

Roman Circus House

London Southend Airport

London Stansted Airport

Cambridge Airport

Riverside

Colchester

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My son and I stayed here the night before he started university. Lovely, friendly staff and a really comfortable room. I am surprised to see so many negative reviews. We had a great stay and would visit again.

Perfectly pleasant budget hotel

Lovely location even if its on a main road,  staff very friendly and breakfast was good..
Building and inside needs alittle bit of tlc..inside the hotel needs maintenance,  but great value for money and would stay there again.

Great value

Very convenient to the station. Lovely walk along river though the park to Colchester castle. Good value for money and really enjoyed the breakfast which was included in the price. Staff were friendly. Room was on ground floor and had a view of the river and birds from our window.Great historic 1605 building.

Overnight stay while visiting family in Colchester

Very convenient location, not expensive, free parking, breakfast ok but whole place desperate for a makeover. Had family room shower broken/missing altogether, my friend had to use the strategically placed plastic jug to wash her hair. 
Drafty mould windows very old dates bed linen, curtains etc
Whole place could be so nice history beams etc not sure why being neglected.
Would not stay there again

Overnight stop

Stick with me and hopefully this title will make sense. After staying at this hotel for the weekend, I am going to give my spin on this hotel. First the Hotel, its very old, its very creaky, its in dire need of some TLC, its in a good location and just a ten minute walk from the main station, the bedroom is like going back in to the late 60s or early 70s, but it was clean, and while the bedroom was a tad tight for space, it was comfy had a good size television and the bed was no problem for us to sleep in. 

The Bathroom was small and the shower (Which is not a power shower) water temperature was either too hot or too cold and no matter what we did we could never get it to the correct temperature. The WIFI is a bit hit and miss in the room but very strong downstairs. 

We like a bit of air so we always have a window open and despite the hotel being on a busy road it was pleasently quiet at night. The breakfast was lovely, and served by a smashing lady (i am sorry I did not get her name) she asks us how we wanted our breakfast and she cooks our breakfast to exactly how we wanted it. You dont see that very often theses days. 

This leads me to the second tale of the hotel, the staff in the hotel are the niciest and friendliest people I have met for a very long time, they take time out to chat with you and have a real interest in what you have to chat about. They tell you all the best places to go in and around Colchester, if asked, and the places to stay away from. And they were not just pleasent on the day we checked in, but throughout our stay and on departure, such lovely people! 

So we have an Old hotel that needs a lot of work doing to it to bring it back to the modern world, but it was clean and comfy with staff that genuinely could not do enough for you. If it had not been for the staff in the hotel I think we might have left after the first night, mainly due to not being able to get a decent shower, but the staff made the difference which made us stay. Two nights was enough, so if you are thinking of staying here my recommendation is a one or two night stay max.

A Tale of Two in One Hotel

Awful, I'm afraid.  Hardly any hot water, the mattress should have been thrown out years ago, extremely uncomfortable. TV did not switch on, mould on the walls, paint peeling off, bathroom blinds did not work, far too much scale on the Shower Controls, I moved the bedside cabinet forward to reveal an incredible amount of dirt and fluff on the radiator.  Please avoid.

Terrible

Quaint old property beamed and panelled with creaky floorboards. Evinces dusty history with stairs and winding corridors assumed in its built age 'when obesity presumably wasn't a problem'. On route toward Ipswich I needed a bed for the night, and was pleased to hit on this hotel offering free parking and complimentary breakfast while other hotels in area were, for me 'being strangely expensive' offered no free parking or a breakfast thrown in with the B&B price as far as I discerned. Yes - you pays cheaply for what you get at the Riverside Hotel in Colchester with its outside signage wanting of a missing letter or two, and with no adequate Wifi, at least, in my room - tho on enquiry I obtained it in dining/bar area downstairs so long as I stayed in that Wifi ambient location – no real problem.  After settling in took a ‘turn around the town’ the immediate vicinity with a pleasant stroll by the astonishing bright green duckweed covered river bedecked with swans and young and occasional sonorous call of coots beside historic looking old pretty beamed and stuccoed dwellings that reminded me of Kent my place of childhood. Next morning after a fitful sleep and rising noting the shower trough didn’t drain away readily ‘cos build-up of resident’s hair ‘or what have you’ had likely clogged the drainage. It didn’t particularly bother me tho left a written note that it should be fixed. I have to say I was completely gobsmacked at the options of a 'complimentary breakfast' that was completely unexpected. I expected ‘an excuse of a free breakfast 'continental style' which as we all know is nothing other than a bit of twirly puff pastry and a cup of coffee’. Instead a Full English and variants of ‘breakfasts’ was provided to order together with juices and filtered coffee. The fact the delightful always accommodating ladies harried and hurried to deliver breakfasts rather slowly, and that the coffee wasn’t topped up somehow didn’t really bother me this loner traveller used to so many basics – and always grateful for ‘mercies’ offered freely with a smile. I noted couples and a family of four who disparaged not one bit their basic kindly received stay at this ‘don’t expect a Ritz hotel booking’.  As said – ‘you gets what you pay for and a little bit more’. If there isn't a 'Priest's Hole' in this hotel there should be. Advise: Build one as a feature.

Cheap n' Cheerful - Quaint - You Pays Wot U Get 4 Basics!

I wish I had paid attention to reviews on TripAdvisor (and elsewhere) for this hotel. I needed somewhere to stay in Colchester for my brother's funeral. A well known chain hotel had put its prices up so I decided to try a small, independent hotel. I didn't know Colchester - I know it a bit better now. The Riverside Hotel's main benefit is that there is free parking fairly close to the centre of town. Otherwise, if you like old, lumpy mattresses, cobwebs hanging from lights, moths on the tired-looking bed linen then this place is for you. It has an unkempt and uncared-for feeling, summed up in the name of the hotel on the outside - 6 letters are missing. Bring your own toiletries and an extra towel or you may be disappointed.

Creepy - I will never go back.

I was very disappointed with this hotel after seeing it on booking.com we need somewhere as going to a family party the first room they gave us room 26 is in need of renovation cracks in the walls damp paint peeling off everywhere and smelt of cheesy feet the kettle was black with dirty hand prints the telephone was the same the room was very dirty  I said about this and gave us another room 23 this was a little better but still paint peeling no shower headboard broken on one of the beds. 
To be honest it needs shutting down and refurbished it tell you free internet but you can’t get on to it.

Very disappointed

Terrible, terrible ,terrible. This olace is absolutely disgusting. It’s grubby, electrical sockets are a gamble, the tv does not work, the bathroom door doesn’t even close let alone lock. The furniture is dated and dreary and the bed is a ex prison mattress. I’m not joking. The breakfast is basically beans in toast. The staff aren’t exactly available to talk to. I’ve gone down 5-6 times to ask if this room was cleaned, tv issues..... bathroom door issues!! Absolute waste of time. Nobody front of house. Don’t stay here people it will ruin your day. 

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