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Premier Inn Bury St Edmund or Swan Hotel Lavenham

Posted by (Australia) on

I'm hoping to find someone who has stayed at either of these places to help me decide. They both have accessible rooms (which I need) for the three nights we want to stay in East Anglia and use somewhere as a base for sight-seeing in the area.

The Swan is much more expensive but sounds like it would be a wonderful experience staying in a 15th century building in a quaint village. The reviews are good although there are some complaints of hot and/or noisy rooms.

The Premier Inn gets good reviews and is air-conditioned and noise-proofed. It would be a totally different experience to stay there in a bigger town, but it's much cheaper and we shouldn't have to possibly be in a hot/noisy room. We would visit Lavenham one day and might have lunch there to experience the village atmosphere.

I'd be prepared to pay the much higher cost of the Swan if someone could tell me it's worth it, but wonder if I'd be better off booking the Premier Inn and saving some money.

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Hello. We have stayed in many Premier Inn's and like them a lot. The rooms are large and very clean. Never stayed in the one in Bury St. Edmund. We have, however, stayed at the Swan in Lavenham, and it was a fantastic experience! Our room was spacious. The very special thing for us was the dinner. It was our anniversary, and it was like being served by the Downton Abbey people. We loved it. The town is small but very cute. I would definitely stay at the Swan again for a special treat.

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Thanks for your comments and I'm glad you enjoyed the Swan. We won't be celebrating a birthday or anniversary, so I guess I feel it would be an overindulgence for us. It's just three nights that are part of a seven week trip to Europe, which is going to cost enough, so perhaps we should go with the more basic Premier Inn.

If I hadn't read comments about hot and noisy rooms I'd be more inclined to book the Swan, but that has made me somewhat wary as I've sometimes had to endure sleepless nights in hot or noisy hotel rooms in the past.

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