Carpenters Arms - Swindon

Lovely atmosphere for our first office Xmas shindig in 3 years. Good food plentiful and tasty. All the lunchtime staff welcoming. Would strongly recommend.

We stayed two nights in two singles. Spacious rooms and nice comfy beds. A real bonus were the ceiling fans in the rooms: as ground floor rooms not wanting to open windows at night this was great. One room had walk in shower the other a shower over bath could do with a handrail though. Food in pub very good lasagne excellent and friendly helpful staff. They were doing very good trade on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings we were there so obviously a popular place with locals. Very quiet even though just off A420. The rooms are away from the main pub set around a courtyard so very nice and quiet and private. Only downside is the paving in the courtyard and on approach to rooms is VERY loose and wobbly: tricky to walk on especially as one of us has a balance problem. Otherwise we had a very pleasant stay and excellent value at £45 a night. (We provided our own breakfast as they don't serve until 10.00 a.m. which was too late for us, but that was no problem.

Make sure you're a regular at this place if you want any kind of reasonable service otherwise prepare to be ignored and when you are served, expect second rate service

We visited on a Sunday and the restaurant wasn’t busy. We are two adults, one child and a dog. The greeting was friendly and the service swift. However, one meal arrived much later than the others and the food we ordered for the dog did...

Needed somewhere to have some lunch and found Carpenters Arms lovely food and welcoming staff enjoyed it so much went back for dinner and again for breakfast each time food was lovely, staff welcoming and very helpful they went above and beyond!