The Abbey Inn - Teignbridge

We stayed over night on our journey up north. It is a beautiful inn on the river the staff are very welcoming, and the bar and downstairs is lovely. On a hot day it would be beautiful to sit by the river and have a few drinks. We don’t know what the evening meals are like as we were informed on arrival that the chef hadn’t turned up so they weren’t doing food and were given some other places to go.The room we had was small an the mat you are given to put your feet on to get out of the shower was paper. When I ran the cold tap to brush my teeth it ran warm, just like the warm tap. The shower if you had thick long hair you would be in trouble as it runs very slowly. There is no plug that you can plug a hair dryer in that is near the only mirror in the room. The TV decided to start flashing at 3 o’clock in the morning the only way we could stop it was by pulling the plug out. The lady and gentleman doing breakfast were great and the food was lovely.

The staff were wonderful throughout, very friendly, welcoming and tried to make up for what the landlords/owners lacked. The Inn is in a lovely location next to a river and views of fields and hills. This is where the compliments stop, now for the real feedback directed at the brewery that own the Inn and they begin with R . They are letting the staff down in a major way, lack of support, investment and infrastructure repairs. Our room (Kingfisher) overlooks the river and hills, view was nice but the room is very tired, the furniture is dated and needs urgent replacement. As for the bathroom, the picture shows the ceiling extractor fan in a bad way and that is because when it rains the water drips and is collected by the container which is also shown via the picture. This problem was apparently reported months ago and nothing has been done!! Food, forget it............. The menu is very basic indeed, the picture of a chef in whites on the webpage is not as it is, way off it!! Half of the menu was not available even though it was Easter weekend when you 'd expect a full menu. The pictures show 2 meals costing £15 each, scampi and a rock hard pie. Go and eat elsewhere is my advice and I think other customers did, unless you like chips, beans, hard pies or pizza. As I mentioned, the staff are being let down by the brewery and they are fed up making excuses for them. Certainly not worth the money

Over the last few months I have visited The Abbey Inn 4 times, as I've been working in the area. It is positioned right next to the River Dart. It's really relaxing, sleeping to the sound of the river flowing. I have not had an evening meal there, as they do not serve food on a Monday night. The breakfast though is really nice, cooked to order. A stay at the Inn is really great value at £55 for bed breakfast. The service is great and really friendly.

Very clean. Food was very good service excellent. Would stay again if in the area.

Good bunch of people. Right on the water. Been told it's a good breakfast, will let you know tomorrow morning