The Limes Country Lodge Hotel, Orchard Suite

A weekend break to visit the NEC and Classic Car Show. Lovely hotel with very friendly staff. Food real nice. The only gripe being that the hotel does not do food on a Sunday evening. This came as a surprise as we had booked for two nights dinner bed and breakfast. Was only informed on the Saturday evening whilst having our meal. We then had to make other arrangements for the Sunday Mel after being at the show all day long.

We had our wedding here the 3/8/24 First of all, the venue is beautiful for an outside wedding and very reasonably priced. We booked our wedding 2 years in advanced, great communication throughout. Only things I would change- The rooms didn't have air-conditioning, the day of the wedding was so hot. The windows don't open fully, I was sweating before I even left the room. Felt very suffocating, didn't enjoy the experience at all. I wish I had someone to explain how the day would run, I didn't see anyone until 1pm when we were getting married at 3. Even then the day wasn't explained which left me anxious. The staff are amazing. Kerry ran our day, went smooth without a hitch, food was beautiful. Thank you!

DO NOT HAVE YOUR WEDDING HERE! We had our wedding at this venue on 22/07/2024 we booked our wedding 2 years before and had zero Communication with the so called wedding planners and coordinators. Every email and phone calls were completely ignored to the point where we actually didn’t know if our booking was still going ahead. We finally heard from them 6 weeks before the wedding and was TOLD how our wedding would run on the day (we did not get a say or option to have the wedding we wanted). In the 6 weeks leading up to the wedding we had 3 different wedding planners as they kept changing staff and the newest one only started there on the Friday before our wedding. The first one we had requested to be someone different due to the severe lack of communication. People say that getting married is stressful but for us the only stress we had was completely down to the staff at the limes, I made the error of requesting a meeting with the owner who turned out to be extremely rude and was not interested in giving us a special day, a day that we had paid a lot of money for!! The day of the wedding was a complete shambles on their part, they told all our guests that they were not permitted to take photos or recordings by request of the bride and groom! WE DID NOT REQUEST THAT, we actually wanted as many pictures and recordings as possible. We had to put the songs we wanted for the ceremony onto a phone for them to play which was written down in our contract but then they played the wrong songs. When we complained that it’s the wrong song David said no it’s not, because that man is not capable of admitting they had made a mistake and is not capable of apologising for their mistakes. The food was disgusting and the dessert was still frozen and not edible. The vegan and vegetarian guests were given meat and I had to keep getting out of my seat to make sure the guests were getting the correct food (even though the limes were given the names and tables of the guests with dietary requirements) but they still couldn’t get it right. When we booked our wedding we were told that the outside area was just for our wedding guests but we had other members of the public coming out and smoking even during the ceremony itself!! The outside pond where the wedding photos were planned to be taken was full of rubbish and actually ruin our photos. You would think that if you are having a wedding at your venue that you would make sure you had alcohol for the guests but no that was not the case, the guest where having to get a different drink each time they went to the bar due to being told they had sold out even though we only had 40 adult guests there. There was only one member of staff that had been very nice and helpful on the day but unfortunately I did not get her name. The limes country lodge, the owner David morris and the inadequate staff completely ruined what should have been that happiest day of our lives to the point where we have actually booked elsewhere to do it again. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE TO ANYONE AND I HAVE MADE SURE I HAVE TOLD EVER BRIDE TO BE I HAVE SEEN SINCE.