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Fast facts
Check in from: | 16:00 |
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Check out before: | 10:30 |
Pets | Pets not allowed |
Amenities
Non-smoking
Hairdryer
Shower
Complimentary bottled water
Heating
Express check-in
More about Laurels
Laurels
Location A great hotel to have a nice rest before long walks around the city. Hotel «Laurels» is located in Dunmow. This hotel is located in 5 km from the city center. You can take a walk and explore the neighbourhood area of the hotel — Tower of London, Tower Bridge and The Shard.At the hotel You can stop by the restaurant. Free Wi-Fi on the territory will help you to stay on-line. If you travel by car, you can park in a parking zone. The following services are also available for the guests: a doctor. At the guests’ disposal, there’s also a laundry and private check-in and check-out. The staff of the hotel speaks English.Room amenities Guests will find the following in the room: a shower, a TV and a mini-bar. Please note that the listed services may not be available in all the rooms.
Reviews from 
Couple
GR
Comment: 5 Dec 2024
Stayed in: Nov 2024
Home away from home. Like we were staying at our family home
We spent 6 amazing nights in Laurels under the loving care of Trish and Stan❤️ We were attending a wedding in Chelmsford and it was a very good option. We felt super comfortable since the first minute and the communication leading up to the arrival was top notch. You basically stay at their beautiful home in super comfortable rooms. As this is their home the attention to the detail is excellent. Room is cleaned everyday. Every morning Trish makes you delicious, fresh and homemade breakfast served to your liking. Stan was always on call for us to drive us around with very good prices. We honestly felt like we were visiting our parents house we were at home away from home. We really didn't want to leave :( will definitely visit again! Also a huge plus they have a super cute kitty Thank you so much for everything!
Hotel response
Comment: 6 Dec 2024
Hello Konstantina,
Thank you for your super review. We are very pleased you had a wonderful stay. We hope to see you again sometime soon.
Kind Regards
Stan and Tricia
Thank you for your super review. We are very pleased you had a wonderful stay. We hope to see you again sometime soon.
Kind Regards
Stan and Tricia
Family traveller
UK
Comment: 3 Aug 2025
Stayed in: Jul 2025
Akin to Fawlty Towers but without the humour
The checkin was just bizarre. Trish made an officious performance of sitting behind her desk to tap our names into her laptop. And that set the tone for what was to come…
Although we had booked all 3 rooms we each, in turn, got an induction / onboarding type lecture about how to use the shower, the rules of the room, etc. Such a pointless waste of an hour for him to deliver that three times when it could’ve been done just once.
Whilst there is SO much more I could write I want to focus on the following points.
1. Stan made much of the fact that their cat loved egg yolk, and as he cleared one plate away he put it down in the utility room and the cat was heard licking the plate clean. Totally unhygienic. I suspect the Food standards agency would be interested to learn of their poor hygiene practices.
2. Stan offered to take some of our party in his Merc to the wedding 2 miles away. This was also offered in correspondence. As we were leaving he said not to forget we owed him £14 for the one way lift, a cost he’d never before mentioned. The wedding venue is less than 5 mins from The Laurels (as per Google maps). I’m sure Essex County Council will also be interested to learn that Stan is running an unlicensed taxi company.
3. Without permission Stan reached over me and took my mobile phone off the breakfast table and put it out of reach on their desk. Who the hell does he think he is? That was a mighty overreach.
4. They were rude, condescending, and laid down ridiculous rules and regulations that made us feel very uncomfortable.
5. By the time we were leaving I’d got the measure of him, so I made a point of telling him that there were no teaspoons left in our bedroom as I didn’t want him to think I’d taken them. His response was yes, if you hadn’t said I would’ve thought you were a thieving b!tch.
Although we had booked all 3 rooms we each, in turn, got an induction / onboarding type lecture about how to use the shower, the rules of the room, etc. Such a pointless waste of an hour for him to deliver that three times when it could’ve been done just once.
Whilst there is SO much more I could write I want to focus on the following points.
1. Stan made much of the fact that their cat loved egg yolk, and as he cleared one plate away he put it down in the utility room and the cat was heard licking the plate clean. Totally unhygienic. I suspect the Food standards agency would be interested to learn of their poor hygiene practices.
2. Stan offered to take some of our party in his Merc to the wedding 2 miles away. This was also offered in correspondence. As we were leaving he said not to forget we owed him £14 for the one way lift, a cost he’d never before mentioned. The wedding venue is less than 5 mins from The Laurels (as per Google maps). I’m sure Essex County Council will also be interested to learn that Stan is running an unlicensed taxi company.
3. Without permission Stan reached over me and took my mobile phone off the breakfast table and put it out of reach on their desk. Who the hell does he think he is? That was a mighty overreach.
4. They were rude, condescending, and laid down ridiculous rules and regulations that made us feel very uncomfortable.
5. By the time we were leaving I’d got the measure of him, so I made a point of telling him that there were no teaspoons left in our bedroom as I didn’t want him to think I’d taken them. His response was yes, if you hadn’t said I would’ve thought you were a thieving b!tch.
Solo traveller
Comment: 27 May 2025
Stayed in: May 2025
The host is arrogant and condescending, you will have no privacy, and you will be treated like you are stupid.
Read and believe any low reviews you can find on this site as well as other travel sites. The owner is arrogant and condescending, and will feel the need to explain how to turn on and use every single item in your room, which takes about 15 minutes. It is just part of the “ check-in” procedure as he calls it. When I checked in, he jokingly offered me to stay in his room when I asked for a quiet bedroom in the back of the house away from traffic. Unprofessional and creepy. He will stand over you at breakfast and stare at you, and if you move one of your dishes, he will place it back to where he wanted it as you are eating, and remove dishes you are still actively eating from and immediately start washing them and pots and pans while you are sitting in the kitchen, trying to enjoy breakfast.
When I checked in, I set my camera bag down on a blanket on the bed, he immediately grabbed it and started putting it into a closet. When I left the first morning, he followed me to the door and asked me when I was returning, you have absolutely no privacy there. I had made a cup of coffee and set it in the small refrigerator to enjoy that afternoon, when I returned back to my room, I find all of my personal possessions had been moved, as well as a fan I had set up by the door to block all of the household noises, he had unplugged it, and put it where he wanted it, along with a box of tissues I put next to the bed, he returned it back to where he wanted it. When I opened the refrigerator to get my cup of coffee, it was gone. When I asked him what happened to it, he told me “he thought I had mistakenly left it in there so he dumped it” when I told him that was not acceptable, he changed his story to that he had to follow household procedures by disinfecting every cup and glass in each room. Absolutely unacceptable and bizarre behavior. He makes his guest feel unwelcome and uncomfortable, do yourself a favor and find another place to stay if you want peace and quiet and privacy.
When I checked in, I set my camera bag down on a blanket on the bed, he immediately grabbed it and started putting it into a closet. When I left the first morning, he followed me to the door and asked me when I was returning, you have absolutely no privacy there. I had made a cup of coffee and set it in the small refrigerator to enjoy that afternoon, when I returned back to my room, I find all of my personal possessions had been moved, as well as a fan I had set up by the door to block all of the household noises, he had unplugged it, and put it where he wanted it, along with a box of tissues I put next to the bed, he returned it back to where he wanted it. When I opened the refrigerator to get my cup of coffee, it was gone. When I asked him what happened to it, he told me “he thought I had mistakenly left it in there so he dumped it” when I told him that was not acceptable, he changed his story to that he had to follow household procedures by disinfecting every cup and glass in each room. Absolutely unacceptable and bizarre behavior. He makes his guest feel unwelcome and uncomfortable, do yourself a favor and find another place to stay if you want peace and quiet and privacy.
Couple
Comment: 2 May 2025
Stayed in: Apr 2025
if you don’t mind paying a serious commercial price for staying over at your quite estranged (grand)parents, be their guest!
Firstly the good part: the Laurels are friendly and helpful people, the breakfast is cooked live and just lovely, the beds are of good quality and everything is really clean. Felsted has nice walking areas and a great pub/restaurant called The Swan.
There’s one downside, and that’s that you live inside the house of your hosts.
They might stay up for you. They will ask where you’ve been. Command you to take your shoes off and keep your room tidy enough for them to clean. The guy will give you an exhausting explanation of the lights and the shower. You can’t change the temperature in the room so you’ll be sweating all night. They won’t leave you alone to have a calm breakfast. Their interest in your whereabouts is next to nosy. They’ve got a silly habit with the locks, it’s like a ford. If they’ve forgotten to take the inside keys out, you can’t get in with your own key. And the man once scared the living sh#t out of me by standing right behind the door as I got in.
So… if you don’t mind paying a serious commercial price for staying over at your quite estranged (grand)parents, be their guest!
There’s one downside, and that’s that you live inside the house of your hosts.
They might stay up for you. They will ask where you’ve been. Command you to take your shoes off and keep your room tidy enough for them to clean. The guy will give you an exhausting explanation of the lights and the shower. You can’t change the temperature in the room so you’ll be sweating all night. They won’t leave you alone to have a calm breakfast. Their interest in your whereabouts is next to nosy. They’ve got a silly habit with the locks, it’s like a ford. If they’ve forgotten to take the inside keys out, you can’t get in with your own key. And the man once scared the living sh#t out of me by standing right behind the door as I got in.
So… if you don’t mind paying a serious commercial price for staying over at your quite estranged (grand)parents, be their guest!
Business traveller
Comment: 4 Mar 2025
Stayed in: May 2024
DO NOT STAY HERE. Avoid at all costs.
I stayed here a few months ago, and after much deliberation, I feel duty-bound to leave this review—if only to warn others. Under no circumstances would I recommend staying here.
From the moment I arrived, the so-called “hosts” created an atmosphere so uncomfortable that I genuinely struggled to relax. Their attitude was unwelcoming, borderline hostile, and riddled with unnecessary rules that made me feel more like an unwelcome intruder than a paying guest.
Breakfast? Not at the time I requested. Instead, I was given a yogurt—but with strict instructions that I could not eat it in my room. Apparently, the concept of guest comfort is entirely lost on them.
The check-in process was beyond patronising—a long, drawn-out lecture on every tiny, insignificant detail of the room: which switches could be used, which were off-limits, don’t touch the blinds, don’t adjust the heating, here’s how the shower works (as if I’d never seen one before). It wasn’t hospitality; it was an exercise in control. The whole thing felt less like an introduction to my stay and more like an insufferable brag about the house itself, which I had absolutely no interest in.
The worst part? The feeling that at any moment, the host might appear to enforce their draconian, joyless rules. It was oppressive. I’ve stayed in many places, and never have I felt so unwelcome or restricted.
I cannot stress this enough: DO NOT STAY HERE. Avoid at all costs.
From the moment I arrived, the so-called “hosts” created an atmosphere so uncomfortable that I genuinely struggled to relax. Their attitude was unwelcoming, borderline hostile, and riddled with unnecessary rules that made me feel more like an unwelcome intruder than a paying guest.
Breakfast? Not at the time I requested. Instead, I was given a yogurt—but with strict instructions that I could not eat it in my room. Apparently, the concept of guest comfort is entirely lost on them.
The check-in process was beyond patronising—a long, drawn-out lecture on every tiny, insignificant detail of the room: which switches could be used, which were off-limits, don’t touch the blinds, don’t adjust the heating, here’s how the shower works (as if I’d never seen one before). It wasn’t hospitality; it was an exercise in control. The whole thing felt less like an introduction to my stay and more like an insufferable brag about the house itself, which I had absolutely no interest in.
The worst part? The feeling that at any moment, the host might appear to enforce their draconian, joyless rules. It was oppressive. I’ve stayed in many places, and never have I felt so unwelcome or restricted.
I cannot stress this enough: DO NOT STAY HERE. Avoid at all costs.
Hotel response
Comment: 10 Mar 2025
Thank you for your review and showing that ( to miss quote an American president) You can please some of the people all of the time; and all of the people some of the time; but you can't please ALL the people ALL the time.
We have been running a B&B for 7 years You can see that we have 5 star review for most of the people who come to stay. On Booking for example we get a ratting for each of the 7 years between 93% and 98% so we must be pleasing a lot of people.
We hope you find a more suitable place to stay the next time you are in the area.
Kind Regards
Stan and Tricia
We have been running a B&B for 7 years You can see that we have 5 star review for most of the people who come to stay. On Booking for example we get a ratting for each of the 7 years between 93% and 98% so we must be pleasing a lot of people.
We hope you find a more suitable place to stay the next time you are in the area.
Kind Regards
Stan and Tricia
Very good location
Laurels, Chelmsford Road Causeway End, Felsted, CM6 3EU, United Kingdom|0.66 km from city centre
Check in and check out
Check in from:
16:00
Check out before:
10:30
Good to know
Pets not allowed
Please contact the hotel for details about adding extra beds.
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