The Compasses Inn

The Compasses Inn Inn in East Dorset District

8.1 / 10.0

Outstanding(850 Ratings)

Inn in East Dorset District

1 full bed

Reasons to book

Guests love it hereGuests give this property a top rating

Free cancellationFull refund if you change your mind

Great for petsBring all your friends and family, even the furry ones

About this inn

Set in Fordingbridge, 16 km from Salisbury Racecourse, The Compasses Inn offers accommodation with a garden, free private parking, a restaurant and a bar.

Amenities

Pets allowed

Kitchen or Kitchenette

Internet / Wifi

Parking

Dishwasher

Wheelchair accessible

Garden

Family friendly

Map of East Dorset District

Nearby attractions

Longleat

39.5 mi

Paultons Park Home of Peppa Pig World

20.8 mi

Hawk Conservancy Trust

35.5 mi

Stonehenge

26 mi

Available Rooms

1 Double • 75 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 Double • 86 ft²

Sleeps 4

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 King • 75 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

2 Single • 75 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 Sofa • 1 Queen • 96 ft²

Sleeps 4

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

$$$$

The Compasses Inn

$$$$

8.1 / 10.0

Outstanding(850 Ratings)

Inn in East Dorset District

1 full bed

Reasons to book

Guests love it hereGuests give this property a top rating

Free cancellationFull refund if you change your mind

Great for petsBring all your friends and family, even the furry ones

About this inn

Set in Fordingbridge, 16 km from Salisbury Racecourse, The Compasses Inn offers accommodation with a garden, free private parking, a restaurant and a bar.

Amenities

Pets allowed

Kitchen or Kitchenette

Internet / Wifi

Parking

Dishwasher

Wheelchair accessible

Garden

Family friendly

Map of East Dorset District

Nearby attractions

Longleat

39.5 mi

Paultons Park Home of Peppa Pig World

20.8 mi

Hawk Conservancy Trust

35.5 mi

Stonehenge

26 mi

Available Rooms

1 Double • 75 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 Double • 86 ft²

Sleeps 4

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 King • 75 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

2 Single • 75 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

1 Sofa • 1 Queen • 96 ft²

Sleeps 4

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

Ratings and reviews

8.1 / 10.0

Outstanding(850 Ratings)

100% verified reviews

10.0 / 10.0

Apr 2024

Fun and relaxing

Everything

Nothing

10.0 / 10.0

Apr 2024

Lovely stay in the countryside

Lovely little cottage Very comfortable Great food in the restaurant Staff were really friendly and attentive Great breakfast

9.0 / 10.0

Mar 2024

Good all round breakfast was fabulous.

Food and staff were excellent easy parking

We stayed in room 3 a little dated but ok for a couple of nights

8.0 / 10.0

Mar 2024

Great welcome, great food and good value.

If I have to find an answer to this - some of the bedroom furniture was ‘tired’.

9.0 / 10.0

Mar 2024

I’ve stayed here a number of times and would never hesitate to return , a proper quaint village pub

Great food and a very warm welcome , nothing was too much trouble

9.0 / 10.0

Mar 2024

Are booked for return visit may. Family get together

Staff welcoming. Beds comfy.. Food good. Place was clean and cosy

9.0 / 10.0

Feb 2024

Good Place to stay, very reasonable

Friendly, comfortable, and good menu for lunch/evening meal, do not have to go out looking for restaurants etc

The radiator in the bathroom did not work, it was broken, I think this should have been checked before letting, as a very cold day, too and it was not busy, but did try to repair but needed a plumber, hence bought us another cover for bed, very obliging.

9.0 / 10.0

Jan 2024

Staff very friendly and food excellent 👍✅

Quirky

10.0 / 10.0

Jan 2024

Extremely good value - all necessary facilities, room fully equipped and very clean. Terrific food.

Breakfast excellent, Evening meal in restaurant very good - a different and quirky menu - I had a really nice meal which was good value. Attentive service. Staff charming. I think they are from Nepal - very pleasant - hope it goes well for them.

It was all fine.

10.0 / 10.0

Oct 2023

Compasses Inn, a hidden gem

Lovely oldy-worldy Inn, great surrounds, good beer, friendly staff, and the best Nepalese food we've ever had from the restaurant. Highly recommended, will definitely revisit. Within easy reach of London Heathrow.

Nothing

6.0 / 10.0

Sep 2023

Nice staff.

The staff were friendly and helpful. Room was nice.

Sunday lunch was average. We booked our stay to include dinner. It would have been good to have been told on booking that dinner was £20 per person . This only afforded a main course.

7.0 / 10.0

Sep 2023

A very pleasant and relaxed weekend, in a beautiful area.

food was excellent especially the dinner of curry. There was a varied menu for dining and all the staff were friendly and especially welcoming tothe dogs.

Our room was very nice but could do with a little updating.

7.0 / 10.0

Sep 2023

a one night stay comfortable and good food

food was good aswell as the staff couldn't have been looked after better

nothing really

6.0 / 10.0

Jul 2023

Good stay and breakfast

Staff were friendly and breakfast was good.

Too many dogs in the bar,

9.0 / 10.0

Jul 2023

very good

very friendly excellent breakfast

people speaking noisily outside bedroom

9.0 / 10.0

Jul 2023

enjoyed our stay

Only stopped one night on route but would happily stop again evening meal was very nice, friendly staff, very good breakfast.

10.0 / 10.0

Jul 2023

Excellent stay

A nice country pub, with some comfortable lodging. Cottage was clean and well equipped, and Full English breakfast a great addition.

9.0 / 10.0

Jul 2023

Excellent would return in future

Staff very helpfull, lovely location, we had the white house (superior cottage room) which is seperate from the public house in the car park, which was very well equiped (although didnt detail that when booking) with fridge washing machine cooker microwave, dining table, none of which we used as we only stayed for 1 night

Wifi is poor in this apartment so investing in wifi extender by the owners would help, matress was a bit tired. Beds (double plus single) are upstairs where the ceiling height is low in places.

7.0 / 10.0

Jul 2023

Perfect for a short stay, and the staff were really nice.

The room was a good size and comfortable. Access to the room was easy, although by stairs only. The staff were good and the choice of food in the restaurant was excellent, both English and Nepaulise.

The only down side, which is somewhat irrelevent was the size of the TV in our room, my iPad was almost the same size :-)

8.0 / 10.0

Jul 2023

Good stay, friendly staff.

The food was excellent, especially the Nepalese curry. The staff were very helpful and friendly. The bed was very comfortable and it was quiet at night.

The bar is small but the garden is lovely and good to sit in when it wasn't raining. Nothing really to complain about!

8.0 / 10.0

May 2023

Very good for cheeky night away and some lovely walks in the forest on the way there and home again.

Quirky cottage but very comfortable. Very quiet location, some noise from the pub with people sat in the beer garden. Breakfast was included and very tasty and cooked fresh. Had dinner in the pub in the evening and again very good and plenty of food. Right next door to sports field for early morning dog walk, lovely walk upto the church and millennium beacon.

Bathroom was a bit tired, but very clean. A very tiny telly, being there only one night not a problem but maybe for a longer stay. Stairs up to bedroom are very narrow and maybe an issues for less mobile.

9.0 / 10.0

May 2023

Great rural accommodation from which to explore the New Forest.

Really friendly, helpful staff - very keen to please. Lovely quiet, rural location. Comfortable, spacious room. Quality of food and service at breakfast was great. Excellent value - would happily return for a longer stay.

Rather limited choice/disorganised breakfast - too little easily available, so we seemed to have to ask for everything. Nothing else.

8.0 / 10.0

May 2023

Enjoyable stay

Breakfast was excellent and kitchen stayed open after 9pm to provide a mesl

Location was perfevt

9.0 / 10.0

May 2023

Great location, great people 🙂

The Compasses is in a great location and everyone working there is lovely 🙂 the food was very tasty from the breakfast to the dinner menu and desserts 👌🏻 the room was spacious and comfy and the shower especially was very nice!

8.0 / 10.0

May 2023

Very relaxing, great food, great staff and a great bunch of locals to chat to.

The Compasses is a lovely quiet location. When we arrived it was a lovely warm sunny evening and we sat outside with our dog having a drink watching the sun go down. The pub was full of character and characters, we had a lovely conversation with one of the locals. The food was very good value and the breakfast was of an excellent standard.

We arrived on the thursday of the Easter Weekend, breaking the journey before travelling to Kent for Easter. The ouside of the pub could do with a little tidy up, their were large chalk boards out still advertising Mothering Sunday and St Patricks day events which had been weeks ago. Also a few dirty ash trays on tables, just those small attention to detail things.

5.0 / 10.0

May 2023

Passable

Friendly staff and a huge walk in powerful shower

We stayed Sunday evening and the restaurant wasn't open. We weren't told about this when booking. This was the whole point of staying at a pub, so we had to travel to find another pub that was open, and by then all tables were booked so we had to eat out side. The third bed wasn't made up in advance, and the continental breakfast choice was poor. There were no wholewheat cereals or porridge on offer, but the cooked breakfast was very good, although this wouldn't have been my choice.

8.0 / 10.0

May 2023

All good - as usual

All good

Less noise - but then it is a pub and thus only to be expected

8.0 / 10.0

May 2023

Relaxing rejuvenating comfortable and quiet the only noise was listening to the birds

The breakfast was wonderful nothing was too much trouble me Karolina was and exceptional member of staff very personable helpful cheery also the rest of the staff were also very nice helpful and accommodating. The room no 1 was just so lovely and quiet with a lovely outlook.

There was nothing I didn’t like

8.0 / 10.0

Apr 2023

Entirely as expected

Perfect for fly fishing at Rockbourne. Have stayed many times before.

There is nothing I dislike about the Compasses

6.0 / 10.0

Apr 2023

convenient to where we were going afterwards but would not stay again.

clean and spacious

staff pleasant but very disorganised, had to wait over half an hour for the room to be cleaned even though they new we were upgrading the day before on their recommendation.

5.0 / 10.0

Apr 2023

the food in the the bar was exallant

average

the bed

9.0 / 10.0

Mar 2023

Wonderful stay. Definitely stay again.

Only thing I would say is that if you want to eat in the restaurant either email or phone them don't use their website booking form as it takes a while to get through to them.

5.0 / 10.0

Mar 2023

Very average, bed uncomfortable

Breakfast & dinner was good,

difficult to understand breakfast waiter/ cook

9.0 / 10.0

Mar 2023

Second stay, will be back!

Lovely staff, tasty food. Nice room

Mattress could be better

FAQs

How much does this inn cost compared to others in East Dorset District?

The average price for a rental in East Dorset District is $177 per night. This rental is $41 less expensive than the average.

Is parking included with this inn?

Yes, parking is listed as an amenity at The Compasses Inn. For more information, we encourage you to contact the property about where to park.

Is there a pool at this inn?

We didn’t find pool listed as an amenity for this inn. It may be worth double checking if a pool is important for your stay.

Is The Compasses Inn pet friendly?

Yes! This inn is pet-friendly. For more information, we recommend contacting the booking provider about animal policies.

What amenities are available at The Compasses Inn?

We found 9 amenities for this rental. This includes pets allowed, kitchen or kitchenette, internet / wifi, parking, and dishwasher.

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The Compasses Inn

Inn in East Dorset District

Reasons to book

About this inn

Amenities

Map of East Dorset District

Nearby attractions

Available Rooms

The Compasses Inn

Inn in East Dorset District

Reasons to book

About this inn

Amenities

Map of East Dorset District

Nearby attractions

Available Rooms

Ratings and reviews

FAQs

How much does this inn cost compared to others in East Dorset District?

Is parking included with this inn?

Is there a pool at this inn?

Is The Compasses Inn pet friendly?

What amenities are available at The Compasses Inn?

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