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Back again! I also just found an OLD TA review which may answer your questions: not allowed to post links, so it's text... bcherrington, Owner at Rowton Castle, responded to this review Responded 29 December 2012 Thank you for taking the time to place a review regarding your recent visit to Rowton Castle for a wedding. I am delighted you had such a good day, found the staff good humoured and efficient, slept well and breakfast was excellent. With regard to your observations regarding "disabled guests", these are frustrations that could have been so easily avoided. When couples consider us as a venue, we give a full tour, including the bedrooms and facilities. If they book with us, generally the bride and groom allocate the 19 bedrooms, ensuring that their most important family and friends are accommodated over night; this means that we are reliant on the happy couple to consider their own families personal needs when allocating rooms, and for them to highlight any individual needs to enable us to assist with fulfilling them where we can. Rowton Castle is a Grade 2 star listed property, which makes it a charming and magical place to marry. This said, you correctly identify that we do not have a lift, however when guests who are less-able bodied are attending a wedding, there are several things we can do. Firstly for attending during the day and evening there is very little impact at all, hence your enjoyment of the day. Once at the front of the castle, the rear lawns can be accessed by wheelchair or on foot via the right of the castle, or access to inside the hotel is via three steps, for which we also have a portable ramp facility. Once inside reception, internal areas of the hotel required during the day and evening are accessible on the same level, with a full equipped disabled toilet facility close to reception. We do not have allocated disabled parking spaces at the front door of the castle as access is reserved for emergency vehicles. That said, we have a drop off point and are always very happy for any of our guests to drive up to the front poor of the castle to drop off guests and unload vehicles before returning the vehicle to the main car park. This would have alleviated your need to walk up the slope or steps to the main entrance of the hotel. With regard to your overnight accommodation, if guests are okay with walking some stairs then we would have suggested that maybe staying in one of our first floor rooms was appropriate; from reading your review, I can only assume you were allocated a second floor room by the bride and groom, something we would not recommend. For guests who find stairs an issue, we would have suggested that you stay at Rowton Barns, which is a bed and breakfast only 100 metres from the end of our main driveway. They have fully equipped, disabled access bedrooms, which are perfect for people requiring wheelchair access or who are not comfortable with walking flights of stairs. We then could also have made provision for you to rejoin the happy couple for breakfast at the castle the following morning to ensure that your impairment did not hinder any aspect of the day. Re-joining family for breakfast at the castle if you stayed elsewhere is not usually something that is available, and is restricted to such scenarios, for just one or two guests by prior arrangement, but something that we could have offered to you in your circumstances. If anyone is considering Rowton Castle as a wedding venue, and are considering guests who are less able bodied, do not discount us! Talk to us regarding your individual needs, and we will do everything within our power to accommodate them. Assisting guests who are less able bodied is something that is very close to our hearts as Rowton Castle was a school for the blind for approximately 40 years during its illustrious history. Bryan Cherrington Co-Owner