Maldron Hotel Brighton City Centre

"If you are vegetarian or vegan avoid evening meals, or just avoid the hotel entirely. You need not read more. Just take it from me. OK. You asked for it. We stayed for four nights on a group arts trip that had been arranged for many months, so there was no excuse for every evening meal being extremely poor. Monday. Meant to be mushroom orzo. More like mushroom soup with lightly boiled extremely chewy slimy mushrooms. Impossible to finish. Felt like a prisoner of the VietCong. Tuesday. Mains were chewy undercooked broccoli and tinned chickpeas that was in fact the unseasoned plain veg for meat eaters. I know now why my Egyptian friend always carries Tabasco sauce when eating out in the UK. Wednesday - no vegan starter, just plain ‘rabbit’ salad and cold solid rolls that fell apart. Main was tinned mixed beans with thin tomato sauce. I could have made the same at home by opening two tins. No vegan starter or dessert. You don’t deserve to eat. Just starve. After several complaints as nothing was originally available the chocolate cake from the previous night very reluctantly re-appeared. Thursday - tomato potato gnocchi without the cheese and no vegan alternative offered. Completely uninspired for an apparently four star hotel. Yet again no vegan dessert, so after yet another fuss some sorbet appeared, with even more chocolate cake! Surely they could have planned better with the six months notice that they had?"

"Maldron Hotel Brighton I visited this hotel for 4 nights from September- 28th - 2 October 2026. I was extremely disappointed in it. It is not geared up for groups. The food was of a very low standard, some of it being practically inedible. The choice was very poor and did not cater well for people who were vegetarian, vegan or were GF. The bed was very uncomfortable and the bathroom had various potential safety issues. It is a hotel only geared to business people, workmen who only are only staying for a night or so. It definitely does not warrant a 4star rating"

"As the group leader of a large arts group party which stayed 4 nights at the Maldron recently, I found it distressing to deal with members' disappointment at the contrast between the superb daily breakfast menu and the much poorer quality evening meals which we were served. Provision for vegan and vegeterian choices was inadequate. It was personally difficult for me to have the Restaurant Manager refuse to accept that there was anything below standard about the meals. Good bathroom with large walk in shower; bedroom cramped, no desk/dressing table."