Is The Bat and Ball pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much does it cost to stay at The Bat and Ball?

As of 2025/9/26, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at The Bat and Ball on 2025/9/28 start from NT$3,333, excluding taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

What time is check-in at The Bat and Ball?

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 5:00 PM.

Where is The Bat and Ball located?

Located in the heart of Canterbury, this bed & breakfast is within 1 mi (2 km) of Canterbury Cathedral and Marlowe Theatre. Howletts Wild Animal Park and Wingham Wildlife Park are also within 9 mi (15 km). Canterbury East Station is 17 minutes by foot and Canterbury West Station is 29 minutes.

The Bat and Ball Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

10/10 Excellent

Peta

2025/7/5

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

We stopped here for a Spitfires game for our young fella and to be honest wasn’t expecting much - but we were incredibly pleasantly surprised!! This place is exceptional, easy to find, easy to access and staff instructions were friendly and easy to follow. This is a great stay!

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jane

2025/6/20

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Great lication for the cricket. Nice to have breakfast with good coffee. Friendly staff at breakfast

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Rebekah

2025/6/7

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities

This was a beautiful place and the staff were very helpful! I had trouble navigating the narrow stairs, but Jordan was kind to help us into a lower level accommodation. The breakfast with fresh berries was perfect!

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

May-Britt

2025/6/7

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Perfect location if you want to be outside central however still close. Bus or walking distance into central. Hotel room was lovely decorated and plenty of floor area. Comfortable bed. Continental breakfast with gluten-free choices.

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Shem

2025/4/2

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Excellent value for money.

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

Djamchide

2025/5/26

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

It was globaly Good but NOISY

Stayed 1 night in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Lovekumar

2025/2/16

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Amazing sport for short break

Their ambiance is very nice very clear instructions and room are amazing comfortable near by cathedral and everything is in walking distance

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

2024/12/8

Lovely modern room, clean & very comfortable

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

10/10 Excellent

Maria V

2025/2/9

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Toia

Everything was good Thank you

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Paul

2025/2/22

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Well presented and brilliant priced accommodation. Plenty of space and key box access was genius! Lots of drink making equipment in the room, lovely toiletries, and the included continental breakfast was perfect. Highly recommend.

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

2025/1/1

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Amazing

Fantastic beautiful newly renovated hotel. Easy check in, great breakfast. Got upgraded to a beautiful suite which was amazing! Very very happy and would highly recommend

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

2024/7/24

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Good place to stay but a little pricey

Very nice rooms and continental breakfast.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

maria

2025/3/25

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Comfortable room, good shower and bed. Tea and coffee making facilities were welcome. Breakfast was fine. Room was quite noisy as on main road but ok unless you’re a very light sleeper. Overall, good value. 15 min walk into town, which was fine for us and free parking was helpful

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Dorothea

2024/8/19

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Sehr gemuetliche und geschmackvoll eingerichtetes Zimmer am Rande von Canterbury. Das Familienzimmer ist sehr geraeumig und verfuegt uber Kaffee/Thee. Die Innenstadt ist zu Fuss erreichbar und die Parkplaetze bei der Unterkunfst sind angenehm. Das Personal ist sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit, das Fruehstuek ok.

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Paul

2024/9/16

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Large comfortable room with tea and coffee making facilities. Good continental buffet breakfast selection. Close to the city and amenities. Only 4 parking spaces for 6 rooms is a little bit of a detraction from what was otherwise a good stay.

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Alan

2024/11/17

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Very lovely stay, fantastic room with only a couple of very minor gripes. Heated towel rail was not working and the main window blind was broken so it was unable to be opened. Otherwise a very lovely stay, thank you Bat and Ball team.

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2024

10/10 Excellent

Mandy

2024/9/16

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Loved the bar and ball. Obviously someone really cares about comfort and standards. The young lady at breakfast was a very friendly person and all in all i would highly recommend the bat and ball for a place to stay while visiting canterbury. Beautiful bedding too.

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

6/10 Okay

Robert

2024/8/23

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Convenient to walk into City centre , but the front corner room we had was very noisy above a busy traffic lights controlled junction . Staff were very helpful and attentive .

Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Linda

2024/9/18

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

It was fine

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

6/10 Okay

Fred

2024/10/8

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities

Room was beautiful, loved and loved the bathroom. 2 things that let it down was the amount of parking apace which made me spent money to go park somewhere else for the night which was unnecessary.Stairs narrow and both me and my partner nealry fell down. . Breakfast was something to forget as there options wasnt great and not alot off variety. ,would have loved a full english breakfast. Beside lovely place

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024

4/10 Poor

Libby

2024/12/15

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

I really don’t like to write negative reviews, so I will start with the positives. The room was clean and the bed was comfortable. Unfortunately it was quite noisy due to traffic and single glazed windows. We could also hear all other guests very clearly, doors banging, walking up and down the stairs and conversations. We didn’t sleep well here. The shower plug was blocked and didn’t drain sufficiently, we didn’t have electric in the morning so we were an able to make coffee and I was unable to dry my hair, resulting in missing the very very early 9am breakfast cut off time.

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

4/10 Poor

Adrian

2024/10/20

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Terrible nights sleep!!! So I cannot recommend.

The Good: There had been a lot of thought and love put into the redesign of this pub into a B&B: decor, furnishings, technology, breakfast, etc are all great and the staff were lovey and helpful. All great, well done. The Bad: 1. The road noise is terrible. We were in room 3 on first floor, a corner room, which was lovely. However, it fronts onto the road and traffic lights and only the larger lower window panes are double glazed. The smaller upper panes are single and most noise will come through these. They will be more expensive to double glaze and the property may be listed, which would add complications and cost, potentially. Nevertheless, completing the double glazing and adding a triple glaze pane on the inside would substantially remedy the road noise issue. 2. There were three other rooms on our floor, occupied by three ladies. They talked in the room next to us from 10pm when we got in, until 1am. I slept after that for a couple of hours before being disturbed again by the road noise and lightly dosing for another 4hrs. The walls a clearly not sound insulated, but could be retrospectively, although staff could also request/educate guests to have consideration for other guests especially after 10/11pm. Feedback is a gift to help improve. In my business, we actively seek feedback to help us improve and win more business. Hope you take this in the same way because you have a great B&B, but my primary objective in any hotel/B&B is to have a great night sleep.

Double and single glazing. Also, Venetians are rubbish at sound and light proofing. Use quality curtains instead.

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024

10/10 Excellent

Julian

2025/2/3

Liked: Cleanliness

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Stewart

2025/1/17

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Oliver

2024/12/7

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

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