We have stayed here several times over the last few years and always enjoyed it so lets start with some positives. The location is great for exploring the area and is visually pleasing when it comes into view after driving the long avenue leading to the hotel. The hotel/castle general areas and corridors are quite dark on entering, with the downstairs cellar bar particularly dark and gloomy, but it is after all a castle and you don't find many big windows in a castle ! Room (201) was clean, quite spacious, with a good rainfall shower, however the shower didn't have a hand held shower head which didn't please my wife. Not much in the way of natural light as only a small window which didn't open much for ventilation. We had to use the main and bedside lights at all times otherwise it was very gloomy. The food in the brasserie on both nights was as usual very good but not a great deal of choice for starters mains or dessert. Breakfast was very good on the first day, full English, could have done with being a little hotter though as its in buffet form things go cooler quicker. The continental on the second day was disappointing, cheese curled up and hard at the edges, obviously from the day before, salami and ham just ok, the fresh fruit yogurt and honey was good though. All the staff we interacted with were smiling pleasant and professional especially the young staff in the brasserie and on breakfast duty who were worth the 10% added service charge. One of the male housekeeping staff wouldn't hear of me going to reception for tea bags milk etc and insisted on him bringing them for me, great service. Here comes the downer, ..... On the second day we arrived back from Chester at 6pm and heard the speeches being made from a wedding party taking place in the Great Hall. (please be aware when booking that Peckforton is a wedding venue, if your room is anywhere near the wedding reception you won't get any peace and quiet until after midnight) We left the room for dinner in the Brasserie at 7pm and the music had already started and was deafening in the corridors around our room. We returned at 9:30pm and the music was as we expected still booming out. In the room with the door shut the sound was only marginally quieter!! Just after 10pm we had both had enough and I went to check if there were any doors I could shut to lesson the noise, unfortunately not. At 10:15pm I phoned and registered my annoyance with reception who informed me the music would stop at 11:pm, I told my wife who was now starting with a headache this and we thought we could just about put up with it for 45 more minutes. At 10:25 a knock at the door, the duty manager came to apologise and informed us the music wouldn't actually be stopping until midnight, two hours down another one and a half to go, wonderful !! To be fair, after agreeing that it was exceptionally loud and after me informing her that I had made a one minute voice recording of the racket we were being subjected to