Booking conditions
Business Information
The Bear Hotel, 14 South Street, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 4LT
01929 288150 info@thebearwareham.co.uk
The Bear at Wareham Ltd, Company No 11552636
Bear Naps at Wareham Ltd, Company No 12462552
Arrival and departure
Check in is from 3pm and check out by 11am unless agreed otherwise.
Cancellation policy
Cancellations will be charged 10% of the total Reservation cost. If the guest doesn't show up, they will be charged the first night cost of the Reservation. For last minute reservations within the cancellation policy, full payment is required on booking. Cancellations and amendments to bookings can be made by emailing info@thebearwareham.co.uk or calling 01929 288150.
We will do our best to avoid having to cancel your booking, however when absolutely necessary, we reserve the right to cancel your booking at any time. In such circumstances, we will provide you with a full refund and we will have no further liability to you in relation to the cancellation.
Breakfast
Residents breakfast is served each day from 8am until 10am. If you are not checking out and wish to have a later breakfast, you are welcome to order from our main breakfast menu until 12:00pm.
Dogs
Dogs are welcome within all of The Bear’s public areas and one well behaved dog is welcome to stay in our Paddington, Goldilocks, Baloo, Iorek Byrnison, Ruxpin, Yogi and Theodore rooms, at a charge of £15 per stay. Please ensure your pet's flea treatment is up to date, and bring along its bed to sleep in. Aloysius, Pooh Bear and Rupert are pet free bedrooms.
Parking
Our former coaching inn was originally designed for its arriving guests to disembark from their coach at the front of the building with the horses lead off around the back of the building to be stabled overnight.
Then built in 1852 the original designer of The Bear failed to appreciate that this form of transport would be replaced by the motorcar and consequently failed to add on-site car parking to their plan.
Our map below shows car parks throughout Wareham, roadside parking during the day is limited to 1 hour.
The St John’s Hill & Church Green as well as The Quay car parks are a maximum of 4 hours during the day. Connegar Lane & Streche Road are long stay car parks, the average cost to spend 24 hours in the long stay car parks is £6.00 currently.
There is free parking overnight between 18:00 to 08:00 at any of above-mentioned car park.
There is an APP you can download onto your mobile phone JustPark, this has all the Wareham car parks by number the payment is online, so you don’t have to worry about needing change for the machines.
The post codes for the above-mentioned car parks are
St John’s Hill & Church Green BH20 4NA
The Quay BH20 4LP
Connegar Lane BH20 4NQ
Stretche Road BH20 4QF
JustPark link
https://www.justpark.com/#utm_source=Dorset/
Parking (country wide search)
Internet
The whole of Wareham is notorious for poor internet connectivity, however we have recently invested in our own dedicated fibre connection!
Due to poor internet we only offer freeview TV and not smart TV connections.
Our wifi password is paddington.
No Smoking Policy?
The Bear is 100% smoke-free. Smoking is not permitted in any part of the hotel building or outside. Should it be brought to our attention that smoking has taken place, a cleaning fee of £100 will be payable.
Accessibility
As The Bear is a Grade II listed building over three floors, there is no lift and bedrooms are accessed via either one flight (Aloysius, Paddington, Baloo, Iorek Byrnison, Ruxpin, Fozzie Bear, Yogi and Theodore) or two flights (Pooh, Rupert and Goldilocks) of stairs. There is the occasional additional step within the ground floor of the building and some of the rooms. If you have questions regarding accessibility, please contact us prior to making your reservation.
KEYS
In the event of a guest losing a room key, please note that there is a £50 lost key charge to go towards replacing the key and wooden key fob.
Payment transactions
All payment transactions are handled by a secure third party payment gateway, whose transaction processing environment surpasses industry standards such as PCI DSS. We do not process any card payments through our own website, and all cardholder data is secured safely through our booking system provider (SCA).