Our stay was for Shrewsbury Folk Festival, and it was certainly closer than previous places we've stayed: a quite manageable walk to the site. None of the places where we've stayed in Shrewsbury have been anything marvellous, to be honest, so we were prepared to live with the Cromwell not doing breakfast and with it being noisy at night. It is a pub, and we were directly above the bar, so noise was to be expected. Lack of parking might also deter some, but we parked at the Festival site. The room was clean and everything worked, and the old building with its uneven floor had a certain charm. All in all, it fulfilled our specific requirements.