"Friendly & helpful staff. Convivial bar."

"Great hotel, I've stayed before and I commented that it needed a little bit of work, well, they are doing a lot of work on the rooms. Ours had a fantastic new bathroom. Food was great as usual. Will be back again sometime. Thank you : )"

"Very good value for money, friendly and helpful staff. Good location for visiting Durham."

"It was a very nice, clean hotel, staff were very polite. The room was on the ground floor and was very quiet. Room was very clean. Lovely grounds to walk around. Enjoyed our stay very much and would stay there again. "

"Very clean property Staff were excellent Overall quick and stress free stay "

"Expensive, but well worth it at the end of the C2C"

"A very beautiful building, sympathetically modernised for current tastes in a beautiful setting"

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