Journey61780533587
27 Μάρτιος 2024
If I use the description 'faded elegance' about this hotel, I do so as a compliment. There is no gleaming cromium, no shiny glass wall panels, and no 'anonymous' sterile environment. Instead, there is an a**osphere of homeliness. The sofas in the lounge don't match and the walls are covered with genuine old prints and paintings, not mass-produced prints. The bar is warm and cozy with a real fire - very welcome in March when we visited - and there is another fire in the 'snug' just off the main lounge. Our bedroom was just fine. King-size bed and en-suite facilitites, TV, dressing-table, two comfortable armchairs, and a double wardrobe with one sticking door! :-) (We were too busy to spend other than 'sleeping time' in the bedroom, so more than adequate). The food is excellent. Great choices for evening meals that use, wherever possible, local ingredients. Breakfast (always my favourite meal) was first class, giving any number of choices. The key to any successful hostelry is, of course, those folk who provide the service. You would have to go an awful long way to find better than Tony, Sally and Daniella. Tony, essentially 'mine host', is the consummate professional with knowledge, charm, and style. Sally, looked after us with care and concern. She has a natural warmth that made the Worsley Arms our home-from-home for three days. Daniella is simply delightful and a very special young lady. Born and bred in the village, she is intensely proud of Hovingham - and the hotel - and her natural empathy and charm, certainly 'lit up' each breakfast! Reading this back, I realise that I have used the word 'charm' or charming on quite a few occasions...... and that's what the Worsley Arms is - charming. Geographically, it is ideally positioned to reach the City of York, the coast of Whitby or Scarborough, and the North Yorkshire Moors within less than an hour. Recommended without reservation - although of course you will need one to stay there! (Sorry)
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