stayed here for a 1 night weekend break , booked and paid for a double but got a family room no extra cost, I would agree the decor is dated but look past that to find rooms are large, clean and warm,radiators individualy adjustable to suit, ensuite with bath as well as shower ,very well equipt gym,upstairs .pool,sauna ,steam room and jaccuzi down stairs free to use to hotel patrons staff there very friendly and ready to help, free brilliant white towels readly available too, large warm very clean changing facilities with lttle added touches eg. wet kit bags for your swim suit, £1coin needed for locker (returnable) well worth a visit and no time limit either spend as long as you wish as many times as you wish too.Breakfast was lush self service (service available if you request it)fruit juice , fresh fruit salad,selection of yogurts, every cereal kellogs produce ,then bacon,sausage,eggs(fried and scrambled)mushrooms,beans,tomatoes,hash browns fried bread, toast,and bread rolls and to finish selection of muffins ,ham and cheese and staff are pleased to help.will definatly be returning

They took the reasonably-priced and decent-looking menu off us and gave us freshly printed ones with poorer choice at higher prices (it was also littered with spelling mistakes - chicken "brest" was a favourite - and a random mix of font and text sizes).

We were amused by the text written above the door, but considering the number of spelling mistakes in their menu, we weren't sure if it was deliberately tongue in cheek, or simply another batch of spelling mistakes (referring to the lodge as a "plaice to meat").

I paid £8 for a chicken salad that was adequate but was served at same time as my husbands starter. So I got to watch him eat his main course foodless. The salad was nice ... but certainly not £8 worth of nice ... perhaps half that bearing in mind the current price of small bits of chicken, salad leaves and cucumber. The cashews, I guess, were the expensive bit - but its hard to get them wrong! Despite being advertised as "satay", the cashew nuts were as nutty as it got.

Service was patchy - we got given salt, pepper, sauces and cutlery, together with our drinks, to carry to the table ourselves.

My husband took advantages of the "three courses for a tenner" menu (which, strangely, is advertised as "tennerfest ... 3 courses for £12" on their website!!) - the souffle starter was obviously microwaved and tasted like left-overs from a cheese quiche; the fish and chips were adequate but I could have done better with frozen food from Tesco; the Creme Brulee was basically sweet runny custard with some icing sugar on top (which looked like it had been grilled briefly - definately not caramelised - we were amused that it came with a spoon AND a fork .. perhaps the fork was for the strawberry garnish!). The best my husband could say was the half-strawberry was nice!

Ive stayed in many hotels in and around the North East, but never before in this hotel. The hotel is a little dated and needs a refurbishment, although it very clean and the satff a fantastic, very helpful and pleasant. The Old Poste House Pub is very nice although i was a little disappointed with the menu choice. Overall i had a good two nights stay and will stay there again.

Stayed here this weekend with my wife. The rooms are tired and the bed wasn't very supportive, woke at 5am with back ache! Saying that, we enjoyed the stay! The room was clean, the staff were great, the gym and pool are free for people staying and are well worth the money. The breakfast was a good standard and the restaurant staff couldn't do enough for us. Lovely setting and a great location for shopping etc, lots to do and plenty of retail parks nearby. would come back again!