Luckily we had our sat nav as this hotel would be pretty hard to find otherwise as it is in the middle of housing estate!

staff were friendly enough and attentive and would do anything for you!

found it to be a very old and dated hotel a bit on the shabby side rooms basic and old fashioned wallpaper peeling and what looked like wallpaper peeling from the ceiling also! if you get a room on the top floor we were in room 29 be prepared to struggle if you have a big bag as the stairways and hallways on the way up are very very narrow!

bath and shower in bathroom! tv with basic freeview channels i'm quite tall about 6ft and my feet was hannging off the bed the bed was that small but it was extremely comfortable and slept really well!

when i booked this hotel it said it was only a few miles from durham city centre and newcastle! was about 20 mins drive into durham city centre! and about 30-35 mins into newcastle where we went to massive shopping centre that is the metro!

we drank in the bar the 2 nights we stayed ther found the prices rather dear a wkd and a pint of cider for £7.50 mabye im used to cheaper up my way but everytime i had a pint i stood at the bar and allways had to ask them to fill it up again before i took it away as they were allways trying to put a head on the pint of cider you could have put a flake into to make a 99 cone!

my partner had a meal on the first night when we were their would say the food is very basic and nothing exciting and way over priced for what it was but suppose with the portion size is their or their abouts ok!

we paid the extra 16 pounds for the 2 nights to get a cooked breakfast but their is a free continental breakfast their which consists of fruit fruit juices and cereal!

be prepared though as where you go to have breakfast is really cold in the conservatory! when going to have the fruit juice on the first and 2nd day it didn't look like the glasses had never seen a cloth to wash them mabye only rinsed out as they were extremely dirty n full of marks!

also at breakfast on the 2nd day we were their we were the only place set for breakfast and took 20 mins for breakfast to come but suppose you could say thats a positive as it was cooked fresh!

also when going to eat the fresh fruit that came with the continental breakfast when handling it it was extremely cold and hard as if it had been in the fridge and when handling it our hands stank of fish as if they had been put in the fridge along with the fresh fish as it does say on a board their fish is caught fresh everyday!

this is basic food hygine and think the chef or kitchen staff should be sent on a food hygine course as this is the basics of a kitchen and cross contamination of food!

but to summon up this place would be ok for an overnight stay but i personally wouldn't stay again as we had went for a romantic get away for the weekend! definately basic and average!