Lovely hotel in even lovely surroundings (Whitworth Hall Country Park Hotel)

Member Name: Ljg1006

Product:	Whitworth Hall Country Park Hotel
Date:	10/06/09 (37 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Price and location

Disadvantages: maybe getting a little dated? Expensive drinks in the hotel bar.

Best Western Whitworth Hall Hotel is about 8 miles South West of Durham, near the town of Spennymoor. It is set in extensive grounds, part of which is a deer park (open to the public). Once home to Bobby Shafto, an 18th Century Politician who is probably better known as the character from a North East nursery Rhyme 'Bobby Shafto has gone to sea'.

We book our team members in this hotel and they love it, it costs around £60-£65 a night and the rooms are lovely, although slightly ageing and well kept/clean. The restaurant is a little expensive (but not unusually so for a hotel) but at the entrance there is a pub - called Shafto's where you can get reasonable 'pub grub'. There is plenty of parking and the hotel also offers free internet access (albeit a little slow).

We recently had a family outing here and my little boy loved being able to feed the deer and the ducks - which are on the lake to the front of the hotel which has a sunken chapel in the centre. There is also a lovely church around the back of the hotel which had a book sale on.

All in all a lovely hotel in a nice quiet and beautiful setting (the picture above does not do it justice!)

Summary: Lovely for a quiet getaway or a visit to the deer park.