Balmoral Hotel, Harrogate

Advantages: Clean, pleasant service, near train station
Disadvantages: A long way from the Conference Centre, a bit boring

...Last week I was an observer at my trade union Women's Conference, and stayed as part of a group booking at the Cedar Court Hotel in Harrogate. I thought the hotel was a perfectly pleasant place to stay though I would not go out of my way to stay there again on future visits to Harrogate (I plan to go back in July for completely different reasons). The Hotel The Cedar Court Hotel was apparently Harrogate's first hotel, way back in 1671. This sounds really impressive but I can't pretend that I would have guessed it was so old, and this piece of information is gleaned from the booklet I picked up. It reopened in its present form in 1999. It is a 4 star hotel with 100 bedrooms and 10 Conference/Meeting rooms, a gym, a restaurant, a lounge/ bar and a "24 hour" menu. It is one of a group of 4 Yorkshire hotels, with other branches... Read review

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Advantages: Great location, even greater wine cellar
Disadvantages: Breakfast was not quite to the standard I was expecting.

...Hotel du Vin are an exclusive brand of boutique style restaurants beginning with their first Hotel in Winchester back in 1994 this popular brand have spread across the UK at a rate of knots. With Hotels in Harrogate, Henley On Thames, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Glasgow, and Tunbridge Wells. The next 12 months are going to be one of the most exciting in HdV’s history with Hotels opening in Cheltenham, Cambridge, York, Poole and Newcastle. HdV offer the hotel guest an exclusive experience far different from any other hotel chain in the UK with the exception of course of Malmaison its sister company. Each hotel offers individual qualities or facilities but all contain certain specific requirements in order to make them part of the HdV ethos. HdV Harrogate appears to be one of the more written about hotels in the chain, but I guess... Read review

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Advantages: A lovely place to visit and live.
Disadvantages: none

...the roof. Unfortunately everything comes at a cost and the old market ground floor was knocked down, but you can still go to the lower ground market. A lot of people in Harrogate do not like this shopping complex as it also took away the sitting area gardens which many a people would just sit there and watch the world go by. There are all the local shops and High Street shops that are in any other town but there are also some exclusive shops. Harrogate is considered as a posh place but that is because people just do not know where to go. The people are really friendly and helpful. I grew up in the days of leaving your back door open and living there was one of my only memories as a child. There is also Coppice Valley Swimming Baths which is situated quite close for people who like to go swimming. The Majestic Hotel is near to the Valley... Read review

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