BUILT IN 1850, THIS VICTORIAN MANOR HOUSE HAS BEEN SYMPATHETICALLY MODERNISED INTO A GRAND ... more
COUNTRY HOTEL SET IN 9 ACRES OF MATURE GARDENS AND WOODLANDS. THE MACDONALD BERYSTEDE HOTEL AND SPA LAUNCHED BRAND NEW FACILITIES IN APRIL 2006 FOLLOWING AN 11 M...
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BUILT IN 1850, THIS VICTORIAN MANOR HOUSE HAS BEEN SYMPATHETICALLY MODERNISED INTO A GRAND ... more
COUNTRY HOTEL SET IN 9 ACRES OF MATURE GARDENS AND WOODLANDS. THE MACDONALD BERYSTEDE HOTEL AND SPA LAUNCHED BRAND NEW FACILITIES IN APRIL 2006 FOLLOWING AN 11 M...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Fashioned in the style of a French chateau complete with turrets this distinctive hotel ... more
is supremely comfortable and offers a host of wonderful facilities Set within landscaped gardens the hotel is a popular spot with golfing celebrities when playin...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
The Macdonald Berystede Hotel is a beautiful country house set in nine acres of ... more
exquisitely landscaped grounds, ideally placed for both horse racing and golf. Fashioned in the style of a French chateau, complete with turrets, this distinctive hotel is supremely comfortable and offers a host of wonderful facilities from the outdoor swimming pool, croquet lawn and putting green to state of the art conferencing facilities. The sporting theme continues in the Diadem Bar, where pictures of famous racehorses combine with plush leather armchairs to give the flavour of a gentleman\'s club. The hotel even boasts its own ghost, the mysterious ",Blue Lady",. The Berystede hotel has 15 conference and banqueting suites offering a choice of flexibility and style for up to 160 guests. It is ideal as a venue for international conferences, just 30 minutes from Heathrow and 45 minutes from Central London.
Advantages: It's spectacular and surprisingly quiet and the best location in the city Disadvantages: Parking, high prices.
As a student at Oxford University in the late 1980s, the Randolph seemed like the physical embodiment of the class divide that afflicted poor kids like me who came from state schools from the much wealthier students who took the affluence and grandeur of the city's finest hotel entirely in their stride. I'd never been in such a grand hotel and the closest thing to a grand building in my home city was the local branch of Lloyds Bank.
My flat mates' parents would arrive each term and take us out to the Randolph for rather staid Sunday lunches in the spectacular high ceilinged dining room where we'd sit and watch the world cycle by through the tall windows. By contrast my parents would visit bringing a bag full of fish and chips or a Chinese take-away. I can't really say that we enjoyed the Randolph that much more than a take ...
Advantages: The room, the price, everything really except the car park Disadvantages: The car park!
Thought I would share my experience staying at this hotel last year.
When I originally booked I just wanted a standard room, unfortunately they were all booked so the person on the phone said I could have a family room, which would be the same price.
The hotel is a bit difficult to find if you are not familiar with Manchester city centre, however the main problem is the car park - TOTAL NIGHTMARE!!
CAR PARK
It's way too small for the number of guests and gets full immediately (first come first served basis). When I arrived around 5pm it was full and I was not the only person disppointed. However the hotel had employed someone to direct you to another carpark, the problem was he was as much use as a chocolate teapot!! He was difficult to understand (I'm not against foreign people working in the UK), but when you've been in a car ...
Advantages: old site, friendly staff Disadvantages: rude guests, and no dry walkways between buildings
Im not writing this as a review of the hotel from a guests point of view but a staff members view.
I was a member of the bars team at this hotel for 18 months on a casual basis. Firstly the hotel is near Bolton in Bromley Cross, to get to it, there is a train station in Bromley x itself, also buses run from bolton to bromley x, although these dont run up to the hotel. A taxi from boton centre costs about 5 pounds.
Id not recommend getting the bus as the hotel is up a hill and the hill is quite steep, trains run i think hourly between bolton and blackburn (bromley x is a minor station on this line). Once on the hotel site the first thing you will notice is the lawns to either side of the driveway. At the top of the drive is the small car park, this is the best place to park while you check in at reception. The hotel is made up ...
