Hotels With spa in Darlington, United Kingdom

First impressions Exterior of the building is impressive, beautiful honey-coloured stone. Gardens and grounds lovely too. Extremely well situated just a short way off the A1 but not close enough to be bothered by road noise. Dinner & Breakfast Dinner served in Oswald's restaurant was quick, and well presented, but not exceptional - so worth trying if you don't want to drive out, but if there is a next time I'd probably try a local pub instead. Spa Initially looked nice but despite being extremely quiet (i.e.no-one in there - on a Saturday afternoon), and there being 3 staff on duty, it was not particularly clean. There were crumbs on the chairs in the reception lounge area, the changing rooms had dirty wet floors, including tissues and it smelt damp. My friend and I had a treatment each. The girls, whilst pleasant were very inexperienced and couldn't answer simple, basic , questions about the treatments or products being used. Disappointed. Hotel interior and bedroom The newer part of the hotel didn't seem too bad, but the old part in a word... Filthy....particularly carpets in the restaurant, door paintwork and handles. The more I looked the more nauseous I felt. In dire need of a deep clean and refurbishment. Age of the building is no excuse, I've stayed in many very old properties with tatty old carpets and furniture but they were immaculately clean.

Ideal for a stop off on our way south from Scotland to London. Hotel has character and the room booked was super with a nice bathroom including spa bath. The spa facilities were really good too with pool, decent hot sauna and steam room. Only let-down was dinner. I’d like to meet the chef that puts his name to the ‘signature’ burger - it just wasn’t very good at all. Breakfast buffet, on the other hand, was really quite good. Will stay again.