We have just returned from a long awaiting trip to this hotel, having caught an offer for Spa & Stay which included 2 hrs in the spa on arrival and check out days, a Yorkshire breakfast and free upgraded room. We opted for on of the newly refurbished; Dales Room, and also added Clay Pigeon Shooting on to our trip. We travelled up from Lincoln for the stay, and arrived around half hour early to our booked 12pm clay pigeon experience. The shooting lodge was very warm and cosy, also felt welcoming. This is used by guests and members, so all abilities/experience. Neither my wife nor I had ever done this before, nor visited the hotel or grounds. One thing that would have been helpful, would have been advising on attire/footwear at point of booking. Regardless of that, our instructor; Malcolm, was brilliant. He was extremely friendly, knowledgeable and informative. Put both my wife and I at ease and made the experience very enjoyable, I would recommend this highly. Once we finished this, we headed back (short drive of around 1 mile within the estate grounds) to the hotel. We were around 1hrs early for check in at this point and was told to come back at 3pm. We went into the bar for drink and waited. The bar was really nice, and had an open fire (as did the shooting lodge), the staff were pleasant and friendly also. We decided to have a ‘light bite’ whilst waiting so order ‘3 nibbles for £15’ - Pork Belly Bite, Crispy Beef and Bread and Dips. All 3 were absolutely amazing!! We were booked in for our evening meal here which got me looking forward to that!! 3pm arrived and we checked in, we were room 24. The room was nice and had everything we needed. One minor but great touch was leaving some chocs/sweets and crisps with the drinks tray. Very small touch but others should follow! The room was very nice and had lots of very nice furnishings and they had clearly spent a lot of money on some of the items, but the attention to detail was not there. Lots of ‘snagging’ items have been over looked, making good following obvious defects/mistakes had also not been completed. This might not matter to a lot of people but is a real bug bearer of mine. The room also lacked a functional mirror above the dresser and no full length mirror at all. I also found the acoustics between rooms and corridors very very poor and was quite noisy at night and in the morning. We got sorted and was about to head to the spa, when looking for our robes there wasn’t any in our room. We went down to reception and asked if we needed any prior to heading the spa and was told not. The spa staff then asked if we brought our robes, but handed us some without fuss. The spa was small but nice enough. 2 hrs is about the right amount of time for the size, without trea**ents. I also like the ability to purchase drinks whilst in there, although staff should perhaps push this a little more. On to the evening meal - this was incredibly disappointing. I had the pork to start and sea ba
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