PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
I think that, as no-one is holidaying abroad this year, the only accommodation still available will be campsites and high-end hotels.
Holiday in the UK. Whitby, York, Scarborough.
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Campsites are supposedly pretty booked up.
I have just been commissioned to edit do a four part series on motorhome camping due to the sudden popularity.
They tell me all motor home hire and campsites are booked up.
lazythursday
Well-Known Member
I don't think there's anything wrong with your approach at all if you're happy to shift all your gear around. It probably makes sense to do York first as you'll be travelling there on the train, then move on to Scarborough by train, then bus up the coast to Whitby. Journey back is a bit trickier though - it takes a ridiculously long time (like three hours) to get the train from Whitby back to where you started from, probably easiest to retrace your steps.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
It would be easier to base yourself in Scarborough between the two places and not have to waste time checking in and checking out, we took mum last week, this is what she does, uses the Coastliner, day trip to York, day trip to Whitby. Or wherever else she decides to go. Cup-winning Coastliner voted England’s finest bus route – Yorkshire Business
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I love all three of those places! One of my colleagues spent the weekend in York last weekend, and I was actually jealous. I have friends who live there, and friends who live nearby, so it is somewhere I have visited a lot. There is SO much to do in York itself, as others have said, including fantastic museums like the Castle Museum and the Railway Museum, neither of which are like the traditional, stereotypical museum.
Scarborough is lovely and quite cliffy - there is a vertical railway thing (can't remember what those things are called) - and most of the hotels are up on the top of the cliffs, looking down over the beach and across the sea. As well as visiting it as a child (I was born and brought up in the North East), I used to visit for trade union conferences, and have very happy memories of it. But, if you are not looking for a traditional, old fashioned English seaside town, you might want to skip it.
Same for Whitby, really, although it has more going for it than Scarborough, including an active fishing industry and lots of pubs. There used to be a Whitby Folk Festival - don't know if that is happening this year - which wakes it up, as it were.
If you want a beach, there are lots around there, including Redcar, where I actually lived as a child.
As someone else suggested, though, you might want to think about Durham instead. I have been there quite a few times in the last few years, because I have friends who live there, too, and there is lots to see and do and it is rather lovely. Might be a bit more interesting for your daughter than Scarborough.
ETA The Yorkshire Wildlife Park is worth a visit, if you like that kind of thing. It is near Doncaster. No idea how to get there by public transport - I got the train and then a friend drove me.
Scarborough is lovely and quite cliffy - there is a vertical railway thing (can't remember what those things are called) - and most of the hotels are up on the top of the cliffs, looking down over the beach and across the sea. As well as visiting it as a child (I was born and brought up in the North East), I used to visit for trade union conferences, and have very happy memories of it. But, if you are not looking for a traditional, old fashioned English seaside town, you might want to skip it.
Same for Whitby, really, although it has more going for it than Scarborough, including an active fishing industry and lots of pubs. There used to be a Whitby Folk Festival - don't know if that is happening this year - which wakes it up, as it were.
If you want a beach, there are lots around there, including Redcar, where I actually lived as a child.
As someone else suggested, though, you might want to think about Durham instead. I have been there quite a few times in the last few years, because I have friends who live there, too, and there is lots to see and do and it is rather lovely. Might be a bit more interesting for your daughter than Scarborough.
ETA The Yorkshire Wildlife Park is worth a visit, if you like that kind of thing. It is near Doncaster. No idea how to get there by public transport - I got the train and then a friend drove me.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
They’re not, but you will have to look around a fair bit. How many of in your group? It’s ok travelling around if it’s just two of you, more than that and it becomes a pita, IMO
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I think I'd look to move around - to get the best of York you need to be in York, do a couple of days in York then shift to somewhere else to get the best of that place rather than be dependent on train timetables. If you're in Whitby in you want to be able to the Dracula walks, they are best done in the evening,as is fish and chips in the harbour.
Public transport is pretty shit in rural areas and between locations - you would end up wasting a lot of your holiday if you use one place as a base and visit lots of places from there.
Airbnb is probably your friend in this trip.
Public transport is pretty shit in rural areas and between locations - you would end up wasting a lot of your holiday if you use one place as a base and visit lots of places from there.
Airbnb is probably your friend in this trip.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Three, but we can't drive anyway so it doesn't really matter.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I think the post might have been about accommodation? Will you all be sharing a room in a hotel? I know that lots of them do family rooms, and your daughter might be happy with that?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Maybe. It's been a while. She's grown up a lot since the last hotel, and I think even then we had a whole apartment style affair, so she did have her own room.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I know that I would have hated to share a hotel room with my parents at that age. I also know that there are old fashioned hotels in that there Scarborough that have cheap single rooms, because I have stayed in lots of them whilst at those conferences.... I don't know if that is true for York, though.
Supine
Newt Member
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
We stayed at the Grand in Scarborough. It was awful and great at the same time. Disorganised, chaotic, really generous breakfasts, abominably noisy seagulls, friendly staff, wonderful empty ballroom. An experience.
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
The Grand is part of the Britannia group which treated the staff extremely badly in the first lockdown. IIRC they sacked everybody making some who lived on site simultaneously unemployed and homeless. Pretty much the same as Pontins did to some of theirs.
ETA Britannia named worst UK hotel chain for eighth year in a row
ETA Britannia named worst UK hotel chain for eighth year in a row
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Go to Seaton Carew if you like an industrial vibe. Just over the River Tees from Redcar.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
They were refurbing when I walked past last week. I used to stay at Britannia hotels for work. They are weird.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Another vote for Whitby and some coastal walks north of there. You can see some lovely beaches and villages- Robin Hood’s Bay, Saltburn and Runswick are all beautiful places to be in.
I always come away from those beaches hankering for a dog as they always seem to be having the times of their lives playing on the beach
I always come away from those beaches hankering for a dog as they always seem to be having the times of their lives playing on the beach
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Why would I need to store luggage?
