In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- The Hartenburg suite offers more than enough room for romance, with an eight-foot bed and two free-standing roll-top baths and a monsoon shower big enough for a drinks reception. Each room is named after a wine-maker – Dom Perignon in the attic is, unsurprisingly, the hotel’s showcase suite.
- Packing tips
- If you’re in one of the larger suites, you can spin the TV to face either the bed or the bath, so bring along your favourite DVDs, lie back and relax.
- Also
- Rather than patio heaters and rain shelters, Hotel du Vin York has really pushed the boat out for cigar aficionado, with a heated, candlelit smoking ‘bothy’ where you can savour a selection of fine Havanas.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- A bottle of champagne
Hotel du Vin York
York, United Kingdom[view map]
- Style
- Boutique by the bottle
- Setting
- Leafy city fringes
Rich, velvety and sure to send you to sleep with a smile on your face – the description can be applied both to the hotel and the wine it serves. Bringing its still-fresh boutique-hotel formula to the ancient northern city, Hotel du Vin’s York outpost is another notch on the group’s plushly headboarded bedposts. Occupying a 19th-century building that was once an orphanage, the hotel boasts lavish but tasteful decor, courtesy of Farrow and Ball, as well as an elegant French bistro and, of course, a biblically proportioned wine list.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 44 rooms.
- Rates
- £130–£395, including VAT. Breakfast is £9.95 a person for Continental, £13.50 for the full English.
- Check-out
- 11am, but later check-out may be possible, subject to availability. Check on the morning of your departure.
- Facilities
- Library, DVD/CD selection, gardens, Laroche wine-tating room, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD/CD player, minibar, Vi-Spring beds, Arron Aromatics toiletries. Larger rooms have roll-top baths. Suites feature iPod docks.
- Also
- Dogs are welcome for £10 a day. The hotel has a small car park (18 spaces) and guests stowing their vehicles at the nearby NCP get 20 per cent off.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Despite opening in late 2007, the hotel’s smart French restaurant has already earned ‘best eatery in York’-type accolades for its classic bistro dishes, and semi-psychic sommeliers.
- Dress code
- Svelte and slinky.
- Top table
- Any of the banquette tables in the bistro is a good spot, but make sure you snuggle into the generously cushioned sofa in the library for a digestif afterwards.
- Last orders
- Lunch is served from noon to 2.30pm, dinner from 6pm to 10pm. Residents can order drinks from the bar 24 hours a day.
- Room service
- Snacks and light meals can be supplied in your room, on request.
- Hotel bar
- As well as its sprawling, hand-picked (or is that nose-picked?) wine list, Hotel du Vin’s clubby, cranny-filled bar has one of the most colossal collections of malt whisky in Yorkshire.
Other facilities
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A bottle of champagne
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Hotel du Vin York
89 The Mount