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.

Children

Cots (£10 a night) and extra beds (£20) can be provided in rooms, and a baby monitor can be provided. A local agency supplies babysitters on request.

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.

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.

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.

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Hotel du Vin York

89 The Mount