Hardwick Hotel

We stayed for one night on freshers weekend, after moving our daughter into halls, as we live a 4 hour drive away. We chose it because it was cheap, basically, as other hotels in/nearer the city were massively expensive and also pretty much booked up. I mean, you get what you pay for! The room was fine, big, clean, and we were impressed with the ‘kitchen’ facilities. Microwave, kettle, toaster and full sized fridge, with crockery, cutlery and plenty of tea, coffee, milk, sugar, butter etc. But it’s definitely in need of some updating, being a very old building. It’s actually a pub, a very locals pub, in a pretty rough area from what we could gather. It was a Saturday night and the music was very loud, although we couldn’t hear it in our room to be fair. But we had no desire to stay down for a drink as the locals weren’t friendly and were definitely rough. Not that we’re snobs at all, I just wouldn’t have felt safe. The bar staff were lovely though. Don’t think we’d stay again but it did the job for one night.