Beiderbecke's Hotel

I have just got home from a three night stay at this hotel and have come back with a huge smile on my face. The staff were extremely friendly and very attentive. They cared about my every need. They are extremely friendly and are always willing to make conversation with you. Dan the barman was the cutest thing I've seen in a while lol.

I was only going to have one evening meal at the hotel but after the first evening meal I decided that every evening meal had to be at the hotel. The food is superb, I've never tasted food like it.

All in all a great hotel, stunning food, pleasant and attentive staff with excellent service all at a wonderfully cheap price. I didn't want to leave.

Myself and my husband visited Beiderbeckes for a two night stay in March.

We had no problem parking and were warmly greeted by the reception staff.

Our suite was lovely and had views over the park and sea. The bathroom was large with toiletries, dressing gowns and slippers provided. It was beautiful sunny weather and we had breakfast in our room on the first morning, looking out to sea. Breakfast was really good- the poor maid had to bring three trays up as there was so much food

The hotel is well located in the town, near shops and restaurants. We ate in Beiderbeckes own restaurant, Marmalades on the first night and the food was excellent as was the service. The decor is really nice and contemporary and the lounge has a lovely feel.

The staff were vey helpful and chatty and we enjoyed our stay so much that if it had not been for the fact that we had a family engagement to attend, we would have stayed another night.!!!!!

We shall be returning in the not too distant future!!

My wife and I fancied a short break in Scarborough which we hadn't visited for many years.

We read the reviews and booked through Booking.com and were happy with the price at £85prpn. We were influenced by the fact there is parking at the hotel (but free street parking can also be arranged, if necessary).

Arrived on a cold damp afternoon and, pulling in to park, were taken a little aback by the frontage which is not particularly impressive (A Grade II listed building, there are serious restrictions on what can be done outside). However any concerns were allayed when we entered - the interior is smartly presented and the welcome was very warm and friendly. On a particularly cold day extra effort had been made to ensure that the room was warm and comfortable.

The room itself was fine. Again, this is an old building with some character, so the room was spacious and the bathroom more than spacious!! It was also quiet, which ensured a good night's sleep.

The first evening we ate in "Marmalades" restaurant and, although we were the only ones in (it was awful weather outside), you could sense the atmosphere when it is full, particularly when the live music is playing.

We enjoyed an excellent meal with good service.

Breakfast is also of a good standard - I had "Full English" on just one of the two mornings and it was just right!

The staff are friendly and helpful always extending a cheery greeting whenever you saw them and we really felt at home.

Given the choice of hotels in Scarborough stabbing a pin" is always a gamble (even with the benefit of Trip Advisor comments) but thgis one certainly paid off.

Finding the hotel was the first pleasant surprise - Tomtom had us in the car park very easily.

Arrived a bit early, and with a sore throat, but cold Guiness & carbonara sorted me out.

Hotel front is a little underwhelming at first, but grows on you.

Room was a little bigger than normal, on the second floor, but Scarborough is quiet in Feb & we never heard the terrifying Red Bar spoken of elsewhere.

Location is excellent for country mice such as us. The shops are just yards away so you can pop back with your bags at lunchtime and you're close to the seafront too.

Breakfast was excellent, but hotel quiet so no one in the restaurant of an evening so we ate out too (nearby Peppers is excellent & "Restaurant George Michael" (no relation) is good & characterful) as the main eating street is next door.

We were pleased with the hotel, until we popped in to (our intended choice) The Grand for a drink.

Oh dear me. It's like God's Waiting Room in there. Bashed tooth alcoholics smoke furiously while local street urchins run into the building & chase round the decayed ruin. We returned to our hotel without having the drink & were suitably grateful to them for sparing us a weekend in The Grand.

So, get yourself to Scarborough. There are some fine pubs (& a bracing seafront walk to the one at Scalby Mills), great shops & you'll eat well. The town is a bit faded-glamour but I kinda like that in moderation.

Beiderbecke's is a great base for exploring or staying holed up in for a rest.

I can only describe this hotel as Brilliant.

We have previously managed to pick 2 other hotels that were voted Scotlands (Montgreenan) and Irelands (Hunters hotel) hotel of he year after we stayed there, so we know our hotels!

The hotel is not much to look at from the outside but do not be fooled The Red bar is noisy but but this is easily remidied by asking for a room on the second floor away from the bar.

We did not use this public bar at all and preferred to use the wonderfully cosy residents and diners bar which is much more in keeping with the lovely old interior.

We went for a suite (Room 217) which I have to say is probably the nicest hotel room I have ever stayed in. This was not just due to the cleanliness, the decor, the size of the room, the 5 windows, the view, the large cosy bed or the big fluffy towels but because they had managed to get it all so right. A deffinite 10 out of 10 for housekeeping.

We had dinner in the restaurant which was wonderful even though we turned up tired and weary at 9.30pm, we were brilliantly served and not rushed at all. The food was reminicent of meals I have enjoyed at Amberley Castle in Sussex and the Mermaid in Rye.

The staff were down to earth and lovely. The service could not be faulted even though they were obvously very busy.

A note to the last reviewer........They give you a credit room card so you can hang on to it for drinks etc. You don't hand it in!

I want to stay again and hopefully we will. A lovely treat and all for £200.

Beiderbeckes was recommended to me by the supplier that I was visiting in Scarborough. I had a very pleasant stay there. The room was excellent, warm and well decorated. The food and room service was also excellent. I would return again and I recommend it highly.

I payed a vist to this hotel and was so happy. The food was exalent and they had a very intresting russian bar next door. We found the staff polite and friendly the cocktails were fantastic and I cant wait to go again my up most respect to the management and staff.

We've stayed at Beiderbecke's since it opened and have always found it to be excellent. True, Red Square does get busy and noisy at times, but try and get a room at the side of the hotel which is very quiet. Rooms are always immaculate and staff are very pleasant. Breakfast is freshly cooked to order and of a very high standard. The hotel is in one of Scarborough's best locations, a few minutes from the station and a short walk to the town centre. It's recently won an award as the area's best hotel and it's easy to see why see why

We book this hotel after seeing all the rave reviews on this site (we were planning to go to the Grand, but the reviews completely put us off).

This hotel is a real GEM. It only took us a few minutes walk to get there from the train station, and it's just across the road from Debenhams and the main shopping centre. It was a short walk to the Grand Hotel (through a park) where the lift/stairs took you down to the beach.

We asked for a quiet room, again after reading the reviews that it can get noisy if you're above the hotel's Red Square bar. We were given room 215, which had a lovely sea view, and was really quiet. The room itself was much nicer than it looked on the hotel's website. It was a suite and was HUGE!

We ate in Marmalade's restuarant - the food was fairly expensive (approx. £25/£30 each for three course) but it was absolutely delicious. If you don't want to eat in the hotel, there are lots of other restaurants across the road, including a very nice looking seafood restaurant, and also a Chinese and Mexican.

I would thoroughly recommend this hotel!

We stayed for two nights and booked last minute. The hotel was of a very good standard as the rooms are of a high quality. Unfortunately we didn't realise that the 3rd floor room had a low ceiling and beams. This caused my partner a bit of trouble as he is over 6ft!!!! However it did not spoil our stay.

The staff were friendly and helpful especially the bar staff. We did not have our evening meals there as it was fully booked when we arrived as they open to the public. Breakfast was excellent with plenty on offer. There is a bar next door which does get noisey but it did not cause us any concern or disturbed nights!

Although Scarborough I feel, has become a bit run down, the hotel is perfectly located and within walking distance for shops and restaurants.

We thoroughly enjoyed our stay and would re-visit (not 3rd floor this time though!).

We like modern clean hotels that have great service and an interesting theme. From the moment we booked to when we left we had great service and all the staff were friendly and helpful.

We stayed in room 223 and the decor was bright and modern. The room was clean and the bathroom was tastefully decorated and clean. We had dinner in Marmalades Restaurant and the food was exquisite. The live music provided by the resident guitarist made the evening wonderful. The desserts were superb and overall we could not complain about a thing!

After a good night's sleep we awoke to a hearty breakfast and went on our way. We use a lot of hotels and this is the best stay we have had in a long time. Really good value for money as well.

Anyone liking modern clean accomodation at a reasonable price will find it hard to find anywhere better in Scarborough.

What a find - strictly first quality class throughout. The employees are the greatest and are there to treat you better than relatives. The rooms are neat with an unusual color scheme which is attractive and very nicely done. Style is comfortable. We loved Marmalades Restaurant with its red color scheme and American Jazz inspired theme. The food was far better than we had expected. All about this place requires that a return trip will be in the works.

We have just returned from this Hotel staying on Sunday 27th March 2005 and it was a delight.

The room which was a Large Double was just that , very clean and nice Decor, the bathroom was clean and tiled and no Horrible Shower Curtain ,beware of the heated towel rail as it can get very hot and ours was situated right beside the toilet !!!.

It got quite noisy outside as there is a Cocktail Bar attached to the hotel which stayed open until 1am but because of the rain nobody hung around outside long.

The Hotel has a wonderfull Restraunt called Marmalades, we wernt to sure at first as it was Sunday they were only open from 6-8 and limited to the sepcials board , but because the weather was so bad we decided to chance it , we were so glad we did it was excellent and the service was great .

We then retired to the Lounge area where there are very comfortable leather chairs for us smokers and a seperate area for non smokers. We tried the Cocktail bar but it was very busy and noisy so went back to the lounge area where the Staff were a great help getting us any Cocktail we wanted from next door .

We were lucky we found a parking space when we arrived in the grounds but im sure it can be a problem , but this wouldnt put us off going to this Little Gem of a Hotel again and sampling more of the gorgeous food.

excellent the best in scarborough. excellent service excellent food

My husband and I have just recently returned from an excellent weekend break at this Hotel. We stayed in a deluxe suite £80.00 per room per night . It was spotlessly clean, and compared to other hotels that I have stayed in, in Scarborough believe me THAT WAS A PLEASANT SUPRISE!

The staff were very helpful, and the food in the Marmalades restaurant was very good. We will definitely not hesitate to stay there again!

I have stayed in many Hotels in Scarborough and all of the ones on the Cresent. Beiderbeckes is by far the best. The rooms are clean and spacious, the staff friendly and very helpful. I will be staying there very soon (my fourth stay there). My wife is originally from Scarborough and this Hotel makes it a real treat for her to visit her birth place. I cannot praise this Hotel highly enough.

If you are staying in Scarborough, then this is the place. Excellently restored and the service is second to none.

We only stayed for one night at Beiderbecke's, but our experience was perfectly pleasant. The room was reasonably spacious and quite well furnished and the bathroom was a very good size and well fitted out.

Breakfast was tasty with good ingredients and cheerful prompt service. All the staff were helpful and pleasant, with the reception staff deserving a special thank you for their willingness to offer advice and directions, including carrying out Google searches for us and walking us across the car park to point out directions.

I'm not really a lover of themed hotels, but this one doesn't take the jazz motif too far and fortunately doesn't extend it to the bedrooms. I understand that there is jazz played on Fridays and Saturdays in the hotel, but if that's the case we didn't hear any of it in our room, which was quiet and peaceful. The view was grim, but for one night it hardly matters.

All in all I would say this is a decent hotel, fairly and reasonably priced and much better than others that I have stayed at in Scarborough, where travellers need to be cautious about the quality of some of the hotels. It's also in a good location, a short walk from the railway station and set opposite some pretty gardens, the Art Gallery and the Rotunda.

Lovely hotel. We had a suite room 217. It was really big, plenty of room for 4 of us. My main comment is the cleanliness of the hotel, especially the room.

We stayed at the Beiderbecke on 1st and 2nd July 2006 and had England won the football the weekend would have been perfect! This was our first attempt at staying in a hotel with our new baby (11 weeks old) and was our wedding anniversary. I contacted the hotel directly after looking at their website which shows photos and location of all of the rooms. The receptionist couldn't have been more helpful and I was being quite hard to please, wanting a quiet double room with plently of space for a cot and good views. Unfortunately, as we booked last minute, the only room left was a smoking room but it had airconditioning and as there was no one in the room the day before they offered to open all 5 windows to air it. When we arrived the room was lovely, not remotely smokey and they had set up a travel cot for us. The hotel is in a lovely spot, central without being too busy but some of the rooms are probably quite noisy as the bar is obviously very popular, including with Hen/Stag nights. We had a lovely time, helped by the weather being excellent, all the staff very friendly and helpful and hopefully we didn't disturb the other guests too much!

I am afraid that Scarborough has declined as a seaside town and is now tackier than ever, but if you have to stay there then this is an excellent option. Located on The Crescent (Bath like in its Georgian elegance, and ideally located for the town, and - very important - with its own car park) it has lovely rooms, a quirky cocktail bar, the best eating in Scarborough and soft jazz playing in the background. It is not cheap but you can maximise value by booking their "dinner, bed & breakfast" rate which allows you free reign on the a la carte dinner menu, and a full (and excellent) English breakfast.

My partner and i stayed at the Beiderbecke's over Easter 2007. The hotel itself is very plesant, clean and well furnished. The staff on arrival were very friendly and professional. Our first room was very noisy as it was above the kitchen and nightclub so we had to listen to thumping music until the early hours of the morning, then the fans in the kitchen were switched on at about 6.00am so we had very little sleep on our first night. Luckily the hotel were able to move us the next day but they only had a smoking room available and not being a smoker i found the smell of stale smoke disgusting but prefered it to a sleepless night.

If you do stay in this hotel, make sure you request a room away from the nightclub and the kitchen.

All the hotels in Scarborough seemed on the pricey side for what they offer. Taken in that context Beiderbeckes wasnt staggeringly expensive. We booked drect with the hotel and asked for a deluxe double - we paid £125 and were allocated room 219, which I now see lists at £110 on ther internet site. It ovderlooks the street and the bar so was noisy til 1am and from the 3D room previews, clearly nowhere near as gracious as the ones overlooking the crescent, rated at £130 on the website. Those rooms have higher ceilings, more windows, more space, aircon, and dressing gowns. In addition, even using the lift you still have to lug your cases down and up two half-flights of stairs to reach 219, and the lift was out of action when we left, so make that down two floors as well.

The overall decor downstairs is darkish English pub style, the restaurant lit only by a skylight. We only ate breakfast, which to be fair was included in the room rate [otherwise £10] and was reasonable.

Overall a dissapointing experience - a second-rate room for a rather high price. I've stayed in worse, and paid more, but if this really is Scarboroughs best hotel, the rest must be pretty bad. I'd certainly recommend only taking one of the crescent-view rooms.

We had high expectations of this hotel having enjoyed several great meals at the restaurant (Marmalade's) some years ago when the business was first started; positive reviews on TripAdvisor made us opt to stay at the hotel for the first time but we left feeling disappointed about the stay.

We paid 90 GBP for the double room, en-suite which was no better in standard to some of the cheap B&Bs we have stayed at in Scarborough. Reasonably clean but in need of refurbishment, the bathroom was very tired looking and suffered from a shortage of hot water and a scarily loose toilet seat!

The room itself had no view to speak of but was adequate in size and the bed was ok. Room suffered noise wise from proximity to a bar on the local pub crawl circuit, keeping the bar's customers happy is maybe more lucrative for the management who seem to have taken their eye off the hotel standards.

We found the staff to be less than welcoming, ignoring greetings and being generally detached and uninterested.

Breakfast made our minds up to the question 'would we return?' Modest buffet choice (including Tesco yogurts!) then limited English choice with less than indulgent 'thin' sliced toast.

Overall, quite clean, well positioned but no frills

Stayed recently, left purse in bag, in wardrobe in room whilst going out for a meal, returned to find that credit cards and cash had mysteriously disappeared. No signs of forced entry. Reception and police informed, police enquired and found that master entry card for all rooms was left in an open drawer just inside reception. CCTV footage had mysteriously been damaged for the night in question! This hotel has a problem with security.

We have just returned from a Weekend trip to this hotel, chosen specifically because of the review by Paddy Burt and attracted by the Jazz idea.

What should be a nice hotel with wonderful food was ruined by the bar that they run underneath one side of the hotel. On Friday and Saturday night we were on the 2nd floor above this bar and the noise was horrendous meaning no sleep was possible until 1am. The noise was from music and rowdy 20 somethings outside having drunk far too much. And this was all through shut bedroom windows.

We complained and whilst got a very small discount on the price of our room their attitude was appalling. No apology. Clearly the bar was the most important part of their business.

I, at 44 am lively and outgoing, but went to the area for a walking holiday so needed some sleep. Sleep through that din, however tired, was impossible.

Basically, unless you are in your twenties with plenty of money or don't mind listening to drunks singing old rock and roll songs at 12.30 at night from your bed, then just don't stay here.

This is the very first time I have ever complained at a hotel or about one so it shows how dissapointed I am.