laid-back rooms with classic furnishings offer free wi-fi, tvs, and tea and coffeemaking equipment. parking is available for a fee. check-in time: 2:30 pmcheck-out time: 11:00 am. there's an unpretentious restaurant, a bar and a riverside lounge. family rooms sleep up to 4 guests. upgraded rooms add cable tv and river views. set in a converted redbrick warehouse on the banks of the river ouse, this low-key hotel is 10 minutes' walk from york train station, a 16-minute walk from the national railway museum and 5 minutes on foot from the jorvik viking centre Leeds Bradford Airport 57 min
York's Chocolate Story (8 min) Tour exploring the history of chocolate and the city's confectioners, with cafe and shop. York Castle Museum (6 min) A recreated Victorian cobbled street with costumed guides and period rooms including a schoolroom. National Trust - Treasurer's House, York (12 min) Well-preserved house filled with 17th- and 18th-century furniture, ceramics, textiles and paintings. National Railway Museum York (10 min) Railway history and artefacts, with 300 vehicles including steam world record holder, the Mallard. St Mary's Abbey (12 min) Church dating back to the 11th century, now a contemporary gallery exhibiting art and installations. Barley Hall (9 min) Restored former priory dating from 14th century, with high-ceilinged great hall and exposed timbers. York Art Gallery (11 min) Gallery featuring paintings & decorative arts from the 1400s to the present in an 1870s building. Merchant Adventurers' Hall (8 min) 1350s building where merchants congregated, with a chapel & an alms house (open daily in summer). JORVIK Viking Centre (5 min) A fully reconstructed Viking village complete with the sights and smells, and an adjoining museum. The York Dungeon (4 min) A high tech ghost house attraction with costumed characters and state-of-the-art scares. York City Walls (11 min) Remnants of a stonework enclosure around a rectangular fortification, erected in 71 CE. Yorkshire Museum (11 min) Five galleries showcase archaeological treasures plus displays of rare animals, birds and fossils. Museum Gardens (11 min) Large gardens surrounding Yorkshire Museum, with mature trees, Roman ruins and medieval abbey. Clifford's Tower, York (5 min) 13th-century castle keep, built on a grass mound, formerly used as a prison and royal mint. York Minster (12 min) Gothic cathedral with vast stained glass windows, interactive Undercroft exhibition and tower tours. |