“A fun hotel with an outdoorsy ethos set overlooking South Bay. Rooms keep the building's original features but feel fresh and funky with pops of colour and contemporary artwork. There's a place for bikes, surfboards, and muddy boots while dogs are also made very welcome. Ideal for an active break.”
“A fun hotel with an outdoorsy ethos set overlooking South Bay. Rooms keep the building's original features but feel fresh and funky with pops of colour and contemporary artwork. There's a place for bikes, surfboards, and muddy boots while dogs are also made very welcome. Ideal for an active break.”
Hotel Review
A new-style hotel amongst the seaside resort’s more sedate accommodations, Bike & Boot cuts a bold contemporary edge. Although housed in one of the grand Victorian terraces, with a prime position overlooking South Bay and the ravine, the interiors are anything but traditional. Bright and breezy with stripped-wood floors, colour-block walls, splashes of the hotel’s signature tangerine, and deckchair-striped blinds at windows, it has a youthful and fun vibe. There’s a definite outdoorsy theme, too, with walls hung with bicycles, cycling helmets and Ordnance Survey maps, plus quirky collections of flip-flops. As well as being family-friendly, dogs, bicycles and surfboards are all welcomed with a dedicated hosing down and cleaning area, plus storage lockers.
Bedrooms, like the public areas of the hotel, have a bright and Scandi feel with clean-lined, pale-wood furniture, open hanging rails and neutral walls. Splashes of colour in headboards, radiators, Anglepoise lamps and jazzy-striped carpets add warmth while bathrooms have powerful showers (no baths) and good storage space. True, the smallest rooms are compact with small bathrooms but are well-designed; the best rooms have sea views or are on the upper floors.
Food in the long, sea-facing bar-cum-restaurant is filling rather than polished but just what you need after a day surfing the waves or tackling the steep climb up to the castle.
Written by Helen Pickles
Recommended For
- Families
- With family rooms, casual dining, fun design, a film club, and a focus on outdoor pursuits — this is ideal for family getaways
- Active Holiday
- As the name suggests, this place is all about being outdoors whether you want to hike, bike, or surf
- Cycling
- Being your bike (there's a dedicated area for bike storage and cleaning) and spend days exploring the area on two wheels
- Hotel Entertainment
- The Film Club shows three movies at three different times of the day for guests to enjoy for free
- Surfing
- The area is well known for surfers and there's a place to store your board at the hotel
- Sights nearby
- Climb up to Scarborough Castle and enjoy the epic views from its vantage point
- Pet friendly
- Very dog friendly. Dog's stay for £15 a night and there is even dog grooming facilities on-site
- Restaurant
- Hearty food such as burgers and pizzas are served in a laid-back setting
- Views
- Overlooks South Bay and the wooded ravine of Valley Gardens
- Child friendly
- Quirky
- Contemporary
- Family Suites
- Sea Views
- Full of character
Facilities
- Parking
- The hotel offers free parking permits for the council owned spaces around the property (not on site).
- Pet friendly
- Very dog friendly. Dog's stay for £15 a night and there is even dog grooming facilities on-site
- Restaurant
- Hearty food such as burgers and pizzas are served in a laid-back setting
- Views
- Overlooks South Bay and the wooded ravine of Valley Gardens
- Child friendly
- Wifi
- Family Suites
- Bar
Activities
- Cycling
- Being your bike (there's a dedicated area for bike storage and cleaning) and spend days exploring the area on two wheels
- Hotel Entertainment
- The Film Club shows three movies at three different times of the day for guests to enjoy for free
- Surfing
- The area is well known for surfers and there's a place to store your board at the hotel
- Theatre
- Book a show at the nearby Stephen Joseph Theatre or at Scarborough Open Air Theatre
- Sights nearby
- Climb up to Scarborough Castle and enjoy the epic views from its vantage point
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Bike & Boot
This upstart new kid-on-the-block in the long-established Scarborough hotel scene, breaks the mould with its funky colours, stripped-back style, relaxed atmosphere and its welcoming embrace for outdoorsy types and dog-lovers.
Originally published by The Telegraph (view article)
