Best Western Forest And Vale Hotel

Lovely room and breakfast

Shower wasn't very powerful or really hot

Location is excellent for the Kirk Theatre & town.Hotel is lovely inside and out.Friendly helpful staff .Stayed before and will again

This is a clean, comfortable well presented hotel which seems from a by gone era.

The hotel was lovely we even got an upgrade to an Executive room which was beautiful and very spacious. We were made to feel very welcome , Would definitely recommend and if in the area again will definitely return to this hotel. We couldn’t fault a thing. Breakfast was also delicious. Large onsite carpark

.nothing everything was perfect for out stay

Lovely clean nicely decorated.Very friendly helpful staff

Close to town centre with good off road parking, friendly staff, good food.

no lift for disable to go up stairs, it's a listed building so I can accept that.

Our stay was to celebrate my wife's birthday, and we wanted somewhere local. We live in Thornton-le-Dale, so this was ideal. The staff were welcoming, showed good humour, and were polite and helpful. The food was good. The room spacious and it was clean. The bed was comfortable.

1. As with many hotels, the bedroom electrics and switches were a complete puzzle to be solved only by extensive experimentation! :) Perhaps labelling light switches might be helpful? 2. Not overly excited to find a bath IN the bedroom. 3. Weird bathroom taps .. another puzzle to be solved by experimentation! We got the hang of them in the end.

Location and staff

Some of the furniture is a little dated

Friendly staff. Excellant food.Lovely comfortable bed. Large room and en suite. Well equiped with little extras. Nice big fluffy bath/ hand towels t.v. wifi. Kettle.. tea coffee and d.chocLovely and warm Room and very clean. ......

Unfortunately no food available on thurs evening but this was pointed out to us beforehand and on arrival..

It would be hard to find the right words to express how excellent, fine, comfortable,, safe, superb and satisfactory this hotel proved to be. We use Best Western Hotels on a very regular basis so our expectations are based on considerable experience, However the Forest and Vale 'Pickering' exceeded any expectation we might have had and provided these quite picky octogenarians with the best short break of 2025 a short break I feel will prove hard pressed to be surpassed in 2026. The rooms are spacious, and well appointed similarly our bathroom was large and well equipped, Sometimes hotels situate in a converted listed building reflect only tired grandeur but nor here.This hotel though not grand and not glamourous offers a warmth and a welcome befitting its well crafted décor its well defined individuality and the obviously customer centric management. Finally I must comment on the cuisine, simplistically we have found non better these many years ! The chefs are a marvel, producing dishes that surpass much of what might be served in establishments parading their five star spangled ratings to world.. The waiters ( Here I am being Gender Neutral ) are also of the best we have encountered in the UK and perhaps in recent travels world wide,. We dined from the best a restaurant might offer, for here everything combined to comfort, care and a culinary excellence so rarely provided in these sad days of corner cutting and penny-pinching carelessness.

NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND SOMETHING I MIGHT GRUMBLE ABOUT

Breakfast was fresh and well cooked Plenty of choice

The room could of been a little cheaper The walk from the car park to the main reception was uneven

Room was very nice, great facilities and lovely staff.

Expensive

When we checked in the staff members were very helpful and I think his name was Tom on check in and he re arranged rooms to accommodate my 90 year mother in law a ground floor room which was very much appreciated also loved the hotel cat

Breakfast fine. Covenient location. Good car park.

Internet poor. Dinner service not available 3 out of 5 nights.

The even meal and breakfast was lovely. Staff friendly and helpfull.good location. Lovely hotel and clean .

Excellent location.very friendly staff. Beautiful room and bed very comfortable

Good location with ample parking. Nice gardens. Good food. Welcoming, attentive staff. Good decor. Good shower. Liked the resident cat, too!

Bedside lights could not be individually controlled. No subtitle facility on TV. Choice of eggs at breakfast would have been nice. Fairly expensive but probably fair enough for the area.

Excellent choice of breakfast. Staff were very friendly and helpful. You could walk to every thing from the hotel and Pickering is lovely.

Nothing. Lovely place to stay. Would go again.

Relaxing and friendly, lovely building, large spacious room with excellent facilities. Very good breakfast, nice and hot! Didn't eat in the hotel, but the menu contains excellent selection of vegetarian and vegan dishes. Wished we were staying another night!

Very, very minor thing... like to be able to graze a breakfast buffet of fruit, yoghurt, cereal, etc. These were available but only to order.

The room. And Location of the Hotel

The stairs