Just across the road are popular restaurants and pubs that ooze with warm northern charm, and the hotel has beauty treatment rooms and a modest health club.
WOW FACTOR
The buffet breakfast is everything you want to wake up to – think meats and cheeses, crusty breads, fruits, yoghurts and pastries. Though on a busy Sunday morning, the wheels seem to fall off the food production line.
ROOMS
The oversized rooms make even the king-size beds appear small; you could waltz freely in the open space, perhaps to the tune of the creaky floors. Also, the front rooms afford great views of the town. But ‘historical’ is no excuse for tatty and unwashed. The curtains are grimy and the place needs a good lick of paint.
BILL PLEASE
A double room with breakfast from £79pn.
Palace Road, Buxton, Derbyshire,
SK17 6AG
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