This is our last posting on The Waverley blog as we have now sold the business. Thank you to all of our guests over the last 6 years but it is now time for us to move on.

New Trip Advisor award 2011

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We're back

Problems with posting pictures seems to be sorted so we have come back. Went for a nice walk yesterday into Mulgrave Woods and up to the old castle, probably about 7 miles in total. Never seen the castle before. Path is only open on Wednesdays and Saturdays and most people don't know it's there.

Got back home just before massive thunderstorm, quite spectacular lightning - just as well as had no coats with us. 

NYMR

There are 2 special events this year for North Yorkshire Moors Railway and Whitby. The first is 175th Anniversary of the Whitby - Pickering line from 29th April to 8th May. Click for more details. The bringing of the railway was the birth of Whitby as a tourist destination and the railway is a continuing interest of many of our visitors.

The second event that is officially coming into town this year, as we heard yesterday, is Railway in Wartime most commonly referred to as War Weekend. We went to the War Weekend in Pickering with our friends back in 2003, long before our move to The Waverley, and the atmosphere was fabulous. When we have more details we will update our posting. For more information in general follow this link, War Weekend and for some pictures from when we went in 2003 click here.



New YouTube Posting by LBCC

Lynn has posted a new video to YouTube - "Having a Colonoscopy". Those of you who know us know that we support Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign and have been involved with the charity ever since it was created because I (Stephen) had bowel cancer back in 1997. Hopefully the video will help any of you who may be about to undergo a colonoscopy now or in the future. There is a permanent link to the video at the bottom of the column to the left.

WHITBY ABBEY VOTED UK’S MOST ROMANTIC RUIN

Whitby Abbey has just been voted the UK's most romantic ruin, check out the reports on the BBC and Whitby Gazette sites. The photo below was taken from The Waverley by one of our guests, all of our rear rooms have views of the Abbey. 

Whitby Abbey from The Waverley

Many of our regular guests actually ask for room 9, despite it being our smallest room and at the top of 51 stairs, simply for the spectacular view of the Abbey and sea. Why not have a Romantic weekend in Whitby to celebrate Valentine's day?

Click here for mor images of Whitby and The Abbey

We are opening for Valentine's Weekend

After our extended closure for our own holidays, Christmas and a bit of decorating we are reopening for Valentine's Weekend on 11th February. Come and indulge yourselves for a few days in Whitby and ask us about ideas on where to book that romantic meal. We look forward to seeing guests, both old and new. Whatever you choose to do have a romantic start to the year.

5 years at The Waverley

With the close of this year's Goth Weekend we have reached the end of another season, it's hard to believe that it is our 5th. The photo has been hijacked from our regular guest Joz's Facebook page. (Joz writes horror books, click here for his site)

The speculation and rumour about the Goth Weekend dates appears to be resolved with a move to November, see The Gazette for more details.
The original Goth Weekend is promoted by Jo Hampshire's site TopMum and the traditional date of the last weekend in October will now see the Bram Stoker film festival which has been held mid October for the last 2 years. Some Goth fringe events promoted by Dark Daisy, run by Jo Hampshire's ex husband Sam Hoyle, will be held alongside the film festival.

This is all a little confusing but I think that sums it up.

Thank You to our guests for our new Trip Advisor Award

When we opened the post this morning we were very surprised to receive a Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence, this is despite that we are slipping down the rankings. Some people will remember that we were ranked as No 1 on the hotel side of the Trip Advisor site, but when we received the Trip Advisor Traveller's Choice award earlier this year it was realised that we are a guest house and not a hotel, consequently we were moved onto the B&B side of the site. There is a great deal more competition on that side and as the ranking is based on quantity as well as quality of reviews we could not hope to be in the higher rankings as we have fewer letting rooms than some, coupled to only being open for about 9 months of the year and having many regular guests as well as plenty who do not have access to computers. There is also a weighting on Trip Advisor towards the more recent reviews.

Unlike most places we do not solicit reviews from our guests, nor do we offer any inducement to get them to do so, but we are always very grateful when someone takes the time and effort to put a comment on the review site. If you would like to see our reviews click here. Thank you to all of our guests.