Best Hotels near National Trust - Hardwick Estate: Stainsby Mill, Bolsover District

Needed convenient stopping point from Surrey to Chestefield, one night, for a funeral. Location ideal. Despite proximity to M1 itself, road noise was not excessive. Receptionist was really welcoming; gave me a choccie bar and bottle of water. You can stroll to the services for Mcdonald's or Costa - and WH Smith etc, (if open). . The overall decor is a bit 'tired' but everything was clean, bed fresh, coffee/tea facilities. Would have preferred the radio to be fitted by the bedside not table across the room (!). Freeview TV quite adequate for one night........ Bedroom was huge (guess it would double up as a family room at times) - and possibly I could have taken my dog with me, in which case the extra space was great. For functionality cannot fault.

Lovely place though a little dated

I have used this place a few times for groups. This time they really fell short. There is no one in charge. Very difficult to speak to a manager. Issues with the restaurant. Short staffed. Food was too salty. Soya sauce based dishes were not edible. No one asked when sent back unfinished if there was an issue. Only robots delivering food and very inexperience staff. Couldn't order more drinks in good time. Breakfast is buffet and is very basic. Ok. It is clean. However, for £250 a room I think that it is overpriced. Thank goodness for Trip.com much better rate 2 days before the event. Baths do not drain. Taps and fittings are loose or not finished properly. Poor customer service overall, despite having 5 rooms in our group and dinner for 10. Said they would call me back. Which they have not. That was after speaking to a man who said that he was not the manager, had only worked there for 8 weeks, yet told me that I was not familiar with the service industries! Such a shame. Will have to find somewhere else next time. Not a hint of a smile or an apology or anything to say that he would feed back. 🤷

Clean but bed was uncomfortable. Ok if your passing through but not one for a family stay

I loved this hotel. The decor was tasteful, staff was extremely friendly. Rooms were cosy and clean. Had some drinks and snacks at their bar and the cocktails were really nice. Staff were attentive and polite. The dinner menu in the restaurant was really nice too. Breakfast became busy and I think the staff were struggling to keep up because I had to wait a while before glasses were stocked to get juice and milk was replenished for my tea. My only gripe about the room was lack of electrical sockets near the bedside tables to barge the phones. Would definitely stay here again.

I came to stay at your hotel because my mother is sick in a nearby hospital. All I needed was a quiet place to sleep. When I arrived the reception staff couldn’t find my booking. The key card barely worked, having to be swiped at least 10 times to get into the room. The room clearly hadn’t been decorated since the 90s, which meant it lacked modern convinces like a plug socket near the bed to charge my phone, or more importantly air con. I had stupidly assumed being in the 21st century and charging not a small amount of money for the night, these would at least be standard. During the middle of this heatwave it was positively uncomfortable. I think I would have struggled to sleep just with that, but the noise made it pretty impossible. The hotel backs into a major road, as many do. But I have never stayed in one before where it sounded like I was sitting in the middle of the road. It was so load that despite the terrible heat I ended up closing the window. Not that easy as the window handle was missing! This unfortunately didn’t really make it any quieter. When the sleepless night was over I went for a shower to try and revive myself, but the water pressure was so low it was not exactly refreshing. All in all the place needs pulling down and starting again.

Play and stay visit . We stayed in a pirate suite and I must say it was a really nice room , clean and spacious , quiet and a great little club house (bar) . We payed for the birthday package and sweet bouquet. There where birthday banners,balloons and a gullivers bear in the room along with the sweetie bouquet all went down well and then shortly after checking in gully and pirate came to see us with a birthday cake we had a dance and took some photos. The entertainment in thr evening was good . Tom did a great job at entertaining the kids making sure no one was left out and everyone got Involved. Drinks where reasonably priced and can't comment on food as we ate out . Sausages and bacon at breakfast didn't look great so we decided to drive down the road, park doesn't open till 10:30 on a Sunday and you have to check out at 10 anyway so had some time to waste. Great birthday stay value for money and both Tom and Hannah where wonderful making sure we had a great stay and my daughter enjoyed her birthday. Yes I would return . To note: in the evening marshmallow toasting is part of the entertainment but they fail to mention that its £4 for a bag of marshmallows I'd bring your own x 😉

Stayed for three nights in August. Cannot praise The View highly enough. The staff were very welcoming on arrival and when we got to our room it was amazing. The rooms are huge, large bathroom. lovely comfortable bed, a great seating area with sofa and armchair and a private terrace to sit and admire the wonderful view. Everything was spotlessly clean. A great bonus was the fridge with a bottle of fresh milk and bottled water that was replenished daily. Breakfast choice was excellent, service and food quality was superb. We dined at the White Horse and the choice was good, with high quality food beautifully cooked and presented. The staff at the View and the White Horse were brilliant. Overall this was one of the best hotels we have stayed at and we will be back.