Cbh Hardwick Hall Hotel ★★★★

"First visit and it will not be last. Building is beautiful full of character. Sedgefield is a lovely village. However, the room we stayed in 416 needs soundproofing. When we went back to room on the night there was a loud constance noise like a furnace, on enquiring by staff I was advised room was next to kitchen its the extractor fans going. It did stop after evening service but was woken up early when they were put on again for breakfast and on constant till we checked out. On returning I will be requesting a room no where near kitchen."

The Impeccable Pig ★★★★

"Bit of a mixed review, stayed 2 nights here and had dinner in the restaurant both evenings. The room we stayed in was gorgeous! Very luxurious and decorated to a high standard! Massive bed, massive copper bath in the room, massive TV, massive shower and private hot tub in the outdoor garden space. One thing the hotel REALLY needs to invest in is some soundproofing for the rooms. We could hear everything from the room above us. Hearing someone use the toilet above you is a bit of a mood killer on a romantic getaway! Minibar in the room is extortionately priced! £27 for a 20cl bottle of whisky or gin! Towels and robes were provided but the towels were hard and crispy, They need to use some fabric softener, the robes despite being sized as L were far too small for me, I'm a big guy, usually XL shirt. The TV is not a smart TV so no streaming options, just free view. On our first night the pub was very busy, and loud! Luckily the restaurant is isolated away from the noise of the pub and shielded by... a pair of curtains! So whilst we tried to enjoy our evening meal we were subjected to the drunken revellers shouting and their extensive knowledge of profanity. All of the staff we encountered were great! Friendly, chatty and very amenable to making changes to the dishes on the menu. Service however was slow. Over 10 minutes for drinks to arrive. 10 more for someone to come and take our order. A table opposite who were seated after us, ordered and had their meals infront of them before we did. I had the flat-iron steak with chimichurri sauce. It was cooked well but tasteless. My wife had the chicken supreme which was good. 2nd night service was the same... very slow, I had a sirloin steak, again it was cooked well and to my liking but the chef had massively overseasoned it with salt. My wife had panchetta wrapped pork loin which again was very salty! Breakfast both mornings was good. I had a full English and it was very nice, perfectly runny poached eggs. TLDR. Rooms nice but could be improved. Restaurant staff great when they eventually get to your table, food could be better. Would I stay here again? No. Would I eat here again? Probably not."

Travelodge Sedgefield ★★★

"11 of us stayed in 5 rooms. Rooms were clean and tidy. Ideally there would be plugs by the beds for phones etc. It worked out very cheaply for us and was only 5 minutes to Hardwick Hall where we were going to a wedding."

The Pickled Parson of Sedgefield ★★★★

"Clean and comfortable"

Dun Cow Inn ★★★

Hardwick Arms Hotel ★★★

"The first issue we had is that one of our party turned up at 9.30pm - we'd turned up at 8pm and told the hotel reception that the last member was on their way maybe 2 hours behind us. "No problem" we were told and no issues were flagged and the bar that was attached to the reception was supposed to be open until 11pm. Our colleague turned up around 9.30pm, but the reception was closed, the bar and reception had been shut up (at 9.15pm it turns out) and no-one was around. In fact if we hadn't already checked in earlier and had a key to the lobby, our colleague would have been left outside in the cold and dark as the lobby area was shut too with no contact details on the door outside. There was a notice board with an emergency contact in the lobby area - not helpful if you've already been locked out and couldn't see through a wall and around a corner - but it didn't make any difference. No-one was answering the hotel phone (we could hear it ringing) - no one answered the "emergency number" (it went straight to Tesco voicemail) - and no-one got back to us after we left multiple messages on the "emergency number". When I spoke to the manager the next morning to ask what had happened, they said that the emergency phone was "sometimes quiet". When I asked why they used a quiet phone for the emergency contact and why she hadn't replied to the voicemails we left around 12 hours earlier, she said that the phone reception wasn't good. When asked why they used an emergency phone that was too quiet to hear and allegedly had poor reception, we didn't get an answer - and we didn't get an answer as to why our voicemails still hadn't been replied to. She did explain that they didn't normally have check-in after 8pm - and that her colleague was new and should not have told us it would be ok to check in later if he was going to shut everything up and go home, knowing that someone else was on their way to check in. Ok - someone new might have forgotten - but not answering the emergency contact phone is absolutely unacceptable. The travel agents who we booked it through couldn't raise the hotel either when our colleague tried to check in (the travel agents got back to me at 11.20pm and said that they had given up), so our colleague had to check into a different hotel - it turns out that they were the lucky one. We'll obvious chase the refund on that, but probably for the other 2 rooms - and here is why. Where to start.....well every room in the hotel seems to have a macerator toilet and they also seem to be connected to the sink and shower drains, so every time someone uses the toilet, runs a tap or has a shower, there is a sound like a skip lorry unloading a skip. They almost seem to be calling to each other through the building. If someone has a shower, the macerator goes off every 30 seconds or so as the water runs through it - and the noise they make travels through the building. You can also hear everything in the room above - every step producing a creak o"