The Horse & Farrier

Friendly staff, good location and nice cozy room!

Room are up several sets of stairs, on the plus side there's no noise from the downstairs pub (they have music on Thursdays). There's a second exit to the rear car-park, although the hotel has only 4 spaces it backs onto the large North Parade car park. The location is close by the river which has a nice bank-side walk and it's within walking distance of everything else in Otley. I can't comment on the dinner as the chef was on maternity leave and evening meals were 'off' but the cooked breakfast was fine and the range of beers and ales in the bar was good. Rooms are comfortable but quite small, from memory there's 4 or 5 in what seems to be loft conversion. My room was shower only via an instant electric heater which was actually OK. Other facilities in the room were fine, with a small desk, kettle, wardrobe etc. An annoyance was the room doors are on automatic closers, probably for fire regs, and other guests did let them slam shut. I'm sure closers can be adjusted so avoid that! WiFi was OK, but they were having some problems when I was there, maybe linked to the till not accepting credit cards. I paid via *********** to resolve that. All in all, I thought decent value and really nothing startling to complain about.

I stayed at the Horse and Farrier, on a bitterly cold night in March. The pub was really busy when I arrived and I was a bit disappointed to be told that they weren`t serving food, as I didn`t particularly want to venture back out again into the cold ! However, the radiators in my room had been turned up prior to my arrival. so the room was toasty warm, which was a nice touch. My room was spot on, comfortable, spotlessly clean, with a modern bathroom and a power shower. You couldn`t hear a single noise from the pub downstairs, in fact there was no noise at all, so I slept like a log. The lads behind the bar, who doubled up as the receptionists, were really friendly and gave me a list of local places to eat, in lieu of the food being off. ( I ate at a local pizza place ) I`d happily stay at the Horse and Farrier again and it`s well worth the money they charge.