If you are visiting Newcastle and you’d like an experience you won’t soon forget, you should try staying in the Vermont Hotel. This impressive building has an attached apart-hotel complex for long term stays but we are more interested in the 4-star hotel. With exposed rafters in some rooms, dark wooden furniture and bright, light rooms, this place is a real treat. The best part about it? It’s situated right beside Castle Garth.

The Vermont Hotel is one of the few independent hotels in Newcastle, so there is no chain of franchised buildings backing it up. It overlooks the cathedral and the Tyne and Millennium bridges, so you have wonderful views. The hotel has access to the quay area, making it possibly the best situated hotel in town.

Rooms are spacious and come with free toiletries, a desk or workspace, and a separate seating area. Some rooms have a castle view. The Maven restaurant is onsite while they have their own bar, too. You can expect excellent service, cleanliness, and a commitment to detail from the Vermont Hotel in Newcastle. Excellence is the only way an independent business can survive among the big hotel chains nowadays.