The Lighthorseman

Would recommend this to anyone wanting to stay in York. Less than 10 minutes walk from the city walls. Rooms are above a pub that serves food. Excellent pricing compared to others. Clean well appointed rooms. Staff were friendly and helpful. Free parking also which most others don't offer!

Lovely clean room, friendly staff and good atmosphere. Breakfast was delicious 😋 excellent location

Needed a cheap quick overnight stay. Extremely basic. Old. Noisy. It felt unsafe The lock on the door not adequate Building felt abandoned after hours Noisy from pub below Headache from fresh paint from pub reno below the room Radiator kept me up all night god knows if it needs bleeding but it was so noisy Pillow cases on bed stained Duvet cover stained I wish i hadnt booked this room. Worst place ive ever stayed. Isnt fit for purpose. Price for double room advertised as 50£ but somehow ive been invoiced and paid £55 I could have got a premier inn for less and been happy

Small room, no table for drinks tray and kettle only a mantelpiece from which kettle lead does not reach down to the plug socket so you have to boil the kettle on the floor. The room smells foisty and damp, and the walls and ceiling in the bathroom have numerous areas of furry black mould spores, as well as on the windows and frames. The extractor fan is blocked with clumps of fluff and shower head is dirty and has mould and hair on it. Even the tv remote is so old that all the button labels have worn off and the battery cover is missing, highlighting that this is more like being in a charitable hostel than a paying guest B&B because it is so poorly cleaned and maintained, of a very low quality and hygiene standard and thus hugely overpriced. During our stay the room was not cleaned nor towels replaced, evidenced by the peanuts and crumbs that were on the floor when we arrived and most probably still remain. If the rooms at the Lighthorseman were about £25 then they probably would be more realistic for someone on a really tight budget looking for a room only stay and prepared to accept somewhat unhygienic slightly cramped conditions as a trade off for the low price, but at £70 without breakfast or reasonable comfort as a B&B the Lighthorseman falls incredibly short to the point of actually being offensive and a rip off.

Our stay started of with a blocked unusable toilet. On further inspection the room was in a poor state one of our children shut the door to the bedroom to have the handle come off in his hand, bath surround was warped and broken, pull out bed was unusable as it was so hard and had lots of unknown stains on so my daughter ended up sleeping on the floor. The whole room just felt dirty and unclean wouldn't recommend to anyone, if we had not had pre-paid activities booked in York we would of gone home.

Hotel was very well situated, only 10-15 walk to town centre. There was free parking. Our room was small, but comfortable. Could have done with a chair, but we only stayed 2 nights. Full length mirror we ease of access to sockets.

Staff super friendly and helpful, room was really clean (a little dated but excellent value for money) and warm (despite it being very cold out!). Nice touch having the travel plug/USB in the room. Great location - not as noisy as being central but still walking distance with easy access to river path for the morning walk! It's an older property so if you are a very light sleeper, take ear plugs. Would definitely stay again.

Nice friendly pub to stop in close to city centre. Good bus service for when it poured down.