The Tempest Arms

This hotel is lovely really lovely view from bedroom window. Really clean staff friendly. Food really good. Perfect location near Skipton.

Our room was clean and comfortable. The building itself is beautiful and Is set in a lovely area

The service in the restaurant left a lot to be desired. It took around 40 minutes for our order to be taken and then a long time for our food to be brought to us. I ordered a salt and pepper chicken salad priced at £16.95 with a side order of triple cooked chips. The salad consisted of a few salad leaves and honestly very little else. There was next to no carrot, cucumber, no spring onion at all. Had a waiter asked at any point how our meal was , I would have mentioned it but the only interaction was when we were paying our bill and we were bluntly asked to ‘just tap your card’ without even showing us the amount on screen or asking how things had been. The ‘triple cooked chips were hugely disappointing as most of them were pale and still rock hard. Not sure how you can cook something three times and it still remain undercooked !!! Overall I felt they were more focused on getting set up for breakfast and getting finished than the few diners still left. Breakfast was a little better the following morning but our wait to order was yet again lengthy but not as long as some of those around us. We were not once asked at either meal about any allergies either as I thought was standard industry practice. I have visited the tempest before. Once at a wedding and also previously on an overnights stay and really enjoyed it. For a hotel/pub/restaurant as well established as the tempest arms I went with high expectations but found I was very disappointed this time and felt the service and food did not reflect the cost of our stay which we booked as a Christmas present to each other

Location was good , breakfast was very nice . Staff were friendly and helpful

The noise from two other rooms was unbearable. I could hear two different televisions. People coughing , grunting !!! A dog barking . I am recovering from an illness and my sleep is very important. I could not go to sleep with the noise until both rooms turned off their televisions and the occupants went to sleep . An alarm went off very early in one of the adjacent rooms . That woke me up . Not ideal

Beautiful clean out of this world accommodation with fantastic views overlooking the stream

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Staff could not have done more for us and what a beautiful room with an incredible view of mountain and beck just outside the back door, and welcomed on arrival by a Robin!. Perfect end to a stress filled day

Nothing, it was perfect. Thank you

Room very comfortable on the ground floor.

Upon arrival at 3.0pm on Sunday 30th November I found the car park overflowing. No spaces anywhere. I waited for 15/20minutes until people started leaving. Parked my car and entered. The pub was absolutely full with no spare tables vacant. Checked in. No problem. Bought drinks from the bar and consumed them in the comfort of our room. The evening meal was restricted to the Sunday Lunch menu, served all day. I've had better meals at The Tempest.

Very friendly and welcoming staff. Hotel and pub of very good standard. Excellent food freshly cooked and hot.

Very very minor issue that bed moved/slid when you sat on it.

This is our second stay here and it did not disappoint, check in was very efficient and the receptionist was lovely .All the staff were friendly. Our room was comfortable and clean with lots of little touches eg complimentary water ,little bottle of milk in the fridge for hot drinks and cookies etc

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Breakfast poor

Cook it mayself

Location was great to travel around Yorkshire, parking is available onsite.

Our bed seemed smaller than a king as they indicated and the bed kept sliding across the room as the brakes weren’t holding on the wooden flooring Staff other than Sharon and the house staff, weren’t as engaging as our previous experience 2 years ago. On our 1st morning we missed breakfast by 6 minutes and all the receptionist could do was point to a sign on her desk with breakfast times. I believe she could have tried to arrange something with the chef as it was included and had been paid for. We appreciate it was our responsibility, but it was an oversight on our part, which again I believe could have been managed differently. Also staff in the pub for dinner and breakfast weren’t very engaging or hospitable and the quality of the food was average.

Everything

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Location was perfect.. close enough to civilisation but remote enough to feel rural..

The property was fine. Our Sunday roast was tasty but Luke warm, by the time we had realised, it was rather too late to complain. The desert was tasty also but took 20 mins to arrive from ordering, after asking of its whereabouts . Shame really

Good location

The room was very cold even with the heater on and the bathroom was freezing No milk. Had to find a barman Very expensive for a normal sized room sold as superior suite.

Great location Great Hosts Great Room Great Evening Thankyou to Nat, Chris and staff

Stayed Longer

Beautiful place, and our room was wonderful. We chose the bedroom with the bath and the view of the beck, which included an outside seating area. The food was great (particularly the chicken supreme) and the staff were friendly. Good service. We will definitely return!

Not a reflection on the hotel but I struggled to use the coffee machine in the room. Everything else was perfect

Lovely property clean and comfortable. Overall excellent from booking to departure. Would recommend.

Nothing to dislike

Nice room lovely pub

There was just one of the staff I thought was very rude

Nice and well decorated room. It was comfortable. The hotel receptionists were friendly.

The restaurant was another story. We were waiting at the bar for 45 minutes despite a reservation. I would have appreciated some communication. I would definitely visit again but book the restaurant somewhere else .

absolutely loved everything about this place can’t praise enough can’t wait to visit again.

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Beautiful place. Really good large room with seating area. Plenty of public seating outside. Easy to get on the main roads and a bus stop very close by. The staff were lovely .

Not a lot of storage room if there for more than one or two nights. No changes to the menus for the same reason. The areas between the outside rooms were not cleaned - due to the wild life visiting it really needs checking every day. Our bookings for evening meals in the restaurant were lost. The breakfast menu was very different - a sandwich being two doorstops of bread with choice in the middle. Impossible to bite into and the knives weren't sharp enough to tackle them. Of course full English was offered as well as other options.

Great breakfast and evening meal ,very quiet during night . Excellent room with private garden and outside furniture

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Clean Nicely decorated

Far out

From walking into the Hotel we were greeted with happy vibes from the hotel Receptionist. The free afternoon cake on check-in was an unexpected bonus & treat. The Room we had booked was just perfect, far better than we expected off the photos, very spacious, clean & super views of rolling hills & sheep. The Restaurant was also very nice & the Chef cooked up some lovely dishes for us. We loved our stay at The Tempest Arms & its Unpretentiousness. Thank you & we will come back.

We didn’t like the fact we hadn’t booked for longer❤️

Everything was great apart from the temporary manager trying to close the bar at 9 pm. After us complaining she eventually carried on serving. But only until 10 pm still 30 minutes earlier than its says on a Sunday

Reception lady very helpful and friendly, Bar staff busy but pleasant, Food very good inc breakfast. Location quiet and easily found

The staff were lovely and very helpful. The food was lovely. We particularly liked the breakfast which was freshly cooked and individually rather than a buffet. The room was very clean and comfortable. We were also able to check in early.

Maybe a later breakfast option.

The Tempest Arms is situated just off the A56 near small village of Elslack, 5 miles outside Skipton. This is the local pub for the village and appears well used by locals. There were several local craft ales on tap. This would be a good place for a few pints with the lads.

We arrived on a sunday and booked a table for dinner with reception when we arrived. On arriving for dinner we were told our booking for a booth table although made with reception "wasn't guaranteed" and we'd have to sit in the bar area in front of a rather loud singer/entertainer. We were not informed by either reception when we booked or by our server that there was a special offer when booking 2 sunday roasts-we had to be informed of this by a group of locals. When we pointed this out we were given (very reluctantly it seemed to us) the free bottle of wine which should have accompanied our meal, but we received on leaving. The food when it arrived (almost an hour after ordering) was hot, very good and plentiful. Although there appeared to be plenty of staff on duty, there appeared to be a lack of direction. Bar staff clearing tables, bringing food from kitchen while waiting staff meandered around doing ???? It also needs said that the bar/restaurant was a very busy place , but someone needs to bring some organisation to this. Breakfast had cereal/yoghurt buffet style (no fresh fruit options at all), and cooked breakfast options (of which there were many) were served to your table. Our server despite writing down our order, forgot to bring toast to the table (they had run out of white bread-only brown available). We were woken very early on monday morning by contractors cleaning bins/cleaning drains using very noisy equipment

Beautiful location. Friendly staff. Clean comfy rooms. Great breakfast and nice little 5 star touches throughout.

From the moment we checked in the receptionist and other staff were so friendly and helpful. Our room was a good size and spotlessly clean. There were lots of choices of different coffees and teas plus a little bottle of semi skimmed milk in the fridge. Personally we couldn't fault anything .The food and service in the restaurant was spot on .

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Loved this the refurb- beautifully done-,excellent room-,menu evening and breakfast good! Appreciated the sitting out area

Breakfast mainly concentrating on cooked items. Wold have liked more natural yogurt ( not in small tub) and berries,

As above