Whitby Accommodation The Wide Range Available to Visitors to this town

Since the Victorian times, Whitby has been the vacation choice for numerous holiday visitors. The bracing air of the North East Coast and the freshness of the North Sea together with the historical background and the gold colored sandy beaches have made the port of Whitby an extremely desirable tourist destination.

With the introduction of the Steam Train in the 1830s, the increased holiday population led to the building of many hotels and boarding establishments. A great number of bigger purpose built hotels remain currently together with quite a number of different types of holiday accommodation.

Hotels are nowadays governed by strict rules relating to facilities available under the umbrella of the English Tourist Board, so too, are the Bed and Breakfast establishments. Specific rules must be adhered to for any accommodation listed or recommended by the Tourist Information Office or advertised in the local council holiday brochures.

Many of the holiday cottages and holiday apartments are in the same way guided by these rules resulting in the higher quality of accommodation across the board.

There's a wide variety of choice available for those wishing to book hotel accommodation. The English Tourist Board grading system indicates the facilities and quality of each individual hotel which are yearly inspected by an 'undercover' visitor.

There has been an emergence of individually designed theme hotels such as an old fashioned hotel decorated in the period of Lewis Carroll. Increasingly more of the hotels are open year-round as in previous decades a lot of the larger hotels closed 'out of season', or possibly opened for school parties either side of the summer months.

The majority of the Bed and Breakfast establishments register with the English Tourist Board and are annually inspected. Fire and safety regulations have to be adhered to for establishments taking more than six guests. The standards have risen dramatically and it is more often than not that the bedrooms are en-suite. Here too has been the emergence of themed holiday accommodation, a gothic bed and breakfast and one with each bedroom featuring the theme of different countries as an example.

Holiday cottages and apartments are incredibly popular. There are a variety of old fishermen's cottages to rent in the area. This olde worlde accommodation is more or less nestled around the harbour area or along Church Street. They may be old but if the accommodation is ETB inspected, then the standards are set high.

Regarding holiday apartments, these are quite often in the larger older buildings on the West Cliff but there's been an emergence of new purpose built apartments specifically bought with the intention of holiday accommodation. These modern surroundings and furnishings are in direct contrast with the more quaint traditional types of accommodation. The vast majority of holiday apartments are also ETB inspected and graded.

Not all accommodation in Whitby and the vicinity is confined to bricks and mortar. There are a selection of caravan parks and camping sites. Those on the cliff tops as well as offering superb facilities, have extensive coastal and country views. To be sure of high standards, the sites chosen should also be ETB inspected, Caravan Club members or inspected by the local council.