The Stables

The Stables is in Scarborough, North Yorkshire (Riggs Head Farm Riggs Head, Scarborough, United Kingdom), close to Scarborough Castle.

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The Stables is a 3-star hotel in North Yorkshire.

Guests rate it 4.8 across 21 reviews. It's a midscale choice for North Yorkshire.

Yes for the Yorkshire Dales and most of the North York Moors, no for York itself. Places like Aysgarth Falls, Rievaulx Abbey, Bolton Castle and Sutton Bank have thin or weekend-only bus service, and DalesBus routes around Grassington run mainly at weekends. If you are staying in York, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Skipton, Scarborough or Whitby and travelling by train, you can manage without one — the Coastliner 840 and 843 buses link York, Malton and Pickering to Whitby and Scarborough. Remember that central York hotel parking typically adds £15–£25 a night, so a car you do not use is expensive.

Both, but the areas divide fairly cleanly. Families do best on the coast at Scarborough and Filey, where the beaches, Peasholm Park and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway from Pickering to Grosmont fill several days, and where hotels are more likely to have family rooms. Couples tend to prefer Harrogate, Helmsley, Masham or a Wensleydale inn, and many small Dales pubs with rooms have doubles only. Ripon and Knaresborough sit in between and cost around £75–£110, with Fountains Abbey and Mother Shipton's Cave both suiting mixed-age groups.

Anything on the coast for July and August, and anything in York on a race weekend. Robin Hood's Bay and Grassington have very few rooms in total and sell out months ahead for summer Saturdays. Both Whitby Goth Weekends — late April and around Halloween — take the town out of general availability, as does the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate in the second week of July and York's Ebor Festival in mid-August. Two-night minimums are normal for coastal Saturdays from June to September, so plan Friday-to-Sunday rather than a single night.

Around £95–£150 for a mid-range double across most of the county, and £110–£180 in central York or Harrogate. Budget rooms and pub stays in Northallerton, Bedale, Thirsk, Selby or back-street Scarborough usually run £55–£85 including breakfast. The top end — country houses near Ripon and in Wensleydale, sea-view rooms on Scarborough's Esplanade, York townhouse hotels — is roughly £180–£350. Rates roughly double in central York on Ebor Festival nights and on St Nicholas Fair weekends from mid-November.

The towns are very walkable; the gaps between them are not. York's centre is compact enough that the walls circuit takes about an hour, and Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon, Richmond and Skipton are all easily crossed on foot. Whitby is walkable but vertical — the 199 steps up to the abbey and the East Cliff are the point — and Robin Hood's Bay means a steep half-mile down from the clifftop car park, which is hard work with luggage. Between areas you need a car or a train: York to Whitby is 45 miles, and there is no direct rail line.