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Reviews of The Forresters Arms Kilburn

3 out of 5
The Forresters Arms Kilburn
The Square, York, England

Reviews

8.8

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 63 out of 110 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 34 out of 110 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 9 out of 110 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 110 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 110 reviews" "

9.2/10

Cleanliness

9.2/10

Staff & service

9.2/10

Amenities

8.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Julie

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A lovely place to stay in a lovely part of Yorkshire. the food here is excellent, both the evening meals and the breakfasts. Good value for money. The rooms are clean and the beds are comfortable. Definitely recommend if visiting this part of the world.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Zara

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent stay. Staff are lovely, food was superb. The only little thing I would mention is that the room was very cold even though the heating was on but this was an unusually cold spell and therefore the heating may have just struggled a little.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Leon

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

6/10 Okay

J m

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Nice eatery but freezing cold room
The pub itself was cosy. The food was excellent. Breakfast - was tasty and staff attentive however would prefer to choose on the day rather than day before. Room was quaint but absolutely freezing. Unbearably freezing. We may as well had gone camping. Mentioned on check out however staff already seemed aware and said heating was on a timer. Ensure you check the temperature of the room and request a heater if it’s cold. Ours got colder and colder through the night. Very uncomfortable and disappointing for a rare childfree break.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Elisabeth

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent service and food really good. But our room was cold.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Pat

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
End of Nov. Staff lovely. Breakfast and evening meals excellent. Room big and nicely set out. Bed comfy. Overall look of Foresters very pleasant. Only negative was our room very cold (too few radiators and not big enough, had to fold curtains onto window sills to expose radiators and still too cold) also bathroom ( suggest a blind at window). Would love to return if room (no. 4) was warm.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Susan

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Cosy pub with lovely bedrooms and an excellent restaurant.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

ALLAN

Business traveller, Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect
We had a lovely visit to the area. We had almost every meal at The Foresters.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jeremy

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ruth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mike

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A comfortable and relaxing break.
My son and I had a couple of nights here when visiting my elderly father who lives nearby. The service in the bar and restaurant was excellent and we were made to feel welcome. The rooms are spacious, clean and comfortable. The food in the restaurant is very good. I prefer vegetarian food and I found plenty of interesting choices. The surrounding area is excellent for its views and scenery.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Bucky

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property, staff, in this rural pub/hotel was outstanding. I would highly recommend it. Food and pub were excellent. It was a most pleasant stay. Kilburn was historic, and the near by town (6 miles away) Thirsk was also a neat pleasant village with shopping and the town is where a TV show is produced, and it is a short train ride to York.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

David

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Room comfort
Lovely pub, room not great
We stayed in the accessible room with courtyard view. Room was clean with comfy bed and modern decor. The room was dark with a small window overlooking the beer garden, which wasn’t ideal. Window propped open with a piece of wood. The room is next to the kitchen so there is a loud fan during the day, it is turned off at night. The room felt out of place and far from cosy. Couldn’t get wifi in the room during our stay, also had to re tune the tv. We asked if it was possible to move rooms but it wasn’t possible as fully booked. The pub is lovely and breakfast good. Would go back but would not stay in the same room.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Sara

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Adrian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Can’t get better than this
It’s not often you award a hotel 10/10. It’s as good as you’re ever going to get. The two telephone calls prior to my arrival, the welcome upon arrival and the lovely food was spot on. Comfortable in a really quiet and pleasant village with car parking right in the square outside the pub door. You pre-order your breakfast the night before from an extensive menu.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joe

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fantastic spot with great rooms and hospitality
Fantastic B&B pub. We booked the day of our stay as a last minute treat. We will definitely be coming back again. Staff are wonderful and inviting, breakfast is fantastic, rooms are lovely and well maintained. We took our two year old daughter and she loved it. She was made really welcome and catered for. We were in the pub with her having dinner until 10pm and no one made us feel unwelcome with her. Thank you so much for our stay!
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Pauline

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Forresters Arms is a very charming place, quiet and well maintained. The facilities are good and the staff friendly. It is ideally located to go hiking in the National Park. We will definitely come back here when we travel next in the area!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Gerald

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Friendly country pub with rooms. great location
Friendly, clean comfortable. Parking outside provided by council donation requested
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

angelique

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Angelique
Lovely little hotel set in a beautiful village. Duncan was amazing and very helpful and always on hand. Lovely hotel/country pub would highly recommend this hotel
View from my window
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Pat

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

10/10 Excellent

Martin

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2022

10/10 Excellent

Lisa

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a lovely pub with fantastic rooms. It is in a stunning location and the owners and all staff were very friendly and could not do enough for us during our stay. The bedroom was very comfortable, cosy decor and immaculately clean and with lots of little touches to make your stay perfect. The breakfast is fantastic - lots of options but I would recommend the full Yorkshire (although you may struggle to finish as they do not skimp on portions !!!) A Fabulous stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022

8/10 Good

Alia

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely room, fabulous setting. Odd shower and very ordinary breakfast
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Ciara

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Joanne

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

catherine

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A Credit to the Area
As soon as we pulled up out side the look of the Forresters Arms was welcoming and the when we went in side to check in again the staff were very welcoming and the paperwork was simple and smooth couldn't ask for more. The whole of the Forresters Arms was clean, the food was well presented on the plant and the staff who served were also well presented, will be looking to use again when in the area without a second thought.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Alexandra, Bellevue

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We had a lovely stay in this traditional pub about 40 mins drive from central York. Drinks, dinner and breakfast were all excellent. Highly recommended!
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

BEN

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Amazing place fabulous walks and very friendly staff
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Jill

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

8/10 Good

Richard

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Night in North Yorkshire
Nice pub in a nice village, good beer selection and food was nice for dinner and breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
All in all not the friendly clean pub was hoping
Mix up over deposit taken was told I owed full amount not half even though I had statement stating taken they just hadn’t claimed it not my fault .. that was at check in after 7 hour drive not what I want checking in .. room very dusty and shower black mould and ledge in bathroom thick dust . Meals ordered in restaurant didn’t come as discribed both main and desert. Breakfast pre ordered night before we asked for 8 as had busy day and needed to get off however still took until 8.30 to be served . Why bother pre order if can’t get it ready for time booked . Supposed to be eco friendly by not giving out toiltrees in room but put plastic water and plastic milk pots in room so surly you would use glass bottles or carafe . Parking was a nightmare as car park near pub full so had to find parking space on road eventually Managed to move car to car park after customers left. All in all I wouldn’t go back too many negatives not friendly Yorkshire pub I was expecting and hoping for another hotel that keeps calling us guys we find this offensive being pensioners
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Amy

Stayed 1 night in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Sue

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

8/10 Good

Frank

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2022

8/10 Good

Ben

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021

10/10 Excellent

Steve

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent village pub
Excellent village pub with rooms , have stayed here before , and will again , excellent in every aspect
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021

10/10 Excellent

Clare

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent weekend lovely hotel great food
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2021

8/10 Good

John

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice clean hotel with great food.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

10/10 Excellent

thomas

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place
Really nice place with great bar and excellent breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

10/10 Excellent

Anne Lorraine

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely Overnight Stay
Spent one night to break up a longer journey and glad we did. Really traditional establishment and we had a lovely dinner then breakfast in the morning. Nice relaxing vibe, friendly and helpful staff too. Rooms were compact but very clean and comfy beds! Good sized shower/toilet facilities.Would definitely stay again if in the area.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

philip

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Brilliant
Very nice stay room was very good and restaurant was very nice
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Carla

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fantastic
Fantastic, with lovely extra touches. Staff were very nice and extremely helpful. Fantastic food
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

8/10 Good

Chris

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

8/10 Good

Carole

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely meal
A lovely village pub with extremely helpful staff and lovely service. We enjoyed a really good dinner which was far above the standard of average pub grub. It was also good to see the extensive range of wines by the glass.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Food was stunning. Staff really friendly, efficient and very accommodating. Lovely quiet location. Beautiful building and decor.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021

8/10 Good

Kenneth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Fantastic food and ale. Excellent rooms and service.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021