Scarborough’s Grand Hotel should learn from Grantley Hall accolade – The Yorkshire Post says

North Yorkshire’s Grantley Hall one of just two hotels in the UK to be given five AA Red Stars

To receive a maximum five stars, at a time when the hospitality sector is being hit by chronic staff shortages, is testament to to the entire ethos at the exquisitely designed luxury hotel at Ripon.

If Scarborough’s Grand Hotel was in public ownership, it would be as cherished - Andrew Vine

And it also more than vindicates the vision – and investment – Valeria Sykes after she purchased the country house with a view to converting the building, and grounds, into one of the country’s premier hotels.

Scarborough’s Grand Hotel and why we’ll never return – Yorkshire Post Letters

Contrast this with the penny-pinching of Britannia Hotels as they continue to preside over the decline of Scarborough’s Grand Hotel, an even more iconic building.

Its fall from grace, and Britannia’s abject lack of ambition, becomes even more regrettable when Grantley Hall’s success is an object lesson in the art of the possible.

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