Video: No reservations about success of Yorkshire’s top hotels

Two of Yorkshire’s hotels have found their way into the top 25 places to stay in the UK in an annual survey conducted by the TripAdvisor website

Despite dropping two places after topping the poll last year, Rudding Park near Harrogate came third on the list – based on millions of internet reviews from travellers around the globe.

And The Chambers – Park Place, a plush development of modern serviced apartments in Leeds city centre – ranks as the seventh best in the UK.

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The Rudding Park estate was bought by Simon Mackaness, who remains the owner and chairman of the business, and his family in 1972.

Renovations on the Grade I listed house began in 1987. The 90-room hotel was opened 10 years later, and Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Archbishop Desmond Tutu rank among its most famous guests.

A multi-million pound development to create a 48-bedroom extension, spa and private cinema was completed last year, with rooms costing as much as £343 a night.

Peter Banks, the hotel’s managing director, said: “We’re so pleased to have been recognised for the fifth year in a row to be within the top three for the UK best hotel in the TripAdvisor travellers choice awards.”

The Charterhouse hotel in Torquay was named as the UK’s top hotel after rising through the ranks from last year’s fourth place, while Brighton’s The Twenty One was named the world’s best B&B.