Name: The Black Bull Hotel
Address: 38 Market Street, Kirkby Stephen, Kirkby Stephen, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4QW, United Kingdom
Rating: 8

Smoke-free property

Heating

Garden

No elevators

General

Non-smoking rooms

Family room

Hairdryer

Flat-screen TV

Shower/Bathtub

Bathtub

Shower

Wardrobe/Closet

Linens

Toiletries

Rooms

Luggage storage

Iron

Services and amenities

Diet menu (on request)

Restaurant

Snack bar

Packed Lunches

Kettle

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

English

Languages Spoken

Fishing

Recreation

Parking

Free parking nearby

Free Parking on Premises

Beach/pool towels

Pool and beach

Darts

Tennis court

Sports

Family/Kid Friendly

Kids

Pets allowed

Pets

Location

At the hotel

Room amenities

Stainmore Railway Company Ltd.

Teesside International Airport

The Black Bull Hotel

Kirkby Stephen

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

10-beds

11-beds

12-beds

13-beds

14-beds

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16-beds

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18-beds

19-beds

2-beds

20-beds

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22-beds

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24-beds

25-beds

26-beds

27-beds

28-beds

29-beds

3-beds

30-beds

31-beds

32-beds

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37-beds

38-beds

39-beds

4-beds

40-beds

5-beds

6-beds

7-beds

8-beds

9-beds

king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

2-bedrooms

3-bedrooms

4-bedrooms

5-bedrooms

6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

This hotel was nice and clean with everything you could need for a night away. The only issue was that we were on the top room and the heating wasn’t working on our room. Once we came in the room was freezing this impacted my asthma the next day and we had to leave quickly in the morning. The room and service was great however.

Cold couple ❄️

Another honest review. So we stayed 2 night over the New Year 2023 as we wanted to get away from the city hustle and bustle and it’s exactly what we got. Room was fine and had a huge bath with a good hot shower . The staff we met were all great, happy and would answer any questions, breakfast was good too. I’d deffo come back.

New Year

Quite pricey for a small double room (bed up against the wall) with no breakfast, bed was comfortable room lovely and warm

Called in for a drink . Barmaid had no social skills turned so many people away as too busy ? Serving people then ignoring them and talking to people walking in . Had a table of 9 and 4 . Only pub open so expected this pub to be thriving . Maybe need more staff as she seemed extremely stressed out. 
Pub didn’t seem clean, food all over tables and salt and pepper
Don’t think we will return

Awful

Had a great experience at this hotel in Kirkby Stephen recently. Very easy booking in by the young lady behind the bar, went above and beyond to make us feel welcome. Pub in general gad a good atmosphere. Rooms were a good size, clean, tidy and warm. Would definitely stay again without doubt. 

Recent Stay 

Stopped on way to barrow in Furness for lunch. Dreadful food. Steak sandwich was lumps of steak with lots of mushrooms. Halloumi wrap was tasteless and seemed to have fried lettuce in. Certainly no sweet chilli sauce. Frozen fried chips. Not worth £9 each. Place looks grubby and menu holder was stuck to table with grime. Now in a gorgeous hotel and had to cancel evening meal as stomach upset. 

Don’t eat there

Stopped by for lunch on a quiet wet Thursday. Welcoming fire in the grate and the best steaks we have had in a long time. The stilton sauce was particularly moreish. Very enjoyable meal and we will definitely be paying a return visit.

A Warm Welcome.

Very tired, dirty floor and walls no staff to accommodate in the morning of checkout and only person that works in morning didn’t speak English so not helpful when needing to ask questions

Check in was via the bar staff, and although there were only two of them, this was ok and we were taken to our rooms. I was in Room 1. I was disappointed to find no light bulbs in the reading lights over the bed. In the bathroom, the towel rail was loose on the wall, and only just held by two screws. It had a rail missing as well. Also, there was no toilet roll holder. In addition, for the double bed there was only one bedside table, but there would have been no room for one anyway. The cooked breakfast was fine, but I had to ask for marmalade/ jam to go on toast. In general, breakfast service was poor. And to check out, we had to search the property for someone to hand over the keys to. For the price I paid -£144 - I felt it was very bad value. The saving grace was the location, which was excellent.

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