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Located in a tranquil, residential street, Clementine's Guest House offers free Wi-Fi, characterful rooms and is just a 10-minute walk from York Minster and the Theatre Royal. All 27 en-suite bedrooms have been individually decorated with antique furniture and feature both tea/coffee making facilities and an en-suite bathroom with complimentary toiletries. Guests can relax in the residents lounges or the private, walled garden to the rear of the property. Clementine's Guest House is just a 10-minute stroll from the historic city centre and picturesque Shambles shopping area. York Railway Station can be reached in a 20-minute walk.
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HOTEL STYLE
Residential Neighbourhood
Quirky Hotels
Languages Spoken
English
Location
4 - 5 Saint Peters Grove, York YO30 6AQ England
Clementine's Guest House
4.5 reviews
Getting there
Good for walkers
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Clementine's Guest House has garnered acclaim from guests for its immaculate cleanliness and uniquely charming atmosphere, with each room's individual design receiving particular praise. While the cost has been noted as steep, including parking fees, the hotel's prime location offers a tranquil yet convenient base for exploring York.
Service at Clementine's is generally celebrated for being attentive, although the breakfast experience has shown some inconsistencies. Amenities are well-received, especially the well-stocked bar and modern decor, despite some comments on room size and occasional odors.
Location
Convenient
Atmosphere
Charming
Rooms
Cozy
Value
Expensive
Cleanliness
Immaculate
Service
Friendly
Amenities
Well-appointed
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Great location for visiting the city...10-15 minutes walk,and 20 minute walk from the Railway Station as we let the train take the strain this time. We had the Rowntree Suite ....what a room .large comfy bed . Lovely double shower and balcony with distant views of the Minster Although near the main road ,being tucked up a side street it's very quiet Breakfast is very good with a range of choices. Bar is well stocked with a large range of gins Only disappointment was that there was no local draught beer. All staff were friendly and welcoming Our room was kept spotless and replenished daily with tea coffee hot chocolate etc
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Date of stay: February 2025Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from Laura Johnson, General Manager at Clementine's Guest House
Responded 9 Feb 2025
Thank you for such a fabulous 5* review. I am so pleased you enjoyed your stay in our Rowntree Suite. We hope to welcome you back again soon. Best Wishes, Laura
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I had a great stay, brief, but excellent. I only realised upon arrival that I’d stayed previously, when the hotel was called Marmadukes. This reincarnation is a considerable upgrade on its predecessor, which was tired and old fashioned. Clementines has benefitted from quite a makeover. The new look is chic boutique and gorgeous. My room (8) was beautifully styled, with high end bedding and toiletries, in addition to the always welcome provision of tea/coffee making facilities. I didn’t eat or drink at the hotel but noted the cute little bar and attractive breakfast room. Reception staff were really helpful and friendly. The hotel offers parking at £15 a night but you can park for free on the street between 4pm and 10am, it’s a safe, well to do residential area. The walk into town (to the Minster) takes around 15 minutes.
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Date of stay: November 2024
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Response from Laura Johnson, General Manager at Clementine's Guest House
Responded 10 Nov 2024
Thank you for such a fabulous 5* review. I am so pleased to hear you enjoyed your 'return' visit and found our new look gorgeous. We hope to welcome you back again soon. Best Wishes, Laura
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This is a beautiful guest house. We stayed one night and the room was gorgeous. The breakfast was fantastic and the service was warm and friendly from all staff including housekeeping who showed us a room they had just cleaned so that we could see the view of the minster. A really thoughtful thing to do and someone who obviously loves where they work 😊
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Date of stay: October 2024Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from Laura Johnson, General Manager at Clementine's Guest House
Responded 12 Oct 2024
Thank you for such a fabulous review and for mentioning our delicious Yorkshire breakfasts. We hope to see you again soon. Best Wishes, Laura
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What a hidden gem, we got to the hotel around noon to drop our bags off so we could go for our dinner as check in was 3pm onwards, we we're pleasantly surprised to be told our room was ready. We was shown to our room and Wow, the bathroom was spacious with a walk in shower, plenty of storage space in the room, a huge TV wall mounted, tea, coffee and hot chocolate available also a Chocolate bar on the dresser. The bed was honestly the best bed we'd ever slept in. The hotel as a whole was tastefully decorated with many features. The bar was well stocked and reasonably priced. The breakfast was delicious. The staff we're very friendly and helpful even returning a bag to us that I'd left in the bar the evening before we checked out but the star of the show was Teddy the Cat, I'm not a Cat person normally but we hit it off together lol. Would I stop here again, definitely without hesitation, in fact our next visit is being planned as I type this review
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Date of stay: May 2024Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:Ample parking if needed but we went on the train
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Response from Laura Johnson, General Manager at Clementine's Guest House
Responded 15 May 2024
Wow again! what a an amazing review. I am so happy to hear we offered one of the best beds you have ever slept in !! Teddy is our absolute pride and joy, such a little sweet heart and always so welcoming to our guests. We look forward to welcoming you back again. Best Wishes, Laura
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We had a very pleasant overnight stay in this beautifully decorated quirky hotel. The staff were very friendly and the room was very clean and well equipped. We had the impressive four poster balcony room. The only reason I gave the review four stars and not five is because I found the floorboards quite creaky & the bed a bit lumpy and more uncomfortable than my bed at home, however, my husband found it very comfortable and slept very well!! The balcony was an added bonus it too is decorated very nicely and as the hotel is situated in a peaceful location it was very enjoyable to sit on and enjoy a glass of wine. The hotel gives easy access to walk into York and the on-site car park is handy and although costs a fee is still cheaper than the public car parks. We would definitely recommend staying here and hope to stay here again ourselves on future visits to York.
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Date of stay: July 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from Assistant Manager, Guest Services / Front Office at Clementine's Guest House
Responded 5 Aug 2023
Hi Koggzy, Thank you for the lovely reveiw, we appreciate all the feeback! I hope we see you again soon:) Thank you, Cameron
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The hotel is in a quiet road about a 10 min walk to the city centre. Beautifully furnished with good breakfasts. Parking is a bit of a lottery. They have limited parking at £15 per day. However you can park on the road for free overnight (and all day Sunday) and it’s not a through road.
Don’t stay in room 14. NO WINDOWS!! We didn’t notice when we checked in as it was after dark. I think this double room should offer a discount as having no windows is very poor and it was not indicated on website or by the receptionist. Staying for 3 nights with no windows - maybe OK for 1 night, but not 3
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Date of stay: April 2024Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:Don’t stay in room 14. Don’t worry too much about the parking. Was plenty of on road parking for...
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Response from Laura Johnson, General Manager at Clementine's Guest House
Responded 10 Apr 2024
Thank you for reviewing your recent stay. I am so pleased to hear you appreciated our beautiful décor and delicious Yorkshire breakfasts. I am sorry you were disappointed with your room. This is the only room we offer without a window and it is priced lower than the size and facilities on offer would ordinarily go for to accommodate for this. I am sorry you did not bring your concerns to our attention as we would have happily arranged you an alternative room for the remainder of your stay. I hope this will not stop you from visiting us again in the future. Best Wishes, Laura
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The hotel was immaculate. Very clean, well presented and luxuriously decorated through out. Staff were friendly, welcoming and attentive. The area is quiet for a good night's sleep.
High quality bed linens and towels in our room, as well as complimentary toiletries which were also of high quality.
Breakfast was delicious, with fresh good quality produce.
The only fault we could find was that our television remote didn't work very well. We were unable to change the volume on the TV which meant we were straining to hear it. Just a small thing (probably the batteries), but it didn't really impact our stay.
Special shout out to Teddy the cat who lives at the hotel, he is an excellent host and joined us for a cream tea.
We have and will continue to recommend this hotel to our friends and family and will definitely be back next time we visit York.
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Date of stay: November 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:Car parking charged at £15 per day at the hotel.
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Response from Laura Johnson, General Manager at Clementine's Guest House
Responded 24 Nov 2023
Thank you for such a wonderful review I am so pleased to here you enjoyed your stay and had a comfortable nights sleep. Teddy is such a treat to have around, we are thinking of making him employee of the month for his fabulous hosting skills. We hope to see you again soon. Best Wishes, Laura
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Our whole experience was superb. The hotel was recommended to us by another hotel which would not take one night bookings.
We arrived after a long drive to a warm, friendly welcome by the ladies on reception, actually walking out of the building to greet us and help us park.
Rooms 16 and 25 were both beautifully decorated and comfortable. We were given chilled water and milk in thermos bottles (and offered a choice of milk too).
We were given directions for our dinner booking - a short pleasant walk into the historic centre.
The beds were super comfy, bathrooms sparkling clean with lovely toiletries.
We had a pre booked time for breakfast and had chosen the menu the night before so there was no hanging about for service.
We had taken up the offer of a free walking tour with Dave Haw and he was excellent. We both love history and he was full of juicy gossipy stories of the past - loads of detail to give colour to the place. He tailored the tour to what we wanted and clearly loved what he does. A real treat. He works on the basis of tips alone and we were happy to pay him for the great service.
The hotel helped us leave the car park, filled our water bottles with cool, fruited water and waved us warmly off like we were old friends. Service really felt like it came from the heart and not because it’s their jobs.
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Date of stay: July 2022Trip type: Travelled with family
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Response from Becca C, Guest Services / Front Office at Clementine's Guest House
Responded 1 Aug 2022
Hi Dana, Thanks so much for leaving your lovely review and going into so much detail about your stay! It was lovely meeting you and your son. We're so glad the other hotel sent you to us and you enjoyed your stay at Clementine's instead - the staff are so happy you enjoyed the high standards of service we love to give too, and we'll be sure to pass on your lovely words to David, it really makes his day when he gets such great feedback! Hopefully we get to see you again soon! -Team Clem
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We stayed Sunday night on a last minute booking. The hotel was amazing and the staff were lovely. It was all very clean and modern, we had car parking and even got a room upgrade. The room had all the facilities you could need including yummy Cadburys hot chocolate and biscuits. The location is really convenient, we went straight there without needing to negotiate the town centre traffic and it's less than 10 minutes walk to the Minster. Will definitely be returning.
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Date of stay: November 2023
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Response from Laura Johnson, General Manager at Clementine's Guest House
Responded 14 Nov 2023
What a fabulous review, thank you for taking the time to write it! I am so happy to here you enjoyed your time with us. We are indeed just an short walk to all of York's main attractions bars and restaurants so need need to navigate traffic and search for parking. We hope to see you again soon. Best Wishes, Laura
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We only stayed one night but we wish it had been more and will definatly be going back! I dont think I would want to stay anywhere else when visiting York.
When we arrived we were greated by a young lady nammed Becca. She was very very friendly and put me to ease right away. I am not a people person and have alot of difficulties when staying away from my home but I was surprised with how relaxed I was thanks to her charm. We were checked in swiftly with no problems and then led out of the reseption though the private enterence to the After eight suite. There is a lovely garden that if the weather would have been better would have been loevly to sit in. Even though the suite is at the back of the garden its still so private. I felt like I wasnt even in a hotel. There is also alittle private sitting area to the left and a little pod to the right for late night chilling outside.
Touch key card enterence and as soon as the door opened we were hit with warmth. It was so cosy and I was plesently surprised. Its like a cabin from the future. The design is great, the tv is huge with netflix, amazon prime and you can even screen cast your own devices over to it. Never mind the one mint on the pillow thing... here we got a whole box of after eights. Two kitkats with milk, 2 cappachino and hot choc pods for the coffee machine, mixture of teas and a bottle of water. There is also a mini fridge, 2 hot water bottles. The bed is very comfy and the bathroom was great, loved the shower and you will have everything you need including slippers and a dressing gown. There is two sets of cutrains, one that will allow the light in but bring more privacy and another that will black out the room and bring complete privacy.
As a added bonus if you like cats there is a gorgeous little cat called teddy that is often laying around, he is so loving and friendly. We even got to take him with us into our room for alittle while!! But dont worry if you are not a fan of cats the staff are wonderful and will go above and beyond to make people happy.
The only thing I will say is the parking area is quite small and could be an issue depending on how busy they are, fortunatly we managed to get a space and it wasnt a problem.
So to finish my review, we loved it, we loved the staff, we loved the location, we loved the room and we love teddy! Cant wait to go again.
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Date of stay: February 2022
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Room Tip:If you want privacy and luxury at the same time, the after eight suite is the room to go with.
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Response from Becca C, Guest Services / Front Office at Clementine's Guest House
Responded 24 Feb 2022
Hi Christina, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us such a lovely review and kind words! It was great having you and your partner here, we're so happy to hear you enjoyed your stay in After Eight (even through a storm!), Next time you stay hopefully the weather will be a bit nicer for you to take advantage of the pod, it'd be perfect to sit in with a coke and another jigsaw I think! We look forward to your return, -Team Clementine's (PS, We saw your drawing of Teddy in our visitors book too, all the staff were saying how cute he looked!)
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Hi Tim,
Parking is available on site on a first come first serve basis at an extra £9 per night. You may be asked to leave your keys at reception as some bays require double parking.
-Team Clem
There are more places to choose from in the York area.
PRICE RANGE
$153 - $309 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
ALSO KNOWN AS
marmadukes york, marmadukes hotel york
FORMERLY KNOWN AS
Clementine's Town House Hotel, BW Premier Collection
LOCATION
United KingdomEnglandYorkshireNorth YorkshireYork
NUMBER OF ROOMS
27
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