Skelton Mill - Redcar and Cleveland

Family and friends just spent 2 nights celebrating a 70th birthday. We had the best time ever. Even with horrendous rain for a day and a half. Dave the owner couldn’t have been any more accommodating by making sure we all stayed warm in our accommodation throughout our stay. Party night on both nights was absolutely brilliant. Dave joined in our theme for each night. Sh**t shirts and where’s Wally. Dave, his family and the other guests who joined in our fun made the weekend an absolute blast! Dave we will be back so get your whistle ready to compete with our 70 year old!

On our way home this beautiful location and the 10 of us have had an amazing time. It rained the entire time and the owner, Dave could not have been more accommodating. We were visiting from Durham, Manchester and Macclesfield so arrived at different timea. On arrival our afternoon tea was ready and waiting for us. Make them aware ahead of time for allergies as we did not and had to waste some food which we hated The afternoon tea is a selection of Egg, Cheese, Chicken and Fish sandwiches along with quiche and a cupcake. If you are arriving late like we did, maybe ask them not to prep it for you as the parmo dinner was delicious!! We went with the party package which gave us free drinks, three meals a day and one heck of a party. The second night he let us choose from the menu and the food was incredible! The chicken curry and beef pie had been cooking all day. Absolutely delicious After reading other reviews we were a little nervous BUT Dave could not have done more for us. Yes he is a straight talker and he has his rules BUT he has some leeway if you ask very nicely. He doesn’t **** foot around, has a cracking sense of humour and entertained us all weekend Yes you do need to drink your free drinks before a certain time and yes he sticks to a schedule but he is up and available to the guests all day. You can’t drink your own alcohol in the bar or around and about as he doesn’t have the license for it. You can drink them in your accommodation and hot tub. The drinks at the bar are very reasonably priced. CASH ONLY as he doesn’t have wifi. We were attending a 70th birthday weekend and he made sure all of us were warm, fed, happy and taken care of. 10/10 Would recommend Also, don’t take too much stuff as the accommodation is snug! If you are as tall as me, make sure you’re not in the caravan haha Other than that, the rooms are lovely If you have a themed night, make sure you have a spare costume for Dave and the barman Matthew. We had spare shirts for other guests to join us Sh t shirt night and where’s wally went down a storm Thank you Dave, Matthew and team for a great weekend Natalie 9 xxx

Decided to have a night away. Hot tub and food for a birthday treat. On way to destination contacted by owner demanding to know what time we would be getting there. Check in by 18.00 this was just after 17.00. On arrival met by (I assume owner). Shown to bungalow style accommodation wit hot tub. Fixtures and fittings aged and doing signs of over use by a few decades. Rules given which would need to adhered to right down to departure at 10am. On checking the accommodation found brown stain on sink in the outside toilet. Eventually managed to get in contact with owner who spat on finger and attempted to rub it off. All the while complaining that we had disturbed his tea for a bit of a soap stain. Explained that given we had paid £160 for the night we at least expected it to be clean. Said owner then became annoyed over what he classed as a soap stain and left. When we eventually tracked him down to ask if he was going to clean sink he became aggressive and claimed it was cleaned! Asked for refund but was refused and left. This man needs some serious customer care training. I have pictures of the sink attached and also the luxury tea/coffee making facilities attached. Avoid if its a relaxing break you are after.

I was invited out for Saturday cream tea to celebrate a colleagues wedding at Skelton Mills but was barred by their extremely unpleasant and socially stunted owner before I even got inside! There was hardly any car parking spaces and I was required to find a space outside of it next to a badly fenced off barn, basically the venue didn’t have enough parking room it wasn 't a car park just a space that was already packed with cars . So I parked my car by the fence and proceeded to the "mill ' for afternoon tea. As I walked to catch up with my friend Louise the owner shouted after me telling me I 'd covered 3 parking spaces it was just a muddy bit of land and I needed to move it . He wasn’t remotely polite or accommodating as you might expect a business owner and host to be , in fact he shouted at me from a distance, his attitude was ridiculously poor ! And when I responded with’ there 's nowhere else to park’ he kept it rude and mansplained, talking down to me . He had to have the last word and never once spoke in a pleasant or conciliatory way about what was essentially a non incident that was easily fixable. He just upped the anti and became ruder and shouted and this with a garden hoe in his hand! And even if he did own the joint it wasn 't as if the patch of mud people had to cram their cars into was even a car park ! So I stood up for myself and he barred me! I’m now having a latte and scone at M&S Haha! What a come down Not !!! WTch out for grumpy trashy barons with farm implements!

We had great day/night for friends birthday £99 party package overnight stay in the pods/lodges including use of hot tubs. Arrived at 3pm Dave gave us the low down, we had packed mini afternoon tea on arrival, use of hot tub, 630 pizza, parmo buffet with loads of extras including Dave’s homemade pork pies! Delicious! Worth the heartburn! 3 drinks, disco Kareoke, breakfast in the morning! Dave was good host ensuring we had great time!