Lumley Castle Hotel, Barons Hall

Lumley Castle was without doubt the right venue for our wedding and we are really pleased we chose it. Everything ran smoothly on the day, it’s a venue with a lot of experience of weddings and they know what they are doing. David was our Co-ordinator on the day and he was great, helpful, nothing was too much trouble and it felt like he really cared about everything running smoothly. We booked the Scarbrough room for our ceremony and the Baron Suite for the reception. It was lovely to have the two options for the two elements of our day. The Baron Suite is really quirky - if you book it and go for table flowers I recommend utilising the candelabras, we did and they looked fab with trailing flowers arranged by our florist. Emma and Holly were excellent in terms of the planning, very helpful, knew their stuff and were very responsive. One of the things I found stressful with wedding planning was when suppliers didn’t get back very promptly but that was never an issue with Lumley. Always consistent in terms of communication. Price wise, we went with the sapphire package and it felt reasonable for what we got, our guests loved the food. There wasn’t much negotiation on price for things, some prices/pricing strategies were set in stone. So if you are looking for a lot of negotiation price wise then this may not be the venue for you. However I don’t know that other venues are big on negotiation either. If you want to get married somewhere that’s extremely picturesque for photos, quirky for guests and with staff who genuinely are lovely then I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Lumley Castle. We had a brilliant day and our chosen venue was definitely part of this.

Was there for wedding. Excellence in every category.Fantastic, cheerful and professional staff who took a real pride in their work. Spotless rooms. Dog friendly room, and relaxed dog friendly space in bar. Stupendous venue for a wedding. Front desk were 100 per cent attentive and responsive. Food excellent and served piping hot all day. Great selection of wine and spirits (no jokes about the resident poltergeist)in bar with great teas and coffees on request. and bar and event service was uniformly top class.Special mention for breakfast service and food. I have never seen fresher continental breakfast, and nothing was too much trouble, even though the hotel was rammed with guests. I asked for well cooked bacon and sausage..they came fast and cooked perfectly. Please don't change anything, and pass on my thanks to every person there.

What a stunning castle, on arrival we were told we were being upgraded, we get to our room and it was a suite with two bedrooms and two bathrooms absolutely gorgeous. For us what let it down was the food. First evening my husband's starter was barely warm, mine was fine but it was a Saturday night and we was rushed with ever course! Breakfast was fine but for the price we've had better! Plenty of choice but again nothing was hot! Why would you have a phone on the reception of the restaurant where the guests can hear the conversations of the staff??