Situated in the heart of York, The Bar Convent is only a 15-minute minute walk from the city centre and just over 300 metres from York Railway Station. The Grade I listed building offers an exhibition on the history of the site, a garden and free WiFi.
Tea/coffee making facilities, a CD player/radio and a hand basin is provided in each room at The Bar Convent, as well as toiletries.
Breakfast is served in the on-site café, where guests may choose between a hearty full English breakfast or a lighter continental option, including fruit juices, cereals and fresh croissants. Breakfast is served until 10:00 on a weekend, and until 9.30 from Monday to Friday.
Many historic sites can be visited within York’s city centre, such as York Minister - one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in Europe. Clifford’s Tower, York Dungeon and the National Railway Museum are also on offer.
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Superb
8.8/10
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Address: 17 Blossom Street, York YO24 1AQ 
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Large room, museum in the convent, city centre jus 3 - 10 minutes walk, rail station just 4 - 10 mins walk, use of a little kitchen if we wanted to with fridge and microwave, relaxation / reading room, tea and coffee making facilities, light switch bu bed, wonderfully comfortable beds, loads of hot waterm very bright bathroom and big bath, bright and airy cafeteria, not too many rooms / guests, great value for money - less than Travel lodge and Premier inn with many more facilities, when the gi. all reviews »
Bar Convent is lovely. It's cheap, clean, safe, quiet, comfortable, welcoming and convenient for central York.
It isn't luxurious, but you don't choose to stay in a working convent if you want luxury. Everything you need is there and more, including a huge garden which is a big plus in York city centre.
It's also wonderful as a solo traveller to stay somewhere that doesn't make you feel like a second-class guest and has thought about the facilities you'll want, like a communal sitting room, din.
Although this Hotel won't suite everyone's tastes it has an undeniable old fashioned charm. The staff are friendly, the breakfast good value and you get to sleep in one of the same bedroom's as the sister's in the convent - albeit 20+ years later. No on suite? so what! Excellent shared showers. I will be booking here form now on. By the way, mind your head on the second floor corridors and door frames. They were built with the height of the early nineteenth century females in mind.
Location and easy access to the rail station and historic sights. Great
value; clean bathroom and big towels, huge kitchen and recreation room
available for guest use. Historical significance and architecture
(don't miss the hidden chapel). Very friendly and helpful staff.
That it serves the community in so many ways - still operates a day
school on-site, open for meetings and other community uses, houses an
active religious order.
Great location, 5 minute ealk into the centre of York. The Staff are lovely and are happy to help. It's not your typical premier or travel lodge but it has character and is well maintained. We stayed in the st Peters suite which was great, large, plenty of space and clean. They're fairly flexible with checking in and out and it's quite cheap to keep the room on till later.
the warm welcome from the staff, the quietness of the place, the rooms nicely furnished and equipped with washbasin, the position -though not the best, but good value for money having a look at the prices around. It's a religious place but very open-minded I felt (e.g. there were no crucifixes in the room) so I didn't feel overwhelmed as a non-believer.
Friendly, helpful staff. Meals & snacks reasonably priced, good variety and delicious to eat. A lovely, pleasant, garden available in which to enjoy a snack, read or relax in. Great location and handy nearby car park. Local buses, taxis, plentiful. Convent within easy walking distance to York Minister, City Wall, etc for the able bodied.
Lovely and quiet despite being close to station and centre. Beautiful gardens to rear. Great to have side entrance key to come and go as I liked. Good continental breakfast in café on ground floor which was open all day. Housekeeper takes guests on tour of building and to room on arrival !.
room warm, bed comfortable, good hospitlaity tray, staff faultlessly polite and welcoming, central location, quirky atmosphere and surroundings of convent and museum, reasonable cost, would definetely use again when visiting York.
Excellent I have recommend Bar Convent to my other friends if they want somewhere to stay when they visit York and the breakfast is a bonus. I have stayed at the Bar Convent before and that is why I came back.
The Bar Convent is only a few minutes walk from York station with easy access to town. The staff were very friendly and helpful and the breakfast next morning was very tasty. All reasonably priced.
Quiet, clean & comfortable, good value characterful building, easy
to get lost! (Not if you read the signs) In the up and down corridors
with squeaky floorboards. Would stop again, quirky.
Excellent location, both not far from city center and railway station. Hotel is clean, staff is friendly, continental breakfast was included and was good. For a budget hotel all was ok.
A great location. Very pleasant staff. Good bedroom size. Good quality towels and bathmats.
Clean shared bathroom.
Nice television lounge. Good continental breakfast incl.
small comfortable room with single bed. Excellent continental breakfast included in price. Very good value for my purpose. Sink in room. No TV in room but lounge elsewhere.
A good location for the city, in an active convent, with one or two pleasant surprises like the beautiful peaceful garden and the 'hidden' chapel. Good breakfasts.
The building had lots of character. It was very close to train station and just short walk to the shops and attractions. The staff was super-helpful.
Value for money, quirky, very different from the normal, friendly,
central location , great breakfast, would stay there again no problem.
Quirky, quiet and very central. If you're after something other than a bland hotel chain experience, you'll like The Bar Convent.
Very friendly staff, nice facilities, excellent café, very convenient location. Very good choice for low cost in York.
The very attractive and very very clean room, the helpfulness of staff and the charm of the building.
EVERYTHING AND MORE Plus Breakfast like my Mum used to cook and that's a lot to live up to.
It was so quaint and homely. Comfortable too. The breakfast was delicious and plentiful.
It's just lovely... a beautiful place to stay near the Micklegate entrance to the town.
Staff were excellent, breakfast was excellent, room was clean, access was very good.
Quirky hotel inside a convent with its own chapel and gardens, full of character.
very friendly and quirky place to stay. near the station and the town centre.
Lovely clean room with TV, tea facilities, toiletries etc. Great room.
Clean
Handy for city centre
Quiet
Good breakfast
Very reasonable rate.
value for money , friendly staff, excellent food.Quiet and relaxing.
close to the station
center of york
friendly staff
clean warm rooms.
Interesting building and museum. V good breakfast. Helpful staff.
It was friendly & homely & cooked breakfast was very good.
Great Location
Nice and Friendly
Lovely Staff
Great Service.
Location & very clean and comfortable and good breakfast.
Excellent location, warm welcome, nothing too much trouble.
Love the location and the atmosphere, very nice cafe.
It was a truly relaxing and pleasurable experience.
Interesting old building, and great value.
Lovely garden
Friendly staff.
close to centre....qurky.
Value and location.
Breakfast.
the garden is very nice and quiet; the location is near to railway.
The facilities were excellent and breakfast great.
The friendly service and breakfast was lovely.
Comfy bed r.
kitchen facility.
location.
location.
Grapefruit was fizzy one morning and had to return it. There was no apology and no one offered to replace it which I thought was rude. The lighting in the bedroom was too dim - the lighting in the bathroom was in conrast wonderfully bright. The knob on the bedroom door was very loose and seemed like it was about to come off which was quite a worry!.
The wireless Internet didn't work in our room or other common guest
areas upstairs. It worked fine in the lobby/dining area. Only a
minor inconvenience, but would impact business travelers.
If you don't have a good memory then there is a potential chance you'll forget which corridor you should be going down. There isn't any parking either on site but a carpark very close by. Its £8 for 4 hours, £10 for 5 and £11.50 for a whole day (includes overnight but runs out at 8am) and a bit less for lesser hours. Check out is also at 10am which is quite early if you've had a late night.
during the morning, due to thin walls, it's quite noisy and other guests aren't respectful of the fact that people may be sleeping (this was the only real downside).
Traffic can be noisy at night.
Very few en suite rooms but knew this when I booked and didn't really bother me as shower and toilet only a few steps down the corridor - maybe not to everyone's liking.
no en suite facillities available, parking expensive but to be expected in central location so parked a bit away and walked, bit inconvenient but would not stop us using the accommodation again.
Tiny inconvenience of getting up just before 8 to go out and put
another parking ticket on the car in the car park just across the road
(side door).
In my room it was cold that why was not comfortable.
This acc. / cost is ideal for student / school groups. None there when I stayed 1 night on 15th April.
I was expecting not to have en suite but accept it is a bit of a hassle to go out of the room for the toilet.
Wifi availalable but not in my room.
You need a map to navigate around the narrow corridors :).
Bathroom manners of other guests - no flushing of toilets and messy toilet in the morning.
The low ceilings were a problem for my partner - we were not warned that the headroom would be so low when booking, and he could not stand upright at all on the 3rd floor where our room was
The wifi access didn't work on the 3rd floor.
Can't think of anything not to like.
serving staff in café.
Silly I know but the loo seat did not stay up. The window could have opened more because it was stuffy.
Shared bathroom
WiFi did not work.
Facilities not ensuite.
located by a very busy junction outside.
Shared bathroom.
Nothing.
all OK.
I only stayed one night - so maybe not typical, but if there are heavy-footed people, the noise really carries !.
Walls rather thin, can overhear next room, but not too intrusively.
A bit of a maze.
An on suite would have been nice!.
some smell of paint in room.
The very noisy road!.
The room was clean and adequate, however, when someone walked past in the corridor outside it sounded like people were in the room and the bed shook!.
Breakfast very disappointed emai, said breakfast included do we expected a cooked breakfast but was only offered toadt hard coisssnt and cereal extra charge. For cooked breakfast.
Sash window stuck and would not close on a cold night! Bed near window resulted in headache and a stiff neck!.
akward and goofy room. Nowhere to put your stuff.
too basic, no heating.
