Yarnfield Park Training and Conference Centre

Has everything you need for a night's stay.

No signs of where the entrance is located for checking inn no guidance for late night arriving where to park If it’s raining then your done finding your way it’s like a maze finding your tower Middle of nowhere !!!!

This training centre has many good aspects to it. However, trying to conduct training in a room full of wasps is more than distraction, and something the management should have paid attention to. Also, the covered walkways between the training rooms and the accommodation blocks stop before main entrance leaving a gap where residents must run the gauntlet of the weather. The fact that the paving stones have sunk in places along the walkways causing widespread puddling doesn't help those with indoor shoes on their way to dinner when it rains. The signposting to the car park for those arriving in the dark could also be better. That's the negatives out of the way. On the positive side, the rooms are small, but comfortable and cleaned daily. The food is industrial catering when the centre is full - and can handle several hundred guests. The food is well cooked and presented with estimates of calories. I especially liked a curry soup and the range of main dishes that represented many different food styles and cultures. There are a mixture of tables to suit all sizes of groups using the centre. There are also lots of coffee points and more biscuits available than I have seen for a long while, but good coffee machines are slow to produce a cup of coffee and that can be frustrating is there are many delegates breaking from large plenary sessions at the same time all wanting a drink. Bar prices are reasonable and there is a 24 hour costa coffee point for that late night need. good for a couple of days, but not sure about how I would feel if staying longer. Staff were friendly..

Enjoyed an overnight stay on an art course. The facilities are dated but functional and there was plenty of space. All the staff were amazingly friendly and helpful. The accommodation was perfectly adequate - clean with a comfortable bed. The refurbished bathroom with a great walk- in shower was small and clean. The old fashioned telephone made me laugh! The meals we had were all very good value, with variety for all tastes and we certainly never went hungry. Breakfast included hot option- bacon and sausages were delicious and recommend- as well as pastries fruit cereal etc. Lunch and dinner had several hot options again as well as salads and desserts. Remember this is a training centre not a regular hotel, catering for a large number of people, and some of the comments on here I consider very harsh. Yes some refurbishment would be a good idea, but it is great value for money. Thank you for a great stay.

Terrible, ended up with sickness after visit. So rooms are awful and beds are the worst I have ever slept in. Food bad and venue quite cold in parts. Terrible experience would never visit again , think it might be noro virus outbreak as a lot of delegates reporting d&v

Yarnfield Park absolutely did a job for me. The room was clean, the shower excellent, the bed comfortable. I was glad of a good night's sleep. I was on the second floor, some one before me had disabled the window lock so thankfully I was able to get lots of air in my room. Wonderful. An evening meal and breakfast were included with my room rate so that saved me trailing off campus looking for food. I booked last minute when Yarnfield were between conferences, I think there were half a dozen of us staying that night. It could be very different when the centre is busier or full. I wouldn't have wanted to pay more than my £69 half board. Very friendly staff.