The View

Beautiful view a must for other people who haven’t seen it

Excellent breakfast and great location.

Loved everything.

We had to find alternative accommodation for the Great North Run at very short notice after our original booking was unexpectedly cancelled. With prices in and around Newcastle skyrocketing that weekend, we were incredibly lucky to find Graeme’s lovely The View Cottage at such a fair price. The location is absolutely fantastic, right by the coast, and the cottage itself is charming, cosy and very welcoming. What really made our stay special, though, was Graeme. He was an absolutely fantastic host and couldn’t have been more helpful. The Metro station is about a 15-minute walk away, but Graeme repeatedly offered to drive us there, which we were very grateful for and happily accepted. He also provided breakfast with toast, jam, cold cuts, cereals and coffee, and even offered to prepare everything earlier on race morning so we could leave in plenty of time to get to the start line. Graeme genuinely went out of his way to make sure we had everything we needed. He was always friendly, helpful and welcoming, and absolutely deserves the highest rating. We would happily stay here again!

If we really had to find something to mention, our room was quite small for two people, although we did see that there are larger rooms available as well. Of course, everything was fully booked for the Great North Run weekend, and given that we booked at very short notice, we were simply very happy to have found such a lovely place to stay. There is also a shared bathroom/toilet for the small number of guests, although our room had its own shower, and this was absolutely no problem for us at all. The price was naturally higher than you might expect at a normal time of year, but considering it was Great North Run weekend, we actually found Graeme’s pricing extremely fair – especially compared with many other places in and around Newcastle. As a former landlord of mine used to say, “live and let live”, and Graeme really seems to follow that philosophy as a host. It makes the whole experience even more likeable. So these are really just things worth mentioning for transparency rather than actual complaints. We were very happy with our stay.

The View has a certain something in the title and from the outside the view of Tynemouth was amazing.

We were met by the owner who thought we were another couple. Then he took us to the top of the stairs and we glimpsed the room we had booked - the only one available. But then he ushered us into what he called the Honeymoon suite of something like that and said we could have this room for an extra £20. It just felt manipulative and my husband did pay extra - but I just felt it was such a grubby sort of move. View WAS lovely but the way he had the card reader whipped out double quick just felt tacky and money grabbing. Interesting - we stayed at another hotel near Newcastle and the landlady upgraded our room for free without us asking. One other thing that concerned me was when I pulled the sheet back, the sheet had dozens of small hairs all over. Thinking about it, there was a doggy smell in the house so giving them the benefit of the doubt, I think they must wash the sheets in the same washing machine. But....