Extra Special Offer for January 2010

Escape the snow in your area and visit Whitby. Whitby has no snow - all our roads and pavements are clear.

For the rest of this month, we are running an extra special offer. Stay 3 nights midweek and only pay for 2. Your last night is FREE. (Fridays and Saturdays, not included).

The North York Moors has plenty of snow, but the roads are still open. The Scarborough Road is fine for travelling. Whitby itself has no snow and none forcast for the forseable future, so if you are fed up with inches of snow at home, take a break to the Coast, and come and stay at The Leeway in Whitby, just bring plenty of warm clothing, as their is a cool wind on the sea front!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone. Hope 2010 is a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous year for you all.

We have now started the refurbishment of Room 6, so if you keep viewing our website, you should see the new photo's for this room by the end of the month.

We would also like you to meet our two new additions. They are Basset Hound puppies and are called Jasmine and Bluebell or Jazz and Bella for short. Please don't worry if you are not dog lovers, our dogs live down stairs in our private quarters and are not allowed in the Guest House, but you might meet them out in the front garden or see them playing in the back yard.

In the words of Tina Turner 'We're simply the best'

Yes, better than all the rest! We have just won 3 awards from Whitby Hospitality Association.

We have won:
Guest Accommodation of the year 2009,
Sustainable Tourism 2009,
and Website of the Year 2009.

We are delighted. Thank you to all our Guests who took the time to nominate us. We really appreciate it.

Winter Special Offers

Why not enjoy a winter break in Whitby. Throughout November, January and February we offer our winter special offers.

Offer One:
Stay any 3 nights midweek from Sunday to Thursday inclusive and get your last night half price.

Offer Two:
Stay any 4 nights midweek from Sunday to Thursday inclusive and get your last night free.

So come along and enjoy the beautiful Coast and North York Moors this winter.

Nominated for 2 Awards

Last night we had fantastic news, we found out that we are finalists for 2 Awards from the Yorkshire Dales and Harrogate and Yorkshire Moors and Coast for Guest Accommodation of the year for 2009 and also for Sustainable Tourism. As you can imagine we are delighted. Thank you to all our guests who thought we were worthy of being nominated for such prestigious awards. The Awards Ceremony takes place on Wednesday 25th November, so fingers crossed.

The Leeway gets GOLD

Last week we got great news , we achieved Gold with the Green Tourism Buisiness Scheme. We are really proud of this and will continue to work towards and improve our policy on a greener environment. A big thank you to our Guests for helping us achieve this.

Our Beautiful Dylan

Tuesday 11th August was a very sad day. Our 2½ year old Bassett Hound Dylan passed away. He was an absolute joy and brought such love and laughter. What a character. On occasions he escaped upstairs to our dining room for a cuddle from Guests. Those who met him loved him, especially Ian and Julie who always brought him treats (and turned him into a Goth!). He was so cuddly, a big living teddy bear.

We would like to thank our wonderful Guests who were with us on Tuesday morning for their understanding when all we could offer them for breakfast was fruit, cereals, toast and tea and coffee. I am sorry I could not provide a cooked breakfast, but after finding Dylan unconscious in his bed, I had to stay with him until the Vet arrived.

In June 2008 Dylan became clumsy and started tripping up, and then falling, so after 3 months of investigations at the Vets the only thing they found was that he had hip displacia, so they sent him for an MRI scan which revealed he had a very rare brain disease. The vets said there was nothing they could do, and in September only gave him about a month to live. We bought him a massive stroller so that we could take him to the beach for a run, which he loved, and if he fell he did not hurt himself. In January 2009 we were lucky enough to learn of a healer who not only worked with people but also with animals. Her name is Eliza and she runs Healing Vibrations. Eliza came every week to work with Dylan and used Theta and Reiki on him. Dylan loved Eliza and was always full of energy when she left. Thank you Eliza for giving Dylan 7 months of quality life, you really did help him. From when his treatment started with Eliza we did not need to use his stroller. He started walking longer distances and in the end was so normal, we had forgotten there was something wrong with him. If you know of anyone who needs healing please contact Eliza at healingvibrations@ymail.com or telephone her on 07769902147, we can fully recommend her.

Dylan was going to be a Goth Dog in October. He was the first dog to wear a Hot Patootie coat at the April Goth Festival ( he can be seen parading the West Cliff on Utube in his Bat coat ). We had just purchased two more, one with skulls and one with spiders. These coats can be worn on their own or with a hot wheat bag inside to keep them warm in winter or to ease aching muscles which is why Dylan had them as he had hip dysplacia. Hope you like the photos. If you like his coats there will be a stall at the October Festival where you can purchase them from Angela, who makes them. www.myspace.com/hotpatootieuk

Our Little Cat

It is only right that I also mention on here our Blackie who passed away 3 weeks ago on Wed 22nd July at the grand old age of 20. We were a little worried when we got Dylan as Blackie was an old lady, but had no need to be, she was the Boss, as she had always been over our other dogs, Scamp and Toby many years ago. She was never a cuddly cat, but a loyal and very independent cat, who we miss dearly.