Yorkshire Coast Tourism Awards

The Yorkshire Coast Toursim Awawrds took place last night in Scarborough. We were nominated for 3 awards by our Guests, and we had a great night and won all 3 nominations for the Whitby area! Best Guest Accommodation, Outstanding Customer Service and Best Cup of Tea. Thank you to all our Guests who put us forward for these awards. We really appreciate it.

Our Grandson's Christening

Isaac Matthew Harrison was Christenend on 17th October 2010 at St Hilda's Church, Whitby. He was a little star! He's 7 months old now and soooooo adorable. Love him to bits.

Our Daughters Wedding

We have returned from a wonderful holiday and a fabulous wedding in Cyprus.

Our Daughter Lucy and Son-in-law Matthew, got married aboard The Sea Star Yacht in Paphos Harbour on 7th October 2010.

Their day was just perfect thanks to Exclusive Yacht Weddings who organised everything from start to finish. They arranged the big red fun bus to transport us all to and from the yacht, a convertable BMW for Lucy and her Dad, organised all the legalities, the Disco, the Cypriot Dancers, the Wedding Breakfast, Flowers, Cakes, Nails, Hair, and photographer. Everyone was amazing especially the photographer Photo Papis. The photos and DVD are fabulous. A massive thank you to everyone who helped make Lucy and Matthews day so special. If anyone is thinking of getting married in Cyprus, we can whole heartedly recommend Exclusive Yacht Weddings.

White Rose Awards

Sadly we did not win the award this year, but we have recieved feed back from the White Rose Awards and our secret visit, and our score was a whopping 97.8%.

Ironically what let us down was the apperance of the property, the report stated that the front of the building would need painting shortly. Last May we booked a decorator to paint the exterior of our property, but he kept having to delay the work - he was ready to come mid July but we cancelled him at that point as our flowers were in full bloom in the hanging baskets around the bay windows and up the stairs and it would not have been fair to guests, so we booked him for the first week in October when we were on holiday. If only we had known!! Who knows what may have happened.

Whitby in Bloom Awards

The Whitby in Bloom Awards were held tonight in Pannet Park's Art Gallery.

The Leeway is proud to announce that it is the Category Winner for the Best Kept Business Premises for 2010. We were presented with a beautiful hand made ceramic plaque that can be placed in our garden.

We were also presented with a range of certificates for:-
Category Winner: Best Kept Business Premises
Silver: Best Kept Business Premises
Silver: Best Kept Guesthouse
Bronze: Best Kept Hanging Baskets
Bronze: Best Kept Back Yard

This is all down to the hard work of Garry - who this year, not only grew flowers in our small front garden, but also grew our own vegetables including Cauliflowers, Broad beans, Potatoes, Carrots, Onions and Swedes.

The Leeway is through to the White Rose Awards

We are very proud to announce that The Leeway has been nominated for the Sustainability in Tourism Award in the prestigious Welcome to Yorkshire White Rose Awards 2010. The black tie event takes place in Harrogate in October, when the winner will be announced, but unfortunatley we will not be able to attend ourselves due to us being at our daughter's wedding, ( a grander affair, all together! ), but we will have someone there representing us. Fingers crossed.

www.whiteroseawards.com

New Visit England Breakfast Award

We had a visit from the Hotel Inspector in June and she was really impressed with The Leeway and said we have a great 4 Star Silver property with some elements of our Guest House being 5 Star ( the bedrooms, breakfast and cleanliness).

She awarded us the new Breakfast Award, so we are thrilled to bits. The new award recognises hotels and b&b's that offer their guests a quality and choice of breakfast, service and hospitality that exceeds what would be expected at their star rating.