Rooms with a View
Yahoo Travel and Visit Britain have put together a list of “Britain’s highest and most precarious places to rest your head” entitled Top 10 Rooms with a View. The good news for YHA is that two of the places selected are YHA youth hostels: Coniston Coppermines and Pen-Y-Pass.
Whilst I’m really pleased to see YHA getting such good publicity, it’s a slightly strange choice. As already established in a comment on this site, YHA has higher hostels than these two: Coniston at 190m and Pen-Y-Pass at 359m don’t measure up to Langdon Beck at 383m, and Skiddaw House towers above them all at 470m! I’m also not sure about the views – the view from Wastwater YH (albeit from the grounds rather than any of the rooms) was recently voted Britain’s favourite. I guess they were just spoiled for choice when it comes to lofty hostels with impressive views, where would you have chosen?
In fact, given that their core business is delivering accommodation in scenic parts of the country, “A Room with a View” would be a really good slogan for YHA to use. They’d certainly have no shortage of suitable rooms to choose from.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail has been running with the story “Youth hostelling can cure cancer”. Actually that’s not true, they haven’t got to that one yet, but they have been plugging the Association as a venue for family holidays:
If you want a cheap break, try a hostel - many are geared up to families these days. The YHA says it has family rooms still available on various dates over the summer holidays at family-friendly hostels in Ambleside (the Lake District), Malham (North Yorkshire) and Sheringham (the North Norfolk coast), and at the recently built National Forest hostel in Derbyshire.
So be prepared to meet a few Mail-reading families in the common rooms of Britain, and – who knows – with all this A Room with a View stuff, maybe Helena Bonham-Carter too!
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