Robin Hood's BayPhoto: Bikeboy, CC BY-SA 2.0
Hotel Victoria
Gastropub
From published sources
Pubs with Rooms / North Yorkshire
Pubs with Rooms in Robin Hood's Bay
A smugglers' village stacked down a cliffside to the sea, and the end point of Wainwright's Coast to Coast walk.
Robin Hood’s Bay is the kind of village that photographs itself — red pantiled roofs stacked down a ravine to a slipway, the North Sea filling the gap at the bottom. It’s also the eastern end of Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Walk, so on any given evening the bars are as likely to be full of walkers finishing a 192-mile trek as they are locals and weekenders.
The catch, and it’s a real one, is the hill. The old village sits below a bank steep enough that the sensible move is to park at the top and walk down — this isn’t a place to expect to pull up outside your pub with the car. It also means “in Robin Hood’s Bay” covers a fair spread: the Bay Hotel and the Laurel Inn are down at the Dock by the sea, while the Grosvenor sits up by the top car park, a genuinely different few minutes’ walk depending on which one you’ve booked.
There’s no railway station in the village itself — the branch line closed in 1965 — so most people arrive by car via the coast road, or by the X93 bus from Whitby or Scarborough. None of that dims the appeal: this is a proper smugglers’-history fishing village, small enough to get the measure of in an afternoon, with real pubs rather than manufactured ones.
In Robin Hood's Bay
Just outside Robin Hood's Bay
Not in Robin Hood's Bay itself, but close enough to stay — the town's shops, pubs and sights are only a short trip in from any of these.
Dog policy, compared
| Pub | Dogs in bedroom | Dogs at dinner | Charge | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel Victoria Robin Hood's Bay | Dogs in all rooms | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | From published sources |
| The Bay Hotel Robin Hood's Bay | Dogs in all rooms | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | From published sources |
| The Grosvenor Hotel Robin Hood's Bay | Dogs in all rooms | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | From published sources |
| The Windmill Inn Stainsacre | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | From published sources |
| The Laurel Inn Robin Hood's Bay | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not yet researched |
Food, compared
| Pub | Standard | Kitchen | Booking | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel Victoria Robin Hood's Bay | Gastropub | Every day | Not confirmed | From published sources |
| The Bay Hotel Robin Hood's Bay | Pub grub | Every day | Not confirmed | From published sources |
| The Windmill Inn Stainsacre | Pub grub | Closed Sun | Book dinner separately | From published sources |
| The Grosvenor Hotel Robin Hood's Bay | Pub grub | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not yet researched |
| The Laurel Inn Robin Hood's Bay | Not yet rated | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not yet researched |
Questions people ask about Robin Hood's Bay
- Which pubs with rooms in Robin Hood's Bay have parking?
- None of them, in the way you'd expect elsewhere. The old village is built down a cliffside too steep and narrow for casual driving, and through-traffic is discouraged at the bottom — most visitors leave the car in the pay-and-display car park at the top of the bank and walk down (or take the shuttle in summer). The Grosvenor Hotel, up near that top car park, is the one exception genuinely close to parking; everyone else means a walk down with your bags, and back up again to move the car.
- What counts as a "pub with rooms" in Robin Hood's Bay?
- A bar you could stop into for a pint, with rooms above or attached — not a self-catering cottage with a pub's name on the booking site. That's why our list leans on the Bay Hotel, the Grosvenor and Hotel Victoria's Loxley pub rather than the village's many holiday cottages, and why we've flagged the Laurel Inn's accommodation as two self-catering flats above the bar rather than hotel-style bedrooms.
- Are the pubs in Robin Hood's Bay dog-friendly?
- The bars generally are — it's that kind of village. Whether your dog can stay in the room overnight, or join you at dinner, varies pub by pub and is worth checking directly rather than assuming from the bar policy; see the individual listings below.