Charles Cotton Hotel

Location: Market Place, Buxton, GB

Star Rating: 3 Stars

Property Type: Hotels

About this Property

Important Information

Policies

Check-in: 03:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Check-out: 11:00 AM

Amenities & Facilities

• Free WiFi
• Garden
• Picnic area
• Breakfast available (surcharge)
• Smoke-free property
• Wedding services
• Free self parking
• Banquet hall
• Wheelchair-accessible public washroom
• Wheelchair-accessible on-site restaurant
• Upper floors accessible by stairs only
• Stair-free path to entrance
• Accessible shuttle
• No accessible shuttle

Rooms Available

• Superior Double Room

  1 King Bed

  Entertainment - Flat-screen TV with digital channels

  Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker and electric kettle

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, a hair dryer, and a bathtub or shower

  Practical - Local maps and restaurant dining guide

  Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating

  Accessibility - Visual fire alarm

  Need to Know - No cribs (infant beds) or rollaway/extra beds available

  Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • TV
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Heating
  • Electric kettle
  • Daily housekeeping
  • No rollaway/extra beds
  • No cribs (infant beds)
  • Local maps
  • Restaurant dining guide
  • Visual fire alarm

• Suite

  1 King Bed

  Entertainment - Flat-screen TV with digital channels

  Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker and electric kettle

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, a hair dryer, and a bathtub or shower

  Practical - Local maps and restaurant dining guide; cribs/infant beds available on request

  Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating

  Accessibility - Visual fire alarm

  Need to Know - No rollaway/extra beds available

  Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 3 (2 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • TV
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Heating
  • Electric kettle
  • Daily housekeeping
  • No rollaway/extra beds
  • Local maps
  • Restaurant dining guide
  • Visual fire alarm

• Family Single Room, 1 Bedroom

  1 King Bed

  Entertainment - Flat-screen TV with digital channels

  Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker and electric kettle

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, a hair dryer, and a bathtub or shower

  Practical - Local maps and restaurant dining guide; rollaway/extra beds and cribs/infant beds available on request

  Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating

  Accessibility - Visual fire alarm

  Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 4 (4 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • TV
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Heating
  • Electric kettle
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Local maps
  • Restaurant dining guide
  • Visual fire alarm

• Classic Double Room

  1 Double Bed

  Entertainment - Flat-screen TV with digital channels

  Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker and electric kettle

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, a hair dryer, and a bathtub or shower

  Practical - Local maps and restaurant dining guide

  Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating

  Accessibility - Visual fire alarm

  Need to Know - No cribs (infant beds) or rollaway/extra beds available

  Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • TV
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Heating
  • Electric kettle
  • Daily housekeeping
  • No rollaway/extra beds
  • No cribs (infant beds)
  • Local maps
  • Restaurant dining guide
  • Visual fire alarm

• Basic Twin Room

  2 Twin Beds

  Entertainment - Flat-screen TV with digital channels

  Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker and electric kettle

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, a hair dryer, and a bathtub or shower

  Practical - Local maps and restaurant dining guide

  Comfort - Daily housekeeping and heating

  Accessibility - Visual fire alarm

  Need to Know - No cribs (infant beds) or rollaway/extra beds available

  Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • TV
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Heating
  • Electric kettle
  • Daily housekeeping
  • No rollaway/extra beds
  • No cribs (infant beds)
  • Local maps
  • Restaurant dining guide
  • Visual fire alarm

Guest Reviews

• Shane (4/5): Terrible Hospitality - When we arrived there was no hospitality, just your in room 18 its out the door and upstairs in the barn. We ventured into the bar for a drink, had to take my drink back and ask for a clean glass as it was filthy. The area smelt of cooking fat! And also had a dirty floor and tables. To top it all off our final night was spoilt by a loud band playing till one o clock in the morning, and loud patrons shouting and singing till all hours of the morning. The following morning on check still no interaction with guests we were told I will take the keys which the gentleman took from us. No thank you for your custom or or asking us how everything was which we normally get after staying 3 nights. It’s a shame this has gone down hill in the past couple of years because it is in such a lovely area. If booking make sure you check to see if there is a band on. They don’t advertise this on the website only signs in the bar which is too late when you are already there to check in. Definitely won’t be returning,
• maria (10/5): great place in beautiful area - beautiful area. nice pub for a drink. great walks. third visit
• Sally (4/5): - The rooms need modernising. Beds are very uncomfortable can feel springs. Can hear voices in adjacent rooms and music playing til way after 11.30 pm on Tuesday night.
• Amanda (6/5): - Nice breakfast nice service but very noisy when your in your room
• Nicola (10/5): - We really like this hotel and have visited for many years. Nice dinner options and lovely breakfast.
• Jennifer (8/5): - Cute property, lovely staff! Great location. The band in the pub made the trip
• Stuart (10/5): Great location - Nice room with great view of the village, great food available. Great nights sleep as bed so confy
• Verified traveler (8/5): Top man Dee - Great stay comfy and great service from owner Dee he couldn’t do enough for our group
• Paul (6/5): - Staff friendly but room very dated and not that clean. Music in the pub on until late so if you are after a quiet night on Saturday don’t book a room here. It’s a locals pub with rooms. Breakfast not included in price which is steep for room only, especially when single occupancy.
• IAIN (10/5): - Very good nights sleep with comfy beds .
• Tom (6/5): - The facilities for paying my bill at the Charles Cotton hotel are disgraceful. The paying machine does not work correctly, and resulted in my having my debit card blocked. Very inconcenient.
• Nikki (10/5): - We had a lovely stay and enjoyed the beautiful village, lovely views and fabulous food. Fully recommend and will definitely revisit
• Christopher (8/5): Nice stay - Great setting in a lovely little village. Good food and very comfy pillows! Staff were obliging. I didn't have breakfast though.
• Pamela (8/5): Hartington hotel. - Nice hotel . Very friendly staff. Overall ok. The only problem we had is we've both come home with a bad back as mattress sank in the middle. So not a brilliant sleep. Also no usb sockets.
• Samuel (10/5): Lovely gem of a hotel - We stayed here in 2021 on a little babymoon and loved it so much that we returned for another little babymoon with baby number 2 in 2024. Lovely hotel, very clean and comfortable. The bar/restaurant is really lovely and very well priced.
• Ali (10/5): Lovely cosy hotel, great weekend away! - Had a lovely few nights stay here. Hartington is a pretty little village and is a great central location for lots of lovely walks and attractions. The hotel is very cosy and all the staff are very welcoming and friendly. The rooms are clean, we stayed in the annexe and weren't disappointed at all. Definitely recommend and would stay again. Thank you for a great weekend.
• Steve (6/5): - Staff very friendly and helpful . Bedding very clean and bed comfortable .👍 Breakfast not so good as the speed it was bought out to us it had obviously been pre cooked and just warmed up and only the egg cooked to order . The whole place is generally run down & tired .. as for the paintwork … we would suggest spec savers for the decorator 🤔. 🙄
• Kay (6/5): Cold bedroom and dining room - Extremely cold room upon arrival and took a while to heat up. 1 small radiator in the bedroom and 1 small radiator in the bathroom and on an extremely cold sub zero snowy weekend in December, these were inadequate to heat up the room to a comfortable level. I was part of a group who had a group dinner, which was poor and the dining room was cold. I wouldn't stay again; it was expensive for what it was.
• Anthony (8/5): Xmas walking party - Lovely pub, restaurants and rooms great food and staff, only downside was rooms where a bit cold
• Lorraine (8/5): Enjoyable stay - We liked the room. The bed was extremely comfortable. I was pleased to see a bath but unfortunately could not adjust from the shower to bath taps so couldn’t fill it! The food was excellent but the drinks let it down badly. Lots of the nice wine was not available and there were only two amber ales. The staff were pleasant. And it’s a great spot in the village.
• Frank (10/5): - Friendly local hotel. Excellent room and good food. Perfect for Peak district lovers.
• Alan (10/5): Great stay at Charles Cotton - Had a great stay at the Charles Cotton hotel. The staff were very welcoming and nothing was too much trouble. The weather was amazing but the room was very hot overnight but luckily we had taken our own fan which was a Godsend We only had breakfast at the hotel which was hot and freshly cooked to order and provided a Gluten Free option for my partner. All in all a fabulous stay in a historic hotel in a wonderful Peak District village
• Ruth (4/5): - No way it was cleaned as stated. Requested easy access, not given, eventually moved to an apartment Owner unfriendly, scruffy and barely spoke.
• Dave (8/5): Beautiful hotel in a beautiful village - Beautiful hotel in a beautiful village. Staff were very friendly. A bit of a mixup at dinner when my daughter was served wheat containing onion rings when we had been informed that they were wheat free. Fortunately my dsughter is wheat intolerant and not coeliac. The staff were very spologetic though. Breakfast time could start earlier than 8.30am I feel. The local area is stunningly beautiful
• Paul (10/5): - Very comfortable and easy atmosphere. Secluded and safe parking a bonus (classic car). Prices very reasonable.
• Deborah (10/5): - a beautiful village and the hotel is in the heart of it. very warm, friendly and welcoming. accommodation was also separate to the main building. highly recommended.
• Tony (6/5): - A nice stay, just a couple of things need updating like beds and mattresses they dip in the middle. Breakfast and dinner were great. Staff were friendly and helpful, one evening it was left to the young members of staff which wasn’t so good as they were to busy chatting and not checking on customers
• K (8/5): Thank you for being so helpful. - The staff went out of their way to help us with drying very wet clothes and walking boots. We were surprised that the radiator in the bedroom was behind the wardrobe. It was excellent value for money.
• Verified traveler (4/5): Disappointing overall - The reception and bar/restaurant staff were very pleasant, although the young kitchen assistant/ server has plenty to learn about customer service. Our ground floor room was quite poorly lit, but did have a very comfortable bed. There was also a good supply of tea/coffee/milk/sugar etc (although no biscuits) when we arrived. However, it was soon apparent that the ceiling was either pretty thin or inadequately insulated, as we could easily hear when anyone in the room above moved about. The bathroom was not particularly clean and had a broken towel hanger on the back of the door. However, its major shortcoming was the lack of a bath mat or ANY form of support at a sensible height when showering. As a result, standing on the smooth surface of the bath while attempting to shower was nothing short of dangerous! We dined in the hotel for just one night – only to find that at least two items on the pretty uninspiring menu were unavailable. Given the overall cost of the room (without breakfast) and the fact that no refunds would be provided in any event that guests needed to amend their plans, we felt our stay had been somewhat disappointing and would not recommend this hotel to others.
• Carl (4/5): - Room was in need of redecorating. Lock on the room door was hard to lick when leaving. Breakfast was only available for 1 hour.
• Chris (6/5): Bit tired - Very tired rooms - one room had mould and no heating in bathroom. Meal was nice and staff very helpful Breakfast a bit basic but ok .Shame there was no fruit, yoghurts, only one croissant left, limited cereal boxes
• Nicholas (10/5): Peak experience - fantastic stay for cycling tracks Wonderful staff, food was excellent Good real ale Comfortable bed plumbing a bit tired, otherwise wonderful stay
• Mandy (6/5): - Shower needs fixing and staff didn’t go out of their way to welcome us
• Lindsay (8/5): Lovely hotel with free on-site parking - A lovely hotel in beautiful surroundings. Lots of good walks nearby. Breakfasts were great, but evening meals less so. The children's menu was fine, but could do with children's desserts to go with it.
• Nicholas (10/5): Great location - Enjoyable stay, would recommend booking evening meal slot before you get there as we only just got in. lovely walk along to Pilsbury Castle the next morning
• Beth (4/5): Family room - Futon bed for teenager incredibly uncomfortable
• Mary (10/5): Lovely Hotel - Lovely hotel would definitely recommend the staff are friendly I would stay here again.
• JOHN (10/5): - From start to finish, I cannot speak highly enough. Food was exceptional, accommodation was superb and the location is a dream. I will be returning again this summer with friends.
• sophie (10/5): Nice rooms and lovely staff. - We pop to hartington every couple of years. Our preferred choice is the charles cotton. Good sized rooms and lovely staff. Great breakfast.
• Simon (6/5): - Property is feeling very tired and in need of some attention. Walls were very thin and we could hear people from at least two other rooms snoring, talking and walking around Our shower was very poor, taking at least two minutes to warm up and then the pressure was not enough for my wife to wash her hair Sealant and general repairs in the bathroom were at best done by an amateur and were not of any standard that I have ever experienced Breakfast was very basic and at £9.95 per person we felt bad value. Our scrambled egg appeared to be made with just one egg although the mushrooms were a bit more plentiful Value for money? Not at £110 per night once breakfast is taken in to account although it is in a great location Would we return? No, we could certainly find better
• Malcolm (8/5): - Handy location. Food was good and service was fast and efficient. However the En-suite was cramped and the shower pressure was well below par.
• Sharon (8/5): Welcoming and friendly Hotel - We have just had a two night stay in the Hotel. Our room was quite small but clean and was warm. The service was very friendly. We had one meal in the restaurant which was very nice but there were a few options not available which was a little disappointing as it was not an extensive menu. We really enjoyed the full cooked breakfast. Overall it’s a nice hotel in a very picturesque village in the Peek District
• Mickael (10/5): - Cosy and welcoming hotel, dog friendly, children friendly. We stayed for one night, had dinner in the restaurant, which was tasty and locally sourced when possible. Many reviews on here about it being outdated!, well its not modern and could do with upgrading a little but...it has charm and character that your modern chain hotel lacks. Nice friendly staff, well done.
• Lynne (8/5): Charles Cotton Hotel - Friendly staff and great location. The decor in the room was a bit tired and the hallway was a bit unwelcoming - we were in a building across the yard from the main hotel - just felt like it might be the next area due for a update. Communal areas were nice and all was comfortable.
• Melissa (10/5): Highly recommend - Lovely hotel. Our room was large, and the bed was comfortable. We had our dinner in the hotel, the food was delicious. (home cooked) There is also a vegan option. The village the hotel is in is beautiful. Highly recommend.
• Verified traveler (6/5): - Great staff and customer service, good food but rooms were shabby, dated and grubby. Refurbishment urgently needed….so in effect expensive for what you get. Be careful booking through Expedia as other booking sites include breakfast for the same price which was annoying.
• Verified traveler (10/5): - Great location, clean and well presented
• Verified traveler (8/5): - Perfect if using as a ‘base’. No frills, and a bit dated. However it was clean and the staff friendly. The breakfast was nice, we did not have our evening meal there so can’t comment about that.
• Stuart (10/5): - Friendly and efficient staff, comfortable rooms and great location
• Kevin (8/5): good room, good price. - very good 3 star hotel. friendly staff and good food. Room was good.
• Verified traveler (6/5): - The rooms need a lot of attention very run down, shower had no pressure at all or hot water. For the cost of the rooms to value not good at all, even had to pay additional for breakfast !

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