Matfen Hall Hotel, Golf & Spa

Beautiful hotel, location and gorgeous room though extremely hot (with heating off). Spa tired. A new spa is being built outside and lots of building work going on. Loud drilling above our room at 8am! Fine dining restaurant - Emerald and main lounge inaccessible due to NUFC bosses in meeting there for duration. Shame as birthday trip. Only 4 people total in alternative restaurant - Cloisters. Food excellent but no atmosphere. Breakfast in Orangery beautiful room and excellent food.

Facilities and staff were excellent. The hotel was very impressive. That’s was unforgettable treat for us. Restaurant service was slow.

We enjoyed our stay the food was excellent and the staff most attentive from arrival however the water went off in the middle of the night there was no one answering in reception so we had to get up and go downstairs to find someone. Our whole wing was off and there was other residents also looking for help. We also didn't find the water and teasmade in the room until the next morning as this was hidden in the cabinet under the TV. It would have been helpful if the staff could have shown us on arrival we had extreme heat in the room on Wed night and needed a drink. There was also some confusion over our booking where the hotel charged us again for our dinner. Spa facilities were lovely and relaxing good

Arrived at hotel to only to find out that someone from YGT had cancelled our stay, the question is why would they do this?. Luckily for us the hotel was not fully booked and they were able to give us two rooms that fitted our needs. They also increased our food allowance from what YGT had given,

The hotel and room was very nice and comfortable and staff were friendly. We did have an issue with the evening meal, when we checked in we were told we didn't need to book for evening meal just to go to the conservatory bar. When we went for food we were then told that we should have gone to the clubhouse for food but it was now closed. We were able to eat in the conservatory bar but it was from a limited menu. Breakfast the following day was very good however.

No complaints about the hotel and staff, excellent location with fantastic views of the golf course from hotel and clubhouse. Would liked to have had a discount on drinks as in previous years, for a 12-player group.

You must visit Matfen Hall. It is the largest family owned spa hotel in Northumberland with 27 holes to play on the well manicured parkland golf course. Excellent practice facilities and a par 3 course too. Food is excellent. Rooms are completed to a high standard and staff are very helpful. Book it now!

My husband, myself and two friends have stayed at Matfen before but this time we asked to be upgraded and we were not disappointed. Rooms were beautiful, very well maintained and furnished. Breakfast was very good, but one comment would be that tables could maybe be larger to accommodate everything which would make the staffs life easier too. Our meals/snacks at Keepers Lodge were very good and Keith, Pam, Ian and the chefs excellent.

Well appointed hotel with attentive but not intrusive service - very comfortable.

Comfortable spacious rooms all located close to the hotel facilities All very clean and tastefully furnished. A very friendly feel to this hotel. And the staff were very helpful

Our 2 games varied between quiet and fairly busy as you play 2 different 9 hole courses. Moved our tee times to earlier no bother both days. Helpful staff. Not a busy course. Temporary greens and course in very mixed condition. Lots of course restructuring work going on so noisy and lots and workmen and machinery around in places. Not worth the price to play while work in progress. Course play itself really good with water challenges - lost a few balls! Fab weather and loved the golf but wouldn’t return until work complete!

Wow. Site and club house were a different level. Buggies had course GPS Map on which proved helpful. We played Standing Stone and Delaw. The 1st 9 was spectacular in the grounds of Matfen Hall which could be seen from several holes. Beautiful course and scenery. The back 9 (for us) was less visual and felt like we had been given the poorer deal (but there was a members comp on playing the 3rd 9 hole course in the grounds). The back 9 was open and still interesting and the group enjoyed it.

There were 4 balls group front of us. we are 2 balls. It took 5 hours for playing 18 holes. (Douglas ,Standing stone) Needed to have patient.

I'm new to Golf and quite slow enjoyed the variety and all of the quaint walkways and half walls chalkenging

Did not use the keepers as it closed at 6 o'clock

The set up at Matfen Hall is quite unique with there being 3, 9 hole courses that you can play, each day we were given 2 of the 3 courses to play each starting and finishing near the clubhouse. The greens were very good but the teeing areas were not of the same standard. The courses are very playable and you can score well with receptive greens. The rough however is extremely thick and it is virtually impossible to find a ball that misses the fairway or first cut.

A challenging course especially for higher handicappers but this didn't detract from the enjoyment. The course itself was in great condition in pleasant surroundings. No complaints from our group.

Wide forgiving fairways. You’ll love it

Time on course over three days was fine, fortunate with weather which was a bonus.

The course was a fairly long course with sometimes long walks from Green to the next Tee which was often poorly signposted. Provided you played reasonably straight there were few hazards. Pleasant surroundings and bird life.