York Marina Reviews Summary

Category: Marina

Address: Naburn, York, YO19 4RW, United Kingdom

Phone: +441904621021

Rating: 4.5
based on 169 reviews.

Restaurant & Food

Pros:

  • "Absolutely lovely licenced Riverside café serving restaurant quality food in superb surroundings."
  • "Delicious brunch."
  • "Professional but friendly service received from entering, right through to the prompt delivery of a lovely meal."
  • "The waterfront restaurant is outstanding. The food is exceptional."
  • "Absolutely faultless Sunday roast, pork and beef wonderful."
  • "Food was outstanding, really enjoyed the fish and chips here."
  • "The food was excellent and came quickly."

Cons:

  • "I got some very fatty bacon that tasted like cardboard."
  • "VERY SLOW FOOD SERVICE esp for an EXPENSIVE £4:25 Sausage Sandwich"
  • "very good covid procedures in place but unfortunately what let this visit down was a limited menu and very bland food."
  • "The food was bland, disappointed for the price it costs."
  • "The veg was over cooked and the gravy watery."
  • "Food is ok without being outstanding despite prices on the higher side."
  • "I can't say any of it was overwhelming, quite bland and for £30 with three drinks we were disappointed."

Service & Staff

Pros:

  • "the staff are fantastic. So helpful, warm and welcoming!"
  • "The staff have been so helpful and professional."
  • "Staff are very friendly and helpful."
  • "Service is friendly and efficient and the presentation of the food is very good."
  • "Really friendly staff, all well presented and turned out."
  • "Service was excellent."
  • "We were served by two waitresses who were really friendly."

Cons:

  • "Went last week and they mixed up my vegetarian order."
  • "offering no apology saying it would be two minutes."
  • "Extremely poor attitude towards customers."
  • "The staff in the cafe seem interested only in people that are known to them."
  • "Only later did the supervisor offer an insincere apology which they instantly negated by saying they were busy when they certainly were not."
  • "The staff always seem curt and unfriendly."
  • "Waitress was not up to scratch, especially when we said food was bland."

Location & Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "Sit watching the river in the new conservatory and enjoy the food."
  • "Peaceful and dog friendly sitting outside watching boats on the river."
  • "Lovely setting watching the boats."
  • "Beautiful views, perfect fully serviced pitches with a popular restaurant on site."
  • "Great views from the restaurant/cafe, and very helpful staff."
  • "Stunning views of the river and passing boats."
  • "A lovely location if you want to relax by the river but only be 10 minutes from York city centre."

Cons:

  • "Despite saying that work is STILL ongoing these pictures should be removed."
  • "The website is misleading, showing tables outside the cafe along the river."
  • "When one enters the marina there is a pretentious air to the place."
  • "They were locked behind fences and hiding behind lines of trees so they couldn't be seen at all!"
  • "Site is adjacent to car park which has heavy use and noisy."
  • "On the negative side, there is a very steep ramp into the cafeteria with no rail."
  • "Unfortunately after queuing for a while were then told once we got to to the front it was reservations only."

Facilities & Amenities

Pros:

  • "Excellent shower and loo exclusive to the site."
  • "The site is spotless with large serviced pitches and excellent shower facilities with fob entry."
  • "Pitches are good and the toilets are immaculate."
  • "Facilities for those staying at the park are more than adequate and a nice touch is having a toilet, sink and shower in the same cubicle."
  • "Facilities are excellent and very reasonably priced too considering the location."
  • "The facilities are excellent the wonderful restaurant where the food is outstanding, To the shower blocks which are to a very high standard."
  • "Spotless showers and toilet facilities, hardstanding pitches with water and waste per pitch, abundance of electric points."

Cons:

  • "For £25 a night for a CL we won't be going back"
  • "No where to secure bikes which was a surprise as it's just off the main Yrk to Selby cycle path."
  • "The toilet block was used by people visiting the shop which wasn't very good we felt and although there was a very nice shower block near the Marina you had to walk 400yds through the Boat Yard to use it."
  • "They would not allow me to change my dates, said the policy quite clearly says non transferable."
  • "The electronic pass card didn't work and if we hadn't tried it we could have been locked out."
  • "Chandlery doesn’t stock many parts."
  • "many of the boats do not observe the 6-knot (fast walking pace) speed limit on the river."

Value & Pricing

Pros:

  • "Great value and excellent facilities."
  • "The food is good, though not cheap, the view of the river makes it completely worth it."
  • "Super food and good price with the August 50 per cent off."
  • "Reasonably Priced."
  • "The food is expensive/upmarket and offers good value for money in terms of quality and quantity."
  • "Relax, enjoy fantastic food a cheeky cocktail or bottle of fizz and watch the million pound motoryachts sailing past!!"
  • "The Marina cafe serves delicious food and reasonably priced and can recommend the afternoon tea."

Cons:

  • "today after paying £7.20 (too much) for a medium size Americano coffee and Sausage sandwich I expected much better service."
  • "Not very impressed as we booked and paid the best part of £400.00 for all bank Holidays, they also advertise a slip way for boat access to river, but when I asked they declined, so I cancelled all bookings and asked for a refund."
  • "Not the cheapest."
  • "Bar is ridiculous. Got asked to leave as the kids were being too loud at 8pm."
  • "Automatically adds service charge which annoys."
  • "Service charge was already added to the bill which I don't like, we paid it but left no tip as a result."
  • "When I looked at the menu and spied £6.50 for a pint I decided not to bother."

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