Yarnfield Park Training and Conference Centre

No signs of where the entrance is located for checking inn no guidance for late night arriving where to park If it’s raining then your done finding your way it’s like a maze finding your tower Middle of nowhere !!!!

This training centre has many good aspects to it. However, trying to conduct training in a room full of wasps is more than distraction, and something the management should have paid attention to. Also, the covered walkways between the training rooms and the accommodation blocks stop before main entrance leaving a gap where residents must run the gauntlet of the weather. The fact that the paving stones have sunk in places along the walkways causing widespread puddling doesn't help those with indoor shoes on their way to dinner when it rains. The signposting to the car park for those arriving in the dark could also be better. That's the negatives out of the way. On the positive side, the rooms are small, but comfortable and cleaned daily. The food is industrial catering when the centre is full - and can handle several hundred guests. The food is well cooked and presented with estimates of calories. I especially liked a curry soup and the range of main dishes that represented many different food styles and cultures. There are a mixture of tables to suit all sizes of groups using the centre. There are also lots of coffee points and more biscuits available than I have seen for a long while, but good coffee machines are slow to produce a cup of coffee and that can be frustrating is there are many delegates breaking from large plenary sessions at the same time all wanting a drink. Bar prices are reasonable and there is a 24 hour costa coffee point for that late night need. good for a couple of days, but not sure about how I would feel if staying longer. Staff were friendly..

I would go next month with 3 other students for a course at the Yarnfield training centre. They booked 2 rooms with a total of 4 beds. I booked the trip a little later. They wanted to add me to the room for an extra fee, but this wasn't possible. They can change the booking, but they can't add an extra student. I now have to book a new room just for me, while one of the students also has a room entirely for themselves. Great way to earn extra money, not such a great way to help your customers...

Terrible, ended up with sickness after visit. So rooms are awful and beds are the worst I have ever slept in. Food bad and venue quite cold in parts. Terrible experience would never visit again , think it might be noro virus outbreak as a lot of delegates reporting d&v

This absolutely did a job for me. The room was clean, the shower excellent, the bed comfortable. I was glad of a good night's sleep. I was on the second floor, some one before me had disabled the window lock so thankfully I was able to get lots of air in my room. Wonderful. An evening meal and breakfast were included with my room rate so that saved me trailing off campus looking for food. Very friendly staff.

This place seems to have had a few bad reviews recently, but I had a decent stay there in July 2024. The room had been refurbished and the bathroom was modern too. The bed was comfy. The place itself is a conference centre complex. There is an ok gym, free parking, and some greenery around you as you go to and from your room to the main building. There was no aircon in the room which wasn’t ideal as the weather was hot. The breakfast was of a good standard, but my one main gripe was with this. The conference aspect of the complex meant that around 300 delegates from one event turned up all at once for breakfast - which meant a massive queue. The answer was to get there very early for breakfast, but this did negate somewhat the idea of breakfast being served ‘between 7am and 9am’. Overall, though, fine given the mid-range price tag.