La Rosa Hotel and Campsite

I first came across La Rosa in an article in a Yorkshire lifestyle magazine that I read while at the Turkish Baths in Harrogate that first time for Iona's birthday.

The article described the campsite that had been set up in the Yorkshire Moors National Park near Whitby and the pictures showed a quirky, colourful and whcky place that I immediately wanted to visit, but then I was diagnosed and everything was put on hold.  When I started getting better I needed something to look forward to and even though I was still having chemo I arranged for Nick and I to stay at the campsite in one of the caravans and discovered that they had also opened a hotel on the cliff in Whitby. 

We arranged to stay there as well, in the La Rosa room with its huge window looking out across the harbour to Whitby Abbey on the opposite cliff.

The style of each room is individual and La Rosa was all about swans and roses. It made us smile straight away. The key was wonderful, the mirror spectacular and the bedclothes decadent. In the morning there wasn't a conventional breakfast, rather we had a basket delivered to the door with hot cheese scones and the wherewithal to make coffee.

The hotel also has a tea room which can be used by anyone.  It was the firs time I had come across glitter on cakes.  Same ecclectic style with plenty to fill up your eyes while scoffing your cake.

Then a couple of days later we moved to the campsite and the Tinkers van:

Loved the compost loo in the gypsy caravan.  Singing was the way to warn people you were in there.  The shower barn with the double shower and wind up gramaphone was also wonderful, especially with the candles.  We didn't get to try the outside bath, while looking at the stars but that could be  for a different time.  We did love the odd bits and pieces in the trees, the lights up the pathways and the dressing up tent.