A GRAND DAY OUT

Welcome to the Grand Hotel in Scarborough, Europe's first resort hotel and once the largest hotel in the country. Its position on the cliff overlooking Scarborough South Bay offers panoramic views of the town and the North Sea. Tower Suites feature 360 degree panoramic views of Scarborough.

As Scarborough is a famous spa town, the building's baths originally included an extra pair of taps, so guests could wash in seawater as well as fresh water.

Designed by the Hull architect Cuthbert Brodrick, it was built between 1863 and 1867. The Grand boasts superb architecture with the design rumoured to be based on the theme of time.

Four towers represent the seasons, 12 floors represent the months, 52 chimneys to represent the weeks and originally 365 bedrooms to represent the days of the year. The hotel itself is in the shape of a 'V' in honour of Queen Victoria. The distinctive yellow brickwork was made locally in the nearby village of Hunmanby.

Three blue plaques outside mark where the novelist Anne Brontë died in 1849, the contribution of the RAF trainees stationed at the hotel during World War II, and the original opening of the building.