Newcastle Hotels

A stay in a Newcastle hotel puts you in the bonny heart of the North East, in a city described as the “best designed Victorian town” by architecture guru Nikolaus Pevsner. But it's not all highbrow of course - this famed nightlife centre is also the hometown of Viz's tab-smoking ladies’ man Sid the Sexist.

Newcastle neighbourhoods

Grainger Town focuses on Grey Street, once voted the best-looking street in Britain by Radio 4 listeners. It’s where you’ll find the Theatre Royal and Grainger Market. Behind Gallowgate is the most complete section of the old city walls as well as Morden Tower, where Beat poet Allen Ginsberg hung out. Here are museums and, nearby, the city’s cathedral. Quayside and Sandhill were once the commercial heart of the city. Swept away by fire in the 19th century, they’ve been revitalised into a fashionable pavement-style dining centre.

Shopping in Newcastle

Ultra fashion-conscious lads and lasses head for Cruise Mainline in Princess Square to buy their Jimmy Choo shoes alongside the WAGs of Newcastle United players. Opened in 1835 when it was the largest covered market in Europe, Grainger Street Market has among its many greengrocers and butchers the smallest M&S outlet in the world – a tiny stall. Nearby Eldon Square Shopping Centre is the largest city centre emporium of its kind in the UK. Bigger still is the MetroCentre, Europe’s largest shopping centre.

Eating and drinking in Newcastle

If you leave your Newcastle hotel and you’re gannin’ inte toon for Newky Brown and something grander than local delicacy stottie cake, you’ll find the most fashionable restaurants in the Quayside area. If it’s views you’re after, the glass-on-all sides Six rooftop restaurant at the Baltic Centre serves up canapés and fizz. Chinatown in Stowell Street has varied Cantonese offerings. Or if it’s a put-your-feet-up rest between sights, Blakes Coffee House near the Theatre Royal is great for a cuppa and a ciabatta about the size of Tyne-built HMS Ark Royal. For a wy-aye pet beer and nose in the heartland of Sid the Sexist, head for the riotous Bigg Market area.

Culture and nightlife in Newcastle

The Theatre Royal stages drama, ballet, opera, dance as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company season in September and October. You can see contemporary theatre at Northern Stage. There are art-house movie picks at the Tyneside Cinema and comedy, live bands and classical musical concerts at City Hall.

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