Here at the Riviera Guesthouse, we are proud to announce we’ve won a TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award 2025!
This accolade recognises the fantastic reviews we’ve had, courtesy of our fabulous guests who stay with us.
These guests also take the time to write their comments on the famous review platform: we are so grateful to have received this award.
As many of you reading this will know, we closed for the early part of 2025 to enable us to renovate the Riviera.
You can read all about it here.
We also found some mysterious items while carrying out the renovations, find out more here.
There were some ‘moments’ for want of a better phrase during the renovations, however all the blood, sweat and tears are worth it.
Running the Riviera Guesthouse is a true labour of love for us.
We live within the premises and striking a balance between offering the best guest experience we can, and having quality family time, can be a challenge.
It can be a juggling act, and then some!
Yet have such incredible feedback makes it all worthwhile.
It means we know for sure that guests have enjoyed their stay with us.
These guests have also invested their own time in offering feedback both on TripAdvisor and also on our social media platforms such as Facebook.
Therefore, it is a huge ‘thank you ‘to everyone who has supported us, stayed with us, and left reviews – you’ve made this possible.
We feel very lucky to meet so many lovely people through what we do, and it’s an absolute joy to welcome you all to our independent, family-run guesthouse.
Here’s to another year of creating happy memories for our guests … we can’t believe it will be 2026 in the not-too-distant future!
You can read them our TripAdvisor reviews here <LINK> and we currently have at time of writing over 1400 write ups, most of them very positive.
Here are a couple of recent ones which we hope will give you a flavour.
Jean
Fabulous guest house
Excellent guest house in a fantastic location with wonderful views of the beach.
Very warm welcome on arrival and easy check in. I had a spacious single room on the 2nd floor with lovely ensuite.
Great view from window and lovely touch of chair provided to sit and admire it.
Tea and coffee making facilities provided were plentiful and replenished daily.
Breakfast was plentiful with lots of choice and cooked fresh to your own requirements. Staff were all excellent friendly and helpful.
I would have no hesitation in recommending the Riviera and will definitely return for another visit.
Value 5
Rooms 5
Location 5
Cleanliness 5
Service 5
Sleep Quality 5
September 2025
Amanda
Break
Never stayed in Whitby but had a great time.
The Riviera was a lovely B&B room was very clean and spacious even though it was a single room and had a sea view, right on front near the whale bones so near to all amenities.
Breakfast was lovely plenty choice and cooked to order.
I would definitely recommend this place.
All the staff are lovely, very helpful, good family run place.
Thank you for a lovely stay and I will come back again to stop with you.
September 2025
Value 5
Rooms 5
Location 5
Cleanliness 5
Service 5
Sleep Quality 5
September 2025.
We’ve also had some wonderful Facebook comments about our TripAdvisor award post.
Comments include the following and many more besides … thank you, everyone!
Mandy Robinson
Congratulations on the award! Wishing you many more years of success and happy memories with your guests
Joanne Loxham
Congratulations thoroughly deserved. The best B and B in Whitby by a country mile
Denis Croft
Brilliant and well deserved keep up the good work
Steve Raw
Congratulations I stayed at your Guesthouse 50 years ago (August 1975) as a young soldier on leave from Germany. It is inspirational what you have a achieved and I look forward to following your progress
We couldn’t do it without you, our wonderful guests, of course, so remember to book your holidays with us soon
