Dean Court Hotel

No other hotel in York can surpass the location of the venerable Dean Court. Slap bang opposite the Minster, it's an amalgam of three separate redbrick houses that formerly housed members of the clergy – look out of your window, and there's your uninterrupted million-dollar view. Rooms have been given a contemporary makeover, and as there are only 37 of them there's a boutique feel - even if it's not quite exclusively boutique in tone and style. If you want to be in the city centre and handy for all the historic sights, this is the hotel for you. Not only that, it's famously haunted by an angry chambermaid who only appeared after the hotel's last refurbishment a decade ago.