England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Gateshead
Gateshead is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 196,000 people. This guide covers 2 hotels in Gateshead, with about 125 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 2
- Best months
- July and August
- Nearest airport
- NCL11 km · Newcastle International Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Gateshead
Gateshead () is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank.
Gateshead stands on a hill on the south bank of the River Tyne and was industrial from the 14th century through coal mining. This was sufficiently lucrative for the north bank city of Newcastle to attempt a takeover; but the coal was from shallow bell-pits that soon became unworkable, where upon Newcastle's interest waned. The main deep-mining belt was south towards Durham, and those pit owners became stinking rich, while Gateshead developed metal-bashing and other traditional smokestack industries.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Gateshead
See
- Gateshead Millennium Bridge
- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
- Shipley Art Gallery
- Saltwell Towers
- Bowes Railway
- Angel of the North
- Gibside
- Tanfield Railway
Do
- The Sage Gateshead
- Gateshead International Stadium
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Gateshead
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Gateshead hotel | 58 | 4.3/5 1,035 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Newcastle Whitemare Pool hotel | 67 | 3.9/5 636 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Gateshead
2 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Crockets Hotel | 4.7 km | |
| Park Farm | 4.1 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Gateshead
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Gateshead are July and August. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; November is the wettest, with about 76 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Gateshead: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Newcastle International Airport (NCL), about 11 km from the city centre in a straight line; Teesside International Airport (MME, 50 km) and Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 121 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
For long-distance routes see Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle Central station is just north of the river. It has frequent trains from London King's Cross and the Midlands via York, from Edinburgh via Berwick, and from Carlisle via Hexham. Gateshead doesn't have a mainline station. But from Newcastle Central, it's a short walk, bus, Metro or taxi ride into the town centre.
Getting around
The Tyne bridges, Sage and Baltic are all within a 15-minute walk, with the International Stadium a little further.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
NCL · Newcastle International Airport
MME · Teesside International Airport
LBA · Leeds Bradford Airport
Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Gateshead
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 2 places
of 2 places
Questions
Gateshead: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Gateshead?
By published guest score: Travelodge Gateshead (4.3 / 5 · 1,035 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Newcastle Whitemare Pool (3.9 / 5 · 636 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Gateshead?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Gateshead are July and August. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; November is the wettest, with about 76 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Gateshead?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Newcastle International Airport (NCL), about 11 km from the city centre in a straight line; Teesside International Airport (MME, 50 km) and Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 121 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Gateshead?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Gateshead
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.