Good hotel with great views of the bridges over the Tyne. Helpful staff and good food in the restaurant, but breakfast well below par. Poached eggs were hard and bacon over cooked. Extremely disappointed with the cleanliness of the room. Considering the price paid I would expect the room to be spotless, which it was far from. The overall cleanliness of the bedroom was poor. The handrail in the upstairs bathroom was covered in dust and obviously hadn’t been cleaned in weeks. You could also see hand marks in the dust on the girders, and the pipes in the downstairs bathroom were water stained ( again hadn’t been cleaned for a while). The mirrors were also smeared, smudged and the frames were again dusty. Overall not what I would expect from a 4-star boutique hotel.