Tennyson House

Walk out the front door of 94 Tennyson Avenue and Peasholm Park is two minutes away. Keep going and you hit the beach in four. Turn the other way and the town centre is five minutes on foot, with bars, restaurants, and shops all along the way. This is the rare large group property where you genuinely do not need to drive anywhere.

Inside, the house runs across three floors of contemporary, clean-lined rooms. The kitchen is the kind that actually works for a crowd: a Range cooker, dishwasher, full-size fridge-freezer, and enough worktop that three or four cooks can work at once without elbowing each other. A formal dining room across the hall seats the whole group together, which for sixteen people is something you rarely find.

Eight bedrooms are spread across the upper two floors. Four are super king doubles (two with en-suite bathrooms), one of the two further kings has its own en-suite, and another king can be split into a twin on request. Add a single twin room and you have proper flexibility for couples, multi-family trips, or a big birthday with a mix of ages. It works for every generation, and the layout shows it.

Out the back, a patio with artificial grass leads to the hot tub. The fake turf is a quiet win: no muddy footprints through the house, and the dog dries off quickly after a lap of the garden. On a warm evening, you can see the TV through the window from the tub, which is either brilliant or terrible depending on what everyone else is watching.

Two dogs stay free, with a third and fourth welcome at £50 each. A shop is a couple of hundred metres away, a chip shop even closer, and a pub with a pool table sits about ten minutes' walk down the road. Off-road parking fits two smaller cars in the carport, and the host provides parking discs and scratch-off cards for visiting other parts of town. There is no downstairs toilet, and the stairs between floors are on the steeper side, worth bearing in mind if anyone in the group needs easy access.

Scarborough sits on the edge of the North York Moors, roughly twenty miles from Whitby. North Bay and South Bay are both within walking distance, two long stretches of sand with plenty of room to spread out. Peasholm Park, with its boating lake and tree-lined paths, is the nearest green space and a solid choice for morning dog walks. The Cleveland Way runs along the coast from town, offering some of the best cliff-top walking in Yorkshire.

For a day out with kids, the North Yorkshire Water Park at Wykeham Lakes has paddleboards, kayaks, and an inflatable obstacle course on the water. Back in town, the Open Air Theatre hosts big-name acts through the summer, and the Scarborough Spa puts on everything from orchestral concerts to pantomime.

The host is responsive and available without hovering. Any hiccups that come up get sorted fast.