The Mile Castle Wetherspoon Hotel in Newcastle opens

The Mile Castle Hotel, next to Newcastle’s super-spoons of the same name, boasts 26 plush rooms in a Grade II listed building.

Costing from £79 a night, the hotel welcomed its first guests on Tuesday (November 26).

It comes as the pub’s new beer garden, believed to be Spoons’ biggest city centre beer garden in the country, also opened adding space for hundreds more drinkers.

Rooms have plush furnishings. (Image: NORTHERN ECHO) Guests can take mugs from their rooms and top-up refillable drinks from the pub, and take meals back to their bedrooms, as well as having tea- and coffee-making facilities.

Bathrooms are fitted with rainfall showers and bedrooms have aircon and huge TVs.

Bathrooms all have showers, with a shower and bath in the family rooms. (Image: NORTHERN ECHO) Spoons boss Tim Martin even had his say in the design, with reading lights and armchairs in each room.

Prices start from £79 a night. (Image: NORTHERN ECHO) Artwork in the rooms is designed by pupils at Newcastle High School for girls. (Image: NORTHERN ECHO) Pub manager Kris Lee said: “We are looking forward to welcoming people to the hotel and believe it will be a great asset to the pub as well as to the city.

“The new beer garden will also be a great new attraction for the pub and I am sure it will be welcomed by our customers.”

Nineteen of the rooms can accommodate twin occupancy including four family rooms with sofas and two accessible rooms.

The hotel is next to The Mile Castle, with guests able to access the rooms through the pub. (Image: NORTHERN ECHO) Fans of Spoons’ individual carpets can find the same design as in The Mile Castle next door in the corridors of the hotel, originally built by W Gibson and formerly Gibbs Chambers in 1861.

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It comes after the pub itself underwent a major refurb, reopening in September. The boozer was given new decoration, lighting, extended bars and a new cellar as part of the works.

The new beer garden has room for hundreds of drinkers. (Image: NORTHERN ECHO) Pergolas can pull over to keep those enjoying a beer outside dry in the rain. (Image: NORTHERN ECHO) The entire project cost £5m with the new beer garden in a former car park behind the pub believed to be the biggest of any city-centre Wetherspoon in the UK, with pergolas and dozens of seats.

Rooms can be booked online, by phone, or via the app.

The Mile Castle in Newcastle. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT)

The Mile Castle pub reopened following a refurbishment in September. (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT)