Bolton Castle Wins Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Award 2025 Five Years Running

Bolton Castle, the medieval castle near Leyburn in North Yorkshire, is pleased to announce today that it has been recognised in Tripadvisor’s® Travelers’ Choice® Awards for 2025 – again. This is the fifth year in a row that Bolton Castle has won this global award. The award honours businesses that consistently earn great reviews, placing them among the top 10% of listings around the world on Tripadvisor.

As the world’s largest travel guidance platform, Tripadvisor has unparalleled authority with travellers. This award is based on genuine feedback from anyone in the community who has visited and left an authentic, first-hand review on Tripadvisor over a 12-month period, making it a valuable and trustworthy designation of great places to visit.

Family days out at Bolton Castle

Jacqui Naylor, General Manager at Bolton Castle says: “This season has been one of our busiest ever, with great attendance at our programme of events as well as a welcome boost in our daily visitor numbers. It’s a challenging time and we’re so pleased that 2025 looks set to be our best and with our popular autumn events programme now in full swing, we are already planning 2026.  We are very grateful to our visitors who have taken the time review us and share what a wonderful time they have had at Bolton Castle. This award recognises our commitment to brilliant visitor hospitality, and we are delighted that a visit here has made such a memorable impact on their experience.”

Bolton Castle has already been awarded the Bronze Award by Green Tourism, a national organisation promoting greener ways to operate in the leisure and tourism industry in the UK and has been a finalist in the Yorkshire Post Tourism Awards.