Chesterfield Borough Council has agreed to give free parking for late night shopping in the town on the run-up to Christmas.  The Council has also agreed to carry out a full review of parking policy over the coming months so there are no proposed changes to existing charges.

Cllr Chris Ludlow, Executive Member for Environment of Chesterfield Borough Council said: “People are struggling in these tough financial times and Christmas will be an expense that will hit hard with many local residents.

“We want to encourage people to shop locally in Chesterfield and having free parking will hopefully be an attraction that will keep our shops and markets busy over the Christmas shopping period.”

Free parking available from 4.00pm onwards on all Chesterfield Borough Council car parks within the town centre on Thursday’s from 24^th November until the week prior to Christmas week and then each day from Monday 19^thDecember until Friday 23^rd December.

This incentive will be part of a marketing campaign arrange by Destination Chesterfield to promote Chesterfield over the christmas period.

For full details on what’s happening in Chesterfield this Christmas visitwww.chesterfield.co.uk/christmas

(*these proposals are subject to full cabinet approval on the 8th November)

Source:Chesterfield Borough Council

Casa Hotel in Chesterfield is delighted to announce that they have been awarded the ‘Comfiest Bed’ in the annual Best Kept Secret Awards by the discount hotels specialist, LateRooms.com.

The annual Best Kept Secret Awards search up and down the country for top notch facilities in the hospitality industry!

The LateRooms.com judge of the Comfiest Bed award said:

“Casa hotel in Chesterfield is our winner for Comfiest Bed. Their reviews are glowing for the beds (and the hotel in general) – the fact that they’re King Size too is an added bonus!”

Steve Perez, Owner of Casa Hotel, said: “Our Hypnos beds are always the hot topic of conversation at breakfast time and we constantly receive positive comments about it being the best night’s sleep our guests have ever had. To have an official award to celebrate that Casa is home to the best beds in the UK is a fantastic achievement and one I hope will bring many more visitors through the door to try them out.”

LateRooms.com receieved thousands of entries from hoteliers and hotel fans around the UK, and shortlisted the ‘Best Kept Secret’ award categories according to number of nominations. The judges, made up of media partners and prestigious LateRooms.com hotel experts, then deliberated long and hard to pick the eventual winners.

LateRooms.com Offline Marketing Manager, Lynda Matthews commented, “Discovering the UK’s Best Kept Secrets is always an exciting time for us. These hotels really are the crème de la crème in their industry offering beautiful food, views, interiors and services to their customers and we are proud to have them on LateRooms.com. We hope that this year’s search will once again bring our customers new hotel possibilities, whatever it is they are looking for from their hotel stay”.

Source:Casa Hotel