Last updated: September 2026
One two-bedroom, two-bathroom serviced apartment at Union Terrace, a few minutes' walk from the Minster and York Hospital, with its own parking space and everything in the rate. From £126 a night, all in.
It suits people staying a while rather than a night: relocating or between houses, on placement or visiting someone at York Hospital, working a project at Monks Cross or Clifton Moor, or coming in for a term at one of the two universities.
The honest bit. We have one apartment in York. Every competitor on this page either runs a block of fifty units or is an agent with no stock of its own. We would rather tell you what ours costs and whether it is free than pretend to a portfolio.
Below: what it costs by length of stay with the real totals, why a longer booking does not drop the nightly rate here, walking and driving times measured from the front door, and where an aparthotel genuinely beats us.
How much is serviced accommodation in York?
From £126 a night, all in. That is £377 for three nights in a whole two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment sleeping six, including bills, wi-fi, linen, parking and the end-of-stay clean, read live from our booking system in September 2026. A week runs from £977. York prices by season, so the table below gives the real totals by length and date.
Same working day, with the real total rather than a from-rate — or a straight answer that it is already booked, which happens and which we will not dress up. From £126 a night all in, minimum stay as low as one night, £200 refundable deposit, self check-in from 3pm.
Or ring 0113 479 0251 — we answer during working hoursEvery figure below is a total divided by the nights — accommodation, bills and the one-off £70 clean, all of it.
| Length of stay | Total | Per night, all in | The window this came from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three nights The shortest we sampled | £377 | £125.67 | Checking in 11 January 2027 |
| One week Weekly discount applied | £977 | £139.57 | Checking in 11 January 2027 |
| Four weeks Monthly discount applied | £3,837 | £137.04 | Checking in 11 January 2027 |
| One week, peak Christmas and New Year | £1,614 | £230.57 | Checking in 28 December 2026 |
The spread between those last two rows is the single most useful thing on this page. A week in January costs £977. The same week over New Year costs £1,614. York is a tourist city and it prices like one, so the date matters more than the length.
Read directly from the Stayful booking system on 12 September 2026, across twenty-four consecutive weekly windows and three four-week windows out to March 2027. Sixteen of the twenty-four weeks were bookable. These are not market estimates and not last quarter's figures — but they are a snapshot, and York moves. Send your actual dates and we will quote the real total, which then does not move.
Most serviced accommodation pages promise that a month costs less per night than a few days. At this apartment, on these dates, it does not, and you would find that out at quote anyway.
Same apartment, same check-in of 11 January 2027: £125.67 a night for three nights, £139.57 for a week, £137.04 for four weeks. The week and the month are dearer per night than the long weekend.
The discounts are real and they are applied automatically. What happens is that the underlying nightly rate rises as the booking runs further into the spring, and that rise is bigger than the discount.
Where a longer stay does win is against a hotel over the same period, because the kitchen, the washing machine and the second bedroom take costs out of the trip that a room rate leaves in.
The second list is what makes the first one believable.
No tenancy agreement, no referencing, no agency fee and no deposit scheme. You book dates the way you would book a hotel.
Three phrases get used for overlapping things, and in York the distinction that matters is not the building. It is who is on site and what you pay for it.
This is a serviced apartment. Two bedrooms in a residential development at Union Terrace, with a shared entrance and a lift, furnished, professionally managed and cleaned between stays. We are not going to dance around the word: if you searched serviced apartments York, this is one.
It is not an aparthotel. There is no reception, no daily housekeeping and nobody on site. You get the keys, the apartment is yours for the dates, and the rate does not carry the cost of a front desk. That is the whole difference, and it is why the figure is what it is.
Serviced accommodation is the wider term covering both, plus houses and flats let on the same basis. Whichever words you used to get here — serviced accommodation York, serviced apartments York, short stay or monthly accommodation — you have landed in the right place.
Book an aparthotel if you want a staffed reception, housekeeping during the stay, or the near-certainty of a room at short notice. Those are real advantages and we will not argue with any of them. Talk to us if you want two bedrooms and two bathrooms rather than a studio, a full kitchen rather than a kitchenette, a parking space you do not pay extra for, and a published price you can check before you enquire.
One thing worth saying plainly, because the rest of this market does not. We have a single apartment in York. An operator with a block will nearly always have something free; we will not. What we can do is tell you straight away, the same working day, rather than leaving you waiting on an availability check.
People visiting York Hospital. It is half a mile from the front door — a ten-minute walk, or three minutes in the car. With a lift and a shared entrance the apartment is step-free from the street, which matters if you are visiting daily, carrying things, or not especially mobile yourself. A kitchen matters more than it sounds when you are doing this for three weeks.
Relocating, or between houses. A completion date slipped or the job started before the move did. Two bedrooms with no tenancy, no referencing and no agency fee, in walking distance of the centre.
Academics and students' families. York St John is a six-minute walk and the University of York is eight minutes' drive. Terms, vivas, graduations and research visits all run longer than a hotel booking sensibly should.
Project and consulting teams. Monks Cross and Clifton Moor are both eight minutes out. Four people in a two-bedroom apartment with two bathrooms and a parking space costs less than four rooms, and produces one invoice.
People who want to see York properly. The Minster is a twelve-minute walk. So is everything else inside the walls. The parking space means you can drive in, leave the car and not touch it again — which in this city is worth more than being fifty yards closer to the Shambles.
Routed by road from YO31 7ES. Anything under a mile in York is a walk, and usually a faster one than driving it.
| Destination | Distance by road | Drive | Realistically |
|---|---|---|---|
| York St John University | 0.31 miles | 2 min | A six-minute walk |
| York Hospital Wigginton Road | 0.54 miles | 3 min | A ten-minute walk |
| York Minster And everything inside the walls | 0.57 miles | 2 min | A twelve-minute walk |
| York Railway Station | 0.94 miles | 3 min | A twenty-minute walk, or a short taxi with bags |
| University of York Heslington | 2.48 miles | 8 min | Drive or the bus |
| Clifton Moor | 2.99 miles | 8 min | Drive |
| Monks Cross | 3.16 miles | 8 min | Drive |
| Leeds city centre | 28.07 miles | 40 min | The train is quicker |
The parking space is the part people underestimate. Central York is permit-controlled, the council car parks are expensive by the day, and the aparthotels either charge for a space or do not have one — York Aparthotel publishes £10 per 24 hours for a limited, first-come bay. An allocated space included in the rate removes that decision entirely.
The two-bedroom apartment at Union Terrace is the one this page is about. We also manage a three-bedroom house at Park Crescent sleeping ten, which was booked solid across every date we checked out to March — it is here because it does come free, and because we would rather show you the real portfolio than hide the part you cannot have. Each card goes to the live listing with its own calendar.
Three of these eight rows go the aparthotel's way and two are straight draws. On a page about a single apartment that is simply the truth, and a comparison that only ever points one way is advertising rather than a comparison.
The last row is the one to take seriously. If your dates are fixed and close, ring first — we will know within the hour whether we can help.
Deposit. £200, fully refundable after the stay.
Cancellation. Stated in writing at the point of quote, before you pay anything, mirroring the policy applied to the same apartment on the platforms. Honestly: a hotel on a flexible rate will beat us on same-day cancellation, and if your dates are genuinely uncertain that is a fair reason to book one.
Extensions. Tell us as early as you can. With one apartment we cannot hold it open indefinitely, and York books a long way ahead in summer and over Christmas — earlier notice is worth more here than in most cities we cover. If it is genuinely let after your dates we will say so early enough for you to plan.
Invoicing. One invoice, matched to a purchase order, a claim reference or a cost centre, with thirty-day terms for approved accounts.
Stayful manages around 70 properties across 45+ areas of England and has hosted more than 10,000 nights. Co-founded by Zac Harrison and Martyn Butler. We manage the Union Terrace apartment ourselves rather than brokering it, so the person who answers the phone is the person who deals with the boiler. Two of the operators ranking above us for this search own no property at all and book you into someone else's — that is a legitimate model, but it is not the same thing and it is worth knowing which you are getting.
4.6 out of 5 from 21 Google reviews. That is the company-level rating from our Google Business Profile and it is the figure our structured data publishes.
Separately, guests score individual categories across the portfolio on Airbnb, over more than 10,000 nights hosted:
Airbnb guest category scores across the Stayful portfolio, September 2026. These are category scores, not an overall company rating, and we do not present them as one.
Read the communication figure as operational reliability rather than hospitality. With nobody on site, how fast someone answers is the whole service — which is why it is the number we watch.
Step-free access from the street. A parking space for a larger vehicle. A cot or a travel bed. A desk you can actually work at. Arriving late, or needing to drop bags before three. Most of these we can sort, and the lift means step-free is a straight yes rather than a maybe. What we cannot do is pets, and we cannot promise the apartment is free on your dates until we have looked. Send the dates and the requirements together and you will get a straight answer the same working day.
From £126 a night, all in. That is £377 for three nights in a whole two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment sleeping six, with bills, wi-fi, linen, parking and the end-of-stay clean inside the figure. A week runs from £977.
Read from our booking system on 12 September 2026 across twenty-four weekly windows. York prices by season — the same week over New Year came out at £1,614.
It is a serviced apartment and it is not an aparthotel. Two bedrooms in a residential development at Union Terrace, with a shared entrance and a lift, furnished, managed and cleaned between stays.
The difference from an aparthotel is that there is no reception, no housekeeping during your stay and nobody on site. You get the keys and the apartment is yours, and the rate does not carry the cost of a front desk.
Yes — its own allocated space, included in the rate rather than charged on top.
In central York that is worth more than it sounds. The streets are permit-controlled, the council car parks are expensive by the day, and the aparthotels either charge for a bay or have none. York Aparthotel publishes £10 per 24 hours for a limited, first-come space.
Yes, all of them. Gas, electricity, water, council tax and broadband are inside the nightly figure, along with linen, towels and the one-off £70 end-of-stay clean.
You are staying as a guest rather than renting as a tenant, so no utility account is opened in your name and you are never on the council tax bill however long you stay.
As low as one night on some dates, two on others. It varies by date rather than being a fixed policy, and we will tell you which applies when you send your dates.
That is unusually short for this kind of accommodation, and it means a two-night visit is worth asking about rather than ruling out.
Not necessarily, and we would rather say so than let you find out at quote. Weekly and monthly discounts are applied automatically, but York's seasonal pricing often rises faster than the discount.
A worked example from our own system, same apartment, checking in 11 January 2027: £125.67 a night over three nights, £139.57 over a week, £137.04 over four weeks. Book the length you actually need.
Half a mile — 0.54 miles by road, a three-minute drive or about a ten-minute walk.
The apartment is step-free from the street because the building has a shared entrance and a lift, which matters if you are visiting a ward daily or are not especially mobile. There is a full kitchen and a washing machine, which over a long visit makes a real difference.
The Minster is 0.57 miles, a twelve-minute walk. York Railway Station is 0.94 miles, about twenty minutes on foot or three minutes by car.
Union Terrace sits just north of the city walls, so everything inside them is walkable and you can leave the car in its space for the whole stay.
Two, but only one is realistically bookable. The two-bedroom apartment at Union Terrace is the one this page is about. We also manage a three-bedroom house at Park Crescent sleeping ten, which was booked solid across every date we checked out to March 2027.
An operator with a block of fifty units will nearly always have something free. We will not — but we will tell you the same working day rather than leaving you waiting.
Not at this apartment. It is listed as no pets and we are not going to make an exception and hope for the best.
If a pet-friendly stay in York is what you need, say so at enquiry and we will tell you honestly that this is not it rather than waste your time.
A £200 damage deposit, fully refundable after the stay. There is no tenancy deposit, no protection scheme, no referencing and no agency fee, because this is a booking rather than a let.
Yes. One invoice for the whole booking, matched to a purchase order, a cost centre or a claim reference, with thirty-day terms for approved accounts.
Relocations and insurance placements are a regular part of what we do, and we will deal with a relocation agent or loss adjuster directly if that is easier than routing it through you.
We answer calls during working hours. With one apartment, a phone call gets you an answer faster than anything else — particularly if your dates are close.
Email: info@stayful.co.uk
Stayful — around 70 managed properties across 45+ areas of England, 10,000+ nights hosted. Co-founded by Zac Harrison and Martyn Butler. Two properties in York.
If you need a guaranteed room at short notice, housekeeping during your stay, or somebody on reception at midnight, book an aparthotel. We are one apartment with a parking space and a published price.
Same working day, with the real total — or a straight answer that it is booked. From £126 a night all in, bills, parking and the clean included, £200 refundable deposit, self check-in from 3pm. One invoice for a company or an insurer if you need it.
Or ring 0113 479 0251Own a property in York and wondering what it could earn as serviced accommodation? Stayful also manages properties for landlords — see how our management service works.
