Situated on the border of the beautiful Peak District, Sheffield is a fantastic city with an abundance of art and culture awaiting your discovery. Overflowing with theatres, galleries, museums, and beautiful gardens, this city offers the perfect weekend getaway for the culture vultures or family explorers. Peruse below for Sheffield’s top attractions.
Exploring beyond Sheffield
If you’re staying at our Sheffield hotel for a few days or more, there’s plenty of time to venture outside of the city. Here are some of our favourite things to do just a short drive away.
- Hiking or cycling in the Peak District National Park
- Taking the kids to Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham
- Catching the train to go shopping in Leeds
- Playing a round at Hillsborough Golf Club
If you need any more inspiration, make sure you have a chat with our front of house staff who will be happy to offer their tips and advice.
Travelling to and from Sheffield
Whether you’re heading back home or continuing on your adventures, it’s easy to reach major towns and cities from our hotel in Sheffield city centre. To help plan your journey, we’ve taken a quick look at the journey times to popular onward destinations from Sheffield.
Manchester: one hour 20 minutes by car or 55 minutes by train
Leeds: 50 minutes by car or 40 minutes by train
York: one hour 15 minutes by car or 50 minutes by train
Nottingham: one hour by car or 50 minutes by train
London: three hours 20 minutes by car or two hours by train
From the whole team here in Sheffield, we look forward to welcoming you to Leonardo Hotels very soon.
Staff Recommends
Best Bar: Enjoy a great atmosphere and choose from a variety of dishes and stylish cocktails at the
Browns Bar & Brasserie located right around the corner from
Leonardo Hotel Sheffield.
Best Restaurant: The Milestone restaurant prides itself with being labelled as Sheffield's first true gastro pub and sources all its produce from local suppliers in addition to making their own bread and pasta.
Best Shopping: Collard Manson Boutique (125 Devonshire Street, Sheffield) has a range of innovative and unusual clothes, accessories and jewellery from the best designers around.
Best Sight: Sheffield Botanical Gardens offer visitors some respite from the city's hectic nature.
We've asked our teams to create short videos on how to see the best of their cities in just 36 minutes on foot or just a short car ride from the hotel!
