Agatha Christie Vanishes - Hotels Where Bad S%$# Happens

Apart from having the worst but most interesting name of all the hotels we’ve come across, the Swan Hydro (now the Old Swan Hotel) was the hideout for Agatha Christie when she mysteriously disappeared back in 1926.

The disappearance of a modern-day celeb was, of course, big news, and the press went to town on her vanishing act. The public jumped on the bandwagon that it was all a big publicity stunt, but after her car was found in a chalk pit in Surrey the media machine went into overdrive. Christie was eventually discovered at the Swan Hydro and she claimed to have suffered amnesia due to a nervous breakdown following her recent divorce and didn’t remember a thing. But something tells me that when you check into a room under the name of the woman with whom your ex-husband was having an affair that led to the break-up of your marriage, you’re still having the nervous breakdown and haven’t quite got to the amnesia part yet.

The Old Swan Hotel, Swan Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2SR. + 0142 350 0055