We recently stayed at Chatsworth for two nights which was all we could get at the time of booking. Check in was efficient and quick. We made the most of our time by viewing the fantastic sculptures in the park on our first afternoon. It was lovely to have the key to get into the park any time we wanted. We didn’t book tickets for the house as we felt that we wouldn’t have the time to do it and we had visited it some years ago. On our full day we set off to view the winged horse near the house in motion (it is automated and runs for a minute each hour from 10am until 5pm). We then got a bus from the house to Bakewell (buses run regularly to quite a view different places from the house). We spent the day in Bakewell which was really pretty. The site was clean and tidy - we were impressed with the shower block/toilets which were always kept to a very high standard. The wardens were hard working whenever we came across them.