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    • BESIDE THE SEA
      • Belvidere Place, Broadstairs, Kent
      • Black Rock House, Hastings
      • Chicoutimi, Thorpeness, Suffolk
      • Kemp Townhouse, Brighton
      • Seacombe, South Devon
      • The Marine, Whitby, North Yorkshire
      • The Quarry, Ilfracombe, Devon
      • The Reading Rooms, Kent
      • Westcroft Guesthouse, Cornwall
      • Whitepark House, County Antrim
      • Woodlands Hotel, North Yorkshire
    • BIG HOUSES
      • Balbegno Castle, Kincardineshire, Scotland
      • Carrington House, Norfolk
      • Chaffeymoor Grange, Dorset
      • Gossel Ridding, Cumbria
      • Inshriach House, Inverness-shire
      • Lerags House, Oban, Scotland
      • Loyton Lodge, Devon
    • CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS
      • Bryncyn, Carmarthenshire
      • Salt House, St Ives, Cornwall
      • The Ashton, Lancaster
    • COOL ABOUT KIDS
      • Geaglum Cottage, Co Fermanagh
      • Widgeham Barn, Suffolk
    • COOL SELF-CATERING
      • Belle Grove, Suffolk
      • Manor House Stables, Lincolnshire
    • ENGLISH ECCENTRICS
      • Sussex Prairies, West Sussex
      • The Lavender Patch, Derbyshire
    • FOR THE LOVE OF FOOD
      • 7 Hotel & Diner, Kent
      • Blue Lion Inn, North Yorkshire
      • Cross Keys, Stirlingshire
      • Gurnard’s Head, Cornwall
      • Kingham Plough, Oxfordshire
      • Peat Spade Inn, Hampshire
      • Shakespeare House, Bucks
      • The Wild Garlic, Dorset
    • PUBS WITH ROOMS
      • Bushmills Inn, County Antrim
      • The Pheasant Inn, Cheshire
      • The Ragged Cot, Gloucestershire
      • The Spread Eagle, Sawley, Lancashire
    • REMOTE AND ROMANTIC
      • Beechenhill Farm, Staffordshire
      • Brantwood, Cumbria
      • Bryn Eglur, nr Trelech, South Wales
      • Hafod-y-Garreg, Powys
      • Pip and Pip’s Cabin, Cornwall
      • The Boathouse, Wester Ross
      • Yorebridge House, North Yorkshire
    • URBAN BED & BREAKFAST
      • 2 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh
      • Compton House, Newark
      • Salthouse Harbour Hotel, Ipswich
      • Shoreditch Rooms, London
      • The Montpellier Chapter, Cheltenham
      • York and Albany, London

Tag Archives: UK hotel trends

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Why I want hotels to include aroma therapy

September 5, 2011

Time was, back in the Nineties, when a soundtrack was the hot, new thing to have in a hotel. Buddha Bar was the coolest name to have tinkling in Parisian lobbies, in London some boutique hotels created whole boxed sets … Continue reading →

Posted in THERAPY | Replies: 1
Agnes, a chef at Pythouse Kiitchen Garden, Wiltshire with apricots

Walled gardens, the new country must-have

August 1, 2011

In the past six weeks I’ve found myself in no fewer than three walled gardens. The first, and least commercialised was the Walled Garden at Mells near Babington House, where I spent a blissful morning hand-tying cut flowers on a half-day course … Continue reading →

Posted in DISCOVERY, HOTEL INTELLIGENCE | Replies: 2

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  • Who I am, what I do
  • Why Britain?
  • My newspaper reviews
    • ACCESSIBLE
      • Annie’s Ecolog Cabin, Ludlow
      • Base2stay, Liverpool
      • George Bell House, Chichester
      • Pear Tree Farm, Herefordshire
      • South Lodge, Buckinghamshire
    • BESIDE THE SEA
      • Belvidere Place, Broadstairs, Kent
      • Black Rock House, Hastings
      • Chicoutimi, Thorpeness, Suffolk
      • Kemp Townhouse, Brighton
      • Seacombe, South Devon
      • The Marine, Whitby, North Yorkshire
      • The Quarry, Ilfracombe, Devon
      • The Reading Rooms, Kent
      • Westcroft Guesthouse, Cornwall
      • Whitepark House, County Antrim
      • Woodlands Hotel, North Yorkshire
    • BIG HOUSES
      • Balbegno Castle, Kincardineshire, Scotland
      • Carrington House, Norfolk
      • Chaffeymoor Grange, Dorset
      • Gossel Ridding, Cumbria
      • Inshriach House, Inverness-shire
      • Lerags House, Oban, Scotland
      • Loyton Lodge, Devon
    • CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS
      • Bryncyn, Carmarthenshire
      • Salt House, St Ives, Cornwall
      • The Ashton, Lancaster
    • COOL ABOUT KIDS
      • Geaglum Cottage, Co Fermanagh
      • Widgeham Barn, Suffolk
    • COOL SELF-CATERING
      • Belle Grove, Suffolk
      • Manor House Stables, Lincolnshire
    • ENGLISH ECCENTRICS
      • Sussex Prairies, West Sussex
      • The Lavender Patch, Derbyshire
    • FOR THE LOVE OF FOOD
      • 7 Hotel & Diner, Kent
      • Blue Lion Inn, North Yorkshire
      • Cross Keys, Stirlingshire
      • Gurnard’s Head, Cornwall
      • Kingham Plough, Oxfordshire
      • Peat Spade Inn, Hampshire
      • Shakespeare House, Bucks
      • The Wild Garlic, Dorset
    • PUBS WITH ROOMS
      • Bushmills Inn, County Antrim
      • The Pheasant Inn, Cheshire
      • The Ragged Cot, Gloucestershire
      • The Spread Eagle, Sawley, Lancashire
    • REMOTE AND ROMANTIC
      • Beechenhill Farm, Staffordshire
      • Brantwood, Cumbria
      • Bryn Eglur, nr Trelech, South Wales
      • Hafod-y-Garreg, Powys
      • Pip and Pip’s Cabin, Cornwall
      • The Boathouse, Wester Ross
      • Yorebridge House, North Yorkshire
    • URBAN BED & BREAKFAST
      • 2 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh
      • Compton House, Newark
      • Salthouse Harbour Hotel, Ipswich
      • Shoreditch Rooms, London
      • The Montpellier Chapter, Cheltenham
      • York and Albany, London
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