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Exclusive guide to the best holiday destinations in the United Kingdom, independent reviews from award-winning travel writers

Sunborn Yacht Hotel, London Docklands

27/02/2020 by .
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It’s not often you can honestly say you have stayed the night in a city hotel that’s quite literally different from anywhere else you may have experienced. Sunborn London is just that. A superyacht permanently moored at the Royal Victoria Dock, no more than a yardarm from the O2 and Excel Centre.

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Glorious Highbullen Hotel. North Devon

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Bankside Hotel. London South Bank.

25/02/2020 by .
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Andy Mossack reviews Bankside Hotel, one of the new trendy breed of urban hotels on London’s Southbank

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Hotel Pelirocco. Discover Cool and stylish in Brighton

18/02/2020 by .
A Brighton institution, Hotel Pelirocco is so cool that the owners even released an album in 2003. Singstar Room lit up by Light Trick Photography

A Brighton institution, Hotel Pelirocco is so cool that the owners even released an album in 2003.

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The Merry Harriers, Surrey

13/02/2020 by .
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Shepherds Huts have come a long way since Thomas Hardy’s day. Though they have always had a romantic artisanal appeal, boosted by films of Hardy’s ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, where Gabriel Oak eked out a lonely shepherd’s life until he met Bathsheba Everdene.

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The Bristol Hotel, Bristol

30/01/2020 by .
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I was last in Bristol in the 1970s when the harbour was a desolate wasteland. Since then it’s been spectacularly transformed by tasteful new developments which include bars, restaurants and art spaces.

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Paschoe House, Devon

23/12/2019 by .
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There’s romance in the air at Paschoe House, a luxury boutique twixt moors and sea in North Devon. And mystery too.

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Luxurious Hartwell House Hotel. Aylesbury

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Waterhead Hotel, Cumbria

24/11/2019 by .
Opened in the early part of the 20th century, the Waterhead Hotel, south of Ambleside, was one of a new ‘breed’ of hotels purpose-built to accommodate the rising tide of affluent tourists to the Lake District.

Opened in the early part of the 20th century, the Waterhead Hotel, south of Ambleside, was one of a new ‘breed’ of hotels purpose-built to accommodate the rising tide of affluent tourists to the Lake District.

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Lygon Arms, Broadway, Cotswolds 

02/11/2019 by .
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Combining cosiness and comfort with jaw-dropping grandeur is a hard act to pull off,  but the Lygon Arms, queen of all Cotswolds hotels, achieves it with considerable panache.

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