Hotel Reviews
Hard Rock Hotel, London
It turns out the maiden aunt of Marble Arch has serious rock’n’roll credentials – Jimi Hendrix made it his London pied a terre and the great Buddy Holly stayed here before the day the music died.
Read the full story hereTewkesbury Park Hotel.
A smart, modern hotel and restaurant, recently renovated at a cost of £10m, not to mention a sweeping 18-hole golf course in 165 acres of undulating parkland, are eclipsed only by the town’s exquisite riverbank, wealth of Tudor architecture and Tewkesbury Abbey, one of the nation’s finest Norman churches.
Read the full story herePalais Amani, Fez, Morocco
With their dark wood furniture, recesses and rugs, both rooms and suites channel the elegance of traditional Arabic interior design.
Read the full story hereCahernane House Hotel, Killarney, Co Kerry
I almost expect Downton Abbey’s Lady Violet Crawley, 8th Dowager Countess of Grantham to sweep past in her carriage as we turn into the long avenue, shaded by a stately canopy of trees on our approach to the imposing stately Victorian Manor, Cahernane House Hotel.
Read the full story hereThe Cary Arms and Spa, Babbacombe, Devon
With palm trees, stylish motorboats whizzing across the bay for water-skiing, seas sometimes as azure as the Med and bobbing white spinnakers – this could by the French Riviera.
Read the full story hereUnique Trail’s End Bike Hotel, Western Cape
The stars to consider here are the ones that illuminate the dark skies in this apple, pear and wine-grape growing region in South Africa’s Western Cape.
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