From our guide to British Hotels & Inns
Lawns run down to the Irish sea, sunsets streak the sky red, roe deer amble down to eat the roses. An exceptional 1869 shooting lodge with unremitting luxuries: a Michelin star in the dining room...
A small country house with a big heart. It may not be the grandest place in the book but the welcome is genuine, the peace is intoxicating and the value is unmistakable...
Every decent hotel is a creative endeavour. Every hotel owner worthy of the name is a mad inventor, social entrepreneur and risk-taking business person all at once. The very best of them are precious, indefinable and slightly bonkers – no more amenable to objective judgment than artists. What they provide us with is far, far more than mere 'facilities', comforts, things. They give us a part of themselves, an insight into their imaginations, a share of their way of being in the world. They are, for heaven's sake, human beings. Would we objectify humanity in the same way? I know we try, but it doesn't really work – and it shouldn't.
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