While we’re all for a won’t-break-the-bank escape, sometimes big ticket occasions call for a push-the-boat out, blow-the-budget, truly special getaway. Whether it’s feasting at an acclaimed foodie retreat, old school glamour or a contemporary countryside idyll you’re after, here are some of the UK’s best luxury hotels, which deliver top-notch service and truly spoiling stays without fail.
The best luxury hotels in the UK are:
- Best for culinary escapades: Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Booking.com
- Best for louche luxury: The Pig at Bridge Place, Thepighotel.com
- Best for a rebalancing retreat: Lime Wood, Limewoodhotel.co.uk
- Best for family adventures: Gleneagles, Booking.com
- Best for romantic getaways: Beaverbrook, Beaverbrook.co.uk
- Best for swish surrounds: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, Booking.com
- Best for sky high adventures: Chewton Glen, Booking.com
- Best for traditional glamour: The Savoy, Booking.com
- Best for British quirk: Callow Hall, Booking.com
- Best for countryside and coast: The Grove of Narberth, Booking.com
One of the suites at Le Manoir
(Belmond Hotel)
Neighbourhood: Oxfordshire
Offering a flourish of France in Oxfordshire, Le Manoir, helmed by culinary maestro Raymond Blanc, has long been a foodie pilgrimage site. At this honey-hued Cotswolds stone manor house surrounded by Provencal lavender and a herb-filled garden, guests dine on two-Michelin wizardry at the restaurant. Hand-dived scallops with caviar rub up against strawberries with sorrel sorbet, paired with Chateau d’Yquem vintages, and very polished service. Afterwards, retire to one of 32 bedrooms, with interiors inspired by Monsieur Blanc’s travels; some evoke Asia with dark timber and draped curtains, others feature Venetian masks. Left inspired to ramp up your own skills? Join the cookery school or a gardening workshop.
Price: Doubles from £895, B&B
Lay back and relax in this stunning bathroom
(Home Grown Hotels)
Neighbourhood: Canterbury
Nobody does modern luxury like The PIGs, and their outpost in the Nailbourne Valley outside Canterbury is no exception. A 17th-century red brick pile where the likes of Led Zeppelin gigged in days gone by, this 31-room hotel nails eclectic cool, fusing Jacobean period features with kaleidoscopic maximalism. Its storehouse-chic restaurant has a 25-mile menu, with much grown in the kitchen garden. Whether nibbling marmalade cake in the courtyard, sipping basil-infused Greenhouse Margaritas in candlelit nooks or enjoying a VOYA spa treatment…
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