The New Year is a great time for a hotel break, whether you want a quiet celebration, and perhaps a walk in the countryside, or a gala dinner with champagne. Here you’ll find our tips for the best UK hotels to see in the New Year, including some with special New Year’s Eve packages.
10 Hotels for New Year
Best UK Hotels for New Year’s Eve
Chewton Glen - 4 Nights for the Price of 3 Special Offer
New Milton
‘My four-year-old loves Chewton as much as I do, it’s always a struggle to leave.’ ‘We stayed to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, and it exceeded expectations.’
Montagu Arms - 'Forest to Fork' Dining Break Special Offer
Beaulieu
‘Our sixth visit, and a wonderful end to our holiday,’ write readers who stopped over at this wisteria-smothered hotel in an unspoilt New Forest village.
The Peacock at Rowsley - 25% Discount Offer
Rowsley
They get so much right at Lord and Lady Manners's 17th-century manor house hotel. Expect a ‘friendly welcome’, ‘good ambience’, housekeeping 'beyond reproach' and 'interesting old paintings', many of members of the owners' family.
Prince Hall - Nordic Inspired Christmas Package
Dartmoor
In ‘an amazing situation’ amid ‘bleak and beautiful Dartmoor’, Chris Daly’s 18th-century manor house-turned-hotel is ‘truly special’ with ‘lovely staff’, say Guide readers.
Cary Arms & Spa - November £195 per Room per Night Two-Night Midweek Special Offer
Babbacombe
‘The lodging-houses at Bablicome are magnificent to be seen, And the accommodation there would suit either king or queen.’ William Topaz McGonagall extols the beauties of Babbacombe, where Lana de Savary’s hotel sits just above the beach, at the foot of a wooded corniche road.
The Castle Hotel - Midweek 30% Discount Special Offer from £87 B&B
Bishop’s Castle
Built in 1719 for the Duke of Chandos, on the bailey of a Norman hilltop castle, Henry Hunter’s ‘really lovely hotel in a truly quirky village’ is sister to the highly regarded Pen-y-Dyffryn, Oswestry (see entry).
Trigony House - 3 Nights for the Price of 2 Winter Special Offer
Thornhill
In mature woodland and gardens, Jan and Adam Moore’s relaxed and pet-friendly Scottish country house hotel is in an 18th-century former sporting lodge.
Hell Bay Hotel
Isles of Scilly
‘Hell by name, quite the opposite by nature,’ declares a reader after visiting Robert Dorrien-Smith’s ‘gloriously located’ hotel on the smallest of the inhabited islands of Scilly. ‘Our stay was heavenly.’
The Star Inn at Harome
Helmsley
In ‘a lovely village' on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors, Andrew Pern’s ‘stylish old inn’ is a mix-and-thatch of ancient cruck-framed pub, dining extension, and lodgings in a converted building opposite.
The Zetter Townhouse Clerkenwell
London
Wit and whim go hand in hand at Mark Sainsbury and Michael Benyan's ‘brilliantly quirky’ Georgian town house in a cobbled corner of Clerkenwell.
