The top UK resort hotels
From country pursuits to luxury spas, golf courses to family activities, swimming pools to multiple choice when it comes to dinner options. Whether you’re travelling with children or going on a romantic break, here are some of our favourite resort hotels, each with their own unique attributes, where they have everything you could need or want to keep you happy, entertained and totally satisfied on your holiday, without ever having to leave the grounds.
10 of the best UK resort hotels
Woolley Grange
Bradford-on-Avon
Part of Luxury Family Hotels (see also Fowey Hall, Fowey, and Moonfleet Manor, Fleet), a small collection of historic properties, this family-focussed hotel occupies a ‘pretty, rambling’ Jacobean manor house in ‘lovely grounds’ with ‘views across the Wiltshire countryside’.
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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.’
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Pitlochry
Bright gardens, dotted with sculptures, and a sweep of lawns tumble down to a private lochside terrace from this Victorian country house, where many thoughtful touches ‘set the hotel apart’.
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Thurso
‘Scottish country house living on a grand scale.’ Near the mainland’s northern tip, this Georgian mansion is surrounded by woodland and waterfall on the Forss river, a fishing hot spot.
Bedruthan Hotel and Spa
Mawgan Porth
It is not that they’ve put away childish things at this contemporary hotel set into the hillside above Mawgan Porth beach. It remains very family-friendly, but there is plenty for adults.
Gilpin Hotel and Lake House
Windermere
‘Nothing compares’ with the Cunliffes’ ‘really special’ country house hotel and its glamorous satellite, Lake House, with spa, half a mile away.
Lime Wood
Lyndhurst
At the end of a long drive past rustic cabins, a helipad and a forest-fringed meadow, this 21st-century rebuild of a Georgian lodge is a ‘highly professional, near faultless’ modern country house hotel.
Lucknam Park
Chippenham
Fortune from wealthy families helped create this honey-toned 18th-century mansion on a large Wiltshire estate; fortunate guests nowadays arrive to a wealth of additional delights.
Calcot & Spa
Tetbury
Families have ‘a grand time’ at this 16th-century manor house with spa, in ‘lovely manicured grounds’.
Barnsley House
Cirencester
There is ‘a romantic air’ to this Cotswold stone mansion, built in the 1690s and extended in the 1820s. Today a hotel and spa, it is part of the Calcot Collection (see entry for Calcot).
