Top hotels for Autumn breaks
Top hotels for Autumn breaks
Lindeth Fell - 'Save over £100' Special Offer
Bowness-on-Windermere
‘The Kennedys certainly know how to welcome their guests and to make every minute special,’ report visitors staying for lunch this year.
Chewton Glen - 3 Nights for the Price of 2 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.’
The Rose & Crown - Autumn Escape Special Offer from £95 per person per night
Barnard Castle
Guide readers and their dogs love this village inn, with panelled dining room and a beamed locals bar warmed by a big open fire.
Star Castle - Autumn full board Special Offer
St Mary's
With ‘epic’ views across to Tresco and Bryher, the Francis family’s ‘really good hotel’ combines ‘a great setting’ with ‘fabulous historic features’.
Soar Mill Cove Hotel - Midweek Special Offer
Salcombe
‘We rate this very highly in almost every respect.’ Praise from a reader for Keith Makepeace’s much-loved, family-run, family-friendly, dog-friendly hotel in a ‘gorgeous’ coastal setting.
Killiecrankie Hotel - '30% off Third Night' Special Offer
Pitlochry
Standing in wooded grounds in the wooded Pass of Killicrankie, this former dower house is today a family-friendly country house hotel, run by owner Henrietta Ferguson.
The Nare - Four night Autumn Break Special Offer
Veryan-in-Roseland
‘The views are glorious,’ writes a Guide regular, after a visit to Toby Ashworth’s hotel above Carne Beach. ‘Each night I fell asleep to the sound of waves.’
Montagu Arms - 'Paddle to the Pub' Special Offer
Beaulieu
Wigeon and teal are arriving now to overwinter on the shining expanse of the Beaulieu River, in front of this Arts and Crafts-style Victorian hotel.
Corse Lawn House
Corse Lawn
‘Little has changed’ at this ‘beautifully maintained and furnished’ pink brick Queen Anne mansion. Guests on a return visit after many years likened it to a wonderful 'time warp'.
Knockinaam Lodge
Portpatrick
‘A very special place,’ say guests in 2019, of Sian and David Ibbotson’s Victorian hunting lodge overlooking the Irish Sea. ‘The accommodating hosts went out of their way, more than once, to ensure we had a terrific time.’
The Hare and Hounds
Tetbury
There is nowhere better in Britain to see spectacular autumn colour than at the National Arboretum, Westonbirt, a stroll from this Cotswold hotel.
Kinloch Lodge
Sleat
Stalking, fishing and foraging with the aid of a ghillie are all laid on at Lord and Lady Macdonald’s former hunting lodge on the shores of Loch Na Dal.
Biggin Hall
Buxton
In a small Peak District village, James Moffett’s ancient manor house is run as a hotel in a spirit of generosity, with complimentary drinks on arrival, and a packed lunch for walker, cyclist or angler.
Hipping Hall
Kirkby Lonsdale
In the Lune valley, between the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, this ‘comfortable hotel with modern, well-appointed bedrooms’ was Andrew Wildsmith’s first foray into the hospitality field.
The Three Chimneys and The House Over-By
Dunvegan
Lang may the lums reek at this remote restaurant-with-rooms on the shores of Loch Dunvegan. After 34 years, Shirley and Eddie Spear have moved on, but all is well.
The Cottage in the Wood
Braithwaite
Autumn is a glorious time to visit Liam and Kath Berney’s restaurant-with-rooms on Whinlatter Pass, in England’s only true mountain forest.
Hotel Endsleigh
Tavistock
Hunter wellies wait by the door at Olga Polizzi’s dog-friendly ducal fishing lodge in parkland laid out by Humphry Repton, with the River Tamar running through.
The Gunton Arms
Thorpe Market
Close to the bracing North Norfolk coast, this dog-friendly pub-with-rooms is a showcase for owner Ivor Braka’s art collection, including works by the likes of Lucian Freud, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst.
The Pig at Bridge Place
Canterbury
Take tea in a panelled bar with a log burner and deep, plush sofas, or cosy up in the snug or study, at this Grade I listed mansion, built in 1701, in a village close to Canterbury.
So here are some of our most beautiful hotels to visit this autumn.
