Best romantic hotels in South East

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Hartwell House - Complimentary Fourth Night Special Offer

Aylesbury

The one time home to Louis XVIII, exiled King of France, Hartwell House offers the sort of place that inspires novels as well as proposals whether the sun is shining or as frost sparkles on the ground.

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Chewton Glen - Spring Staycations Special Offer

New Milton

A five star country house hotel with a luxurious spa, Chewton Glen is perfect for romantic escapes, especially if you stay in the impeccable treehouses in a sky high world of your own.

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Romney Bay House - Summer Coastal Break Special Offer

New Romney

Built for Hollywood actress Hedda Hopper, Romney Bay House is like arriving in a novel set in the 1920s. Windswept scenery and total escapism await at this achingly romantic retreat.

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Broadway Barn - Free Glass of Bubbly Special Offer

Woking

In the centre of a historic village, Mindi McLean’s B&B is in a ‘beautifully and tastefully restored’ 200-year-old barn that wins praise from Guide readers – not least for the ‘eggs Benedict made right’.

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Gravetye Manor, East Grinstead

Jeremy and Elizabeth Hosking’s beloved and beautiful Elizabethan manor house stands in glorious gardens, amid 1,000 acres of woodland.

Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Great Milton

It’s not just in the two-Michelin-starred restaurant of Raymond Blanc’s honey-stone Oxfordshire hotel that you get great attention to detail: in the bedrooms, even the sugared almonds are colour coded according to the decor.

Jeake’s House, Rye

Creeper-clad and atmospheric, Jenny Hadfield’s B&B stands on the steep, cobbled main street of this medieval hilltop town.

Cliveden House, Taplow

As you approach this glorious Italianate Thames-side summer palace designed by Charles Barry and set in 376 acres of National Trust grounds, it ‘feels as if you are on the film set of Pride and Prejudice’, says a Guide insider (see also Chewton Glen, New Milton).

The Pig in the Forest, Brockenhurst

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the opening of Robin Hutson’s mother Pig, in a New Forest hunting lodge, and it seems ‘on better form than ever’, writes a trusted reader after an annual visit.

Drakes, Brighton

‘A really memorable experience without stuffiness or formality,’ write our trusted reviewers of this stylish boutique hotel on Brighton’s Marine Parade.

Bingham Riverhouse, Richmond-upon-Thames

Bang on the banks of the Thames between Richmond and Petersham, this former Georgian mansion turned ‘classic English hotel with a modern twist’ sits in a riverside garden and terrace.

Old Whyly, East Hoathly

‘The house is beautiful, the garden is glorious,’ writes a reader this year, after a return visit to Sarah Burgoyne’s Georgian farmhouse, so handy for Glyndebourne.

Lime Wood, Lyndhurst

Designed for pure leisure and pleasure, this Georgian New Forest lodge is run as a glamorous yet relaxed country house hotel for today’s savvy guest.

Belle Tout Lighthouse, Eastbourne

The lantern room at this remote B&B between the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs and Beachy Head commands 360-degree views over the sea and the South Downs.

Daisybank Cottage, New Forest

Deep in the New Forest, Ciaran and Cheryl Maher have created a smart B&B in an Arts and Crafts, Charles Rennie Mackintosh-inspired house.

The Pig at Bridge Place, Canterbury

‘Possibly the best of the litter’, the sixth in Robin Hutson’s Pig smallholding occupies a Grade I listed mansion, built in 1701, almost within the sound of Canterbury bells.

Hever Castle B&B, Edenbridge

The comforts are fit for a queen at this sumptuous B&B, in the Tudor-style Edwardian wings of double-moated 13th-century Hever Castle.

Alkham Court, Dover

Take in stunning sunsets over the ‘beautiful’ Alkham valley from Wendy and Neil Burrows’s much-liked farmhouse – a ‘haven’, say Guide readers in 2020, ‘run by wonderful, engaging hosts’.

The Lamb Inn, Burford

The very model of an olde worlde inn, with its flagstones, beams, blazing fires and jumbled interiors, The Lamb sits on the edge of a picture-perfect Cotswolds wool town, in the aptly named Sheep Street.

The Old Railway Station, Petworth

Built in 1892 to enable the Prince of Wales to travel to Goodwood Racecourse, Petworth’s railway station has been ‘lovingly restored’ into a ‘remarkable’ B&B.

Bay Tree Hotel, Burford

A wisteria-festooned arch frames the entry to this prettily refurbished hotel, forged from a row of 17th-century honey-hued houses.

Wartling Place, Hailshan

Rowena and Barry Gittoes ‘cater for every need’ at their Grade II listed former Georgian rectory, which stands in ‘beautiful’ gardens close to the Pevensey Levels nature reserve.

The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne

‘Like an ocean liner’, this great, white Victorian edifice gazes over the water from the seafront of the resort town.

Thurnham Keep, Thurnham

A long drive through landscaped gardens reveals this ‘simply wonderful’ B&B, where visitors are rewarded with a sweet welcome: ‘the best shortbread ever’.

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Featured hotels with Special Offers

Best romantic hotels in South East

Hartwell House - Complimentary Fourth Night Special Offer

Aylesbury

Chewton Glen - Spring Staycations Special Offer

New Milton

Romney Bay House - Summer Coastal Break Special Offer

New Romney

Broadway Barn - Free Glass of Bubbly Special Offer

Woking

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