2018 Editor's Choice Hotels for Golfers
Editor’s Choice Golf Hotels
Marlfield House - Two Night Break Special Offer
Gorey
In woodland and extensive formal gardens, the Bowe family’s ‘beautiful’ Regency-style mansion has been providing ‘prompt and attentive service’ for more than 35 years.
Rathmullan House - Wild Atlantic Way Special Offer
Rathmullan
On the shores of Lough Swilly, give in to the ‘old-fashioned demeanour’ of the Wheeler family’s hotel, as did guests this year, who found it – and its collection of lough-facing sitting rooms – ‘endearing’.
The Atlantic Hotel - Free Dinner Offer
St Brelade
‘Nothing has changed. All is great,’ say guests on a return visit to Patrick Burke’s luxury hotel.
Budock Vean
Mawnan Smith
‘The beautiful location, wonderful service and excellent food keep us coming back.’
The Lake
Llangammarch Wells
Approached via quiet lanes bordered by hedgerows and dark-limbed trees, Jean-Pierre Mifsud’s Victorian hunting lodge-turned-country house hotel stands in extensive grounds stretching to a lake on the River Irfon.
Balcary Bay Hotel
Auchencairn
‘Happily, as good as ever,’ writes a Guide reader this year, revisiting Graeme Lamb’s ‘well-run’ hotel on the Solway Firth, where the views stretch across the bay towards the hills of Cumbria.
Skeabost House Hotel
Skeabost Bridge
Catch sight of this ‘impressive’ Victorian hunting lodge through the trees as you approach; closer up, discover the ‘manicured grounds’ running down to Loch Snizort.
Ballathie House
Kinclaven
Watch for roaming deer as you follow the ‘long, attractive drive’ to the Milligan family’s Victorian country house on the banks of the River Tay.
Park House
nr Midhurst
The day is one long round of pleasure at this ‘luxurious but unstuffy’ Edwardian country house beneath the South Downs, where classic lawn sports and garden games make jolly the ‘gorgeous, well-maintained’ grounds.
Riverwood
Strathtay
The River Tay flows by wooded grounds awash with bluebells in springtime, at Ann and Alf Berry’s modern B&B, in a pretty conservation village.
2017 Editor's Choice Hotels for Golfers
Editor’s Choice Golf Hotels
Chewton Glen - Taste of Chewton Glen Special Offer
New Milton
‘Superb’, ‘excellent’, ‘impressive’, ‘delightful’ – on the edge of the New Forest, this model of a country house hotel and spa is on top form, having celebrated its golden anniversary.
Gilpin Hotel and Lake House - Indulgence Afternoon Offer
Windermere
‘Nothing compares to this special place,’ says a Guide reader in 2017 after a return visit to the Cunliffe family’s glamorous country house hotel.
The Atlantic Hotel - Free Dinner Offer
St Brelade
‘Nothing has changed. All is great,’ say guests on a return visit to Patrick Burke’s luxury hotel.
Trefeddian Hotel - Great Value Spring Breaks
Aberdyfi
‘The sun doesn’t have to shine before you get a warm welcome,’ writes a reader in 2017, of this much-loved hotel overlooking Cardigan Bay.
Budock Vean
Mawnan Smith
‘The beautiful location, wonderful service and excellent food keep us coming back.’
Ballathie House
Kinclaven
Watch for roaming deer as you follow the ‘long, attractive drive’ to the Milligan family’s Victorian country house on the banks of the River Tay.
Park House
nr Midhurst
The day is one long round of pleasure at this ‘luxurious but unstuffy’ Edwardian country house beneath the South Downs, where classic lawn sports and garden games make jolly the ‘gorgeous, well-maintained’ grounds.
Riverwood
Strathtay
The River Tay flows by wooded grounds awash with bluebells in springtime, at Ann and Alf Berry’s modern B&B, in a pretty conservation village.
2016 Editor's Choice Hotels for Golfers
Editor’s Choice Golf Hotels
Castle Cottage
Harlech
What first smites the eye is the town’s medieval castle, formidable on its cliff-top. Steps behind it, this restaurant-with-rooms – in two adjoining 16th-century buildings restored and refurbished with contemporary flair – is no less of a surprise.
Glenapp Castle
Ballantrae
Drive through the ‘splendid’ wrought iron gates and up a ‘beautifully wooded’ path: in ‘meticulously tended’ grounds stands this ‘impressive’ 19th-century Scottish baronial castle.
Stella Maris
Ballycastle
‘It is dramatically beautiful here, and totally tranquil.’
St Enodoc
Rock
In a fashionable resort on the Camel estuary, this child-friendly hotel has a light, Mediterranean decor with bright colours and original artwork. There are stone floors, open spaces in the public areas.
Carrig Country House and Restaurant
Caragh Lake
Landscaped and wooded gardens filled with rare shrubs surround this Victorian manor house and former hunting and fishing lodge on the shores of Caragh Lake. Frank and Mary Slattery bought and extended it in 1996, furnishing it throughout with antiques