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2021 Editor's Choice Rooms with a View
Editor’s Choice Rooms with a View
Lindeth Fell
Bowness-on-Windermere
The beautifully kept gardens already create the perfect picture at this Edwardian house. Add the glorious views of Windermere and surrounding fells and you won’t want to look away. Lake-view rooms Windermere and Grasmere are the best.
Hambleton Hall
Oakham
A Michelin-starred meal in sight of Rutland Water makes a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach. The same stunning panorama can be seen from some bedrooms and from the flower-filled terrace and pretty ornamental gardens.
Maison Talbooth
Dedham
It is Constable country on the Essex– Suffolk border and you could be gazing at your own landscape from this quirky boutique hotel. One room, Shelley, has a double aspect, looking out to the gardens, the pool and across Dedham Vale.
Tresanton
St Mawes
Olga Polizzi’s seaside hotel cascades down the hillside above the sea. Each of its bedrooms looks on to the water, and from the restaurant terrace and beach club you can gaze over the water to St Anthony’s Lighthouse.
Coll Hotel
Isle of Coll
The epic seascape showcasing Mull, Staffa and the Treshnish Isles is visible from most of the rooms at Coll’s only hotel and pub. It’s also on show from the waterside gardens and restaurant, where you can enjoy the freshest seafood.
Dunkery Beacon Country House
Wootton Courtenay
The highest point of Exmoor, after which the hotel is named, can be seen from the veranda and from one of the bedrooms. This former Edwardian hunting lodge makes a great base for exploring the moorlands – and for night-sky viewing.
Gara Rock
Salcombe
You can swim in the pool and see the sun dip into the ocean, or watch boats as you wallow in the hot tub at this clifftop hotel above a beautiful beach. Most of the rooms, suites and cottages have a sea view, plus a balcony or garden.
Rosleague Manor
Letterfrack
Beautiful gardens run down to scenic Ballinakill Bay, with the mountains of Connemara beyond, at Mark Foyle’s creeper-clad manor. Rooms at the front of the house command the best watery vistas, but garden views are lovely, too.
The Cookie Jar
Alnwick
Ramparts can be seen from the terraced garden, with full views of Alnwick Castle from some bedrooms. The interiors in this former convent provide a striking contrast, with blue walls, patterned carpets, and stained glass in the Chapel room.
Llwyndu Farmhouse
Barmouth
There is even a sea view through the window of a walk-in wardrobe at Peter and Paula Thompson’s Tudor farmhouse. There’s no need to linger among the coat hangers; Cardigan Bay and the Llyn peninsula can be seen from other rooms.
2020 Editor's Choice Rooms with a View
Editor’s Choice Rooms with a View
The Horn of Plenty
Tavistock
Most bedrooms have balcony or private terrace views over the lush, verdant Tamar valley, at Julie Leivers and Damien Pease’s former mine captain’s house in beautifully tended grounds with manicured lawns, rhododendrons, mature trees.
The White Horse
Brancaster Staithe
In the big-sky Norfolk landscape, the Nye family’s inn has views across tidal salt marshes and sandy beach to Scolt Head Island. Eat on the terrace or in the dining room with its wall of windows. The top bedroom has a telescope. Birdwatchers’ bliss.
Hell Bay Hotel
Bryher
On a tiny, rugged island, Robert Dorrien- Smith’s stylish hotel enjoys a glorious situation, in grounds bordered by a beach washed by the Atlantic. Bedrooms have
a terrace or balcony. Drinks on the Sunset Deck are a little taste of heaven.
Hazel Bank
Keswick
Perched above Rosthwaite, the MacRaes’ Victorian villa gazes out across the beautiful Borrowdale valley to Great Gable and the ‘Jaws of Borrowdale’, Kings How and Castle Crag. Rear-facing rooms look on to woodland where you might see Squirrel Nutkin.
Kylesku Hotel
Kylesku
Loch Glendhu laps the shore below Tanja Lister and Sonia Virechauveix’s former coaching inn, which stands against a backdrop of mountains in a Highland wilderness. From decked terrace or light- filled bar, watch seals, otters, golden eagles.
Harbourmaster Hotel
Aberaeron
It is not just the views of the harbour that beguile at Glyn and Menna Heulyn’s waterfront hotel, with bobbing boats and sails red in the sunset. The Georgian quayside itself, with its brightly coloured houses against a backdrop of hills, is a charm.
Stoberry House
Wells
Frances and Tim Meeres Young’s exceptional B&B stands in landscaped parkland, overlooking the gem of a city and its cathedral, with views over the Vale of Avalon to Glastonbury Tor, steeped in the legend of King Arthur, topped by roofless St Michael’s Tower.
The Seaside Boarding House
Burton Bradstock
There are fabulous views over Lyme Bay from Mary-Lou Sturridge and Tony Mackintosh’s hotel above Chesil Beach. All bedrooms look out to sea or along the cliffs. The dining room opens out on to the terrace for an airy, outside-in feel.
Currarevagh House
Oughterard
At the gateway to the Connemara mountains, Henry and Lucy Hodgson’s Victorian country house lies in wooded grounds bordering island-studded Lough Corrib. Every bedroom – some with dual aspect – has a view of the lough or Benlevy (Mount Gable).
The Zetter
London
At street level, Clerkenwell may be characterful but it’s not very scenic. Book a rooftop deluxe studio at this Victorian warehouse turned boutique hotel, however, and from your terrace you can enjoy panoramic views of the glorious gallimaufry of a city.
2019 Editor's Choice Rooms with a View
Editor’s Choice Rooms with a View
The Atlantic Hotel
St Brelade
Full-height windows and balconies afford spectacular views across landscaped gardens to the ocean at this upmarket hotel. Connoisseurs of golf landscaping might prefer to overlook James Braid’s La Moye course. The sunsets do not require Photoshop.
Romney Bay House
New Romney
Between the Strait of Dover and Littlestone Golf Club, this glamorous house, built for a Hollywood actress, is surrounded by the flat, sheep-studded expanse of Romney Marsh – not a pretty- pretty landscape, but one that has stirred many a literary imagination.
The Blakeney Hotel
Holt
Many bedrooms, some with balcony, look across estuary and salt marsh towards Blakeney Point, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, at this family-friendly, quayside hotel. The first-floor lounge has panoramic views; boat trips reveal the local seals.
The Foveran
St Ola
The light-filled dining room at this restaurant-with-rooms offers stirring vistas across Scapa Flow to the southern Orkney islands. The luminous, big-sky landscape is all around, and, late in the season, the northern lights may loom into view.
Temple House
Ballymote
Bedrooms overlook a 1,000-acre estate at this grand but lived-in ancestral home, with terrace gardens, sheep-grazed pastures, native woodlands carpeted with bluebells in the springtime, and, beside the lake, the ivy-covered ruins of a medieval Knights Templar castle.
The Cottage in the Wood
Braithwaite
Mountain-view rooms gaze out towards Skiddaw at this restaurant-with-rooms in England’s only true mountain forest, while the garden view ones may offer a glimpse of red squirrels. Dining room and terrace also enjoy memorable vistas of the verdant surroundings.
Glenfinnan House Hotel
Fort William
A lawn reaches down to the Loch Shiel shoreline from this 18th-century stone mansion, with views across the water towards a monument to Bonnie Prince Charlie and Ben Nevis. Roaming red deer add to the drama.
The Scarlet
Mawgan Porth
Most bedrooms have a seaward balcony and floor-to-ceiling windows at this serene, coolly contemporary adults-only hotel. There is a sea-view restaurant, while the decked terrace, reed-bed swimming pool and hot tub are within sight of the beach.
The Pig on the Beach
Studland
Guests can choose a view of countryside, or of the sea towards Old Harry chalk- stack rocks and the Isle of Wight, at this Gothic, turreted former aristocrat’s holiday home. Thatched bothies overlook the trademark kitchen garden.
Llanthony Priory Hotel
Abergavenny
Romantic priory ruins that once inspired JMW Turner stand in a wild and wonderful setting, swaddled by the Vale of Ewyas in the Black Mountains. This hotel occupies former cloisteral buildings. Norman arches frame wooded hillsides.
2018 Editor's Choice Rooms with a View
Editor’s Choice Rooms with a View
Heddon’s Gate Hotel
Barnstaple
Guests feel ‘thoroughly spoilt’ at this welcoming hotel, tucked away in wooded seclusion at the end of a quarter-mile private drive.
Star Castle
St Mary's
The Francis family’s charismatic hotel, with many historic features, continues to please regulars, mainly for its ‘superb’ hilltop location, genial service and tip-top seafood.
Kilcamb Lodge
Strontian
You need to take a ferry crossing before traversing a mountain pass and a deep glen to arrive at this ‘superb country house in a remote and extraordinary setting’ with a private beach on a loch shore with mountain views.
Kylesku Hotel
Kylesku
Ferries no longer skim across Loch Glendhu to Kylestrome, but you can still watch the day’s catch being landed on the slipway, from Tanja Lister and Sonia Virechauveix’s 17th-century coaching inn turned award-winning hotel.
Shallowdale House
Ampleforth
The welcome couldn’t be warmer for guests of Phillip Gill and Anton van der Horst at their 1960s house in a beautifully tended hillside garden, on the edge of the North York Moors national park.
The Henley
Bigbury-on-Sea
‘The views are stunning’ from Martyn Scarterfield and Petra Lampe’s Edwardian holiday cottage-turned-B&B, which gazes over the Avon estuary to Burgh Island.
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.
Nanny Brow
Ambleside
In six acres of grounds and woodland, Sue and Peter Robinson’s ‘sympathetically restored’ Arts and Crafts stone house overlooks walkers’ paradise Brathay valley.
Stella Maris
Ballycastle
A sea view was a prerequisite when the British Admiralty built this Victorian coastguard’s HQ, complete with gun turrets, overlooking Bunatrahir Bay on the rugged coast of County Mayo.
Bryniau Golau
BALA
There are ‘stunning’ views of Bala Lake and Arenig mountain from the bedrooms of this Victorian house on a hillside in Snowdonia national park.
2017 Editor's Choice Rooms with a View
Editor’s Choice Rooms with a View
The Horn of Plenty
Tavistock
It’s all about the views at this former 19th-century mine captain’s house turned dog-friendly hotel on a hillside on the Devon/Cornwall border.
Kilcamb Lodge
Strontian
You need to take a ferry crossing before traversing a mountain pass and a deep glen to arrive at this ‘superb country house in a remote and extraordinary setting’ with a private beach on a loch shore with mountain views.
Ees Wyke Country House
Ambleside
More guest house than hotel, this Georgian country house overlooking Esthwaite Water has the feel of a comfortable family home, a bit lived-in – and what an outlook.
Kylesku Hotel
Kylesku
Ferries no longer skim across Loch Glendhu to Kylestrome, but you can still watch the day’s catch being landed on the slipway, from Tanja Lister and Sonia Virechauveix’s 17th-century coaching inn turned award-winning hotel.
The Three Chimneys and The House Over-By
Isle of Skye
In the remote north of Skye, a whitewashed stone crofter’s cottage overlooking Loch Dunvegan, with views to the peaks of Harris and North Uist, is home to an ambitious restaurant-with-rooms.
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.
Dunkery Beacon Country House
Wootton Courtenay
This Edwardian hunting lodge with a veranda from which to gaze out to the highest point on Exmoor, or at the starry black sky, is today a ‘delightful, well-managed’ hotel, run by owners John and Jane Bradley.
Mullion Cove Hotel
Helston
This striking cliff-top hotel on the Cornish Coast Path is on ‘excellent form’ and as ‘welcoming, friendly and helpful as ever’, says a fan.
Stella Maris
Ballycastle
A sea view was a prerequisite when the British Admiralty built this Victorian coastguard’s HQ, complete with gun turrets, overlooking Bunatrahir Bay on the rugged coast of County Mayo.
Bryniau Golau
BALA
There are ‘stunning’ views of Bala Lake and Arenig mountain from the bedrooms of this Victorian house on a hillside in Snowdonia national park.
2016 Editor's Choice Rooms with a View
Editor’s Choice Rooms with a View
Pen-y-Dyffryn
Oswestry
A morning newsletter lends a personal touch at the Hunter family’s dog-friendly hotel in rolling countryside with views to the Welsh hills.
The Blakeney Hotel
Holt
On the quayside overlooking the estuary and salt marshes, in the luminous landscape of north Norfolk, Emma Stannard’s ‘lovely, comfortable’, child-friendly hotel gets another thumbs-up from a trusted reader.
Scarista House
Isle of Harris
There are few more remote hotels in the Guide than this Georgian former manse, in a ‘spectacular’ setting between a white-sand beach and heather-clad mountains.
Swinside Lodge
KESWICK
At the foot of Cat Bells, Mike and Kath Bilton’s small country hotel is ‘simply the best’, say guests this year, affirming past reports on this ‘friendly’ Georgian house minutes from Derwentwater.