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2022 Editor's Choice Rooms with a View
Editor’s Choice Rooms with a View
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Skipton
Even the smaller rooms at this hotel on the Southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales have views of the Italian box garden, while suites look onto rolling countryside and the quaint Huffa Bridge. Possibly the best views of the lot are from the hotel’s aptly named Wharfe View Cottage, which sleeps six.
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Fishguard
Watch the sun set over Fishguard Bay from your room at this Georgian townhouse B&B, with spectacular views from the rear terrace across Cardigan bay to the Preseli Hills. The Pembrokeshire Coastal Path is nearby for some seriously scenic strolls.
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Brancaster Staithe
The Room at the Top at this family-run hotel even has a telescope so you can better appreciate the big-sky landscape of endless tidal salt marshes, sandy beaches, and Scolt Head Island. There’s a marsh-side outdoors seating area while public rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows to bring the outside in.
Hazel Bank
Keswick
Magnificent fell and valley views are almost part of the furniture at the MacRaes’ Victorian house, where one bedroom has a window seat to better appreciate the views of Dalehead, and another is named Great Gable after the mountain it looks onto. There’s an added bonus, too, of red squirrels in the garden.
Eddrachilles Hotel
Scourie
The Highlands meet the sea at Eddrachilles, which means that as well as the island-studded Badcall Bay, you can also see the Quinag mountain and gentle moorland hills. Six of the ten rooms have watery views; the scenic North Coast 500 road passes the driveway to the old manse.
The Henley
Bigbury-on-Sea
You could spend all day drinking in the panorama over the Avon estuary and beyond to Burgh Island from this little hideaway, so it’s a good thing the vistas can be enjoyed from the dining room, decked sun terrace and from each of the four bedrooms. Take time out to visit the island by hydraulic tractor.
Captain’s Club Hotel
Christchurch
You can lie back in bed and watch others messing about on the river through the floor-to-ceiling windows of this sleek modern hotel on the banks of the Stour. There’s no hurry – breakfast is served until a blissful 11am.
The Scarlet
Mawgan Porth
Cornish sea views don’t get much better than from this adults-only hotel, cleverly designed with tiered rooms built into the rock to make the most of the coastal setting. Bedrooms, the restaurant and even the spa pool have wall-to-ceiling windows, and clifftop hot tubs look over Mawgan Porth beach.
Old Bank Hotel
Oxford
Oxford’s dreaming spires and Merton College are on show from some of the rooms in this former banking hall. Bag the rooftop suite with its cocktail-making station, shower for two and a terrace and you can look onto St Mary’s Church, the Radcliffe Camera and the quad of All Souls College.
Stella Maris
Ballycastle
As a Victorian coastguard’s fortress with gun turrets, this hotel naturally commands superb sea views. These days it’s binoculars rather than guns that are trained on the ocean, in the hope of spotting dolphins. Almost all the bedrooms are sea facing.
2021 Editor's Choice Rooms with a View
Editor’s Choice Rooms with a View
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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.
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.
Talbooth House & Spa (formerly 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
You can take tea on the ramparts or imbibe history along with a St Agnes gin in the Dungeon Bar at the Francis family’s hotel, occupying an Elizabethan artillery castle within star-shaped fortress walls.
Kilcamb Lodge
Strontian
‘The situation is absolutely beautiful; perfect for wild swimmers,’ write readers this year, in praise of this remote hideaway hotel on the shores of Loch Sunart.
Kylesku Hotel
Kylesku
In a ‘very beautiful spot’ on the remote, rocky shores of Loch Glendhu, an old coaching inn has been transformed into a modern hotel that takes full advantage of the beauty and bounty of its setting.
Shallowdale House
Ampleforth
Returning guests feel they’re ‘coming home’ when they stay at this wisteria-clad, light-filled 1960s house with its peerless views over gardens to the Howardian hills.
The Henley
Bigbury-on-Sea
It's partly the lovely situation, with a 'stunning panorama' across the Avon estuary to Burgh Island, partly the warmth of the welcome that bring some of our readers back to this beachside bolt-hole time and again.
Belle Tout Lighthouse
Eastbourne
A beacon of hospitality in a remote situation between Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs, this iconic 19th-century lighthouse, decommissioned in 1902, found new purpose in 2010 when it first opened to guests.
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
You can drift off to sleep to the sound of the waves and wake to the view over Bunatrahir Bay at this Victorian coastguard's fortress turned one-of-a-kind hotel.
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
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Tavistock
The name promises all manner of good things, and they certainly deliver at this dog-friendly hotel in a former Victorian mine captain’s house with glorious views over the ‘dramatic sweep of the Tamar valley’ and a long reputation for foodie excellence.
Kilcamb Lodge
Strontian
‘The situation is absolutely beautiful; perfect for wild swimmers,’ write readers this year, in praise of this remote hideaway hotel on the shores of Loch Sunart.
Ees Wyke Country House
Ambleside
Richard Lee often greets guests in his chef’s uniform, which sets the tone for this personally run country house with views over Esthwaite Water and fells.
Kylesku Hotel
Kylesku
In a ‘very beautiful spot’ on the remote, rocky shores of Loch Glendhu, an old coaching inn has been transformed into a modern hotel that takes full advantage of the beauty and bounty of its setting.
The Three Chimneys and The House Over-By
Isle of Skye
In a scattered hamlet on the western shore of Loch Dunvegan, in the far north of Skye, a whitewashed stone crofter’s cottage is the setting for this fine-dining restaurant-with-rooms.
Belle Tout Lighthouse
Eastbourne
A beacon of hospitality in a remote situation between Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs, this iconic 19th-century lighthouse, decommissioned in 1902, found new purpose in 2010 when it first opened to guests.
Dunkery Beacon Country House
Wootton Courtenay
Built at the dawn of the Edwardian era as a men-only hunting lodge, and with views to the eponymous beacon, this smart but unstuffy hotel is an ideal base from which to explore Exmoor.
Mullion Cove Hotel
Helston
‘In a glorious setting’ on the cliff-top with ‘spectacular views’, this Edwardian cathedral of a hotel that opened its doors in 1898 after being built by the Great Western Railway also has a ‘really nice, welcoming atmosphere’.
Stella Maris
Ballycastle
You can drift off to sleep to the sound of the waves and wake to the view over Bunatrahir Bay at this Victorian coastguard's fortress turned one-of-a-kind hotel.
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
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Oswestry
We never want for glowing reports of this dog-friendly former Georgian rectory, ‘set in a secluded and beautiful valley’, with views to the Welsh hills.
The Blakeney Hotel
Holt
With its quayside position overlooking the boats of north Norfolk’s salt marsh estuary towards Blakeney Point, this large, family-friendly hotel, established in 1922, has a loyal following.
Scarista House
Isle of Harris
The only sounds are the soughing of the sea and the cry of gulls at this remote Georgian manse in an 'extraordinary setting' between a three-mile sandy 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.