We’ve all heard of a honeymoon, but mini-moons straight after your wedding to give you more time to plan the ultimate getaway are what it’s all about in 2017. Here are five of the Good Hotel Guide’s recommended hotels for mini-moons from their collection of romantic hotels…
Five hotels for mini-moons
Cliveden House - Three for Two Short Break
Taplow
Meghan Markle spent the night before her wedding at this ‘magnificent’ Italianate mansion in ‘glorious’ National Trust grounds on a bluff above the Thames.
Langar Hall
Langar
‘We arrived on a golden Indian summer late afternoon to a warm welcome, culminating in tea on the lawn, looking beyond the ha-ha to a field.’
Burgh Island Hotel
Bigbury-on-Sea
Built into a hillside on a tidal island, this sleek, white, concrete hotel has a seagoing aspect. Built in 1929 for a wealthy industrialist, it hosted the likes of Nancy Cunard, Noël Coward and Josephine Baker.
Newforge House
Magheralin
It was surely the ‘star quality’ recognised by Guide inspectors that saw John Mathers acknowledged in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for Service to Hospitality and Tourism.
The Old Railway Station
Petworth
Some grown men play with train sets. Gudmund Olafsson went further in 2005, when he bought one of Britain’s most beautiful railway stations, renovating the property and the four Edwardian Pullman carriages on its disused line.