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
Having hosted everyone from Chaplin to Churchill, this ‘superbly refurbished’ Italianate mansion seduces visitors with the prospect of ‘luxurious country house living’.
Langar Hall
Langar
Readers ‘had a really lovely, relaxing stay’ at Lila Arora’s apricot-washed Georgian mansion, approached by an avenue of lime trees amid sheep-grazed pastures.
Burgh Island Hotel
Bigbury-on-Sea
A consortium headed by Office Space in Town has just acquired hotel space in Devon. This gleaming white Art Deco hotel on a tidal island, sold by its former owners after 17 years, is undergoing a multi-million-pound make-over,
The Old Railway Station
Petworth
Now a ‘gracious’ B&B, this restored Victorian train station and princely Pullman carriages on disused tracks ooze the romance of travel’s golden age.
Newforge House
Magheralin
A Georgian house in extensive grounds near the Lagan river, John and Louise Mathers’s ‘first-rate’ guest house is an ‘outstanding’ place to stay.