Hotels with Indoor Pools
Hartwell House - Complimentary Fourth Night Special Offer
Aylesbury
Visitors this year were ‘very happy with everything’ at this former stately home set in landscaped gardens and parkland on the edge of the Chilterns.
From £200 per night
Mallory Court - Summer Break Special Offer
Leamington Spa
This Lutyens-style Arts and Crafts manor house with wood panelling and leaded windows presides over landscaped grounds, with lawns, ponds, rose and herb gardens.
Woolley Grange - Gourmet Two Night Break Special Offer
Bradford-on-Avon
The hotel has a indoor 12-metre swimming pool in the spa area and is open to children as well as adults.
The Lygon Arms - Spring Staycations Special Offer
Broadway
An impressive list of famous guests, including both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, have stayed at this rambling Tudor coaching inn with beams and inglenooks, panelled walls and leaded windows.
Congham Hall - Summer Adventure Special Offer
King's Lynn
The 12-metre indoor swimming pool is surrounded by floor to ceiling windows and is located in the spa alongside other wet facilities.
Chewton Glen - Spring Staycations Special Offer
New Milton
Readers are ‘unable to fault anything at all’ at this ivy-clad country house hotel on the edge of the New Forest, ‘the ultimate luxurious and indulgent treat’.
Star Castle - Autumn full board Special Offer
St Mary's
The indoor heated pool is 13-metre and has a newly refurbished sun deck area just outside, with lounge style furniture.
Soar Mill Cove Hotel - Spring Outdoors Escape Special Offer
Salcombe
It’s all about the sublime seaside setting at Keith Makepeace’s family-centric, dog-friendly hotel with ‘amazing views to take your breath away’.
Middlethorpe Hall & Spa - From £129 per person per night Special Offer
York
Overlooking the racecourse and surrounded by gardens and parkland, this gem of a William and Mary house with its ‘stunning exterior’ feels deeply rural yet is just over a mile from York.
Bodysgallen Hall and Spa
Llandudno
Set in 220 acres of parkland, this antique-filled Elizabethan mansion has plenty to impress, from the oak-panelled hall and 13th-century tower to the modern spa and ‘lovely’ gardens.
Rathmullan House - Spring & Autumn Special Offer
Rathmullan
Built for a bishop in about 1760, Rathmullan House has been a beacon of Donegal hospitality since the early ’60s.
The Nare - Spring Garden Breaks Special Offer
Veryan-in-Roseland
The indoor pool has its own jet stream for energetic swimmers, while there’s a hot hydrotherapy spa pool, sauna and steam room for relaxation.
Headlam Hall - Summer Escape Special Offer from £115 per person per night
Darlington
This country hotel ticks all the boxes – historic building, beautiful gardens, smart bedrooms, relaxed dining, spa and pool – while retaining a homely feel.
The Atlantic Hotel - Free Dinner Offer
St Brelade
It’s all about the seaside at this luxury hotel designed to resemble a 1930s ocean liner, where readers this year had a ‘wonderful, relaxing stay’.
Trefeddian Hotel - Five Night Summer Special Offer
Aberdovey
Trefeddian Hotel has closed, but hopes to reopen in February 2021. It may have a four-star rating, but there is nothing too swanky about this child-friendly, dog-friendly hotel overlooking Cardigan Bay, across the road from dunes, golf links and white-sand beach.
Widbrook Grange - 'Gin Tasting Stay' Special Offer
Bradford-on-Avon
‘Staying here was an experience,’ wrote Guide inspectors of Nick Dent’s Georgian farmhouse hotel, which is so dog-friendly it even hosts doggie birthday parties, and where creative reuse has been raised to an art form.
Seaham Hall - B&B Four Night 25% Discount Special Offer
Seaham
‘A wonderful place’, this Georgian mansion with a pedigree (Lord Byron was married to Anne Isabella Millbanke in the drawing room) stands in landscaped gardens overlooking Durham’s heritage coast.
Cary Arms & Spa - Rental Cottages Special Offer
Babbacombe
The glass faceted sea-facing spa includes a waterfall hydrotherapy pool as well as other wet facilities such as a steam room, sauna and exotic experience shower.
Watersmeet - Autumn Ramblers Package
Woolacombe
The hotel has both an indoor and outdoor pool, suitable for length swimming as well as relaxation.
The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa
Bath
Behind the golden-stone facade of two mansions, at the centre of Bath’s magnificent Georgian crescent, lies a luxurious hotel with an oasis garden.
The Blakeney Hotel
Holt
The heated indoor swimming pool has views of the sun terrace and south facing gardens. There is also a steam room, sauna and spa bath.
Corse Lawn House
Corse Lawn
The indoor swimming pool is available to access on request, but is closed in December, January and February.
Summer Lodge
Evershot
A Georgian dower house extended to designs by Thomas Hardy, this luxury hotel and spa (Relais & Châteaux) stands in landscaped grounds adjoining a deer park.
From £60 per night
Bedruthan Hotel and Spa
Mawgan Porth
Bedruthan has both an indoor pool and indoor thermal spa with a giant sea-view hydro pool.
Cliveden House
Taplow
As you approach this glorious Italianate Thames-side summer palace designed by Charles Barry and set in 376 acres of National Trust grounds, it ‘feels as if you are on the film set of Pride and Prejudice’, says a Guide insider (see also Chewton Glen, New Milton).
The Pheasant
Harome
In an idyllic setting, overlooking the village pond, this hotel in a collection of stone buildings around a pretty courtyard maintains high standards for food, comfort and service.
From £120.00 per night
The Devonshire Arms
Skipton
The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire’s luxury hotel has come a long way since starting life as a 17th-century inn.
Gilpin Hotel and Lake House
Windermere
The facilities includes a large gym, swimming pool, sauna, steam room, and indoor hot tub.
Moonfleet Manor
Fleet
It’s one long round of fun at this family-friendly hotel, centred on a Georgian manor house overlooking Chesil Beach and the Fleet Lagoon.
Fowey Hall
Fowey
The hotel has a 12-metre indoor pool and hot tub that are open daily from 8am to 8pm. Children are welcome in the pool and they have equipment and toys available for all ages.
Ilsington Country House
Newton Abbot
‘We would certainly go again,’ write trusted readers after a stay at the Hassell family’s country house hotel and spa in wooded grounds, with Dartmoor on the doorstep.
The Scarlet
Mawgan Porth
The spa’s indoor swimming pool is 13-metre with floor to ceiling windows surrounding it so you can take in views of the surrounding coastline.
Lime Wood
Lyndhurst
In the Herb House spa, facilities include an indoor hydro pool with exceptional forest views as well as a 16-metre ozone treated indoor lap pool with glass doors overlooking the garden.
Douneside House
Tarland
The feeling of a family home pervades this hotel in brimming gardens on the edge of the Cairngorms national park.
Gara Rock
Salcombe
The indoor pool and sunken hot tub have floor to ceiling windows overlooking the sea from this cliff top hotel.
The Newt in Somerset
Castle Cary
Palladian Hadspen House, home to the Hobhouse family from 1785, and to gardener Penelope Hobhouse until 1979, is now a luxurious country house hotel.
Polurrian on the Lizard
Mullion
A path leads from this cliff-top hotel to a stretch of private beach on the west of the Lizard peninsula – just one of several vantage points to take in the stunning coastal views.
The Eastbury Hotel & Spa
Sherborne
A ‘lovely’ walled garden gives a country house air to this small hotel in the heart of a historic market town.
Thurlestone Hotel
Kingsbridge
‘Thoroughly dependable, yet stylish in an old-fashioned way’, this family-friendly hotel has been run with care by the Grose family for more than 120 years.
Lucknam Park
Chippenham
Take a rejuvenating dip in the stunning 20 metre indoor pool, or the indoor/outdoor hydrotherapy pool in the elegant spa.
Family friendly hotels and luxury spa hotels with indoor pools
Whether you’re travelling with children and are in need of rainy day entertainment, or you’re looking for a spa hotel with an opportunity to exercise and stretch those hard working limbs, hotels with indoor pools are often seen as a prerequisite for holidaymakers in the 21st century.
When it comes to really beautiful and unique hotels, particularly where the architecture of old country houses, historic castles or ancient inns are concerned, it’s always seems like a juggling act to preserve the historic charm of a building whilst bringing its services into the 21st century, and a pool can be a particularly tricky one to get right, but the ones who manage it do it with wow factor.
We are not sure what Louis XVIII would have made of an indoor pool had one existed at Hartwell House during his residence, but the chances are the extra leisurely addition would have been much appreciated after a stroll around the spectacular gardens. Meanwhile at Budock Vean, the idea of swimming in heated style may be too much of a tempting edge for those not wishing to take a dip in the chillier waters of Scotland’s sea.
At Chewton Glen, it isn’t merely a case of having an indoor pool but a complete suite of wet facilities in their spa, which is amongst the many features, including outstanding food and a beautiful location in Hampshire, that makes it stand out amongst the most sophisticated and decadent wellbeing offerings in the country – not unlike Lime Wood or The Scarlet.
Alternatively, there are those like Soar Mill Cove who simultaneously offer an environment entirely suited to adults enjoying their down time, but also make for a warm dip on the South West coast when a dip in the sea nearby is just a little too chilly.
