Lime Wood

Lyndhurst, Hampshire

A New Forest bolt-hole, this country house hotel has an easy glamour, romantic and family-friendly rooms, heart-warming Italian food and top-notch spa. More

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A New Forest bolt-hole, this country house hotel has an easy glamour, romantic and family-friendly rooms, heart-warming Italian food and top-notch spa. ‘Laid-back luxury at its very best,’ says our Guide insider. Public rooms in the Georgian main house mix panelled walls and checkerboard-tiled floors with leather chairs and modern art. Particularly atmospheric is the glass-ceilinged courtyard bar. Bedrooms in a chic country house style radiate comfort, and range from main-house rooms with woodland views and a bath by the window to rustic cottages and cabins in the grounds, perhaps with an open fire. The Lake Cabin is the ultimate in privacy with a wrap-around balcony over the water. After a walk in the grounds or New Forest (there are trails from the door), relax in the Herb House Spa with its choice of pools, rooftop garden and Raw & Cured café offering nutritious dishes such as home-cured salmon, and borlotti bean salad. Come evening, Angela Hartnett and Luke Holder serve ‘the best of Italian and British food’ in Hartnett Holder & Co. The short menu could include confit cod with white onion risotto or venison with spiced pear.

Hotel details

Address

Beaulieu Road
Lyndhurst
Hampshire
SO43 7FZ
England

Telephone

02380 287177

Bedrooms

33. 5 on ground floor, 
2 suitable for disabled, 16 in pavilions, cottages in the grounds.

Open

all year.

Facilities

lifts, 2 bars, 3 lounges, 
2 restaurants, private dining rooms, in-room TV, civil wedding licence, spa (indoor pool), 14-acre gardens, cookery school, public rooms wheelchair accessible, adapted toilet.

Background music

all day in public areas.

Children

all ages welcomed, no charge for extra bed.

Dogs

allowed in outside bedrooms (£30 per stay), grounds, not main house.

Credit cards

MC, Visa.

Prices

room only from £435. Continental breakfast £18.50, full breakfast (incl. cont.) £25, à la carte £65. 1-night bookings refused at most weekends.

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