While the days are short and the nights are chilly it’s a wonderful time to explore the UK’s best cities and head back to the comfort of beautiful hotels afterwards. Here’s ten of the Good Hotel Guide’s best hotels for exploring UK cities in the winter…
Ten best UK hotels for winter city breaks
The Rutland Hotel - Five Star Special Offer
Edinburgh
Medical pioneer Sir Joseph Lister once lived in this 19th-century building steps from the top of Princes Street, but there’s nothing clinical about the voguish hotel that occupies it today.
From £120.00 per night
Hannah’s - One Night Stay Special Offer
Winchester
Time your arrival to tea: mid-afternoons at this B&B off the high street, Hannah McIntyre lays out a spread of freshly baked treats for guests to help themselves to.
From £185.00 per night
Edgar House
Chester
Tim Mills and Michael Stephen’s ‘highly enjoyable’ small hotel is ‘refreshingly different’, say Guide inspectors in 2016 – and not just for the honesty bar secreted in an old telephone kiosk.
From £199.00 per night
Hope Street Hotel
Liverpool
Opposite the Philharmonic Hall, in the vibrant cultural quarter, this handsome modern hotel is ‘a real find’. ‘It’s a fine example of change for the better, in a city that’s being revived so well,’ say Guide readers in 2016.
From £113 per night
The Arch London
London
The ‘unfailingly helpful’ staff and ‘well-thought-through details’ stand out at the Bejerano family’s colourful modern hotel near Marble Arch.
From £330 per night
Paradise House
Bath
David and Annie Lanz’s B&B stands in award-winning gardens on a peaceful street. ‘It’s fair value, at a good address,’ say Guide readers in 2016, who praised the ‘world-class’ breakfasts and ‘charming, willing, though inexperienced’ staff.
From £130 per night
15Glasgow
Glasgow
Lorraine Gibson’s ‘well-located’ town house B&B is equidistant between the city centre and the fashionable West End.
From £130 per night
Cathedral 73
Cardiff
Old-school cosseting gets a chic, unstuffy setting at Nigel John’s stylishly converted Victorian town house a short walk to the castle.
From £99.00 per night
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