http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T04:34:47Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/1277 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/8/85052/54075 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/budockvean.png" class="imgborder"><p> <p>The Green Travel Award nominations at the UK <i>Times</i> often include some of those rustic, roughin' it, super-green types of eco-hotels where you can't flush the toilet or need rubber boots to get to the dining hall. <p>But recently they suggested something much more civilized: <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Budock+Vean+Hotel/local/1277"><b>Budock Vean Hotel</b></a>, a country hotel near the Helford River in Cornwall, southwest England.</p><p>The Budock Vean (which has a kind of a subtitle: "The Hotel on the River") is a 59-room four-star hotel, complete with a 9-hole golf course, swimming pool, sauna, spa and tennis courts, but it's also good at being green. For example, it is careful to support local industry: 80% of the hotel's expenditure goes in to the amandak 2008-07-09T09:30:13-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/