HotelChatter - Tag: England Hotels

Mawgan Porth: Green Gets Sexy at Cornwall's Scarlet Hotel

juliab — 2009-09-28T13:48:50-05:00

Green Hotels don’t usually equal sexy hotels – and if they do, you can generally assume that the eco side is more for effect than hardcore environmental causes. But a big exception to the rule has just opened up in Britain: The Scarlet hotel in boho Cornwall.

It may look like just another chic clifftop Cornish hotel with its slinky furnishings (it’s even a member of Design Hotels), Michelin-starred chef, Atlantic views and “private outdoor space” for each of its 37 rooms, but under all the glitz is lurking a seriously green hotel.

Hawarden: Booking a Night With a Bunch of Books

MsRebecca — 2009-08-18T11:43:44-05:00

We’ve been following the hotel bookshelves trend for awhile now, but we’ve only just stumbled across what may be the pi�ce de r�sistance of hotel libraries (and, no, it’s not New York’s Library Hotel.)

Forget hipster-curated lobby and guestroom collections—over in Wales, you can stay in an honest-to-God actual library (and we don’t mean taking a catnap behind the stacks at your local branch).

St Deiniol’s—Britain’s only residential library—was created by book nerd William Ewart Gladstone in the town of Hawarden, in North East Wales. It’s been around since 1898 and looks fittingly Victorian and scholarly-like.

Manchester: Is Missoni Adding Manchester To Their List of Upcoming Hotels?

JetSetCD — 2009-06-15T14:56:09-05:00

We're now two weeks into the opening of the first of the Missoni Hotels in Edinburgh, Scotland, and already more news of future destinations have swamped us with surprise.

There's big plans in the works for this new fashion line of hotels; the Missoni Kuwait Hotel comes in early fall, followed by more hotels in South Africa and Oman, of all places. The latter will be a beachfront resort even!

St Ives: Primrose Valley is a Proper Cornish Cutie

juliab — 2009-06-11T13:03:36-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/primrose.jpg" class="top"> Cornwall will be raking it in this summer. Not only are the Brits going hard for the whole staycation thing (even though it still costs way more to stay in the UK than it does in Europe, and the weather aint exactly on a par), but its just been named top UK destination by a survey commissioned for <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Travelodge%20Hotels">Travelodge</a> as well. Not that wed necessarily recommend you stay in a Travelodge if you make it down there (and well done if you do, because youre looking at four hours and counting on the train), because the point of Cornwall is that its cute and tiny. One of the most obviously charming places is St Ives. Its

Hook: Play 'My Little Pony' at Four Seasons Hampshire

juliab — 2009-05-22T09:34:13-05:00

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that horses come between toys and boys when it comes to the upbringing of a lady. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have the dough to support a horse, or a spare field to fling it in.

When it came to our requests, our mothers just ignored us. But those who are a bit more indulgent might like to take their offspring to the Four Seasons Hampshire and shelling out on an Own a Pony Experience.