HotelChatter - Tag: English Hotels

More Olympics Hotel Drama in England, This Time in Dorset

Heidi Atwal — 2012-01-05T13:05:02-05:00

With just over 200 days left until the 2012 Olympics in London, preparations for the Games have officially shifted into hyperdrive. The city anticipates the arrival of 25,000 athletes and a flood of tourists, and local hotels are bracing themselves for the inundation.

But even hotels in surrounding cities are fretting over the Olympics, albeit for a different reason. Quieter counties that typically attract scenic scenery-seeking out-of-towners during summertime fear that seasonal regulars will be "put off" by the Games. No doubt they, much like native Londoners, will find themselves overcome by the urge to retreat in the face of buzzy tourists. (Watch out, they're armed with fanny packs.)

Brighton: Hit The Beach (Hut) at Hotel Du Vin Brighton

juliab — 2009-06-05T10:33:10-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/BEACH_HUT_IMAGE.jpg" class="top"> As the song goes, we do like to be beside the seaside. What we dont like is sharing the seaside with the thousands of others who like it too. Especially when everyones had the same idea to jump on a train in London and hit up the coast at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Brighton%20Hotel%20Reviews">Brighton</a>, as happens every time the sun comes out. To make things a little less messy, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20du%20Vin%20Hotels">Hotel du Vin</a> down there is putting its Victorian beach hut up for rent. Its about two and a half miles from the hotel, on the beach at Hove rather than bang in Brighton (but then, theres not room for a bottle of sun tan lotion on the beach at

Old Leake: Green Spaces Search Finds Old Leake's Eco-Lodge

amandak — 2008-04-15T09:35:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Windmill_for_Eco_Lodge_Story.jpg" class="imgborder"> The UK Times are spending the next few months gathering nominations from the public for their Green Spaces Travel awards: that is, the most environmentally friendly places to stay that have helped to change your attitude to be more green. One of the first nominations to come in is for the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/10/53554/345/hotels/The_Ultimate_Eco_Lodge_is_Called_Eco_Lodge">Eco-Lodge</a> in Old Leake, Lincolnshire. We've long been amazed by this place and its founder Andy Reynolds, who's come up with all kinds of creative solutions to keep the lodge as environmentally sound as possible, and who's not afraid to try to teach the rest of us a thing or two, at the same time.As the nominating guest said, the Eco-Lodge is not the kind

Bath : The Residence in Bath Is Almost Like Home

amandak — 2008-04-15T09:15:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/theresidencebath.jpg" class="imgborder"> Simply called <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Residence/local/1188">The Residence</a>, there's a hotel in Bath, England, that seems to hark back to Jane Austen days of exclusive clubs and high society--except that if we've got the cash, we can stay there too. There are just six rooms for guests but they are part of a larger complex inside an old Georgian house, with a restaurant, bar and gardens also accessible to members of the private club.<a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g186370-d618897-r14962403-The_Residence-Bath_Somerset_England.html">Recent guests</a> at TripAdvisor can't speak highly enough of The Residence, with everyone loving the luxurious rooms and a few mentioning the "adults only" drawer, too! But a <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotels/1308278/The-Residence,-Bath-hotel-watch.html">UK Telegraph</a> review over the weekend was not quite as over-the-top impressed, citing short showers, erratic bar

Dorset: Buckets & Spades at the Captain's Club in Christchurch

femmefatale — 2008-03-06T09:05:01-05:00

Lesson Three in Understanding the English: not only do we love trains, antiques, animals and eccentric pubs, we go crazy over seaside holidays.

Blackpool if we've got kids, Bournemouth if we're over 60, Butlins if the weather's being English and we want to stay indoors and pretend we're at the seaside.