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A "Civilized" Green Hotel for Brits in the Country

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  Site Where: Helford Passage, Mawnan Smith, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, TR11 5LG

by amandak | July 9, 2008 at 9:30 AM | 0 Comments

The Green Travel Award nominations at the UK Times 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.

But recently they suggested something much more civilized: Budock Vean Hotel, a country hotel near the Helford River in Cornwall, southwest England.

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 local community.

It's also won a stack of awards, for sustainability and green tourism in particular. Budock Vean offers a lot of different package weekends, but the one that might complement the green theme best is the Yoga weekend.

The average cost is around £300 (less than US$600) per person (it depends on the season) and you get two nights' accommodation, a five-course meal both nights, breakfast each morning, and seven and a half hours of yoga classes.

Green and healthy sounds like a good combination to us.

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