Choose a luxury hotel in the Cotswolds and holiday in the green heart of England. With Small Luxury Hotels of the World you can take tea in Victorian limestone cottages and browse independent boutiques on Regency carriageways.
City and town breaks in the Cotswolds
In the spa town of Cheltenham, you can take the healing waters in the colonnaded Pittville Pump Room. Shop at exclusive jewellery boutiques at the 19th-century Suffolks in the bohemian district of Montpellier. Foodies head to Stow-on-the-Wold and Burford for 17th-century inns serving Vale of Evesham produce. Trace the prosperous Roman Empire in Cirencester’s grand Corinium Museum for ornate villa mosaics.
Holidays at stately homes in the Cotswolds
At the inventive Hidcote Manor Garden, the English country garden is divided into outdoor chambers with topiary and bright African botany. Follow the steps of 18th-century gentry through flamboyant Painswick Garden, where rococo flair flows from the Greek statues and classical exedras. The Planets reverberates around the drawing room at Gustav Holst’s Regency residence, now the Holst Birthplace Museum.
Countryside retreats in the Cotswolds
Cross stone bridges over the meandering River Eye past fords and 19th-century mills as you stroll around your luxury hotel in Upper Slaughter. Pack your map and follow the waymarks through cornfields and sheep pastures on the Cotswold Way’s rolling Jurassic hills. Rustic pubs in Chipping Camden make appealing pit stops for real ales and roasts.
Stay in a luxury hotel in the Cotswolds with Small Luxury Hotels of the World and encounter the stone villages that inspired Laurie Lee’s novels. You’ll feel like a lord of the manor in your Regency boutique hotel in Chipping Camden, or dine on Longhorn beef on a 17th-century estate in Upper Slaughter.