The Nare in Cornwall is top of one our reviewers wishlists
Fiona Duncan
My fellow Hit Squadder Hattie Garlick and I have been chatting and dreaming about hotels during the long months of lockdown and hatched a plan to go together, on the first day it opens if possible, to one of our mutual favourites, Beaverbrook, to give ourselves and our kids (grand, in my case) a huge treat, to brainstorm what makes a great hotel and to celebrate freedom. After that, for me it’s a cosy shepherd hut in the New Forest at the Spot in the Woods, the about-to-open, divine-sounding Glebe House in Devon and the thrilling new Whittington Suites at the Nare in Cornwall… to name a few.
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The country-house hotel promises to be the star of Summer 2021
If your cursor’s spent the last week hovering over the ‘book now’ button while government ministers hummed and hawed about our ‘Great British summer holiday’, now’s the time to click. Luxury properties have been inundated with reservation requests for the coming season, none more so than country house hotels.
For all the challenges posed by 2020 – many businesses traded for as few of four of the last twelve months – it was the country house hotel’s season in the sun. Their unique package of world-class luxury and acre after acre of safe open space could not have been more attractive: it’s pretty easy to socially distance when there’s a croquet lawn and a topiary swan between you and the next guest. “The staycation saved the country house hotel,” says Michael Caines, chef patron of Lympstone Manor in Devon. “It looks like it’s going to be the buzzword of the year again.”
THE sound of piping was absent on Monday as, after Hogmanay events across the country were cancelled, Burns Night was marked within the confines of home. January 25 marks the birthday of Robbie Burns, Scotland’s celebrated poet and author of A Red Red Rose, a Man’s a Man for a’ That and the widely known Auld Lang Syne. This was my first ever Burns Night outside Scotland, and I was eager, even without the traditional swinging ceilidh accompaniment, to show my housemates how tasty a delectable mush of spices, oats and sheep organs could really be. I’m told there is a multitude of Burns Night evenings usually in Wiltshire. In recent years, thousands have been raised at Potterne Village Hall for the local youth centre as a result of Burns Night suppers.