The votes are in and have been counted and now Laterooms.com has just announced the winners of the Best Kept Secret Awards 2010.
There are a total of 10 categories with any Laterooms advertised hotel eligible for inclusion. Winners range from large city centre hotels to small independent hotels and B&Bs.
1) The most comfortable bed award
Awarded to the 3 Star Malmaison Liverpool. The boutique hotel is set in Princes Dock in the centre of Liverpool and offers “a breathtaking Manhattan style with a special twist of Mal”. Rooms from £89 per night.
2) Best Customer Service award
Awarded to Bailiffscourt Hotel and Spa in Climping near Littlehampton.
Set in a privileged position, Bailiffscourt Hotel and Spa is adjacent to one of the best undeveloped beaches on the south coast, and is surrounded by over 30 acres of naturally beautiful gardens. The hotel is also recommended by Condé Nast Johansens. Rooms from £200 per night.
3) Best Dining Experience award
The award went to The Cotswold Plough in Clanfield, Oxfordshire
An authentic 16th Century Elizabethan Cotswold Manor House. Set in the beautiful Cotswold countryside just outside of Oxford with wonderful food, roaring log fires in the winter and fabulous al fresco dining in the summer. Rooms from around £95 a night.
4) Best Freebies award
The winning hotel is the Armathwaite Hall Hotel in Cumbria (pictured above).
The beautifully situated as Armathwaite Hall is one of the original stately homes of England, set magnificently in 400 acres of deer park and woodland between Bassenthwaite Lake and Skiddaw mountain. The hotel is also recommended by Condé Nast Johansens. Rooms start around £210 per night.
5) The Best Breakfast award
Awarded to The 5 Star Langham hotel in central London.
Originally opened in 1865, The Langham, London was Europe’s first ‘Grand Hotel’. The hotel boasts an unrivalled location in the heart of the West End at the top of Regent Street, London’s shopping delights and famous theatres is on its doorstep. Rooms start at £287 per night.
6) Best Location award
Award won by the Haweswater Hotel in Cumbria.
A Lakeside setting in a quiet country location with stunning scenery in this quiet and secluded valley of the Golden Eagle. We are ideally situated for a relaxing ‘away from it all’ break, walking or a central base for the rest of the Lakes and we are only 12 miles from the M6. Room prices start around £100 per night.
7) Best Hotel High Tech award
This was awarded to the 5 Star Fallen Angel Hotel in the City of Durham.
Hot tubs, saunas and steam showers might beguile you, or our gold Rolls Royce, popcorn machine and huge cinemas screen might be more to your liking. Cruella’s velvet sleigh bed, a huge oak four poster or the Russian Bride’s white painted carved bed might lull you to sleep, or Le Jardin’s turf carpet might just intrigue you. Rooms from £135 per night.
8. Best Picnic Spot award
The winner is the 5 Star Lucknam Park Hotel – Relais Chateaux near Bath, Somerset.
A Magnificent listed palladian mansion dating from 1720, Lucknam Park is set in extensive parkland of five hundred acres, six miles from the historic city of Bath. The hotel is also recommended by Condé Nast Johansens. Rooms from £195 per night.
9) Best Tea Room award
The award recipient is the 4 Star Kilworth House Hotel in North Kilworth , Leicestershire.
The perfect nineteenth century four star country house retreat, situated within 38 acres of beautiful parkland, with 44 charming individually designed bedrooms. Rooms from £99 per night.
10) Best Small Hotel award
The final award goes to Glyn Isa Country House B&B in Rowen, Conwy.
Glyn Isa (meaning lower valley) 17th Century Country House Bed and Breakfast is privately owned and has 5 individually designed, beautifully appointed double/four poster en suite rooms. The house is set in 10 acres of mature gardens and land against a backdrop of mountains on the edge of Snowdonia National Park in central Wales. Rooms from £99 per night.
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