The votes are in and the Top 10 hotels in Britain have been selected by Tripadvisor users as part of their Travellers Choice Awards 2011.
Interestingly, all the hotels in the list were chosen by people from Europe which gives the hotels outside London more of a chance to feature (as Americans do tend to focus more on London).
The list consists of hotels big and small from all corners of the country and seems to reflect a taste for more countryside based hotels rather than large chains or hotels in the middle of a city. Quite a number are from the West Country region, but other popular areas are included such as the Lake District and west of Scotland.
1: The winner overall of the best hotel in Britain award was the four star Rudding Park Hotel just outside the spa town of Harrogate (pictured above). The hotel is set within an 18th Century parkland with an 18-hole golf course and a 2 AA Rosettes restaurant also came first in 2010 for the same award.
2: Second in the list was the The Old Rectory Hotel in Martinhoe, on the edge of the Exmoor National Park in Devon. The hotel building was originally the Georgian Rectory to the 11th century church, and today welcomes guests to this friendly, relaxed and civilised country house retreat in the West Country.
3: Coming third was another West Country entry, the Boskerris Hotel in St. Ives, which describes itself as a “contemporary, boutique hotel with a relaxed Mediterranean style”, with “views across St Ives Bay”.
The other hotels in the list were as follows:
4: Charterhouse Hotel in Torquay
5: Abbot’s Brae Hotel in Dunoon
6: Overwater Hall in Keswick, Lake District
7: Elmdene Hotel in Torquay
8: Can-y-Bae in Llandudno, North Wales
9: Haytor Hotel in Torquay
10: Apsley House Hotel in Bath, Somerset
If these don’t fit your requirements, UKHotel has 1000s of hotels around the UK and to compliment, UKattraction has over 10,000 places to visit around Britain.
The full list can be found on the Tripadvisor Travellers Choice Awards.
