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Escape — £125.00
There are nine individually designed rooms at Escape . When you speak to hosts Sam and Gaynor about the fun they had browsing eBay and antiques fairs for signature furniture, such as Robin Day chairs, infinity mirrors and original 1960s Sanderson flock wallpaper, you can feel their passion for design, and it’s reflected in every corner of the B&B.

Square — £400.00
Our favourite rooms King rooms 3, 5 and 7 enjoy sea views and free-standing Philippe Starck baths; glass walls allow you to see the surf while you bathe. King room 1 may not have a sea view, but it does boast a super-techy massage 'pod'. Even numbered rooms are standard doubles, and are quite a bit smaller than their odd-numbered counterparts. The hotel’s pièce de résistance is a large, decadent basement suite, with a Jacuzzi bath, open fireplace and a fully fitted kitchen.

Bangkok — £1.00
Cuisine Bangkok is a gourmet’s paradise – from the unfathomable victuals of China Town through to upscale international dining and some of the finest street food on the planet. The most authentic, the freshest and the very best food can be found in the ubiquitous stalls strewn throughout Bangkok’s bustling streets. Thai food is a symphony of hot, sour, salty and sweet flavours that can produce delectable results. If your taste buds are nervous types, ask for ‘pet nit noi’ – just a little spice. You...

Seychelles — £1.00
First discovered by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in the early 16th century, this smattering of granite and coral lumps has been, in its time, home to everyone from Arab traders taking a breather on the spice route to pirates using the islands as a base for their raids. Nowadays, the indigenous population is swelled by wealthy long-haul travellers, looking for – and finding – a version of paradise that verges on caricature. Beaches of soft, white sand peter out into turquoise waters, where the...

Mauritius — £1.00
For such a small country – at just 2,030sq km it would fit snugly within the M25 – Mauritius has a rich and varied history. Everyone from Dutch seafarers to Chinese merchants, not to mention Arab spice traders and British colonialists, seem to have made their home on the main island and its satellites, and, as a result, the country is a fascinating cultural hotchpotch. You’re just as likely to eat French haute cuisine as you are Indian curries, and Diwali and Eid are celebrated with the same gusto...

The Grove — £260.00
Hotel restaurant Sit amid the Grove Restaurant’s timber paneling and divide your attention between admiring the décor (ornate fireplace, elegant chairs upholstered in cream, caramel and gold striped velvet, fat milky candles romantically flickering, spotless white linen) and admiring the menu: Italian chef Emilio Luigi Fragiacomo’s creation. Expect modern country food – rack of salt marsh lamb with fresh peas and bacon, venison with pears and peppered celeriac and halibut with laver bread and smoked...

Tigerlily — £245.00
Edinburgh boutique hotel Tigerlily has thrown the rule book out the window, working a bright, modern and luxe theme with mosaic mirror tiles, silver, white and glass. And that’s just the reception: rooms have massive beds, the restaurant is a sprawling maze of cosy bench nooks, crystal curtains and sleek tables – and there's even a nightclub, which attracts hip-hunting barflies like moths to the flame. The coffee's pretty darn good, too…

Chiang Mai — £1.00
Until 1938, Chiang Mai was the sleepy capital of the ancient Lanna kingdom. Filled with splendid temples, saffron-robed monks and dusty tracks, the venerable walled city retained most of its somnambulant charm right up until the late 1980s and the arrival of mass tourism. These days, if you spend some time wandering the back streets of the old city you can still find the remnants of its previous life. Juxtaposed with this peaceful heritage is a raft of cool design, creative youth and frenetic activity...

The Gore — £440.00
One room in The Gore is a boudoir straight out of a dozen period dramas. Its centrepiece is the lavish, dark-oak canopied four-poster whose swaths of deep-red velvet and tassel fringes hide crisp white linen sheets. The floor-to-ceiling curtains hanging in the long elegant windows match the velvet of the bed. The dark-wood floors are covered in antique Asian rugs.

The New White Lion — £120.00
The Pritchards opened the New White Lion hotel in Llandovery to introduce guests to the local rural splendour they adore so passionately, creating a luxurious base from which country‑lovers can explore Carmarthenshire and the Brecon Beacons national park. Beautiful antique furniture is offset by rich pickings related to the area’s heritage; old books, miners’ boots and local maps blend into a domain where every modern comfort is provided.

Hua Hin — £1.00
Spend anytime in Hua Hin and you’ll realise that, apart from the beach and the spas, the real reason so many people flock to the city is the great golfing it offers. Hua Hin has not one, nor two, but eight world-class golf courses, all open to the public (for a small greens fee, naturally). The oldest is the nine-hole Royal Hua Hin Golf Course, located very centrally behind the station (+66 (0) 3251 2475). If you want something newer and with three times the holes, head to the Springfield Royal Country...

The Balmoral Hotel — £220.00
Three Victorian houses knocked into one grand dame of a boutique hotel, The Balmoral Hotel maintains a rakish air of opulence, with glamour-dripping crystal chandeliers, Louis XV armchairs, ornate Venetian mirrors and a scattering of curios and antiques. Such traditional trappings somehow fit seamlessly with the plush contemporary interiors: Designers Guild flock wallpaper, bold colours, and reupholstered red leather sofas. Dreamy and decadent.

Krabi — £1.00
With a landscape chock-a-block with craggy limestone cliffs and hidden caves, Krabi boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. While rock-climbing is undoubtedly top of many visitors’ Krabi must-try list, instead of crossing over cliffs, we suggest ducking under them – to explore the hidden caverns that lie beneath. Tham Phi Hue To, or Hualok, is a colossal cave filled with grottos and prehistoric sketches of people and animals. Tham Phra Nang Nok, also known as the Princess Caves, is...

Yorebridge House — £240.00
Hotel restaurant The hotel dining room's open kitchen is where head chef James Fiske, who learned his trade at Michelin-starred establishments, works his magic on local, seasonal produce to produce dishes such as stuffed baked duck egg and smoked eel on brioche or chargrilled fillet of Wensleydale beef with creamed baby cabbage and black potato rösti. The dining room itself is very twinkly and romantic, but extremely unpretentious – think dark-wood tables, potted palms, cream woodwork and chocolate...

The Miller of Mansfield — £175.00
Our favourite rooms Silver and black room 7 has a raised Japanese‑inspired bath big enough for two. Fiery 8 looks across the road to the church and packs a colourful fuchsia punch with its antique bed. Super‑spacious suites 4 and 5 have extra little rooms with day beds, ideal if you’re travelling with a wee one. Rooms 3, 6, 10 and 14 are on the small side, so splash out on a larger one if you value your space.

Maison 140 — £349.00
Hotel bar The bijou Bar Noir, eye-catchingly attired in black, white and crimson with lacquered panels, is an intimate lounge bar popular with in-the-know locals. Its cocktail menu features the elegant French Kiss, indulgent Lady Godiva and exotic Sake-Melon.

Spring Cottage — £1,730.00
Cliveden’s riverside guesthouse is hidden away on the leafy banks of the stately home’s magnificent National Trust-owned grounds. Homely yet grand, it’s not your regular 19th-century three-bedroom guesthouse – this five-star hotel’s holiday house has its own butler. If that isn’t thrill enough, how’s about the revelation that this holiday home was where Profumo and friends frolicked in the run-up to the huge political scandal in the Sixties? As for its name, Cliveden’s sister cottage takes its moniker...

Koh Samui — £1.00
It’s impossible to miss the posters for the Full Moon Party when in Samui. Every lunar month, nearly 20,000 visitors take the 50-minute ferry ride from Koh Samui to Koh Phangan, disembarking into a party whirlwind that borders on the decadent. It’s an experience in itself if you’re young-at-heart or plain curious. Smart hoteliers have also begun chartering boats to take you out and back for a short glimpse of the party – long enough to have fun, short enough so you won’t feel stranded; we recommend...

The Brew House Hotel — £195.00
Our favourite rooms All rooms are well appointed with crisp decor and utility-chic bathrooms; nine feature glass panels that flick from frosted to clear at the flick of a switch. Superior rooms have Juliet balconies (we like room 103) or French windows that open onto little decks. Deluxe rooms are larger – 205 has big bay windows. Three rooms have a bath – request one when booking if this is a must for you; the Deluxe room with a bath also has a balcony, making it one of our favourites.

Soho Hotel — £2,500.00
Sister to the Covent Garden Hotel, Soho hotel is a bubble of cool calm, and therefore it's also a surprisingly child-friendly hotel. Veer off Wardour Street and head towards a twinkly-lit porch to find a 10-foot porcelain Botero cat sculpture, oversized plant pots and a clash of driftwood and neon-tinted Perspex – a refreshing alternative to the marble and brass lobbies of most hotels in this postcode.

Luxury & Boutique Hotel Directory - BlackSmith Membership - Mr & Mrs Smith — £20.00
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Luxury & Boutique Hotel Directory - GoldSmith Membership - Mr & Mrs Smith — £499.00
'Iceland was just incredible. Thank you so much for arranging the trip for me. The hotel was very very cool, just what you would expect. All the trips you organized were just fantastic – total life experiences. We had the best ever New Year's Eve.'

Luxury & Boutique Hotel Directory - SilverSmith Membership - Mr & Mrs Smith — £199.00
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Covent Garden Hotel — £1,150.00
The Covent Garden Hotel couldn't be better located for every kind of West End experience: galleries, shopping, theatre, clubbing. The decor of our bedroom is all traditional tapestry and paisley fabrics, and the CGH's signature dressmaker's models feature in all the rooms – very Establishment, and charming for it. The wonderful thing about this hotel is that while it certainly caters for the well-heeled and deep-pocketed, it also works hard at a genuinely laid-back, home-from-home atmosphere.

St Regis Washington DC — £10,000.00
Our favourite rooms Quite why the man in question would need one when he lives barely a block away is unclear, but the Presidential Suite, which is the size of a house and swaddled in luxury, is certainly worthy of the name. If you don’t have $10,000 to fling around, we’d suggest opting for one of the eight sienna-hued Metropolitan Suites – spacious, luxurious, and ideal for families as they adjoin the Superior Double rooms.

Gidleigh Park — £1,050.00
Our favourite rooms Cranbrook, one of the three spa suites, is the most romantic, with twin roll-top baths for you both to bask in side-by-side, and a toasty-snug feature fire fitted in the wall alongside. The Manaton room, however, is also a sore temptation, given that it boasts a private rooftop hot tub that you can bubble away in under the stars. The gorgeous two-bedroom Pavilion is ideal for family stays, or for friends who want to combine the privacy of self-catering with the attentive luxury...

Fronlas — £110.00
Hotel restaurant There’s no restaurant as such at Fronlas, but there is a breakfast area: a small, pretty room with three pine tables and frosted-glass swinging doors that conceal the kitchen. The hotel’s home-cooked breakfast champions local, organic produce and is a great way to fuel up for a day’s exploring. Feast on a full Welsh with plump, award-winning Graig Farm sausages and bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, free range eggs and baked beans in their own ramekin. Vegetarians can have an equally delicious...

The Carneros Inn — £2,700.00
Unusual new-build resort, The Carneros Inn is the product of a bold, contemporary vision of traditional local farm structures – the distinctive tin-roofed barns, silos and rancher's cottages dotted throughout Napa Valley have informed an ultra-modern 'agri-chic' aesthetic that marries old-school decked porches, cowhide rugs and rocking chairs with Le Corbusier chaises and a colour scheme Giorgio Armani would be proud of. And you'd have to search long and hard to find a much warmer welcome anywhere...

INTERIORS: Room service — £18.99
In the world of interiors, minimalism reigned for years, whether in reaction to the overindulgent Eighties, the legendary loo-roll dolly or just older relatives’ chintzy taste. Things have changed recently, though, and that tyranny of paring down is diminishing – most of us prefer to dress our homes up instead, and some of our most beloved hotels are getting more and more outrageously decadent. At Mr & Mrs Smith, we heartily encourage turning the humble home into a private palace. The best place...

Brighton Blanch House — £230.00
Our favourite rooms Earmark the Perrier Jouët suite, luxurious in green velvet or the Decadence Suite, with free-standing bath. Of the smaller rooms, definitely try and book Alice or Snowstorm; we find India a little too kitsch for most tastes and Harlequin feels a bit tired.

TuneSmith — £7.50
Digitalism are two young men from Hamburg who will be making a lot of noise in a speaker near you this summer. Signed to the über-cool Parisian label Kitsune, they make what is best described as mind-altering dance music that owes as much to rock power chords as it does to Daft Punk and the Chemical Brothers. In fact, this music is about as subtle as an elephant body-popping on roller-skates: it is designed to make indie as well as techno clubs throb, and it does this with remarkable success. The...

The Setai — £25,000.00
Tranquil Far Eastern interiors and lovingly restored art deco architecture make this Miami landmark hotel the epitome of cool, calm and collected glamour. The Setai leaves no stone unturned in its quest for excellence: staff provide a warm welcome and impeccable service; rooms are lavishly appointed (the Penthouse suite has a recording studio designed by Lenny Kravitz); and landscaped gardens lead directly to the white-sand beach.

Mollies — £65.00
Meals Mollies restaurant offers a children's menu and kids are welcome there any time. High chairs are available, and the hotel can provide packed lunches or heated up baby food or milk on request. The sophisticated setting of Mollie's dining room, with its multi-course tasting menu and lavish tableware, may not suit fidgety kids, though, so you may prefer to get a babysitter to enable you to make the most of the romantic adult dining scene here.

Rick's — £113.00
Rick’s isn’t exactly a hotel: it’s a designer bar with contemporary rooms. Low ceilings and coloured mood lighting give it a cosy, intimate atmosphere; brown banquette seats, burgundy leather cubes and giant cacti in stone pots make attractive surrounds. Classic house tunes play in the background, and the black-clad staff are friendly and obliging. It’s modern, it’s hip, it’s bang in the middle of Edinburgh, and we’ve never been anywhere quite like it.

The Forbury — £440.00
Our favourite rooms The fabrics throughout are beautiful, from Nina Campbell, Designers Guild, Kenzo and so on; floors are American walnut. There are at least three specially commissioned artworks in each room. All the bathrooms have stone floor and walls, six-inch monsoon showers and baths big enough for two. Luxury rooms are particularly spacious, and the suites all have something really special about them: a glass bath, a steam room, a copper bath in front of the fire…

The Chester Residence — £525.00
Stone steps and iron railings may suggest a vintage-style stay awaits, but inside The Chester Residence lie sleek, modern apartments with clean lines, shades-of-taupe furnishings and a geek’s arsenal of gadgets. Jewel-bright accessories, softly shaded lamps and a well-stocked kitchen invite you to feel at home; a 24/7 concierge and attentive room service prompt laziness. Edinburgh’s main drag, Princes Street, provides on-your-doorstep shops, sights and sustenance.

The Merchant Hotel — £600.00
Occupying the former headquarters of the Ulster Bank, The Merchant Hotel is a grand neoclassical building with vaulted ceilings, kitted out in rich colours and fabrics. This boutique creation makes you feel like a VIP from the minute you walk through the door. Bedrooms are opulent and complete with all the modern-day add-ons you can think of. The hotel bar, the Cloth Ear, used to be the bank's customer branch, while the fine restaurant occupies the former banking hall.

Millers64 — £140.00
Our favourite rooms There are only two to choose from: Park Suite is the biggest, with ornate Victorian cornicing and a dark brown love seat separated from the room by an arched wall. Garden Suite is cosier, with views out onto, predictably, the garden. Both have ensuite bathrooms with under-floor heating and silver sinks shipped over from Thailand. Beds are king-sized, with ultra-luxurious hand-stitched Hypnos mattresses, crisp white linens and chocolate brown/shimmery champagne cushions.

Phuket & Khao Lak — £1.00
As you approach Phuket by plane, you spy jungle-clad hills twisting across the island like green contorted dragons. Rapidly developing around – and even up – the mountains, Phuket has speedily got back to business after the dramatic horror show of the 2004 tsunami. Upon arrival, spend your time soaking up the sun, the sea and the sand in exquisite spa resorts or rented villas, then drift down to Phuket Town and its one-of-a-kind Sino-Portuguese colonial architecture.

Blakes Hotel — £1,295.00
Blakes – the very name conjures up a whole era of modern decadence. Each room at Anouska Hempel's South Ken boutique hotel has its own style, but all are inspired by various far-off lands: Russia, India, Turkey… The decor, while perhaps a little too redolent of the Eighties for some, is testament to Ms Hempel's impeccable taste and astonishing attention to detail.

The Standard Downtown LA — £11,500.00
Our favourite rooms The Standard's room names are helpfully descriptive (From ‘Cheap’ to ‘Big Penthouse’ via ‘Gigantic’ and ‘Wow’), so you’ll know what you’re getting; the more you pay, the higher up your room will be. ‘Medium’ rooms are good value but still a decent size, with queen-size beds and revealing glass-walled showers. ‘Huge’ rooms have a separate seating area and soaking tub that opens onto the room. ‘Humungous’ rooms occupy corner sites and have the most windows. We particularly love...

Thompson Beverly Hills — £4,000.00
Hotel restaurant Decorated in chocolate, walnut and bamboo tones, and home to vases of strategically placed orchids aplenty, Bond Street is one of Beverly Hills’ most stylish Japanese restaurants. It’s hushed and sophisticated by day, and party-vibrant in the evening. The miso-marinated Chilean seabass and the lobster tempura rolls are reliably delicious.

Ffynnon — £180.00
Our favourite rooms We love the ultra-romantic ‘Sydney’, which comes with a beautiful slipper bath and a king-size bed that’s dominated by a gothic headboard. However, you’re bound to be happy with whichever room you choose – all are sumptuously decorated and equipped with all the modern touches you’d expect. Beds come with cosy Welsh blankets, and there’s even a pillow menu provided, so you can ensure a well-rested head.

Cowley Manor — £475.00
Once you have taken in the astonishing grandeur of this Italianate stone house near Cheltenham, you may think yourself convinced that whatever is within cannot match it. To call the look 'designer' doesn’t do justice to Cowley Manor’s funky, flamboyant aesthetic; the effect of cowhide window seats and comical papier-mâché ‘hunting trophies’ is certainly a world away from the usual country-house hotels.

Samling — £430.00
Nestled in soft undulating hills and perfect woods rolling down to Lake Windermere is the Samling . You couldn’t ask for a more ideal location – right on the water, but still secluded. The beauty of the woodland location is that you can step outside your room and start walking – we soon found ourselves in forest as lush and dense as a Malaysian jungle.

No 12, Gloucestershire - Boutique & Luxury Hotels - Holidays in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom — £90.00
Formerly a wool merchant’s house and, like the majority of the architecture in this wealthy town, suitably grand with a handsome stone façade, No 12 is distinctly sophisticated and uncountryfied. In all the four individually decorated bedrooms, there are fluffy bathrobes and Molton Brown unguents, the walls are awash with Farrow & Ball paint and beds scattered with merino-wool blankets and gorgeous Osborne & Little fabrics.

Treverra Farm Cottage — £4,500.00
With its own infinity pool, plenty of high-spec audiovisual, sophisticated bathrooms, Treverra Farm Cottage is no shabby-chic worker’s cottage. But it does have real-life appeal – we are in Cornwall, after all – with supplies of books and kids’ stuff, a kitchen that’s fun to cook in, and an art collection that combines creativity and chic to interiors-mag-worthy effect. You’d be hard pressed to spot anything from the high street here: instead, collectible vellum books, framed botanical treasures...

62 Castle Street — £20.00
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The Cheltenham Suite — £255.00
Entertainment Free Wifi, Freeview, audio and book library, Sony Gigajuke Multi-Room and Home Theatre systems and LCD TVs in each room. Enjoy your favourite film on the Sony home theatre system. Listen to one of thousands of hand-picked tracks from the music library or from your own iPod, wherever you are in the apartment. Or if you’ve had enough of technical wizardry, curl up with a classic from the library. And if you haven’t finished your book by the end of your stay, take it with you and post...

The Crown Inn — £260.00
Our favourite rooms The Ilse-Crawford-overhauled rooms in the main inn building are all pictures of peaceful, pared-down rusticity, with spotless white walls, Welsh wool blankets and rush matting. For a glimpse of the inn’s history, check into Room 12, where there’s a section of hand-painted wall dating back to 1550. We also like Room 5, which has a raised bathroom area up a little stairwell.

Berkshire The Olde Bell Inn — £300.00
Our favourite rooms Simple, pared back, modern and comfortable, the Olde Bell’s Crawford-refurbished rooms retain the quintessentially English feel of the inn as a whole, with chunky farmhouse furniture, woven wool blankets, oak floorboards, and smart, natural tones. Thanks to the grassy scents of the hand-made rush matting, the rooms even smell rustic. Bathrooms are fitted with drench showers in the Inn Doubles and elegant claw-foot baths (as well as showers) in the Inn Suites. All the rooms have...

The Zetter — £330.00
The Zetter is a hotel that’s all about cutting-edge design, with the clever and ironic contrasts and clashes of modern styles that you’d expect from an establishment embodying London’s eastside renaissance. The flamboyant pink chandelier that greets you in the lobby is a statement of intent, and the bold thinking continues throughout.

Lower Slaughter Manor — £825.00
Our favourite rooms For an extravagant weekend of romance, book one of the ground-floor Garden rooms in the Coach House: Valentine Strong is a decadent suite with a bathroom featuring twin roll-top baths that gives onto a private garden with a hot tub; Magnolia is a huge double with a freestanding bath and private garden. Deluxe and Master rooms on the second floor of the main house have wonderful views of the village; Mrs Smiths will love Longborough – it has a freestanding roll-top bath and a separate...

The Wheatsheaf — £140.00
At The Wheatsheaf , a delightful country gastropub and boutique inn, the really big draw is the phenomenal cooking; you'll lurch from meal to glorious meal in a delirium of pastoral astonishment. When you're not eating (these times will be few, so bring an appetite), Bath and Somerset are on your doorstep, providing plenty of pastimes both genteel (Regency architecture, Roman Baths) and adventurous (hiking, hot-air ballooning).

Babington House — £425.00
The launch of the country cousin of media hangout Soho House kick-started the march of metropolitan cool into the countryside. At this impressive manor house in the rolling Somerset countryside, hip staff greet you at the door, not a uniform in sight. The truly relaxing do-what-you-want atmosphere is Babington House's real feat; others can imitate, but it's the service that makes the difference. Babington is a child-friendly hotel, too.

Strattons — £225.00
Hotel restaurant The award-winning restaurant serves delicious and inventive dinners, using the finest local and organic produce. Cheese lovers will be in heaven, and oenophiles equally spoiled. Tapas is served on Sunday evenings in the restaurant or as room service. Hearty breakfasts are served weekdays 7.30am–10am and weekends 8.30am–10am. Their afternoon teas are becoming legendary thanks to home-baked delights such as boozy poppy seed cheesecake, moist chocolate fruit cake and lavender shortbread...

Cotswold House — £800.00
Our favourite rooms All the Cottage rooms are lovely; ask for one with a four-poster bed or its own fireplace. Hidcote Cottage and Longborough Suite have private gardens with outdoor hot tubs. Rooms in the newer Montrose House wing are all-singing and all-dancing, with in-shower mood lighting and bath tubs built for two: room 11 has a steam bath; the Sezincote suite has a stone bath.

Hotel Endsleigh — £400.00
Guests at the Hotel Endsleigh are, while style-conscious, more Boden than Balenciaga, as you would expect of a clientele who choose to weekend in this remote and beautiful valley between Devon's Dartmoor and Cornwall's Bodmin Moor. The house, a grade I-listed shooting-and-fishing lodge, is insanely pretty, and the setting is magical: it is easy to see why the Bedford family, who at the time owned a third of Devon, decided in 1812 that this was the prettiest spot in the county on which to build their...

The Lodge at Kauri Cliffs — £50.00
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European Coast & Country Collection — £24.99
* A bottle of champagne on arrival. * Room upgrades. * Picnic hampers. * That all-important late check-out. * Reviews by Philip Treacy, Ilse Crawford, Howard Marks and other distinguished individuals. * Stunning original photography by Adrian Houston. * Insider information on everything from tipping culture to which rooms to book. * Restaurant, café and bar recommendations. * Tips and guides to activities, beaches and cuisine for each destination. * A diary of unique events and advice on...

Brighton Drakes — £325.00
Our favourite rooms 104 is the largest room where the rich and famous stay, with free-standing bath positioned so you can watch the sun set over the sea. It has the largest bed in Brighton at seven foot wide. Attic room 404 has views over the Regency Mile and sea.

Hipping Hall — £310.00
Our favourite rooms Light and spacious Room 2 has exposed beams, a limestone bathroom and views of the garden. High-ceilinged Room 4 is also airy and big, overlooking the front garden. Room 6 is the largest in the main house, with a separate snug sofa area, and a natural-stone, garden-view bathroom. In the cottage, split-level Room 7 has a spiral staircase leading up to the bedroom and bathroom.

The Gosbeck Rectory — £260.00
Our favourite rooms The regal Roberts suite is awash with russet and gold hues, and decadent touches. The majestic bed takes pride of place, and comes with a winged brass bedhead, mother-of-pearl inlay and swathes of rich, heavy fabric, including a luxurious white quilt peppered with velvet and silk cushions. The bed is so high and mighty, there’s even a little footstool to help you clamber up on to it. The mushroom and pink walls, squashy sofa, antique wardrobe and picturesque views add up to a...