laurenj7

We will be in the Cotswolds the second week of July for 4 days and my husband and I are looking for recommendations for places to stay with our 2 children ages 10 and 12. I have been looking online and it's been challenging understanding and finding places that have either adjoining rooms, or enough beds in one room to accommodate all of us. We would like to travel around the Cotswolds and don't have a preference as to which area we would like to stay.

Does anyone have any recommendations for places to stay? Thank you in advance.

annhig

have you tried putting your requirements into booking,com for example?

I did so for just one night in July [didn't know your dates] and in Bath I got quite a few hits with family rooms for 4.

MmePerdu

You'll have a car?

MmePerdu

Assuming you will have a car, I stayed very recently in the cottage next door to this one, same owners and can recommend them highly. Hidcote Boyce is a short drive (2 miles?) outside Chipping Campden, rural & idyllic but close to many places. Walking distance across 2 fields to Hidcote & Kiftsgate gardens. A short drive to nice pubs in Ebrington and Mickleton, as well as Chipping Campden. Not far from Stratford.

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/8572578...s=4&s=rsI79viA

laurenj7

We will have a car, yes.

I have not tried booking.com

I have found that some places say you can book connecting rooms for a family, but the connecting option is not viewable or available on a lot of booking website. Maybe I'm not entering correctly? And if I book for 2 rooms, I'm not sure they will be connecting. Do you mind sharing the hotel you stayed at in Bath? We may spend one night in Bath near the end of our trip.

Thank you.

annhig

I have found that some places say you can book connecting rooms for a family, but the connecting option is not viewable or available on a lot of booking website.>>

I would send them an email directly or just phone them up. often booking sites or website booking forms don't cater for every variation.

booking.com are very good at sending your special requests to hotels - there's a space at the end of the booking process for this. If you book with "free cancellation" terms if you find that they can't accommodate your needs, you can just cancel.

janisj

Yes -- there is a place at the end where you can enter details like 'late arrival' , 'adjoining rooms required', 'vegetarian diet', whatever. Then you can contact the hotel directly to see if the special request can be accommodated -- if not, just cancel - no problems.

A cottage would be great -- but you have probably left things a little late for finding a short break in July. Also for contacting various hotels/B&Bs one at a time.

So I'd use booking.com and go from there.

flanneruk

I'm no expert on this.

But what you're looking for strikes me as close to impossible in conventional Cotswold hotels or B&Bs.

Your options are likely to be one of:

- a rented self-catering cottage, as Mme Perdue suggests
- A modern chain hotel. There are a couple of Premier Inns that MIGHT do adjoining rooms in the unpretty Cotswold fringes, like Witney. Or, at the other end of the chain spectrum, the Crowne Plaza at Enstone. Sounds naff, but bits are nice (and far from modern) and several bits of the grounds are very nice indeed)
- a cabin at Soho Farmhouse

janisj

I agree that 'adjoining rooms' if you mean with interior connecting doors are likely not available . . . but rooms next to each other are quire possible.

nytraveler

Many hotels may not want 10 and 12 year olds in a room by themselves - so I would focus on family rooms or connecting rooms. Esp if the hotels have any items of value in the room or public areas.

tongsa

We had gone a few years ago - stayed at a cottage in Stow on the Wold and enjoyed visiting Burton on the Water among other places. If I recall correctly, I had booked through homestays.uk or home-away uk.