4 Best Hotels in Bath and the Cotswolds, England

Luxury rules at this converted 17th-century farmhouse overlooking the Vale of Evesham, 2 miles north of Broadway, which has been firmly brought into the 21st century with the best of approachable contemporary design. You can visit the sumptuous spa or cozy up in a firelit lounge before making your way to the guest rooms, each individually decorated and with luxurious bathrooms. The sophisticated Garden Room restaurant fronts a garden designed by a Chelsea Flower Show Gold winner, while the Potting Shed has more rustic style and fare.

Driving up Lucknam Park’s mile-long avenue of lime and beech trees toward the 18th-century Palladian mansion, you may feel like you’ve bagged an invitation to stay with Jane Austen’s demanding hostess, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, in Pride and Prejudice—though the mansion is now a traditional country-house hotel par excellence. Think Chesterfield sofas, wing chairs, and wood paneling in the public rooms, with swagged window treatments, rich fabrics, and rain-forest showers in the guest rooms. There’s a Michelin-starred formal restaurant, and the attentive service would meet even Lady Catherine’s exacting standards. There's also an equestrian center, which offers lessons for beginners and the more experienced across the hotel’s 500 acres of woods and parkland. 

The latest addition to The Pig's ever-growing group of boutique hotels and restaurants, this honey-and-cream-hued Georgian mansion was the former home of famous garden designer Rosemary Verey, and then a hotel; this new (2024) incarnation adds The Pig's excellent dining and luxurious but quirky, unstuffy style. The Pig also took over The Village Pub a few steps away, offering more casual (and cheaper) fare. There is an attractive on-site spa with an outdoor hydrotherapy pool.

You can’t get a more prestigious address in Bath than the Royal Crescent, and this hotel, discreetly plumb center, overlooks parkland and the city; the interior lacks for nothing in amenities. The graceful public rooms, stairways, and judicious scattering of antiques and pictures don't disappoint, while the plush bedrooms, either in the mansion itself or in a courtyard facing a quiet and spacious inner garden, are mainly contemporary in style. The spa, housed in the old stable block, is charming. In summer you can dine on the terrace or drop in for afternoon tea.