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Top 25 hotels in United Kingdom

25 memorable places to stay in United Kingdom, from grand landmarks to characterful boutique hotels.

25 hotels

  1. 1
    Grand & luxury

    The Savoy

    London

    Riverside Strand hotel opened in 1889, famed for its Art Deco interiors and the American Bar.

  2. 2
    Grand & luxury

    The Ritz London

    London

    Louis XVI-style Piccadilly hotel opened in 1906 by César Ritz, known for afternoon tea in the Palm Court.

  3. 3
    Grand & luxury

    Claridge's

    London

    Mayfair institution long favoured by royalty, celebrated for its restored Art Deco rooms and ballroom.

  4. 4
    Resort

    Gleneagles

    Auchterarder

    Perthshire estate hotel opened in 1924 with three championship golf courses and extensive country pursuits.

  5. 5
    Grand & luxury

    The Balmoral

    Edinburgh

    Edwardian railway hotel at the east end of Princes Street, crowned by its landmark clock tower.

  6. 6
    Grand & luxury

    The Dorchester

    London

    Park Lane hotel opened in 1931, a byword for London glamour overlooking Hyde Park.

  7. 7
    Historic & heritage

    St Pancras Renaissance Hotel London

    London

    Hotel occupying George Gilbert Scott's Gothic Revival Midland Grand Hotel above St Pancras station.

  8. 8
    Country house

    Cliveden House

    Taplow

    Palatial Thames-side stately home, once the Astor family seat, now a hotel set in National Trust gardens.

  9. 9
    Boutique & design

    The Fife Arms

    Braemar

    Victorian coaching inn in the Cairngorms reimagined with an extensive art collection and Highland craft.

  10. 10
    Historic & heritage

    The Merchant Hotel

    Belfast

    Former Ulster Bank headquarters in the Cathedral Quarter with an opulent Victorian banking hall.

  11. 11
    Country house

    Chewton Glen

    New Milton

    Country house hotel on the edge of the New Forest, known for its treehouse suites and spa.

  12. 12
    Country house

    Inverlochy Castle Hotel

    Fort William

    Victorian baronial castle hotel beneath Ben Nevis, visited by Queen Victoria in 1873.

  13. 13
    Historic & heritage

    Hotel Portmeirion

    Penrhyndeudraeth

    Waterfront hotel at the heart of Clough Williams-Ellis's Italianate village on the Dwyryd estuary.

  14. 14
    Resort

    Old Course Hotel

    St Andrews

    Hotel overlooking the Road Hole of the Old Course and West Sands beach in the home of golf.

  15. 15
    Resort

    Celtic Manor Resort

    Newport

    Large Usk Valley resort with three golf courses, including the Twenty Ten course of the 2010 Ryder Cup.

  16. 16
    Country house

    Lucknam Park

    Chippenham

    Palladian mansion hotel reached by a mile-long tree-lined drive on the southern edge of the Cotswolds.

  17. 17
    Country house

    Gilpin Hotel & Lake House

    Windermere

    Family-run Lake District country house hotel with garden spa suites near Windermere.

  18. 18
    Historic & heritage

    The Midland

    Manchester

    Edwardian terracotta railway hotel where Charles Rolls and Henry Royce reputedly first met in 1904.

  19. 19
    Country house

    Bodysgallen Hall

    Llandudno

    Seventeenth-century National Trust-owned house hotel with formal gardens overlooking Conwy Castle.

  20. 20
    Resort

    Lough Erne Resort

    Enniskillen

    Lakeside resort on a peninsula between two loughs in Fermanagh, with a Nick Faldo-designed golf course.

  21. 21
    Historic & heritage

    The Grand Brighton

    Brighton

    White Victorian seafront hotel opened in 1864, one of the south coast's most recognisable landmarks.

  22. 22
    City hotel

    Grand Central Hotel

    Belfast

    Tower hotel in central Belfast whose top-floor Observatory bar offers views across the city.

  23. 23
    Historic & heritage

    Brown's Hotel

    London

    Mayfair hotel founded in 1837, among London's oldest, linked with Kipling and Agatha Christie.

  24. 24
    Historic & heritage

    The Gainsborough Bath Spa

    Bath

    Georgian hotel with its own spa fed by Bath's natural thermal waters.

  25. 25
    Boutique & design

    Hotel Tresanton

    St Mawes

    Stylish seaside hotel of whitewashed cottages overlooking the Fal estuary on Cornwall's Roseland Peninsula.

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