Four of the best new British hotels
Chris Carter looks at four of the best hotels opening in Britain this year.
Eden Project Hotel, Cornwall
The Painswick, Gloucestershire
The "picturesque Cotswolds town of Painswick" is getting a "slick" new 16-bedroom hotel this spring, says Tom Chesshyre in The Times. The Calcot Collection hotel group behind celebrity haunts Calcot Manor and the Barnsley House hotels in Gloucestershire has done up the "slightly eccentric" former Cotswolds88 hotel with a "bold, but more restrained look". There will be two beauty treatment rooms, while the restaurant is run by chef Michael Bedford, formerly of Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons.
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Nobu Hotel Shoreditch, London
That renowned Japanese chef Nobu Matsuhisa decides what's on the menu should be reason enough to treat the foodie in your life to a stay at the Nobu Hotel in Shoreditch in London when it opens later this year, says Juliet Kinsman in The Independent. The 156-bedroom steel and glass hotel, "cutting a sharp silhouette on Willow Street", is the group's first foray into the capital, having "made its mark" in the Middle East, Americas and Asia.
Great Scotland Yard Hotel, London
Amateur sleuths will feel at home in the old Victorian headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, from where detectives in the 1880s investigated the Jack the Ripper murders, says the Daily Mail's Becky Pemberton. With luxury hotel group Steigenberger in charge, notes Kinsman, "the whisper is that some of the five- star suites could cost up to £10,000 a night" when this Georgian brick building opens later this year.
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