Four of the best new British hotels

Eden Project Hotel, Cornwall

There are several good reasons to visit Cornwall in 2016: in May, Britain's largest surviving seawater lido the Art Deco Penzance Jubilee Pool opens to the public, while the recently opened seafood restaurant The Shore, run by former Rick Stein head chef Bruce Rennie, is well worth a visit. And in summer, the Eden Project Hotel is set to thrown open its doors. The 115-bedroom property at Bodelva, near St Austell, will "blend into the natural surroundings" of the botanical garden's famous round "biomes" (above), says The Daily Telegraph's Jade Conroy, while guests will be encouraged to use the facilities at the main site.

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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.

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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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