Foodie fun at Chewton Glen

Guests are not short of activities at this five-star Hampshire hotel

Chewton Glen exterior
(Image credit: ©Chewton Glen)

“There’s something special about working at a place where there’s so much [for guests] to do on site,” said Daisy-Rose Allen, Chewton Glen’s duty manager, as she showed me around the five-star Hampshire hotel’s 130-acre grounds. The beautiful gardens are dotted with lion sculptures celebrating Chewton Glen’s relationship with the wildlife charity the Born Free Foundation.

Saying there’s much to occupy you during a stay here is, however, an understatement. The facilities include a spa with a gym and two swimming pools (plus a summer outdoor pool), tennis courts, a croquet lawn, nine-hole pitch and putt golf course and a nursery garden. There’s even a tree house used by the hotel’s children’s club, not to mention a flock of “teddy bear”-coloured Ryeland sheep.

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