Regional hotels among Good Hotel Guide award winners

Regional hotels, inns and B&Bs have been recognised by the Good Hotel Guide 2024, with four picking up a coveted Césars award, inspired by Swiss hotelier César Ritz.

The latest version of The Good Hotel Guide: Great Britain & Ireland features more than 700 hotels including 73 new entries.

Among the Césars winners are The Retreat at Elcot Park, Newbury, Berkshire which was named Best Country Hotel.

The guide says "offers bedrooms with a modern English feel, a pool, a spa and an overall relaxed, fun air" at "fraction of the price of many traditional country-house hotels".

Dorset House at Lyme Regis, Dorset – a "Georgian house with smart and uncluttered rooms" was named Best B&B, while Plumber Manor, also in Dorset, was named Best Hotel in the South West of England.

"Traditional interiors are filled with antiques and artwork," notes the guide.

17th century manor Boys Hall at Willesborough, Kent "where the bedrooms are better than in many top hotels," was named Best Hotel in the South of England.

Elsewhere in the guide, the Belle Tout Lighthouse in Eastbourne earns its status as one of the Hotels with a View thanks to its 360-degree views of the Seven Sisters cliffs, South Downs and English Channel from the lantern room.

And Brooks Guesthouse in Bristol wins a place in the guide for delivering "the fun factor with its rooftop airstreams on top of this centrally located B&B."