Great British & Irish Hotels 2024 - Travel - April 2024

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Ellie Smith
May 04, 2024

 

Dear Reader,

It’s time to unveil the marvellous 11th edition of our guide to Great Britain and Ireland’s very best places to stay in partnership with Polestar – to relax, unwind, kick back, have fun, and just take a break.

As always at C&TH, we strive to promote a life in balance, and we hope our eclectic selection – spanning city temples of luxury and gastronomy to cosy countryside inns – reflects this too. But it’s the overwhelming importance of sustainability that once again takes centre stage, with a spotlight on our worthy winner of the second annual C&TH x Polestar UK & Irish Sustainable Hotel of the Year Award, plus the highly commended runners up.

Here’s exactly what you can expect from Great British & Irish Hotels 2024/25. I do hope you enjoy this latest edition as much as we have creating it.

Great British & Irish Hotels 2024

1. What A Carve Up!

The Country & Town House x Polestar Sustainable Hotel of the Year award is back. We unveil the hotels topping our list of planet-friendly places to stay…

Broughton Sanctuary

2. An Estate Of One’s Own

Fleur Britten rounds up the country’s best estates you can call your own for a night – or a week.

Illustrator: Hannah Riordan

3. Which Travel Tribe Are You?

Sophia Money-Coutts turns her attention to the travel tribes you’re likely to see on your next staycation.

4. Meet Me In The Middle

In my own feature, I trumpet mid-priced hotels; squeezed between luxury and budget, they have never shone in the past but now the best of them can rival places that cost twice as much.

5. On The Rails

Rebecca Cox takes to the tracks, shining a light on the UK’s seven best routes you can take on a train in Britain and Ireland.

The PIG

Elsewhere…

Adejoke Bakare, David Yarrow, Savannah Miller and Amelia Windsor run us through their perfect weekends; we share 10 curated lists spotlighting the best UK spots to explore this year, from treehouses to try to al fresco theatres to attend and wild swimming spots to delve into; and, as always, we share 200 perfect places to stay handily organised by region.

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