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Bag a break with your own private hotel garden

11th August 2011 Print

Fine Individual Hotels’ offers a collection of almost 60 privately owned and operated luxury hotels across the UK. Many are set in areas of outstanding natural beauty from Devon to the Lake District and from Lancashire to Suffolk with acres of grounds and surrounded by beautifully tended gardens. Some even have rooms with private gardens attached. So make full use of the extra space and bag a break with your own private hotel garden.

Here is a round-up of some of the best hotel rooms with private gardens:

The Gibbon Bridge Hotel is located in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, the heart of a special part of England, known for the ‘Pendle Witches Trail.’ Guests staying in the Suite at Gibbon Bridge are treated to a beautiful private garden which can be accessed through French doors from the lounge area. It comes complete with its own mini woodland filled with mountain ash, silver birch, pine and cherry trees. Whilst the ivy clad walls of the room overlook a variety of shrubs and plants including laurels, fox gloves, rhododendrons and hostas giving a succession of colour and interest throughout the year.

Prices for the Staple Oak Suite which has its own private garden costs £250 per night including bed & breakfast based on two people sharing. To book fihotels.com.

Winner of ‘Cumbria in Bloom 2010’ Appleby Manor Country House Hotel sits on the edge of the Lakes, surrounded by the inspiring mountains and fells of the Lakes, North Pennines and the Yorkshire Dales. The hotel is situated in four acres of mature woodland with rose beds, hanging baskets, flower boxes and mature annual borders, all ground floor rooms have been refurbished in the last eight months with access to their own patio area and views over the garden. Perfect for the summer, especially from June to the end of August.

Prices for a garden view room cost from £170 per night including bed and breakfast based on two sharing. To book visit fihotels.com.

Set in the heart of rural Suffolk, The Crown at Stoke by Nayland, offers two rooms with patio doors that open out onto their own private terrace with picturesque views of the Suffolk countryside that might have been seen and painted by the artist, John Constable. The hotels gardener’s attention to detail is evident through walking around the property with the terrace outside the restaurant planted out each season with a particular colour as its starting point, whilst fragrant herbs are found close to the kitchen for use in the hotels delicious cuisine.

A room with a private terrace cost from £135 per room per night including VAT and a full English breakfast. To book visit fihotels.com.

Combe House Devon, is an Elizabethan manor hotel hidden in a lush 3,500 acre estate near Exeter. Tucked away in the woods at the entrance to the estate is an elegant English Thatched Cottage retreat for two with its own private walled garden. Guests can also enjoy a walk along some of Devon’s beautiful pebble beaches close by to the cottage, including the Jurassic Coast, which has inspired authors Jane Austen and John Fowles. The hotel is surrounded by some of the most beautiful historic houses and gardens in Devon such as the beautiful Bicton Park and Gardens and Killerton House.

A garden room costs from £279 per night including bed and breakfast based on two sharing. The cottage, which has its own enclosed garden costs from £399 per night including bed and breakfast based on two sharing. Well-behaved dogs and owners are also welcome in some rooms and the cottage (dogs £9 per night). To book visit fihotels.com.

On the Southern shores of Lake Windermere with two acres of garden leading down to the lake, Lakeside Hotel has a choice of four perfectly positioned private garden rooms with four uniquely ‘themed’ gardens. For example, The Scented Garden is designed using only plants that have scented flowers or foliage. These include ‘Azara microphylla’, which is known as ‘The chocolate tree’ and a Sarcococca Hookeriana (sweet box) that produces a strong sweet fragrance. Alternatively, guests can explore The White Garden, The Sub-tropical Garden as well as The Aromatherapy Garden, which has been created using plants that supply many of the essential oils for aromatherapy, and are used in the hotel to supply them with fresh oils for treatments in the hotel’s spa.

A country house garden room costs from £279 on a bed and breakfast basis. To book visit fihotels.com.

On the other side of Lake Windermere, the award winning Linthwaite House Hotel, is set within 14 acres of spectacular wooded hilltop gardens and located 400 feet above Lake Windermere. This summer, the hotel has installed a secluded outdoor hot tub in a private patio area and all the hotel’s ground floor rooms have direct access to the garden with a number of them having an outdoor seating area where guests can relax with a coffee whilst taking in the fresh air. Dotted around the hotel grounds are strategically positioned seating spots for wildlife spotting or for taking in the views from the beautiful tarn with its own summer house.

A garden view room costs from £257 per room per night including full English breakfast, service and VAT. To book  visit fihotels.com.