The UK’s top 25 hotels: TripAdvisor’s 2012 Travellers’ Choice Awards
Based on the ratings of more than 60 million reviewers on the website, the Awards recognise the world’s and the UK’s best properties across several categories, including best hotels, best B&Bs, best for service, best luxury properties and more.
“We’re thrilled to be recognised as an award winner by TripAdvisor in the 2012 Travellers’ Choice Awards,” said Les Ward, proprietor at The Charterhouse Hotel.
“Our guests’ enjoyment is our top priority, and we strive to provide the utmost in service, value and quality, which has resulted in getting such excellent feedback from our guests.
With a five-star traveller rating on TripAdvisor, visitors to the hotel comment on its ‘warm and genuine hospitality’ and ‘superb’ breakfasts. With rooms available from under £100 per night, the UK’s best hotel is also affordable.
Devon delight
The UK’s second best hotel this year is Hillside Hotel in the Isle of Wight, enjoying a swift rise from its 18th place finish last year. Rudding Park Hotel in Harrogate, named the UK’s best hotel in 2010 and 2011, took third place.
Devon dominated the Awards, laying claim to four of the country’s 10 best, including top finisher the Charterhouse Hotel which placed fourth last year, and was incidentally the only UK hotel to place on the World's Top 25 list (15th). Devon's Crimdon Dene Hotel, Yeoldon House Hotel, and Shelley’s took fifth, sixth and eighth places respectively.
‘Lukewarm’ London
In 2010 and 2011, not a single London hotel appeared on the UK’s top 25 hotel list, but in a year which includes the Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, three properties from the capital have cracked it - The Milestone Hotel, Hotel 41 and Haymarket Hotel.
“Although it’s certainly good news to see London in the list, the highest ranked hotel from the capital came in at a lukewarm 13th place,” said Emma Shaw, TripAdvisor spokesperson. “With just months to go before the opening ceremony, only time will tell if London can live up to the high expectations.”
“The UK performed extraordinarily well in the B&B category, laying claim to eight of the top ten, while Devon has yet again won over travellers with its impressive hotels.”
TripAdvisor’s Top 25 UK Hotels
1. Charterhouse hotel,Torquay, Devon (4)
2. Hillside hotel,Ventnor, Isle of Wight (18)
3. Rudding Park hotel, Harrogate, Yorkshire (1)
4. Beechwood Hotel,North Walsham, East Anglia
5. Crimdon Dene Hotel, Torquay, Devon
6. Yeoldon House hotel,Bideford, Devon (12)
7. The Chambers Park Palace,Leeds, Yorkshire
8. Shelley's,Lynmouth, Devon
9. Number Four at Stow,Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire
10. Bath House hotel,Chard, Somerset
11. Rampsbeck Country House hotel, Watermillock, Cumbria
12. Cary Court hotel, Torquay, Devon
13. The Milestone hotel, London
14. Gilpin Hotel & Lake House, Windermere, Cumbria
15. Hotel 41, London
16. Base2Stay Liverpool, Liverpool
17. Overwater Hall, Bassenthwaite, Cumbria
18. Merewood Country House hotel, Windermere, Lake District
19. Tara Lodge, Belfast, Northern Ireland
20. The Farmhouse hotel, Guernsey, Channel Islands
21. Longueville Manor Hotel, Jersey, Channel Islands
22. Haymarket hotel, London
23. Northcote, Langho, Lancashire
24. Dufferin Coachign Inn, County Down, Northern Ireland
25. Green Bough hotel, Chester, Cheshire
TripAdvisor’s Top 25 B&Bs in the world
1. The Twenty One, Brighton, East Sussex, England (6)
2. The Old Manse, Invermoriston, Scotland (1)
3. Riverside hotel,Ambleside, Cumbria, England (4)
4. Casa Portagioia Bed and Breakfast, Tuscany, Italy (2)
5. Kenley hotel, Blackpool, Lancashire, England
6. The Green House, Sacred Valley, Peru
7. Byfield House, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England
8. One Alloway Retreat, Ayrshire, Scotland
9. The Manor Coach House, Worcester, Worcestershire, England
10. Bindon Bottom B&B, West Lulworth, Dorset, England
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