All Our Most Recent Blog Posts

	Driving Directions Concerned about how you'll find your hotel? Don't be! With the you can easily drive to your hotel, with detailed directions for every turn along the way. It's true that many of our hotels are a little off the beaten track. Often, this is an important part of what gives them their unique character. ....READ MORE
	Be Careful What You Put on Social Media You're enjoying your holiday, the sun is shining, the food is great, and you've just seen how dismal the weather is back home: it's the natural thing to take a selfie and post it on Facebook. But perhaps you should think before you act. The Financial Ombudsman has warned that police forces across the country have noticed a correlation between burglaries and social media posts. ....READ MORE
	Holiday Packing Which sort of holiday packer are you? Are you the person that starts writing lists weeks before, then starts putting things in the cases at least a week before? Then takes them out again because you realise you still need them. Or do you race around the house at the last minute, wildly picking things up and flinging them into the case while simultaneously discovering that half the stuff you want is still lying wet in the bottom of the washing machine? ....READ MORE
	Ryanair is Getting Better (and so are their profits) Ryanair, for many people the airline they love to hate, has just posted a massive 66% increase in profits. Last year they made €867m. That's pretty impressive by any standard! ....READ MORE
	Helping Our Community A couple of recent incidents alerted us to the importance of acessing an AED (that's an automatic external defibrillator) very quickly if someone has suffered a cardiac arrest. Looking around, we realised that there was no definitive and accurate list of the defibrillators in our locality. So we decided to create our own. We were fortunate to be able to work with Portishead Coastguard Team who sent coastguards out to find, check and photograph every defibrillator in and around Portishead. ....READ MORE
	A Journey Through the North-East of England It's not the work of a moment to decide if a hotel is deserving of the label "BEST Small Hotel". Here is the tale of a trip through the north-east of England searching out that elusive hotel that we can truly say is one of the best. Along the way, we also visited some interesting places and saw some wonderful scenery. Our journey began near Skipton in Yorkshire, a town with a broad main street that hosts a market and at it's head, the imposing Skipton Castle. ....READ MORE
	Artist Residence There's an unusual story behind the Artist Residence hotels. Once upon a time there was a run-down guesthouse in Brighton, owned by a middle-aged couple who also had an even more derelict place in Penzance. Sad to say, the husband died unexpectedly of a heart attack and just a week later his wife was run over by a bus. Although the lady would subsequently recover from her injuries ....READ MORE
	Things To Do In France France is the biggest tourist destination in the world, so it's hardly surprising that it boasts so many interesting and exciting things to see and do. Whatever interests you most, whether it's art, culture, history, nature, walking, swimming, eating, drinking, skiing or many other things, you'll find it in France. ....READ MORE
	Beware The Law of Unintended Consequences! If you use an ad-blocker on your browser, be aware that it may interfere with the working of perfectly legitimate webpages. ....READ MORE
	The Trials and Tribulations of Being Best Sometimes I think we set ourselves a very high bar when we dedicated our website to the best small hotels. What is best? Well, it's different things to different people and as far as we can, we have to show hotels that people will universally agree to be amongst the best. Of course, you can't please all of the people all of the time, but we try to get as close as possible to that ideal. Until recently I had never visited Durham. ....READ MORE

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