Hotel Guru the Malt House, Gloucestershire
Summary
Is there a more delightful place to stay in the Cotswolds than the Malt House? Not for me. If it's a huge hotel bill you want, there's plenty of choice in these parts, from the traditional to the trendy, but if it's quality, charm, personal service and flowers from the garden in the bathroom as well as the bedroom, then conserve your money and head for Broad Campden, a honey-stone hamlet consisting of nothing more than a cluster of wisteria-covered cottages, a church and a pub.
It's easy to miss the 400-year-old house and adjoining cottages, where barley was once dried to make malt for the village's ale and beer. But behind its modest faade it spreads in a leisurely progression from one attractive room to another, with seven guest bedrooms, three with their own entrances. They all overlook the garden, bordered by a small stream and rising steeply to a hillside orchard with the odd bench set in the long grass. There's a croquet lawn and a thatched summer house, while fruits for the breakfast jams and compotes (and flowers for the house) are cultivated in neat rows.See the full content of this document
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Hotel Guru the Malt House, Gloucestershire
The Malt House, long a guesthouse, has for the past five years been the domain of Judi Wilkes. Compared with her previous career - organis...
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