At a Glance
This tasteful full service, 35-room country retreat is set on 220 acres of meadowland. The extensive Playbarn makes Calcot & Spa one of the best hotels for children in the country.
Review
This cheery cluster of old-fashioned stone farm buildings in the Cotswolds has been transformed into such a thoroughly modern, thoroughly friendly hotel a little over 2-hours outside of London.
What a joy: a proper hotel for adults that also offers all sorts of treats for babies and children, guaranteeing a good time for the whole family. For the kiddies, there’s a heated indoor pool for splashing about (with separate child zones and times), a wonderworld nursery run by nanny pros and a relaxed, pub-style restaurant, the Gumstool Inn. The ten new family suites come with separate children’s bedrooms (two single beds or bunk beds, plus room for a cot) in the same smart contemporary style as the rest of the hotel and a fabulous monitoring system that connects to the front desk. While staff listen for the stirrings of sleeping children, parents get to dig in to sophisticated comfort food—pressed foie gras and apple terrine, seared sea bass, licorice crème brûlée with blackberry sorbet—at the sexy restaurant. What else is there? A gym, glorious walks and cycle routes and an outdoor hot tub and serene spa.
Who Should Stay
Families traveling in the Cotswolds
Written by Daisy Finer