Cowley Manor
- Style
- Funked-up stately home
- Setting
- Acres of spectacular Cotswolds
To call the look ‘designer’ doesn’t do justice to Cowley’s funky, flamboyant aesthetic; the exuberant decor is a world away from the usual country-house hotels.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 30.
- Rates
- £245–£470, including continental breakfast.
- Check-out
- Midday.
- Facilities
- 55 acres of land, billiards room, spa (the C-Side) with four treatment rooms, indoor and outdoor pools, gym, sauna.
- Children
- Babysitting is available by pre-arrangement. A children’s supper is served between 5.30pm and 6.30pm (at no charge); the hotel asks that the dining room is child-free by 8.30pm.
- Hotel closed
- 1–6 January.
- Also
- CD and DVD library. Wellington boots are provided. Pets welcome in one of the two dog-friendly rooms; £25 charge per pet, a night.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- The stable-block rooms, especially the split-level ones. Half of the Exceptional rooms have own balcony, and the Best room (actual name) has a private terrace, double bath and four-poster bed.
- Packing tips
- Running kit, if you fancy scenic cross-country.
- Also
- Lavender-scented hot-water bottles on request.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- The grand, oak-panelled dining room is formal but candlelit and welcoming. Breakfast is available from 7am to 10.30ish; at weekends, 8am until 11.30am.
- Dress code
- More uptown than dressed down.
- Top table
- By the window, especially in summer.
- Last orders
- Food: 11pm at weekends and 10pm during the week.
- Room service
- 24 hours.
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