Need to know

Rooms

34.

Rates

Sunday to Thursday nights, €225–€320; Friday and Saturday nights, €280–€380, including breakfast.

Check-out

Midday; check-in, 3pm.

Facilities

Gardens, library, games room, spa, sauna, steam room, hot tub. In rooms, minibar, flatscreen TV, DVD player, Bose sound system, mood lighting, underfloor heating, Voya organic seaweed toiletries.

Poolside

Indoor infinity pool, lit by dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the river.

Children

Welcome, with advance notice. Cots and foldaway beds provided; babysitters can be arranged. The split-level duplex rooms in the Stable block are best for families.

Also

The countryside here is rugged and gorgeous – explore on foot in a pair of Bellinter House’s loaner wellies, or on horseback from one of the five local equestrian centres.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

Main House rooms have high ceilings, huge bathrooms and cracking views; Main House 1 has a tub for two. For a peaceful, pampering-focused stay, rooms in the Ruin are tranquil, secluded and close to the spa; Ruin 3 has a copper bath, Ruin 4 a roll-top tub. Rooms in the East and West Pavilion are smaller and less dramatic but still charming, with lovely views. Beamed duplex apartments in the Stables block are ideal for small families, with beanbag-strewn living rooms.

Packing tips

Swimwear (Bellinter House has an excellent spa with an indoor pool, steam room and sauna), horse riding gear and boots made for walking.

Also

A dream of a wedding venue. Designed by Richard Cassels, 18th-century architect of the Irish Parliament, Bellinter House is of significant historical interest; the grounds and building are therefore open to the public daily from noon until 4pm.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

Eden, set in the bright, vaulted basement, is where chef Gary Stinson conjures up Modern Irish bistro fare from fresh seasonal ingredients. All-day grazing and knock-out afternoon teas are served in the grand Drawing Room.

Dress code

Tongue-in-cheek tweeds and cosy cashmere.

Top table

A corner table by the wine-rack wall. On sunny days, on the terrace; or order a pre-packed picnic (complete with wine, champagne and blanket) and roam the gardens until you spy the perfect spot.

Last orders

10.30pm in Eden Restaurant; 11pm in the Drawing Room; 11pm in Bellinter Bar and the Wine Bar.

Room service

Home-made soups, snacks and more substantial fillers such as fish and chips and gourmet burgers are available 8am–11pm.

Hotel bar

In the Bellinter Bar, pints are pulled perfectly and cocktails are cunningly crafted (we defy you to dislike the honey-sweet Bees Knees martinis); oenophiles could spend a happy day tasting their way round the Wine Bar’s impressively stocked cellar.

Smith card offer A Voya seaweed bath for two in the Bathhouse spa; there are two baths, so couples or friends can bathe side by side

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Bellinter House

Navan, County Meath, Ireland