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Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa

Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Lucknam Park is the hotel that has it all: award-winning spa, Michelin-starred restaurant, 500-acre estate and even an equestrian centre, home to 35 glossy-flanked horses. Lucky fillies and stallions – their Chippenham stomping ground is peaceful and private, the gardens gorgeous. Tennis courts, croquet lawn, football pitch and a home cinema are further feathers in this handsome hotel’s hat.

Need to know

• Rooms 42, including 13 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $256.13 (£162), excluding tax at 20 per cent.
• More details Rates exclude breakfast (from £20).
• Facilities Spa, gym, 500 acres, library of books and DVD/CDs, equestrian centre, tennis courts, croquet, bicycles, walking trails, football pitch and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD player, iPod dock, free bottled water and Anne Sémonin products.
• Poolside Take your pick: there’s an indoor heated pool, an indoor and outdoor hydrotherapy pool and an outdoor saltwater plunge pool. The award-winning spa has nine luxurious treatment rooms, thermal cabins, sauna and steam rooms and a fitness suite.
• Check-out 12pm, but flexible (subject to availability). Earliest check-in, 3pm.
• Children This hotel goes out of its way to keep children entertained, with croquet, riding lessons, football, games and much more besides. Extra beds (£25) and cots (£15) can be provided in parents' rooms. More...
• Eco-friendly Food is organic and locally sourced; waste is recycled; the majority of staff are local; the hotel is a member of the Carbon Trust.
• Also Lucknam Park offers valet parking and a concierge service. Try to book restaurant meals, spa treatments and equestrian pursuits before arrival, as they can book up fast.

Food and drink at Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa

• Hotel restaurant

  Chef Hywel Jones earned the Park its Michelin star; he’s stayed put for six years, turning out elegant culinary creations such as loin of lamb with crushed peas, wild garlic, pancetta and morels and passion fruit cream with lemongrass, palm sugar sorbet and a mango shot. Tear your eyes away from your plate to admire the high ceiling, ornamented with a fresco of the sky and studded with opulent crystal chandeliers (the dining room was once the ballroom). Then there’s the Brasserie, which shares the same building as the spa. This is a much more relaxed affair: open kitchen with a wood-burning stove, comfy cream armchairs, wooden tables and views of the garden.

• Dress code Jackets, ties, elegant frocks and jewels; turn up to the Park in a t-shirt and trainers and you may find they can't fit you in (smart denim is OK). Casual threads are fine for the Brasserie.
• Top table Sit by the windows and eye-up the lush grounds.
• Last orders Drinks are served in the Drawing Room as late as you’d like. The Park is open all week for breakfast (7.30am–10.30am) and Tuesday–Saturday for dinner (6.30pm–10pm); drop in to the Brasserie for breakfast, lunch or dinner, 7.30am–10pm.
• Room service The 24-hour room service mirrors the restaurant menus.
• Hotel bar

  The Drawing Room is an elegant affair, perfect for postprandials. Stick with English tradition and have a G&T or Pimm’s in summer, and a whisky in winter.

Also worth knowing

• Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...

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