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2018 Edition 26

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Contents

ESSENTIAL EASTER ESCAPES!

A Postcard from...

Stoke-on-Trent

CITY, COAST OR COUNTRY

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The Guest Book

Dates for the Diary Amba Hotel Charing Cross Glen Orchy Hotel

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Crowtree Wigwams Belstead Brook Muthu Hotel A Postcard from Stoke-on-Trent Lowenac Hotel

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Hotel Hotspots

Essential Easter Escapes Hospitality First Featured Group Infotel Offers

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All rates contained in this magazine are correct at the time of sending.

Front Cover image of The Italian Garden at Trentham Estate

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THE INFOTEL GUES T BOOK T H I S

M O N T H ' S

T R E N D I N G

H O T E L S

Hilton House Hotel

Ilfracombe House Hotel

Tankerville Arms Hotel

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Crompton Guest House

Bridge House

Sun Inn

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MAKE A RESERVATION

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Exeter Court Hotel

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Dunraven Hotel

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Missenden Abbey Conference Centre

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Humber Bridge Country Hotel Limited

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Brook House Inn

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Piersland House Hotel

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Dates for the Diary

What’s On? Absolutely Fabulous Gin Festival 2 - 3 March Liverpool >>

When?

Lincoln Street Food Festival 2018 1 - 4 March Lincoln >>

Crufts at The NEC 8 - 11 March Birmingham >>

March 2018

Jones Crisps Anglesey Half Marathon 2018 4 March Anglesey, Wales >>

Where?

The Festival TM 13 - 16 March Cheltenham >>

Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival 15 - 18 March Bristol >>

Who?

The Boat Race 24 March London >>

York Literature Festival 15 - 26 March York >> 6

The Marmalade Festival 17 March Penrith, Cumbria >>

Amba Hotel Charing Cross Westminster, London WC2N 5HX

From

£169

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A beautiful Grade II listed building offering stylish and spacious accommodation, which includes free mini-bars and Nespresso coffee makers, as well as complimentary WiFi. Guest rooms and suites are luxurious with modern day technology, including smart TVs. Led by an award-winning executive chef, all-day dining can be enjoyed in The Terrace, which offers views of The Strand below, or finish your day with an expertly crafted cocktail in the Terrace Bar. Amba Hotel Charing Cross is steps from Trafalgar Square and Covent Garden with The Mall, National Gallery, the banks of the River Thames and the West End just a five minute walk away.

“Gorgeous hotel, attentive staff, lovely breakfast. Good value for money.”

Taken from a recent Trip Advisor review.

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WiFi

Restaurant

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Luggage Dry 24hr CCTV & Air Reception Cleaning Conditioning Storage

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Glen Orchy Hotel Lerwick, Shetland Islands ZE1 0AX

From SHETLAND ISLANDS

£80

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INVERNESS

A five minute walk from the centre of town and convenient for both the ferry and the local bus service, Glen Orchy offers guest house accommodation in a choice of single, double, twin, triple and family rooms.

All guest rooms are en-suite and have free WiFi. A laundry service is available and business support, with photocopying and fax facilities on-site.

Guests can dine in or be driven into town for dining in the hotel's Thai restaurant, which is close by.

“It was quiet, the staff were very friendly and my breakfast was very good.”

Taken from a recent Trip Advisor review.

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12 Spaces On-Site

WiFi (in Public)

Restaurant

Bar

Air Pets Conditoning Welcome

Laundry Service

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Crowtree Wigwams Spalding, Lincolnshire PE12 6HF

From

£65

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Located on the banks of the River Welland in rural Lincolnshire, glamping at Wigwam® Holidays Crowtree offers luxury en-suite cabins in a tranquil setting.

Each heated cabin has a hob, microwave, kettle, toaster and fridge plus plates, crockery and cutlery for four guests. Fire pits and BBQs can be hired for use around your own picnic area and the farm offers a grass tennis and croquet court plus a den for snooker, table tennis, games and puzzles.

“First time staying in a wigwam - convert!

Spacious, clean with all mod cons including a well equipped kitchen.

WiFi was great and never dropped.”

Taken from a recent Trip Advisor review.

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Belstead Brook Muthu Hotel Ipswich, Suffolk IP2 9HB

From

£75

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Built around a 16th Century hunting lodge, Belstead Brook Muthu Hotel features a leisure club with spa and beauty treatments, an indoor pool, restaurant and bar.

The en-suite guest rooms are traditionally decorated and have a flat-screen TV and hospitality trays. The restaurant serves a fixed price two or three course menu and an a la carte menu, influenced by British and continental cuisine. An excellent breakfast menu guarantees a great start to the day.

The hotel is just two miles from Ipswich and many of rural Suffolk's pretty villages can be reached within 30 minutes.

“Room was spacious and clean.

Lovely breakfast and the staff were friendly.”

Taken from a recent Trip Advisor review.

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200 Spaces On-Site

WiFi in Rooms

Restaurant

Bar

Weddings

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A Postcard from...

Stoke-on-Trent Discover a rich industrial heritage in this world-famous city which was the birthplace of British pottery.

Photo by Futurilla / CC BY 2.0

Images by Gladstone Pottery Museum

Home to the headquarters of Spode, Wedgewood and Royal Doulton, there are plenty of pottery factory stores to tempt, including the Potteries Shopping Centre in Hanley. To experience the famous bottle kilns up close and personal, Gladstone Pottery Museum gives visitors a real insight into life on a Victorian pottery factory when coal burning ovens made the world's finest china.

Demonstrations of traditional skills, the original workshops, huge bottle ovens and the cobbled courtyards transport visitors back to the Industrial Revolution.

Allow up to three hours for your visit so you can either throw your own pot or make a china flower for decorating pottery.

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Image by Gladstone Pottery Museum

Middleport Pottery is one of the last remaining, fully working Victorian potteries and still uses traditional manufacturing methods, including a rare under glaze transfer printing process. Specialising in traditional shapes and patterns, a piece of Burleigh pottery will have passed through at least 25 pairs of hands in the creation process.

The Grade II listed site is next to the Trent and Mersey Canal and as well as the visitor centre, the factory shop is well worth a visit. Š Copyright Mat Fascione

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A great way to see more of the City and explore its heritage is via the China Trail, a scenic cycle way which is mostly traffic free. The circular route takes in many of the potteries, including Dudson Museum where visitors can step inside the Grade II listed bottle oven, explore the old factory courtyard and see the company's creations, which date back to 1800.

Back on the bicycle and the China Trail continues to Central Forest Park in Hanley, which has the perfect spot for a picnic, and then hits the canal towpaths to Etruria Industrial Museum, which is the world's only operational steam driven potters' mill.

Center & below image by Etruria Industrial Museum

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One of England's last, great garden estates, Trentham, makes a great day out for all the family with a multitude of outstanding attractions, including the unique Monkey Forest, a flagship garden centre and Trentham Shopping Village.

Not to be missed though are the award-winning gardens. With 725 acres, you don't need to be green fingered to be blown away by the beauty and variety. Following a restoration project in 2016 to celebrate 300 years since the birth of landscape architect Lancelot Capability Brown, work has revealed the lost connection between the west parkland and Brown's mile long lake, adding to the scale and grandeur of Trentham.

The Eastern Pleasure Ground, which was once simple parkland, now offers two areas, created by the Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf.

The prairie garden River of Grass encourages the unrestricted flow of plant form and texture while the Floral Labyrinth is all about hot colours and heady scents set against a backdrop of historic parkland.

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The Italian Garden is designed to provide interest all year round and with 80,000 perennials in over 400 varieties in 70 flower beds, it's one of Europe's largest contemporary perennial plantings and was designed by Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal winner Tom Stuart-Smith.

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For a completely different experience where white knuckle rides rule, dive into the delights of Water World! The tropical indoor aqua park sets the scene for adventure, with twists and turns at heights of 375 feet to splashdown!

Rides and activities include Plunge pools, the Space Bowl and the Black Hole, flumes, an underwater interactive jungle house, bubble and wave pools plus a Jacuzzi for those who prefer relaxation over rapid rides.

And when the hunger pangs take over, head to the poolside restaurant to whet your appetite!

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Steam features in Stoke too with two different railways, the Churnet Valley Railway and Foxfield. Churnet offers a choice of dining and experience days, including driving a train, brunch, afternoon tea and supper trains. The Foxfield Railway is a great afternoon out around rural Staffordshire in heritage coaches pulled by historic steam engines.

When it's time to dine out, Stoke-on-Trent has a fabulous choice of restaurants serving traditional and contemporary English, American, Italian, Indian and Asian cuisine.

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Stoke-on-Trent Collection

Chimney House Hotel & Restaurant

Best Western Plus Stoke-on-Trent Moat House

Innkeepers Lodge Sandbach, Holmes Chapel

Clayton Lodge Hotel

Plough Inn

Royal Hotel

Ibis Styles Crewe

Holiday Inn Express Crewe

Days Inn Stafford

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Lowenac Hotel Camborne, Cornwall TR14 8SL

From

£72

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Conveniently located for the A30, the Lowenac Hotel offers individually styled en-suite double and family rooms, all with tea and coffee making facilities, flat screen TV and free WiFi. Dining is in the restaurant which serves an a la carte menu, or enjoy tasty cuisine from the bar menu.

A business package which includes breakfast and an evening meal is available and the hotel has ample on-site parking.

60 Spaces On-site

FREE WiFi

Restaurant

Bar

Wedding & Parties

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Check Out 11.00am

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“Nice warm welcome, a good night's sleep. Breakfast was good.”

Taken from a recent Trip Advisor review.

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The A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road will continue to be in demand until the planned update is complete (March 2021). If you need accommodation in this area and you've got your dates, don't leave it late!

With the Grand National at Aintree (12 - 14 April) and Royal Ascot (19 - 23 June) coming soon, you can bet Liverpool, Ascot and the county of Berkshire are going to be busy.

Don't delay! Reserve your room today!

London Heathrow and Windsor will be extra busy this May. Know your dates? Don't leave it too late!

With the Virgin London Marathon (23 April), RHS Chelsea Flower Show (22 - 26 May), The Trooping of the Colour (9 June), Wimbledon (2 - 15 July) and lots of popular events pulling in people from across the globe, London is never out of fashion!

Got your dates? Don't leave it late!

UK holiday makers and overseas visitors are booking their summer accommodation.

With the world's largest arts festival and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in August, plus increased demand for the Highlands and islands, if you've a date in Scotland, don't leave your reservation late!

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ESSENTIAL EASTER ESCAPES! If you're desperately searching for a reason to get away this month, Mothering Sunday on 11 March and Easter, just three weeks later, provide two perfectly valid reasons to race off to the countryside, grab some recreation time in a city or recharge those energy levels at the seaside!

E S S E N T I A L P L AY T I M E IN THE CIT Y

ESSENTIAL SANDCASTLES AT T H E S E A S I D E

Whatever your budget or location, you'll find your March bolthole in our Essential Easter Escapes… ESSENTIAL COMFORTS I N T H E C O U N T RY 22

LONDON

Rembrandt Hotel

Trebovir Hotel

Comfort Inn Victoria

MANCHESTER

Townhouse Hotel Manchester

Village Hotel Manchester Ashton

The Victoria Hotel

EDINBURGH

23 Mayfield

AmarAgua Guest House

Ibis Edinburgh Centre South Bridge - Royal Mile

CARDIFF

E S S E N T I A L P L AY T I M E IN THE CIT Y

A Space in the City Serviced Apartments

Park Inn by Radisson Cardiff North

Haveli Hotel

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Legacy Hotel Victoria

Chy An Albany Hotel

Lanner Inn

BRIGHTON

Mercure Brighton Seafront Hotel

Wheatsheaf Pub

White Horse Hotel

T O R Q U AY

Heritage Hotel

Yardley Manor Hotel

Torbay Court Hotel

BOURNEMOUTH

C O R N WA L L

ESSENTIAL SANDCASTLES AT T H E S E A S I D E

The Norfolk Royale

Loch Fyne Hotel & Restaurant Poole

Antelope Hotel

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Woodbury Park Hotel

Langstone Cliff Hotel

Exeter Court Hotel

L AKE DIS T R I C T

Laura Ashley Belsfield Hotel

Skelwith Bridge Hotel

Foundry 34

PEMBROKESHIRE

Pandy Inn B&B

Castle Hotel

Hollybush Inn & Campsite

THE COTSWOLDS

EXETER

ESSENTIAL COMFORTS I N T H E C O U N T RY

Eynsham Hall

De Vere Cotswold Water Park

Cromwell Lodge Hotel

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Quality Hotel Birmingham Airport Birmingham, West Midlands

Quality Hotel Birmingham is situated in the quiet suburb of Acocks Green, less than five miles from Birmingham International Airport and 15 minutes from The NEC. Comfortable rooms have tea and coffee making facilities, desks and hair dryers and the restaurant serves signature dishes.

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Best Western Tillington Hall Hotel Stafford, Staffordshire

A choice of 91 comfortable, well appointed rooms are in this hotel which is ideally located for the Birmingham International and Manchester Airports, and convenient for junction 14 of the M6.

Start the day with a full English breakfast and finish with a meal from either the bar or bistro menu.

Ibis Budget Warrington Lymm Services Warrington, Cheshire

The Ibis Budget Warrington is convenient for Manchester Airport and the City Centre.

All en-suite rooms include a double bed, sofa bed and flat screen TV. Guests can benefit from discounts at M&S, Costa, McDonalds and WHSmith as well as the hotel's restaurant and bar.

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Best Western Plus Lancashire Manor Hotel Wigan, Lancashire

Best Western Plus Lancashire Manor Hotel is 20 minutes from both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airport. Built in the 16th Century, the hotel offers a traditional, tastefully designed interior with modern facilities.

An extensive menu is available in the oak beamed restaurant.

Best Western Crewe Arms Hotel Crewe, Cheshire

Situated in the heart of South Cheshire the Crewe Arms Hotel is convenient for Crewe railway station, Stoke-on-Trent, Nantwich, Sandback and Chester.

En-suite rooms include free WiFi, hospitality trays and a desk area. The restaurant serves a menu of homemade classics, sharing platters and pizzas.

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Ibis Budget Knutsford

Knutsford, Cheshire

Located off the M6 at Junction 19, en-route to Manchester City Centre and Manchester Airport, Knutsford is known as the gateway to Cheshire and the North West.

A total of 32 comfortable ground floor rooms with double bed, sofa bed, flat screen TV and free WiFi are available.

Holiday Inn Express Kettering Kettering, Northamptonshire

Holiday Inn Express Kettering is near to the A14 and less than five minutes from the M1.

En-suite rooms offer free WiFi, a flat screen TV with Freeview and tea and coffee making facilities.

A licensed bar serves snacks and there's on-site parking for up to 10 vehicles.

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Easton Guest House

Alma Lodge Hotel

New Westcliff Hotel

Discounted 15% offer! >>

Double room money off >>

£40 off four poster stay >>

Damons Hotel & Restaurant

Best Western Plus Milford Hotel

Redesdale Arms Hotel

Monday - Thursday £50 per night >>

2 night inclusive Easter weekend break from £180 >>

Norfolk

Lincolnshire

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Cheshire

West Yorkshire

Dorset

Gloucestershire

Enjoy money off stay & complimentary fizz from £89 >>

The Plantation

Birley Arms Hotel

The Block Liverpool

Save a huge £45 >>

Up to £75 off executive suites >>

Up to 70% off apartments & suites >>

Taplow House Hotel & Restaurant

Village Hotel Lakeside Lodge Birmingham Walsall Golf Centre West Midlands

Cambridgeshire

Mothers Day Lunch & Royal Afternoon Tea >>

Save £25 per night >>

B&B plus entertainment & 18 holes >>

Dorset

Berkshire

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