Relais & Chateaux rule travel awards

CONDE Nast Traveller Readers’ Travel Awards 2013 have given a ringing endorsement to Relais & Châteaux properties. Five of the top 10 UK Holiday Hotels are Relais & Châteaux members, including the category winner, Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons in Oxfordshire, and nine made the top 20. 

The four other Relais & Châteaux members in the top 10 are Lime Wood in Hampshire, Chewton Glen in Hampshire, Gidleigh Park in Devon and Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa (pictured above) in Wiltshire; those in the top 20 are Whatley Manor in Wiltshire, The Vineyard at Stockcross, The Waterside Inn in Berkshire, and The Royal Crescent Hotel in Bath. Eight other properties worldwide also feratured in the awards

Malcolm Lewis, chairman of the UK Steering Committee for Relais & Châteaux said: “To get almost half the top 20 hotels in this most prestigious of awards is a fantastic achievement – and well deserved.’'

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