Awarded the prestigious Visit England 5 Star Gold accolade

Visit England’s Gold and Silver Awards celebrate accommodation establishments that outperform in their category, offering exceptional quality within their star rating. The awards help guests find special places where hosts go the extra mile, whatever the size, style or star rating of the accommodation. Visit England’s assessors make recommendations for Gold and Silver Awards based on their annual assessments. They’ll look at quality in all areas, especially housekeeping, service and hospitality, bedrooms, bathrooms and food (if provided). While star ratings are based on a combination of quality, range of facilities and level of service offered, Gold and Silver award are based solely on quality. Businesses must maintain the necessary scores for a Gold or Silver Award each year.

Winner of "Most Exclusive Luxury Accommodation in Oxfordshire", 2023

To determine the results, the LUXlife judging panel and research team consider the commitment to customer service, guest experience, and innovation shown by nominees through nomination information, voting information, and any supporting evidence supplied, along with the results from their own extensive period of fact-checking and research.

Gold Winner of "New Tourism Business of the Year", Dec 2022

Tourism South East is the DMO for the South East of England. Judging is carried out by an independent panel of past winners, industry leaders and experts in their field, selected for their impartiality, experience and suitability for each category. Judges look for evidence of the businesses commitment to accessible and inclusive tourism and ethical, responsible and sustainable tourism in addition to COVID-19/cleanliness customer reassurance. Judges also look at how the business’s website and social media encourage visitors to come to the area in the first place, how they are inspired to choose your business, the information you provide and how it is viewed on different media (tablets, smartphones etc).

Gold Winner of "Self Catering Accommodation Of The Year", Dec 2022

Tourism South East is the DMO for the South East of England. Judging is carried out by an independent panel of past winners, industry leaders and experts in their field, selected for their impartiality, experience and suitability for each category. Judges look for evidence of the businesses commitment to accessible and inclusive tourism and ethical, responsible and sustainable tourism in addition to COVID-19/cleanliness customer reassurance. Judges also look at how the business’s website and social media encourage visitors to come to the area in the first place, how they are inspired to choose your business, the information you provide and how it is viewed on different media (tablets, smartphones etc).

Finalist in Best House, Villa or Serviced Apartment, Nov 2022

The Awards are based on responses from online voting, guest feedback, and Local Expert reports drawn from the hotels featured on our website and in our most recent Guides.

ABOUT CONDÉ NAST JOHANSENS: Condé Nast Johansens, from the publishers of Vogue, GQ, Tatler, Condé Nast Traveller and Vanity Fair, is the premier reference guide for independent travellers. Condé Nast Johansens remains the most comprehensive illustrated reference to independently owned hotels inspected annually. With dedicated and highly trained Local Experts, almost 10 times as many properties have been assessed as appear online or in the Guides in order to narrow the final selection down to the best selection of accommodation for independent travellers. With a readership of 5.8 million, the Guides' distribution now totals 27,000 worldwide.

Winner of "Best Historic Luxury Self-Catering Accommodation - UK", Nov 2022

Having opened for voting earlier in the year, the Global Excellence Awards internal research team have assessed and fact-checked each nomination submitted this year. They also gather additional findings from online resources available in the public domain, such as brand history, services, products, social media, presence within the industry, reviews, etc. Final selection is made based upon evidence of expertise within a given field; dedication to customer/client service, satisfaction and retention; and an on-going commitment to providing excellent work.

Featured in Stylist, July 2022

Stylist is the UK’s leading media brand for women; talking to 5 million UK women a month and making up 40% of the women’s lifestyle sector. Their audience are the UK’s finest professional women – a demographic who we understand and represent better than any other publisher.

Featured in TATLER, May 2022

Following a review by Eva de Romarate for TATLER we were featured on the homepage of TATLER. To read the full article please click here. 

Featured in The FT, April 2022

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Featured in The Times Newspaper, January 2022

Following a review by Liz Edwards [Assistant Travel Editor for The Times & The Sunday Times newspaper] we received a wonderful write-up. To read the full article please click here. 

Awarded the prestigious Visit England 5 Star Gold accolade

Visit England’s Gold and Silver Awards celebrate accommodation establishments that outperform in their category, offering exceptional quality within their star rating. The awards help guests find special places where hosts go the extra mile, whatever the size, style or star rating of the accommodation. Visit England’s assessors make recommendations for Gold and Silver Awards based on their annual assessments. They’ll look at quality in all areas, especially housekeeping, service and hospitality, bedrooms, bathrooms and food (if provided). While star ratings are based on a combination of quality, range of facilities and level of service offered, Gold and Silver award are based solely on quality. Businesses must maintain the necessary scores for a Gold or Silver Award each year.