History :
Many years ago when I was a young under age alcohol drinking teenager living in a small village outside Winchester, Hampshire my friends and I would go to what was then called the `Southgate Hotel` to sneak inside the stale smelling bar to pretend we were 18 and sip martini ... Read review
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most important Georgian buildings, dating back to 1715. Our smallest hotel, with 24 bedrooms, it has an intimate ambience emphasised by the cosy Bistro and Champ...
most important Georgian buildings, dating back to 1715. Our smallest hotel, with 24 bedrooms, it has an intimate ambience emphasised by the cosy Bistro and Champagne Bar and pretty walled garden.
Advantages: They ask you to take the `freebies` away ! Disadvantages: Gets very busy and may need to book well in advance.
...drinking den into the first Hotel Du Vin, a hotel built on its reputation of quality and turn it into something so chic, smooth and luxurious that I had to pinch myself the first time I revisited it.
This is now one of several Hotel Du Vins and has been an adult retreat for me for 3 times now - I like to think that both myself and the hotel have improved with age !
Location:
The Hotel Du Vin Winchester is located at Southgate Street.,Winchester ... ...Winchester High Street.
The hotel itself has one of those rare luxuries city accomodation - lots of parking ! This is to the side and behind the hotel and we have never had any problem in finding a space. From the car park you walk into the rear courtyard area of the hotel. I have stayed twice in the summer and this is a gorgeous area with good quality seats,tables and umbrellas and where you can take coffee or an evening drink. The hotel itself ...
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Advantages: Great location, even greater wine cellar Disadvantages: Breakfast was not quite to the standard I was expecting.
...HotelduVin are an exclusive brand of boutique style restaurants beginning with their first Hotel in Winchester back in 1994 this popular brand have spread across the UK at a rate of knots. With Hotels in Harrogate, Henley On Thames, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Glasgow, and Tunbridge Wells. The next 12 months are going to be one of the most exciting in HdV’s history with Hotels opening in Cheltenham, Cambridge, York, Poole and Newcastle.
HdV offer the hotel guest an exclusive experience far different from any other hotel chain in the UK with the exception of course of Malmaison its sister company. Each hotel offers individual qualities or facilities but all contain certain specific requirements in order to make them part of the HdV ethos.
HdV Harrogate appears to be one of the more written about hotels in the chain, but I guess...
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The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester is a fascinating book about the original concept and the eventual execution of the Oxford English Dictionary. It is written by Simon Winchester and is, indeed, a fascinating book.
However, Winchester makes more
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18.06.2007
