Chewton Glen has long been renowned as the most famous country house hotel in the world and 50 years on continues to attract an international clientele, win industry awards and set the standard for others to follow. Located on the edge of The New Forest National Park, a few minutes stroll down ‘Chewton Bunny’ to the Solent coast and less than 2 hours drive from central London, the 130 acre estate straddles the Hampshire/Dorset border. For over five decades Chewton Glen has constantly evolved and although it has retained the charm of an English country manor, it boasts facilities to rival many much larger resorts. 

Their strongest asset remains the 300 strong team who are renowned for coining the phrase ‘Effortless Hospitality’. Facilities include 72 individually designed bedrooms and suites, including 14 luxury Treehouses, four meeting rooms with state-of-the-art AV and capacity for 8 to 120 guests, three restaurants, including The Dining Room, The Kitchen and Pool Bar, 1000 bin wine list, which boasts the largest selection of English Wines in the World. Their award-winning spa with 25 meter ozone treated swimming pool, sauna and steam rooms, extensive hydrotherapy centre, 12 treatment rooms, nail studio, extensive Technogym gymnasium, two exercise studios offering daily classes, outdoor swimming pool (open from Easter to October), 9 hole, par 3 golf course. two ‘marka-grain’ indoor tennis courts as well as two all weather outdoor tennis courts offer something for all.

Additional activities include a competition standard Croquet Lawn, extensive outdoor events spaces for clay pigeon shooting, archery, apache buggies or quad bikes. A fleet of mountain bikes and children’s bikes, a kids club offering daily activities at weekends and school holidays.

For any budding chef, The Kitchen Cookery School, managed by celebrity chef James Martin with 12 stations and celebrity-chef ‘pop-ups’ is on hand. Varied special interest events programmes, a kitchen garden and heritage orchard which supplies much of the hotels produce and 70 bee-hives producing all of the hotel’s honey. Chewton Glen has its own range helipad, parking for 200 cars as well as electric car charging points, so getting there has never been easier.