COUNTRY LIFE writers reveal the hotels that stood out to them in 2025

Discover remote holiday homes, cosy coastal escapes and an all-out-opulent hotel

Frazzled from what felt like a never-ending year, we booked into South Lodge hoping for a quiet countryside reset – and it certainly delivered. The Reeds is a cluster of eco-lodges set on the edge of

There are three big advantages to a twin-centre holiday. The first is that instead of one long, tiring flight, you get a midway break. Then there’s the fact that when you come to the end of your ‘firs

coast editor-in-chief Alex Fisher spends a few days at the Scarlet hotel, an adults-only eco-retreat perched above Mawgan Porth Beach on the north Cornish coast

Grey days getting you down? Time to book a Caribbean getaway to feel the sun on your skin and sand between your toes