My Wife and I coming over to the UK for the last leg of our honeymoon trip and would like to attend the Goodwood festival of speed, can anyone recommend a place close to the festival to stay?
Mika
Blimey Mika, you've got an understanding wife to be - long may it continue!
You've not given a budget, so my first choice would be
The Goodwood Hotel and booking now you may get in! The hotel is much improved, it used to be a Marriott and went down when they changed from that franchise, and obviously, its proximity to Goodwood is its main raison d'etre.
A cheaper alternative, where we have also stopped, is the
Millstream Hotel at Bosham. It is only about 6-miles from Goodwood, and apart from having a somewhat older clientèle is quite acceptable.
For Malvern, there are several you could look at as follows:
Cottage in the Wood At one time this was
the hotel in Malvern and had an excellent name for food too, I've not stopped there for a long time but the last time that Boshers and I had a meal there, I really thought it was living on past glories.
The Abbey Hotel Used by the MSCC for their annual dinner and a 4-star establishment. Rather expensive imho for what is offered, both in the rooms and the food is very average.
The Cotford Hotel and l'Amuse Bouche Restaurant Smartly turned out in an avenue of Victorian mansion-style buildings, this hotel is the place to stop in Malvern imho. Excellent restaurant, combining local ingredients with uncomplicated modern cooking. The owners are even called Morgan!
Buckland Manor 30-miles away from Malvern, but near to the pretty Cotswold town of Broadway and a very nice country house hotel.
The Lygon Arms in Broadway used to be excellent, but I understand that it is now part of a Spanish Group and standards have dropped drastically. There are one or two other places we know in the Malvern area, as our daughters used to go to school here, but for us the Cotford Hotel is the one.
HTH
B
