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Feathers Hotel & Restaurant

Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 1AA

With its authentic half-timbered Tudor façade, The Feathers Hotel is a landmark building in the heart of the picturesque market town of Ludlow. This beautiful, Grade I listed property has been recently renovated and refurbished to preserve and celebrate its unique historic character.

The 42 cosy, classic, deluxe, and family en-suite bedrooms all include highspeed Wifi, spa-inspired ‘rain’ showers and deluxe Sleepezee beds, made-up with luxury cotton bed linen and your choice of pillows.

The Feathers Hotel also boasts the Plume@ Feathers, a AA rosette award-winning restaurant with an excellent reputation for serving freshly made food using seasonal ingredients and locally sourced produce. Guests can expect a delicious a la carte menu served in an elegant ambience.

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What guests say:

The hotel itself is stunning! So old but authentic with beautiful windows and doors that make you feel you’ve gone back in time. The staff were great and the food was lovely.

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Angus Hotel

Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross PH10 6NH

Sitting at the heart of the Blairgowrie community, the three-star and independently owned Angus Hotel offers guests a quality stay, complemented by a friendly team who’re always on hand to help.

All rooms at the Angus are different in shape, size and décor, with many overlooking the town green, the Wellmeadow, and the River Ericht. Each room features an en-suite bathroom and comes equipped with foam pillows adorned with, crisp, white cotton linen, a desk, TV, hairdryer, Wifi, and complimentary toiletries for your comfort and convenience.

The Angus Hotel's all-new spa is open to guests, offering the perfect sanctuary for a little 'Metime'. Having worked with a design team and spa specialists, a journey has been created that includes a range of tranquil and relaxing wellness experiences, designed to relax, restore, and rejuvenate.

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What guests say:

This hotel is a gem! It’s perfectly located for everything on the Southbankfrom the London Eye to Borough Market. The room was comfortable, very clean and well furnished.

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Mercure London Bridge

Southwark, London SE1 0JA

Famous attractions such as the Shard, the Tate Modern, and Borough Market are only a short walk from the four-star Mercure London Bridge Hotel. This flagship hotel is unique and has nothing but comfort and charm in mind with every detail having been carefully considered for its guests.

Ideal for both business and leisure stays, this hotel has 144 bedrooms and suites giving guests a range of options including classic, privilege, interconnecting, and accessible rooms. All of these are well-appointed with Wifi access, 24-hour room service, complimentary toiletries, and tea and coffee-making facilities.

Courtesy of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White, guests can experience Marco’s New York Italian. This restaurant brings authentic yet contemporary Italian cuisine by combining the taste of America with inspirational flavours from the Mediterranean.

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What guests say:

Perfect for a visit to London! A great location for seeing the sights and going to the theatres. The staff were friendly and helpful, the rooms were very clean and the bed was comfortable.

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As we already know, it’s important we protect our planet whilst we make the most of all its wonders. Environmentally aware accommodation is rising in popularity, and you are in ecologically safe hands with us! Be guided by our award-winning, sustainable stays which can help you to stay green and GoEco! From water conservation to waste control and renewable energy, you can be assured by accommodations which have eco-friendliness at their heart.

Find out more by reading about their latest operations, alongside local city initiatives and complementary green activities.

Sustainable Stars Clayton Hotel have achieved a Green Tourism Gold Certificate for 80% of their hotels!

Their environmental responsibility can be evidenced by their waste management projects and sustainable operations, including the use of 100% recyclable products and fertilizing food waste. Using energy-efficient technology to generate electricity, heat, and control flow processes, experience a warm welcome without the worry of wasting water. Whilst Clayton Hotels are

moving away from single-use plastics and focused on renewable destinations, we believe this can be the right stay for you!

Move towards the Fairtrade City that is Bristol, named as the most sustainable UK city in 2021. Honouring the Good Transport Plan and implementing a Top-Down Sustainability Strategy, including a Clear

Air Zone, you can rest easy knowing you’re staying in a reduced emissions environment. Green activities can complement your green stay when the four-star Clayton Hotel is within walking distance to shops, scenic harbours, and the countryside. Home to beautiful nature reserves and sustainable festivals, Bristol is the place to wake up to from accessible, deluxe, or executive rooms.

Start your day with Vitality Breakfast menus and unique culinary flavours, with cuisine ranging from local traditional dishes to Japanese and Dutch specialities. Highspeed Wifi and the on-site fitness suite ensure you can do all this whilst staying connected and keeping up with cardio in a green-certified accommodation. As Sustainability Standards go, Clayton Hotel is a next-level stay and a top GoEco choice.

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Don’t be fuelish by missing out on a sustainable stay at Apex City Quay Hotel and Spa, with all hotels awarded the Green Tourism Silver Award.

Priding themselves on ethical, eco-friendly rooms, these eco-warriors abide by ten pillars of sustainability, embedding and sustaining ethical practices in line with social responsibility for the planet. For example, light up for less when 75% of rooms are installed with LED fits and provided with

in-room amenities made with 100% naturesourced and toxin-free ingredients. Also at 100% are the total net profits donated to Water Aid from Apex City Quay Hotel and Spa, partnering with Belu Water to redirect 600,000 plastic and glass bottles from their waste system each year.

Philanthropy is the pinnacle of the city on which Apex City Quay Hotel and Spa is built. Honing towards the ‘Sustainable Dundee’ project, a partnership of organisations are working together to help tackle the climate emergency and reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2038. Located within walking distance of Dundee city’s bars and restaurants, rest easy knowing one of the top ten cities in the UK for eco-friendly high streets, indexed by recycling facilities, vegan-free restaurants, independent shops and nearby green spaces, are right on your doorstep. While you sleep in a change of environment, the local city accommodates a changing climate, ensuring green networks and infrastructure are adaptable. This includes locally sourced produce from the land, field, and sea.

Adventure meets luxury in the vibrant coastal city of Dundee when you can find your fourstar spa hotel, offering Yu Spa treatment with a swimming pool, hot tub, sauna, steam room and gym facilities, leading onto the V&A museum and Dundee Science Centre. This is complemented by Discovery Point and the Discovery Quay, home to the world-famous Antarctic research vessel RRS Discovery. Offering spacious city and Quay-view rooms, alongside a Quayside bar and grill, there is no better way to relax after beginning your Boat Seafari Adventure journey (only a ten-minute

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“Aros yn wyrdd!” (“Stay Green!” in Welsh) highlights the Village Hotel in Cardiff, one of 33 Village Hotel Club locations awarded a Bronze Green Tourism Award. With two hotels on silver and one achieving gold award status, Village Hotel Club are well on their way to accentuating their sustainability choices towards a greener future, in line with their ‘Village Green’ project established in 2019. This includes a partnership with Lonity to install Superfast electric vehicle chargers across all hotels over the next eighteen months. Village Hotel Cardiff operates on 100% renewable electricity and green gas, with 98% of waste diverted from landfill. Moreover, the hotel is optimally operated by baselines and trends, and evaluated by engineers to ensure all sustainable practices are encouraged, conserved, and maximised.

However, If you need to drive to your destination from this hotel's on-site parking, you'll find yourself just a reasonable 20-minute drive away from the Principality Stadium and the Wales Millennium Centre. Additionally, Coryton Station is only half a mile away. Return from your day out with an electric car charging point waiting for you, alongside some tasty refreshments at the Cool Pub and Grill. Accompanied by free Wifi, a fitness centre and a heated indoor pool with a jacuzzi, sauna and steam room facilities, you can feel the glow and GoEco!

by 2030, boasting over 330 parks and gardens! This equates to more than five parks per 100,000 people! You can find the largest one, Bute Park, only a 90-minute walk from the hotel and located behind Cardiff Castle, living up to Cardiff’s status as a sustainable travel city. More specifically, ‘One Planet Cardiff’ is a strategic response to the climate emergency, directed towards decarbonising travel in the city.

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wouldn’t guide you to GoEco stay without, at least, trying the one of our picks out ourselves!

Our Head of Marketing recently stayed at Middletons in York, one of 20 hotels owned by Daniel Thwaites, who operate their services on a strict environmentally friendly, energy efficient and waste reduction basis. As a key objective to build long-term sustainability, they implement renewable energy sources via solar panels and use Britain-sourced materials

to reduce carbon environmental impacts. As classy as Her Royal Highness, The Princess of Wales herself, refurbished rooms relax you with water-reducing aerated shower heads and guest controls which facilitate efficient energy across the hotel. However, don’t expect to find single-use plastics as these have been reduced across all their hotels and inns!

Left behind some bacon from your breakfast meal at the on-site restaurant and worried about wasting food? Middletons have a food waste reduction program which separates, recycles, and converts food waste to electricity through anaerobic digestion. In other (very oversimplified) words, your bacon may become a beacon, lighting up the individually decorated facilities for future guests! Have a spare carrot on your plate too? Feeding their horses with (brewing) waste is another healthy way Middletons stays sustainable.

One of four English cities chosen by the Department of Transport to trial e-scooters and the first city with a voluntary Clean Air Zone, York is a famously sustainable travel city, aiming to become carbon neutral by 2030. Situated only a five-minute stroll from Middletons’ Gardens, show off a sustainable souvenir from York City Centre which gifts you with independent shops homing handcrafted, and unique eco-friendly products.

Fun fact: This year, York is planting 210,000 trees as part of creating York Community Woodland, in line with One Planet York’s strategy to increase green space and biodiversity. Another fun fact: Fantastic facilities at Middleton’s Hotel, namely six room options to choose from, electric car charging points, a fitness centre, on-site parking and free Wifi will be your first port of call before walking fifteen minutes to the Museum Gardens and a further twenty-one minutes to the Goddards Garden. ‘Visit York Tourism’ Awards Winner for 2023, channel Middletons’ prestige by taking a short stroll to the Famous Grand Opera House or, next door,

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Green Tourism, Wroxton House Hotel in Banbury is an advocate for positive environmental changes.

Regular recycling, energy efficient boilers and being lit up with LEDs emanates Wroxton House as an ecologically safe stay with extra comfort. Choose from standard, exclusive, and superior rooms which host free Wifi, LCD TVs with over 80 channels and a mix of contemporary and traditional designs. Additionally, as a pet-friendly establishment, Wroxton House Hotel values your time with your four-legged friend and is committed to protecting both indoor and outdoor wildlife through its sustainable processes.

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Whether it’s bees, butterflies, bats or birds, the Cotswolds is one of the best hotel getaway locations for homing a community actively supporting diverse wildlife conservation. Working in partnership with the Cotswolds Conversation Board, the Cotswolds National Landscape Project protects this part of the UK as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), evaluating how best to recover nature and habitats of the Cotswold so they flourish across the landscape. The Wroxton House Hotel is therefore well situated to comfort you with the Cotswold Countryside.

Committed to their cause, the Wroxton House Hotel ensures the produce is kept as local as possible and is situated within walking distance of local shops and markets. Also offering onsite free parking, you can explore Broughton Grange Garden for less than a ten-minute drive away or, for a further ten minutes, visit the River Avon and its surrounding idyllic scenery. Alternatively, there are strong public Transport links to Oxford City Centre and Warwick. Irrespective of where you decide to go, you can stay at Wroxton House Hotel, at least, knowing you’re going eco!

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Abbey Hotel Golf & Spa

Redditch, Worcestershire B98 9BE

Nestled in a beautiful 175-acre estate in the town of Redditch, discover the four-star Abbey Hotel Golf and Spa. This award-winning hotel is perfect for everything from, relaxing weekend breaks to family getaways.

A wide range of rooms are available, from the cosy and contemporary classic rooms to the spacious and stylish Superior Rooms. For added luxury, the Royal and Penthouse Suites are beautifully furnished and feature lounge areas, outdoor seating, and the very latest in home entertainment. The Abbey Hotel is also dog-friendly, so guests are more than welcome to bring along their four-legged friend for just £15 per dog, per night.

Guests can also indulge in a few hours of pampering in the luxury spa or test their skills on the championship standard 18-hole golf course.

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What guests say:

An amazing location and easy to get to. The room we had was fabulous and overlooked the golf course. The service in the restaurant was fab and the food was delicious!

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Exmoor Manor Guest House

Lynton, Devon EX35 6LD

Nestled in the hills above Lynton and Lynmouth, Kevin and Jan welcome guests to the Exmoor Manor, a family-run, dog-friendly bed and breakfast guest house offering six light and airy en-suite bedrooms.

All rooms come with tea and coffee-making facilities, a small fridge, and complimentary toiletries. The ground-floor rooms offer easier access and are ideal for guests staying with their four-legged friends. On-site parking and a delicious breakfast are also included in the room rate.

Exmoor Manor boasts a comfortable seating area with a fully stocked, licensed lounge bar that’s available on request. Additionally, just a five-minute drive, Lynton and Lynmouth have a fantastic variety of pubs, restaurants, takeaways and cafes.

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What guests say:

Last evening we had the opportunity to stay at this charming hotel! The rooms were light, airy and very clean! The owners thought of all the little details and breakfast was wonderful.

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