The Good Hotel Guide has revealed its annual list of 12 César winners with Penally Abbey in Tenby taking home the award for the Best Hotel in Wales. The awards are given to hotels, inns and B&Bs considered outstanding in their particular category.
Not in its 46th edition, it claims to be the only truly independent hotel guide in the UK. Named after a famous Swiss hotelier, César Ritz, the guide has given out 10 awards each year since 1984. They are given to hotels, inns and B&Bs which are outstanding in their particular category. Previous Welsh winners have included The Bell at Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, and Porth Tocyn Hotel in Abersoch.
Of Penally Abbey, they say: "Owner and interior designer Melanie Boissevain has created stylish, relaxing rooms filled with antiques, French market finds, blowsy wallpapers and Persian rugs in this Strawberry Hill Gothic house on the coast a five-minute drive from Tenby."
The beautiful limestone property is just a stone’s throw from Tenby’s South Beach, and stands adjacent to the 12th-century Norman church, in the pretty floral village of Penally. The country house hotel is split into 12 bedrooms. Read more about this property gem here. Built on the site of an ancient monastery, Penally Abbey has its own Holy Well and medieval ruined chapel, St Deiniol’s, in the garden.
Other award winners in the guide include a hotel run by aristocracy with a well-being focus, a former motorway service station on the M6, a Grade I listed townhouse where the in-room coffee maker can be found in a doll’s house, a revamped 11 th -century Cotswold stone inn, a 1950s Scottish youth hostel with loch views that is now a stunning hotel.
There are also some other Welsh venues included in the Editor’s Choice lists, including Dolffanog Fawr in Tywyn in the Fishing category, and Trefeddian Hotel making the top Golf roll.
You can find the Good Hotel Guide here.
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