Hotel du Vin Harrogate, a glorious conglomeration of eight Georgian-style houses, overlooks 200-acre common The Stray and is a stone's throw from the antique shops, tea emporiums and designer boutiques that make this Yorkshire town so popular. The hotel has 48 bedrooms and spacious loft suites plus a billiards room, cellar snug, luxurious Spa du Vin (which offers an impressively large range of treatments) and signature Bistro.
The Bistro, dotted with empty magnums of this and bottles of that, the yellow walls decorated in hip prints and with classic Paris restaurant wooden chairs and tables, serves sophisticated high-end classic European dishes and is always buzzing. For wine buffs, it's the extensive choice of tipples and knowledgeable staff that dispense it that is the real draw here. Expect a 600-bin cellar to choose from as you consider what will match your food. And when you've consumed more than you really ought, lollop upstairs to crisp, Egyptian linen, a hand-spring mattress, a gleaming roll-top bath and monsoon shower and gorgeous décor.
