With Halloween on the horizon it’s a wonderful excuse for another mini break. The UK has a rich history of witchery, hauntings, sorcery and magic, so there are plenty of places to go that really capture the spooky spirit. Here are 10 of the Good Hotel Guide’s top places to go and the hotels to stay in this Halloween within easy reach of ghostly stories and gruesome histories…
10 hotels to visit on Halloween
Congham Hall
King's Lynn
Renowned for its herb garden, with some 400 varieties, this Georgian merchant's manor house is set in 30 acres of Norfolk parkland.
The Sun Inn
Colchester
‘A lovely old building in a nice location’, this medieval coaching inn is set amid the pastoral landscape of Dedham Vale.
The Old Rectory
Boscastle
With romantic Thomas Hardy associations, this Victorian rectory is run today as a B&B with traditional bedrooms, original features, lovingly tended garden, and home-grown produce at breakfast.
Woolley Grange
Bradford-on-Avon
All the bases are covered for a fun, relaxing family escape at this Jacobean manor house, which has a crèche, cinema, spa, pools, comfortable country house-style bedrooms, and formal and informal dining.
The Pier at Harwich
Harwich
Cranes, container ships, Holland-bound ferries … The views from this quayside Victorian hotel, with its striking iron-lace balcony overlooking the Stour and Orwell estuaries, are ocean-going, stirring, never dull.
The Queensberry
Bath
There’s a huge sense of fun at this stylish hotel, whose logo is Vanity Fair’s caricature of the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Oscar Wilde’s Nemesis.