Best hotels for Christmas in East Anglia - Good Hotel Guide

Hotels for Christmas in East Anglia

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Christmas is an increasingly popular time for hotel breaks, so whether you’re planning to celebrate Christmas in East Anglia quietly or with a bang, here are our recommended hotels for the festive period.

Beechwood Hotel

Beechwood Hotel, North Walsham

Agatha Christie memorabilia, murder-mystery weekends and Art Deco touches set the tone at this creeper-clad hotel, former home of doctor friends of Christie, in a bustling market town.

The Dabbling Duck

The Dabbling Duck, GREAT MASSINGHAM

They have all their ducks in a row at this wisteria-decked gastropub-with-rooms overlooking the green in a village where mallards glide on old abbey fishponds.

The Three Blackbirds

The Three Blackbirds, Newmarket

Perfect for a country weekend, this 17th-century thatched pub has contemporary-cum-rustic-chic bedrooms in a ‘barn’, beams, bar stools, banquettes and bare boards, superior pub grub, and a separate menu for your pooch.

The Three Hills

The Three Hills, Cambridge

The Hills were alive with the sound of 'obvious customer contentment' when our inspector called at Chris and Sarah Field's pub in a village known for its Roman burial tumuli (the eponymous ‘hills’).

The Harper

The Harper, Holt

You don’t have to blow a fortune to stay at this ‘relaxed yet refined’ hotel in some converted barns, the former home of Langham Glass, and featuring many charming nods to its heritage.

The Swan

The Swan, Southwold

On the market square, this 18th-century inn with onsite brewery has jazzy bedrooms in dolly-mixture colours, Adnams beers in the Tap Room, pub classics and contemporary seasonal fare in the Still Room.

Sopwell House Hotel

Sopwell House Hotel, St Albans

A favourite hangout of the England football team, the former home of Lord Louis Mountbatten is ‘well-run’, with contemporary bedrooms, cosseting suites, a good choice of eating and drinking spaces, and a magnificent spa.

The Northgate

The Northgate, Bury St Edmunds

A stroll from the Abbey Gardens, this redbrick Victorian townhouse B&B has nine spacious, soft-hued bedrooms with French-inspired furniture, some with in-room bath, while two interconnect for a family.

The Lifeboat Inn

The Lifeboat Inn, Thornham

A white-painted 16th-century beer house with views over salt marshes, this family and dog-friendly inn has an oak-beamed bar, rustic-chic bedrooms and relaxed restaurant serving seasonal dishes and daily specials.

The Westleton Crown

The Westleton Crown, Southwold

In the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB, this dog-friendly former coaching inn has rustic-chic and contemporary bedrooms, cosy spaces, modern dishes served by smiling young staff in a light-filled dining room and alfresco.

The Bildeston Crown

The Bildeston Crown, Bildeston

In a lovely Suffolk village, this wonky, yellow-painted, timber-frame inn is an inviting place, with log fires, appealing, characterful bedrooms, and a mix of pub classics and more adventurous dishes served in the bar, restaurant and alfresco.

The Assembly House

The Assembly House, Norwich

At this Grade I listed Georgian House of Assemblies, where glamorous event spaces drip with chandeliers, you’ll find a restaurant, cookery school, and 15 spacious bedrooms, styled with pizzazz and a sense of fun, several with their own garden or lounge.

The Dial House

The Dial House, Norwich

Highly idiosyncratic and seriously fun, this hotel features bedrooms themed on the Georgian Grand Tour and Victorian global gallivanting.

The Packhorse Inn

The Packhorse Inn, Newmarket

‘I would happily recommend it as a touring base for the Fenlands,’ writes an inspector, of this Victorian village pub ‘amid the stud farms and countryside east of Newmarket’.

Tuddenham Mill

Tuddenham Mill, Newmarket

A watermill in meadowland is run as a hotel with rustic-chic and contemporary bedrooms, by chef/patron Lee Bye, whose exciting dishes can be enjoyed in the oak-beamed restaurant among the mill’s workings.

Norfolk Mead

Norfolk Mead, Norwich

A superb base for exploring the surrounding Norfolk Broads, this country-house hotel in a ‘beautiful Georgian building’ has a private lake and gardens on the River Bure.

The Pier at Harwich

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 Wentworth

The Wentworth, Aldeburgh

‘Our favourite hotel in the whole wide world,’ writes a devotee of this seafront grande dame, run by the same family for 104 years.

The Blakeney Hotel

The Blakeney Hotel, Holt

Readers again lavish praise on this quayside hotel – ‘one of the best run and best maintained in Britain' – in a ‘stunning setting looking over salt marsh’.

Talbooth House & Spa

Talbooth House & Spa, DEDHAM

The Milsom family’s Victorian country house hotel in Dedham Vale, in the heart of Constable country, has been subtly rebranded with the addition of a spa by the pool house.

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The Northgate

The Northgate

Bury St Edmunds

A stroll from the Abbey Gardens, this redbrick Victorian townhouse B&B has nine spacious, soft-hued bedrooms with French-inspired furniture, some with in-room bath, while two interconnect for a family.

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