UK hotels with outdoor swimming pools

Featured hotels with Special Offers

Hambleton Hall - Spring, Summer And Onwards Special Offer

Oakham

Surrounded by landscaped gardens, Hambleton Hall has an outdoor pool that’s nestled in a secluded spot under mature trees with space to relax on a lounger around it.

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The Scarlet - 'Slow Scarlet' Special Offer

Mawgan Porth

Best known for being amongst the best of luxury eco spas, The Scarlet is perched on a clifftop and boasts an outdoor hot tub with incredible views and contemporary, glass-dominated architecture that houses a spectacular pool.

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Beechfield House - 'Stay Longer And Save' Staycation Special Offer

Melksham

With ‘a great setting in large grounds’ and the ‘huge plus’ of an outdoor heated pool, this ornate Italianate Victorian house in woodland and gardens impressed our inspectors, who found it a ‘very relaxed place’.

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Park House, Hotel & Spa - Midweek Spa Break Special Offer

Midhurst

With an award-winning spa this hotel has both an indoor pool and a heated outdoor swimming pool.

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Lulu Boutique Hotel

Zebbug, Malta

A charming oasis, Clive and Luidmila’s lovingly restored 300-year-old house is tucked away in a small town of narrow, winding streets, within easy reach of the cities of Mdina and Valletta.

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Chateau de Verrieres

Saumur

In the glorious Pays de la Loire in a great park, in Saumur, with its ancient houses and weekly market. this historic mansion is now an elegant luxury B&B hotel and spa.

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More hotels with outdoor pools

Greenhills Country House Hotel, St Peter

Centred on a 17th-century granite house in flower-filled gardens, this well-run hotel offers a good choice of immaculate, individually styled bedrooms, casual and formal dining in bar and restaurant.

Old Whyly, East Hoathly

It is more than thirty years since Sarah Burgoyne first welcomed guests to her Georgian manor house, ‘in enchanting gardens and grounds’, where ‘deer roam at dawn and birdsong is guaranteed’.

Mullion Cove Hotel, Helston

An iconic white Victorian hotel on a cliff-top is today a dog- and family-friendly hotel with spa, outdoor pool, informal bar dining, and more ambitious cooking in the Atlantic View restaurant.

Deans Place, Alfriston

An outdoor heated pool, extensive grounds, Downs views, individually styled bedrooms and refined dining are among the attractions at this dog-friendly hotel on the banks of the River Cuckmere.

The Swan Hotel & Spa, Newby Bridge

‘In a beautiful setting at the tip of Lake Windermere, overlooking the River Leven,’ this family-friendly hotel unveiled an extension in 2022.

St Brides Spa Hotel, Saundersfoot

High above the town, a modern hotel with ‘exceptional’ seascapes that are as restorative, perhaps, as the calm that washes over guests in the award-winning spa.

La Magdeleine, Gemenos

‘A lovely hotel in a beautiful setting’; ‘calm and quiet’. One of the Guide’s best-loved hotels, the ‘beautiful, old bastide’, outside a delightful small town below the Massif de la Sainte Baume, stands in a large walled garden with swimming pool and fountain.

The Middleton Lodge Estate, Richmond

Leave the fuss and fret of the AI(M) at Scotch Corner to reconnect with the land at this idyllic hotel, centred on a Georgian coach house amid gardens, parkland and woodland.

Whatley Manor, Easton Grey

Centred on a Georgian farmhouse, with 26 ornamental gardens, a spa, gym, contemporary bedrooms, Michelin-starred dining-room, brasserie and kitchen garden terrace, this hotel has ‘luxury' written all over it.

A’mare Corsica Seaside Small Resort, Propriano

In sumptuous gardens high above the sea, this small luxury hotel has superb views across the Gulf of Valinco.

Kaywana Hall, Kingswear

Sleek bedrooms with sun terrace are separate from the 1960s modernist ‘butterfly house’ at this adults-only B&B in the Dart valley, where breakfast is served in an open-plan kitchen by the outdoor pool.

Lime Wood, Lyndhurst

A New Forest bolt-hole, this country house hotel has an easy glamour, romantic and family-friendly rooms, heart-warming Italian food and top-notch spa.

Cowley Manor, Cheltenham

A through-the-looking-glass sort of place, this hotel playfully inverts the traditional country house theme, with bold interiors created for new owners the Experimental Group.

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.

Lympstone Manor, Exmouth

Michelin-starred chef Michael Caines has created a country house hotel for the 21st century, a foodie destination and place of soft-spoken luxury, in a Georgian mansion overlooking the Exe estuary.

Beaverbrook, Leatherhead

Once a retreat for Lord Beaverbrook, this Victorian mansion, filled with fascinating memorabilia, is home to chic contemporary bedrooms, a fine-dining restaurant, Japanese grill, library, cinema and spa.

Gara Rock, Salcombe

What began life as a cliff-top coastguard station in 1847 has metamorphosed into a relaxed luxury hotel in rural seclusion, with its own beach a walk away.

Bishopstrow Hotel & Spa, Warminster

Rolling countryside surrounds this 'glorious, large Georgian house' in extensive grounds of meadows and woodland; a tunnel leads to the river Wylye.

Haven Hall Hotel, Shanklin

The actor Colin Firth is a fan of 'the hospitality, the food, the comfort of the rooms', not to mention the location at this sprawling, cliff-top Edwardian house.

Burley Manor, Burley

This baronial-style Victorian manor house overlooking a deer park in the New Forest has been stylishly updated as an adults-only retreat with a well-regarded restaurant.

The Rabbit Hotel & Retreat, Ballyclare

Launched in summer 2021 after a multimillion-pound-makeover, this youthful hotel has a Balearics vibe, with outdoor spa, lakeside heated-sand beach, beach bar and sunken lounge.

St Enodoc, ROCK

There are ‘great views of the Camel Estuary’ from this 1920s, family-friendly hotel that is 'virtually on the famous golf course’.

Longueville Manor, St Saviour

'Absolutely faultless from the moment we arrived', Malcolm and Patricia Lewis's manor-house hotel (Relais & Châteaux) sits in landscaped gardens with a lake and specimen trees.

The Rectory Hotel, Malmesbury

There is a simple sophistication about both the interiors and the menus at this Georgian rectory, where bedrooms have contemporary and period furniture and subtle paint shades, and modern dishes tick the boxes for foodies.

Hotel Portmeirion, Portmeirion

Bedrooms are spread between properties in Clough Williams-Ellis’s extraordinary Italianate resort village, but this hotel centres on a Victorian mansion with Art Deco bar and fine-dining restaurant.

St Brelade’s Bay Hotel, ST BRELADE

In a ‘fabulous’ position, this large hotel in lush subtropical gardens overlooks a ‘magnificent’ sandy bay. It is run by ‘extremely friendly, helpful and well organised’ staff.

Burgh Island Hotel, Bigbury-on-Sea

Pack your Schiaparelli gowns, beach pants and playsuits, and board the 'sea tractor' for a trip back to the 1930s at this Art Deco hotel on a tidal island where the beau monde came to play.

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 Headland Hotel, Newquay

A landmark Victorian building above Fistral Bay, this hotel is a mix of the grand and contemporary, with pools and spa treatments, a golf course, surf school, bedrooms in coastal colours, refined and informal dining.

Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool

In the buzzy Georgian quarter, a Victorian carriage works has been reimagined as a hotel, with industrial-chic style, spa, minimalist bedrooms and modern British menus.

Swinton Park, Masham

Much altered since it was begun in 1695, the Cunliffe-Lister family’s neo-Gothic, castellated fantasy castle is ‘a very special place, grand and imposing’, in ‘simply glorious’ pleasure grounds and parkland.

Porth Tocyn Hotel, Abersoch

Guide readers are unswervingly loyal to this family-friendly country house by the sea, with peerless views to Snowdonia across Cardigan Bay, run by the Fletcher-Brewer family since opening in 1948.

Calcot & Spa, Tetbury

Amid gardens, native woodland and meadow, this 16th-century manor house is today a family-friendly hotel and spa with contemporary comforts and a choice of formal and informal dining.

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.

Thurlestone Hotel, Kingsbridge

In 19 acres of sub-tropical gardens, this family-owned 65-room spa hotel is a happy marriage of the traditional and informal, with well-equipped rooms, fine dining in the smart Trevilder, and a gastropub menu in the 16th-century village inn.

The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne

A great white wedding cake of a hotel, this Victorian extravaganza invites you to take a step back in time, to take tea or cocktails to the sound of the Palm Court Strings, dine in style and retire to a deluxe bedroom at prices that won’t break the bank.

Hell Bay Hotel, Bryher

Sitting above a secluded cove on Bryher’s rugged west-facing coast, with 'nothing in between to Canada', this pretty blue-and-white weatherboarded farmhouse-turned-hotel is a '10/10 experience’, say smitten guests.

La Collinette Hotel, St Peter Port

A short uphill stroll from the boats in the harbour, the Chambers family run their unpretentious, family-friendly hotel in an 19th Century house set in expansive grounds.

Ballymaloe House, Shanagarry

Set on a 300-acre working farm, this legendary Irish country-house hotel has grown from being a restaurant with rooms that is passionate about locally sourced food into a thriving business, with cookery school, café and arts venue.

Watersmeet, Woolacombe

‘The location is stunning, with views of the Devon coast with its sandy beaches and tumbled rocks,’ writes a reader delighted by this family-friendly hotel.

The best hotels with outdoor swimming pools

Whether you’re looking for a family friendly hotel, a romantic one, or a spa hotel for health and wellbeing, a swimming pool always adds a new dimension to the leisure experience.

Perhaps the most spectacular of pools are at some of the UK’s most luxurious hotel spas. Chewton Glen is always at the top of the list for any spa destinations, not to mention also being a haven for those looking for superb fine dining and a beautiful country house hotel location. Here’s amidst all their indoor pool and thermal facilities, they offer a secluded outdoor pool as well as other facilities in the grounds such as golf, tennis and picturesque walking trails.

Of course some hotels have the added luxury of a superbly interesting history to go with their hospitality. Such is the case with Cliveden House - amongst Berkshire’s finest hotels. The Italianate mansion’s pool in the walled garden is best known for its role in the Profumo affair, but it is also home to bubbling outdoor hot tubs, while treatments use the estate’s own product line and have their own story, named for prominent women of its history including Anna-Maria, for whom Cliveden was originally built as well as perhaps the House’s most famous resident, Nancy Astor.

While adults can indulge in the peace and tranquility of an outdoor pool, children of course find them to be an endless source of summery entertainment, and the likes of Woolley Grange, part of the Luxury Family Hotel Collection, is a marvellous example of luxury meets family friendly. Amongst a cavalcade of experiences and activities for every member of the family in their 14 acres of grounds, there is also a charming summer outdoor pool.

And if the weather isn't so great, you can always see our selection of the best hotels with indoor swimming pools.