A circle shape pool
Photograph: Down Hall
  • Health and beauty | Spas

Down Hall Hotel & Spa

A stone’s throw away from London, this hotel is hidden in acres and acres of gorgeous Essex woodland

Phil de Semlyen
Advertising

Time Out says

A few miles and several dozen decibels from Stansted Airport, this well-appointed country hotel is a whisper-quiet retreat perched in a hundred-odd acres of Essex woodland. It’s more hotel with a spa than a spa hotel, with its small wet spa and treatment rooms a treat for a couple of hours’ soaking weary bones in the hydrotherapy pool, sweating away stress in the sauna and taking in a massage or two, but less handy for the kind of spa all-dayer that’d see you emerge with Buddha-like levels of zen and probably skint.

Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily. Just head back to the hotel next door and settle into the kind of grand tearoom ‘Downton Abbey’’s Crawley family would happily call home and order a G&T made with botanicals grown in the Down Hall gardens. The building itself has had a few lives in its time – as a Great War hospital and a manor house – but now its comfy bedrooms and busy brasserie play host to weekending city dwellers, wedding parties and families.

Details

Address
Matching Rd
Hatfield Heath
Bishop's Stortford
CM22 7AS
Advertising
You may also like
You may also like