The Best Hotels in Hook

A Georgian manor on 500 acres of Hampshire countryside, about an hour from London, where the Four Seasons has planted its flag in classic English country-house territory, to some skeptics' horror. The spa occupies the old stable block, there's an indoor-outdoor pool, and the beds are, by all accounts, obscene. It holds a Michelin Key. What it trades in eccentric charm it recoups in service that never has an off day.

Virginia creeper and rose trees climb the red brick facade of this Victorian mansion hotel set in Hampshire, about fifty miles from London. Oak paneling, gilded ceilings, and period paintings make the interior feel like a country house that never quite became a hotel, which is rather the point. The gardens run to 250,000 trees and shrubs, a water garden with ducks, and a walk through redwoods beside a lake.