Hotel Indigo Chester

A design hotel inside a city famous for black-and-white Tudor Revival streetscapes, which makes the contrast the whole point. Hotel Indigo Chester is an IHG property rather than some independent find, but the interiors lean into Chester's architectural identity rather than ignoring it, and the in-house restaurant, the Forge, pulls a crowd on its own. Staff will cheerfully point you toward the city center when you've exhausted what's on site.