The Top 23 Hotels Near Malmaison
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Housed in a converted Royal Mail sorting facility inside The Mailbox, Birmingham's upscale canal-side shopping complex, this boutique hotel trades in dark woods, earthy tones, and generous room sizes that make a quiet dig at London's overpriced cupboards. Harvey Nichols is essentially your lobby. The Malmaison house style runs cool and calm throughout, with a brasserie and spa on site for anyone who needs a reason to stay indoors.
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Full-length windows overlooking Birmingham's canal district set the tone at this large, polished city-centre hotel. The rooms are spacious and properly fitted out, the spa has a pool and a round-the-clock gym, and the lobby sits close enough to the shops that afternoon tea afterward feels almost obligatory. It runs on the Hyatt template, which is less a complaint than a description: reliably comfortable, nothing left out.
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A Victorian red-brick that used to be the Birmingham Eye Hospital, which at least explains the attention to detail. Hotel du Vin leans into rich, warm tones and a faintly baroque sensibility while the rest of the boutique world goes minimalist and white. It's the only outpost in the chain with a spa, and the bistro's wine list runs to hundreds of bottles. The shopping outside is fine, but you'll be thinking about dinner.
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A Victorian country house hotel half an hour from Birmingham, with two restaurants where most would settle for one. The main house rooms lean into period grandeur with antiques and Arts and Crafts detailing, while the Walled Garden suites go the other direction entirely, all cast concrete baths and floor-to-ceiling windows. The hotel holds two Michelin Keys, and its restaurant Grace & Savour carries a Michelin star.
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The building sits directly across from New Place, Shakespeare's last home, which sets a certain tone before you've even checked in. This Hotel Indigo property keeps the 15th-century bones intact, and the attic rooms in particular come with exposed timbers you won't find in many hotels with a functioning app. The farm-to-fork restaurant, The Woodsman, leans into the period charm with gusto.
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Choosing a room here means choosing a persona: the original Arts-and-Crafts house offers period-appropriate calm, while the newer Orchard House runs to a more boutique, spa-weekend sensibility. Either way, this Warwickshire country house hotel covers the full spread, with extensive grounds, a serious spa with seven treatment rooms, and two restaurants on site. The service lands somewhere between a handshake and a bow, which is about right.
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A taxidermied badger under a glass dome watches guests climb the winding staircase, which sets the tone for this Grade II-listed Queen Anne country house hotel in rural Worcestershire. Ten acres of grounds come with tennis courts and croquet lawns, rooms carry names like Duchess and Black Worcester, and the oak-framed spa building runs to a cedar-scented sauna and a rainforest shower with sound effects. Dogs are welcome in most rooms.
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The cows outside the window are not decorative: Eckington Manor is a working farm on the edge of the Cotswolds that also happens to have sixteen bedrooms, split between the old manor house and converted outbuildings. Each room bends around the original floor plan, so no two feel alike. The restaurant leans hard on what the farm produces, and the cooking school is a more serious operation than the words "hotel cooking class" usually imply.
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The pillow menu alone has more options than most restaurants. This Regency townhouse hotel on Chipping Campden's main square lets guests customise bedding weight, bath amenities, and minibar contents, which is either charming hospitality or a cry for help, depending on your tolerance for decisions. Interiors skip the antique overload common to Cotswolds country houses in favour of something warmer and more liveable, which turns out to suit the setting fine.
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Treehouses, farmhouse cottages, and sleek mobile huts spread across a 400-acre Cotswolds estate, which gives you a sense of how committed the Fish Hotel is to defying the country-house template. The interiors skip the chintz entirely in favor of something contemporary and unfussy. There's an afternoon tea, a bar doing Hereford Angus sliders, and a seafood-focused restaurant called Hook that the locals take quietly seriously.
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A honey-stone Cotswolds facade that looks like it fell off a biscuit tin hides interiors that went in a very different direction: multicolored blown-glass orbs, convex mirrors, and stained-glass eaves rooms sit alongside four dog-friendly annex rooms out back. Ten rooms total, a 30-cover tasting menu with Nordic leanings, and a wine list worth lingering over. A boutique hotel that knows exactly how strange it is, in the best possible company.
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A honey-stone coaching inn on Broadway's High Street, the Lygon Arms has been putting people up for so long that Charles I once slept here. It's a full-service hotel in the heart of the Cotswolds, with a spa that leans into Victorian aesthetics without making the plumbing feel period-appropriate. The rooms and common areas carry genuine antique atmosphere, but the place wears its history lightly enough that nobody feels obliged to dress for it.
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A stone manor house that's been standing since the 13th century has no particular need to impress you, and Buckland Manor seems to know it. This Cotswolds country house hotel sits just outside Broadway with 15 rooms, each one distinct, all leaning into the classic without feeling frozen in amber. Afternoon tea, a restaurant running on Vale of Evesham produce, and grounds that look painted: the formula is old, but the execution keeps up.
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Ten rooms in a converted manor house, a freestanding cottage, and a barn that once hosted Handel and Rousseau, all orbiting a pub that calls itself, with very British modesty, just a pub with rooms. The Duncombe Arms is a luxury-leaning countryside stay in Derbyshire where the kitchen runs on local Staffordshire sourcing and the line between refined and rustic is left pleasantly blurred.
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The Queen's Suite is named for Elizabeth I, who last slept here in 1575, which gives you a sense of how long Fawsley Hall has been at this. It's a country house hotel with Tudor, Georgian, and Victorian wings, all of which were, at some point, the new addition. Rooms range from period-heavy originals to quieter contemporary spaces in the stables and spa building. A full spa, restaurant, and weekend screenings round things out nicely.
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Wildhive Callow Hall is a Victorian country house hotel at the southern edge of the Peak District, where you can sleep in the main house, in a treehouse, or in one of the cottage-style "hives" scattered across the grounds. The Garden Room restaurant leans on produce grown on-site. The kind of place where the renovation has been thorough enough that "historic" and "comfortable" aren't fighting each other for once.
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Thirteen rooms in a Georgian townhouse facing Pittville Park, each one different but all stocked with Bramley bath products and Nespresso machines, with a rolltop tub in some. The décor lands somewhere between a Cotswolds country house and a boutique hotel that's actually done some reading, with an art collection that earns its wall space. The restaurant runs a seasonal modern British menu, and the Cotswolds proper are a short drive from the front door.
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A grand Georgian villa on the edge of Imperial Gardens, No. 131 is a boutique hotel that has no business being this cool in a town best known for horse racing and Regency architecture. Rooms mix country-house comfort with industrial-edge design, and two restaurants anchor the ground floor, one of them riffing on Tokyo. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels, which feels about right for somewhere that quietly overshoots expectations.
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A Regency villa in Cheltenham's Montpellier quarter, all tall windows and period stonework on the outside, and something considerably darker and moodier once you're through the door. The 61 rooms lean into the Malmaison formula of moody palettes and over-upholstered comfort, which suits the spa-town-with-a-streak crowd just fine. The Bar & Grill runs a seasonal menu built around grass-fed British beef, so dinner doesn't require leaving the building.
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A Cotswolds country-house hotel with a Parisian makeover, where the story goes that Lewis Carroll first met Alice Liddell. The Experimental Group has since installed a Dorothée Meilichzon interior that blends Italianate grandeur with French cool and the odd Wonderland wink. Thirty-six rooms run from cozy to full four-poster-and-terrace, the Experimental Cocktail Club runs the bar, and the C-Side spa has a spectacular glass-walled pool. It holds a Michelin Key.
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A Cotswolds coaching inn with copper soaking tubs in some rooms and a Kate Moss portrait watching over the dining room. The Wheatsheaf started as a restaurant and grew into fourteen bedrooms, each different, all with Hypnos beds and Bang & Olufsen televisions, dressed in a quiet mix of contemporary and traditional country. The kitchen does a modern take on English cooking, and shooting or fishing can be arranged for guests who feel the countryside needs to be more of a project.
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Four joined Regency townhouses in Nottingham's old lace-making quarter, now a boutique hotel with views of St. Mary's church and the Georgian law courts opposite. The look is contemporary-luxe rather than country-house chintz, with bespoke furnishings, wide sash windows, and bathrooms featuring freestanding tubs and rounded glass sinks. The studio suites span two levels and quietly retire the word "studio" from the conversation.