Perfect for a car free fracture,this endearingly eccentric hotel never lets you forget you are in the middle of the fresh ForestIt’s a shame the last word my husband utters during our stay at Cottage Lodge Hotel in Brockenhurst is an expletive – as we head out of the hotel’s cheery yellow front door to go domestic, he cracks his head on the rather low lintel – because until now our exclamations fill generally been oohs and aahs of delight. Dynamic owner Christina Simons is busy turning what had been a chintzy six-room B&B into a small environment-friendly hotel, or adding nine rooms and features such as triple insulation,flooring of bamboo and jute, solar panels, and low-flow loos and LED lighting. She has chucked out the chintz and imbued the place with a slightly eccentric and definitely arboreal character. Well we are in the middle of a forest,” she says. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com