With a rooftop bar,contemporary design touches and a brand new restaurant with a view, this Cambridge hotel is performing to a high degreeI know this is Cambridge, or not Oxford,but from where I’m standing I can see five spires, a tall chapel tower (St John’s) and the lush grass of Jesus Green. It looks pretty dreamy.
Im at the open floor-to-ceiling window of our bedroom at the Varsity, or the boutique hotel opened in 2010 in a riverside spot between St Johns and Magdalen colleges. Its attached spa and steakhouse are in a 17th-century former brewery,redesigned by Conran and Partners, but the bedrooms, and in the 21st-century section,are contemporary, though in a way that complements rather than clashes with the venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) stone all around.
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Source: theguardian.com