Fourteen years of experience have gone into creating this trusted guide, one of the favourites of the independent traveller. This seductive collection of over 350+ hotels, chateaux and auberges - beautiful, unusual, individual - has been selected and inspected in the best Sawday's tradition; these s[...]

There's something for everyone here, from young families to young lovers, peace-seekers, walkers, cyclists, surfers and art and history buffs. Stay in a handsome townhouse or a quirky castle, a little terraced cottage or a university college, some are lavish, others simple. There are no set rules, n[...]

France is blessed with great food and a richness of scenery and rural living that is hard to beat. Can you imagine the French en route to the office, drinking coffee in takeaway cups on the hoof, eating pot noodles at their desk for lunch or flying off for weekend city-break boozing in Prague? No! -[...]

As ever, a hand-picked collection of Special Places to Stay - all with gorgeous gardens to discover. You can stay on the remote Isle of Gigha where the owner grows rare tropical orchids; take a course with a Chelsea Gold Medal winner in a secluded valley garden in Wales; discover a pretty plot plant[...]

Welcome to our best collection of Pubs & Inns in England and Wales yet, with over 1,000 pubs to make you feel warm all over. We've discovered more than 130 new pubs for you to explore from community-owned locals to heated huts and dining pods. We've visited all these special pubs and love them - we [...]

From the wonderfully rustic to the wildly luxurious, from The Highlands to St Ives, we've taken the hard work out of finding Britain's loveliest hotels. Each hotel combines character with comfort and a great welcome. A weekend break in a historic city, a night away on business, a family holiday by t[...]