Stowy here, ladies and gentlemen - your intrepid Sunday Times hotel inspector. I’m just back from visiting the winners of the Good Hotel Guide’s annual César Awards and this is the best list in seven years. Not that they’ve ever been bad. The Good Hotel Guide focuses entirely on independently owned hotels in Britain and Ireland, banging the drum for a style of hotel-keeping that has been all but forgotten in the recent mania for fancy taps and designer everything: one where the location, the warmth of the welcome and the quality of the cooking matter most

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