The Close Hotel

The Close Hotel

The Close Hotel stands in the middle of Tetbury, close enough to the high street that a walk from the door takes in Highgrove Shop and the Woolsack Races, with Chavenage House and the River Thames roughly fifteen minutes away by car. Mornings here tend to happen on the terrace, coffee in hand, before the town properly wakes. It is a small hotel by design, eighteen rooms spread across three floors, individually decorated rather than uniform, with private bathrooms stocked with designer toiletries and bathrobes laid out rather than folded towels alone. Breakfast is a full English in The Garden Restaurant, and the bar carries through into alfresco tables on warmer evenings. What separates it from the country houses nearby is a genuine Green Tourism certification, an audited claim rather than a marketing one, plus a doctor on call, a small spa and a playroom that does not turn the place into a resort. A golf course sits within three kilometres, hiking routes start from the door, and staff switch between English, French, Italian and Spanish without fuss. A dog costs twenty pounds a night, an extra bed the same, and early arrival or late departure is a flat twenty-pound fee rather than a negotiation. This suits someone who wants a proper Cotswold stay without sprawl, not a traveller after a pool, a spa day itinerary or late-night bars. Check-in runs from four, checkout by eleven, and anyone arriving past ten needs to call ahead. Nothing here is trying to impress you. It just works, morning after morning. The Close Hotel keeps to eighteen individually decorated rooms in central Tetbury, with a Green Tourism certification that most Cotswold country houses nearby do not carry. Good for a couple wanting a proper regional base, less so for anyone chasing a pool or nightlife.