Alexander House Hotel And Utopia Spa

Alexander House Hotel And Utopia Spa

Alexander House occupies 120 acres of rolling West Sussex parkland, a Jacobean house with a private Gatehouse residence set apart from the main building and grounds built for clay shooting rather than a jog around the block. Utopia Spa runs on outdoor whirlpools, private hot tubs and a barrel sauna, backed by plunge pools, a yoga studio and a full beauty menu, alongside an indoor pool, an outdoor one, a gym and a tennis court. Fifty-eight rooms are spread across three floors, many with marble bathrooms and a Victorian bath set beside the modern fittings. Reflections, the two-AA-rosette restaurant, sits alongside a second dining room, a drawing room and a champagne bar, so a private group of seven or a party of a hundred and thirty can be fed without leaving the grounds. This suits a couple driving down from London, forty-five minutes away, for a weekend built around hot water and clay shooting rather than sightseeing, and it works for a wedding or a corporate group large enough to fill the seven meeting rooms and take the estate over. It asks less of anyone hoping to walk somewhere for dinner, since the house sits deep in West Sussex countryside with Gatwick nine miles away, the nearest sign of a city. Families get a playroom and family rooms, though the forty-pound nightly extra-bed charge and the hundred-pound deposit per stay are worth knowing before booking. Check-in runs from 3pm, checkout at 11am, and shifting either costs fifty pounds more. This is the one property in the Alexander collection where a golf course, a tennis court, an indoor pool and Utopia Spa all sit on the same estate. A Jacobean house on 120 acres of West Sussex parkland, where Utopia Spa's whirlpools and sauna sit beside a golf course and indoor pool. Good for a spa weekend from London or a wedding large enough to take the place over, less so for anyone wanting to walk to dinner.