subject: Old World, New Delights – The Best of Everything with a Bath Spa Hotel [print this page] Old World, New Delights The Best of Everything with a Bath Spa Hotel
The city of Bath, formerly and for pretty obvious reasons known as "Bath Spa", is a delight. Old cobbled streets, thin alleyways, lanes winding to hidden parks and little squares. And, of course, the most wonderfully preserved Roman baths in the UK, draw millions of tourists every year. Each one of whom must be seeking an accommodation and every one of whom, if they but knew, was probably walking past the best in the city on a daily basis - should have gone to a Bath Spa hotel.
Obviously, such a tourist-heavy environment has beds and hotels for every budget and most tastes. However. Whatever the size of one's wallet, a stay in a proper spa hotel is worth every penny particularly in Bath, the home of the whole idea of the spa. With the Roman Baths only metres away, it seems foolish to ignore the opportunity to stay in this glorious little city in any other way. Just as the Baths have their marvellous yellow stone walls, their warm lights, and their limpid green waters; so does every Bath spa hotel give off an unmistakeable atmosphere of old world comfort of peacefulness and healing.
Old world, in the definitively modern surroundings of a hotel that knows what's what. Every Bath spa hotel has an impeccable blend of the old feel with the newest of new modern conveniences some more impeccable than others. In particular, Harington's Hotel (exclusively located down a practically invisible alleyway just seconds' walk from the Baths) manages this transition from the "feel" of the kind of place Jane Austen would have stayed in, to the luxuries modern guests expect, with aplomb. Not the only Bath spa hotel, but one of the best, Harington's welcomes guests into corridors and ample reception areas reminiscent of the Roman Baths: then ushers them into rooms where every little detail, though perfectly in keeping with the feel of the place, screams "modern".
That, really, is the kind of place Bath is. It's managed to walk the line between old and new with so much success that half the time people don't even notice it. They don't realise how incongruous it ought to be, sipping trendy cocktails in a painfully glitzy wine bar installed in a 300 year old building on a cobbled street: because that wine bar, like the whole city, has managed its chameleon trick with ease. The bar, the spa and the cobbled street all feel right because everything in Bath just fits. There's nowhere like it, not in England and not in the world. And there's no hotel like a Bath spa hotel which is why to visit the city and not stay in one would be an act of foolishness.
Getting a hotel right in the centre of things is a real treat and a perfect counterpoint to the bustle of a day out. Wander the streets, visit the Baths, check out the wine bars and cocktail places then step a few short metres around a practically hidden corner to the most luxurious temporary home, its quiet corridors the perfect antidote to the rush and clamour outside. That's what a spa hotel is all about: and that's why a Bath spa hotel is the best in the business.
