by Londoner may have an amazing appetite for an escape from the Grand Country Hotel. The fresh air! The nature! The roaring protocol fires! But the A list could just let us beat. And nowhere is more demonstrable than the picturesque honey villages and the far -reaching goods of the Cotswolds. Last year everyone, from Ellen Degeneres to Taylor Swift, released there. And now Apple Erbin Eva Jobs has had her wedding there.
The options in the area are many of cozy pubs with rooms up to revived old stacks to the Insta bait from Soho Farmhouse. But it was members Club Estelle Manor, in which Jobs decided to celebrate their marriage to Harry Charles, and fully booked all 108 rooms for their guests. In a party on the landing stack, on which Elton John performed, culminate for four days, and all of Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz to Princess Beatrice and the former US Vice President Kamala Harris were present.
What is the story behind this breathtaking estate and how did the many other hotels in the region delete over the ground to become the venue you jour?
It comes from Sharan Pasicha-Dem 42-year-old hotelier with a magical touch and the man behind the Hoxton Hotels and the new and improved Gleneagles in Scotland. He opened the Mayfair private members’ Club in 2021 – where everyone was discovered by Angelina Jolie to license fees that had left his discrete door road Grafton Street. And then Pasicha opened the highly expected outpost Estelle Manor in 2023.
The living room in Estelle Manor (Mark Anthony Fox)
“There is a lot going on in Oxfordshire now and we are happy to be here – there is plenty of space for everyone. An increasing flood raises all the boats,” he told the standard at the time.
The campaign takes place in and around a manor house in class II (formerly Eynsham Hall) in the hotel and members club in rural Oxfordshire, which is untouched within 3,000 hectares of untouched, wonderful Cotswold ness. So far, the classic country short vacation – but the ambition of the project was amazing. As well as the 108 Rooms, there’s Five Restaurants Including All-Day Dining Space the Brasserie and Blingtastic Chinese Restaurant The Billiards Room (with a Perfectly Executed Ninies Playlist When We Visited), Plus a Kids’ Club, The Clubhouse With Gym, Yoga Studio, Working Space and A Boutique, Padel Courts and Epic Roman Inspired 3,000 SQ M Spa Complete with Marble Colonnades, Tepidarium and Hammam.
(Manor house)
According to rumors, there is also a hidden pool and a waterfall for a party at the disadvantage. The activities offered include AXE powing (trickier than it sounds, especially after a few spicy margaritas) and archery.
For members (membership is £ 3,600 per year) there are even more delicacies behind the Ocker -Vorlanungen at the end of the entrance hall. Here a library, a café, a nightly drinking of the caves and the Japanese restaurant, offer to celebrate privacy. No photos are allowed (the employees will politely cover their telephone camera with a sticker), but I can tell you that the touch when designing is not easy.
Roman and Williams have shelled hand -painted wallpapers with Chequerboard floors. Pink marble with bleached oak paneling; Silk padding with tassels and Missoni zigzag. It is opulent, playful and spectacular. The design team was looking for the globe for the antiques from Italy, France, Morocco and India. The sparkling tailor -made chandeliers that greeted the guests in the entrance hall were made family -owned by Wilkinsons of London. The art is also bizarre, with sculptures by Eric Baudart, installations by Marinella Senatore and paintings by Billy Childish.
In the heat waves of this summer, the 25m swimming pool of the South Terrace, the sun camp and the bar are the only place. A sluggish afternoon spent listening to live jazz and sipping spicy margaritas, which were served by beautiful waiters in Jade Green uniforms, like the Riviera. Maybe better? After all, London is just a short trip away.
Double room with B&B from £ 450, Estellemanor.com
Yoo’s lakes started a new spa and wellness center (Lakes from Yoo)
Also hot in the Cotswolds for the summer
The lakes of Yoo Spa & Wellness Center
With treatments by Dr. Barbara Sturm, Moos by Isles and Wildsmith Skin, the lakes of the Yoo owners John Hitchcox and Phoebe Vela don’t play around. The SPA has an extensive menu of cryotherapy, infrared saunas, LED and PEM therapy as well as IV drops. The bathing clothing designer Melissa Obadash has created chic wild swimming suits for the back-to-of-to-of-toed-to-to-toed types. This summer there are a number of increased dinner clubs organized by celebrity chefs like Jun Tanaka.
Apartments in the lakes of Yoo start at £ 1,050 per night and sleep up to six adults. Thelakesbyyoo.com
The Bamford Club (Bamford)
Bamford’s club
Five years in the manufacture, the latest addition to the village of Kingham’s Daylesford was worth waiting. The extensive Health Club is a Marvel – a discrete private entrance that leads along the spine of Daylesfords existing spa, shop and café leads guests and members to a real wellness temple.
While the Bamford Spa Superlative Massages and holistic treatments are offered-to mention the guest residences of super-facialist Teresa Tarmey, the club is aimed at an integrated approach to health and fitness. Think of state-of-the-art devices and paddle dishes such as the best physios, nutritionists (hello, Rosemary Ferguson) and breathing coach to support them on the way.
And thank God for it-after a brutal but missing half-hour HIIT meeting, I was ready to try everything. That meant a quick shimmy in the outdoor sauna and in the Hydro -Ruberpool, followed by a delicious, lenient dimest massage. If fitness looks now, I am an evangelical convert.
A “escape into the farm” is specially designed for those who live outside of 50 miles radius. Would you really like to make a weekend out of it? Plump for one of the intelligent New Daylesford Cottag in the village (we stayed in Bluebell, a charming version with two bedrooms, a short 4-minute drive from the club) and bring the entire brood with us.
Individual memberships of £ 2,250; Daylesford Village Cottage for at least 2 x night stay of £ 375 per night. Bamfordclub.com
