A multi-award winning Mid Wales country house hotel celebrated a double success in The Good Hotel Guide 2016 for Great Britain and Ireland and is in contention for more accolades next month.
Llangoed Hall, located in the scenic Wye valley at Llyswen, near Brecon, won the Editor’s Choice country house and historic hotels awards for the second year in a row.
The Good Hotel Guide is the leading independent guide to hotels in Great Britain and Ireland, written for the reader seeking impartial advice on finding a good place to stay. Hotels cannot buy their entry and the editors and inspectors do not accept free hospitality on their anonymous visits.
Owned by award-winning journalists Adam and Caroline Raphael, the guide states: “We are blessed in the UK with some of the world’s finest country house hotels – and our Editor’s Choice features the top 10 crème de la crème.
“Our Editor's Choice of historic hotels are full of tales of yesteryear and have unique characteristics, but all offer a luxurious hotel break.”
Llangoed Hall is the only Welsh hotel shortlisted for The Caterer’s Hotel Cateys 2015 at London’s Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel on November 27, having been selected in the Sustainable Hotel of the Year category. These awards are the hotel industry’s only truly independent benchmark of operational excellence.
The hotel has also been shortlisted for the Best for Green Practises award at the 2016 Condé Nast Johansens Awards for Excellence at The May Fair Hotel, London on November 2.
Created to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across the hotels, spas and venues in the Condé Nast Johansens collection, the awards are a trusted mark of quality, recognised by luxury consumers and travel professionals alike. The awards are determined by the combined results of online voting, guest feedback and local expert reports.
A memorable year for Llangoed Hall has seen the hotel listed in the Waitrose Good Food Guide’s top 50 UK restaurants and voted runner up to Fairmont Hotels, which owns The Savoy in London, for the Eco Hotel of the Year at the recent AA Hospitality Awards.
Managing director Calum Milne has overseen £3 million investment in the Llangoed Hall, formerly owned by Laura Ashley co-founder Sir Bernard Ashley, since rescuing it from administration in 2012.
“We are absolutely delighted to have achieved double recognition in The Good Hotel Guide 2016 and to have been shortlisted for both the Hotel Cateys and the 2016 Condé Nast Johansens Awards for Excellence, which are highly respected in the hospitality industry,” said Mr Milne.
“It was a great achievement to have come second to The Savoy, which is such a large international concern, at the AA Hospitality Awards. It just shows the impact a small hotel in Mid Wales can make to the environment.
“Recognition in these awards is independent confirmation of the significant progress made by the team at Llangoed Hall in the last year as we aspire to be the very best we can be.”
Picture caption:
Managing director Calum Milne with Llangoed Hall in the background.
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