Find your perfect boutique hotel

Although the word ’boutique’ can suggest cuteness and exclusivity, at its best it represents a shift towards places where creative owners let their personalities shine. Rooms are often named rather than numbered, gloomy hotel bars are replaced by friendly communal spaces, colourful lounges and  airy bistros where chefs work with ingredients from the kitchen garden.

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We’ve rounded up five of our favourites in Yorkshire, from super-stylish boutique retreats to down-to-earth, cosy places that all have one thing in common – sublime food. Come for fine dining and hearty stews, snazzy cocktails and real ale, always with a focus on homegrown and locally sourced produce that make the menus sing.

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Welcome to a few of our favourite boutique hotels in Cornwall. And we mean welcome. You’ll find no multi-storey monstrosities with online check in and keycards, just lovely places run by real people who care that you enjoy your stay. These are some great places to relax, explore and let friendly, knowledgeable locals guide you to a fresh perspective on the Cornish countryside.

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Who are Sawday’s?

We are an independent travel company with a purpose – to find and champion smaller-scale places to stay that are created and run with passion, creativity and generosity. We are majority employee owned, with the founding family and a charitable trust, which we established to help fund environmental causes, also sharing ownership. On our site, you’ll find places we’ve visited and loved, run by owners who will treat you as friends, not just guests. You can also destination ideas, place suggestions and stories from our team and travel writers we’re inspired by, on our blog, Detour.

Where can we take you?

We have great hotels, perfect for weekends away or your big staycation of the year, across the length and breadth of Britain, from grand old halls in the highlands, to country houses in the Yorkshire dales and boutique hotel marvels of glass and light on the coast of Cornwall. You can see all our destinations here, or sign up to our newsletter to find new discoveries and get itinerary recommendations from our knowledgeable team.

What sort of places will you stay in?

Our hotels are all different. We have plenty of what you’d call luxury hotels and boutique hotels, but we try not to lump them all together, because individuality is so important to us. We like to think that all our places, from shining spa hotels in the Lake District to cosy old cottage hotels in the Cotswolds, are a thing unto themselves. We even have a motley (but not motel-y) collection of windmills, towers and castles which totally defy classification.

How do we choose our places? 

First of all, by carefully inspecting each of them. We do this in person where we can, but by video call when we feel it wouldn’t be environmentally friendly to visit, even though we have a team spread all over the country and people permanently based in France and Italy. However we end up looking round a new hotel, we look for a combination of things. We want the basics to be right, so you have somewhere comfortable to sleep, but we also want a touch of magic and our owners to let their personality shine through. It’s not enough that a place looks and feels like all the other luxury hotels out there, it has to have a certain special quality or we don’t accept into our collection.