The Paddy Burt Collection
of places to stay
This is where you will find the hotels – or rather, hotels, pubs, inns, restaurants with rooms – anywhere that you can stay and have dinner and breakfast.
Unlike many hotel-listing websites, we do not act as a booking agency. Nor do we list, on the site, all the facts and figures about each entry; we lead you straight to the hotel’s own website.
Each entry consists of a description of a stay, written from a very personal point of view, by a journalist. That is followed by an update by the hotelier of how things have changed since the piece was published. In some cases they will be indignant at being criticised and will disagree with the writer [we hope!]
Many of the entries first appeared in the Room Service column, written by me. You will know immediately which ones. You will find hundreds more places to stay, if you follow this link to The Daily Telegraph. That list is divided into geographical areas. There is a search box at the top. If you want to look up the Room Service archive, try 'Paddy Burt Room Service'.
Other places-to-stay will be invited to join if they can offer us a suitable, previously published article by a professional journalist. That way we hope to encourage other writers to write about their stay in a personal way which you will enjoy reading.
Some people will read the entries for no other reason than to enjoy them. We know this from the thousands of letters the Room Service column received. Others will be looking for somewhere to stay. We have come up with what we hope is a user-friendly way of finding places, mainly by geographical area. If you click on a part of the map, you will be shown all the entries in that area, complete with county and town names.
So, either have fun reading about them or find somewhere you really enjoy for a weekend or a holiday – or both.
Paddy