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“The Travel Editor of The Telegraph has asked me to stay in a few hotels and write about them,” Paddy told me, “and take you!” I spent the next eighteen years as ‘my husband’, never named, driver, bag carrier and shower tester. When we had travelled enough motorway miles, slept in enough hotel beds and eaten in enough restaurants, Paddy and I decided that a website using journalists’ reviews to describe the hotels would be popular and useful. I am delighted you are a reader and hope that you might become a contributor by writing to us.

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Picnics this summer

Lots of hotels and places to stay will provide a picnic if you ask. Some of them have told us that they make a speciality of it. You may not find any more information on their websites so phone them to check how you order one.

St Brides, Saundersfoot near Tenby, Wales presume you will want to explore the coast, they particularly recommend Saundersfoot beach, and countryside.
Falcondale Mansion, also in West Wales, at Lampeter have a delightful picnic and croquet break every Sunday in the summer.
The Embankment Hotel in Bedford will make up picnics for you to enjoy on the riverside, near the hotel.The Arundell Arms Hotel in Devon will provide amazing picnics for hungry fisherpersons, a day in the country or a day on the beach with lobster, champers and strawberries at the luxury end.
Linthwaite House Hotel, Windermere, include a picnic in their 'pop the question' package. Wow! Who could resist that?
The National Trust have a few suggestions if you can't think where to go to enjoy your picnic.
The Guardian Travel department have also made up a list of their 'Top Twenty'.